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I strongly disagree that QE policies and central banking are socialist. In fact, I would argue that QE, as it has been enacted since its inception after the collapse of Japan’s credit bubble, is closer to the opposite since it strengthens capital’s control over labour. The mechanisms of which are asset price inflation, financialization, austerity which reduces spending on public goods, poor wage growth, and so on. Th…
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> Whenever socialist policies, in this case the central planning of credit and interest You are conflating centralization with socialism. Mario Draghi is the centralist banker behind QE and he is a fervent neoliberal. He has nothing to do with socialism. > This is the Soviet Union playbook to a T, except they would always blame "wreckers" or reactionaries. Crazy how distracted I've been lately, I've lived in a commun…
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Why do you think it’s the “small/medium businesses and farmers” that anyone is claiming is responsible for the gouging? And not the large food megacorps that dominate low cost foods?
Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have their intended effect on A and most significantly on A.
In reality, the most influential and profitable companies will always have an easier way through whatever you throw at the sector then smaller, less profitable companies. The megacorps may even welcome / shape the regulation such that it harms their competitors that don't happen to have 30 lawyers on the payroll anyways.
Getting “gecontroleerd” in the self-checkout supermarkets in the Netherlands seems to be happening to me way more frequently than it ever did previously (sometimes every visit). I’ve never missed scanning an item, which is something as far as I understand used to be a flag for more frequent checks.
Is that like a pat down search at the supermarket??
It’s pretty frustrating and it used to happen quite infrequently.
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Why do you think it’s the “small/medium businesses and farmers” that anyone is claiming is responsible for the gouging? And not the large food megacorps that dominate low cost foods?
There are so many assumption baked into your comment and most of them, I would say, don't hold up. Let's start with the biggest one which is that measures (let's say regulations) aimed at A (let's say megacorps) have their intended effect on A and most significantly on A. In reality, the most influential and profitable companies will always have an easier way through whatever you throw at the sector then smaller, les…
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> supply chain disruptions Government meddling in the market though lockdowns, embargoes, and other limiting of supplies.
If not government you mean China, sure. Massive supply chain problems. The Russian government invading a sovereign country didn’t help either.
Regarding the coof: No need to go all Papers Please and ban people from working, fine and arrest people traveling more than 1km from home, or repress morally justified protest over those actions. It was the most horrendous expansion of government power I've seen, probably since the patriot act.
Regarding russia: No need to harm energy markets more than war normally does with embargoes and destruction of infrastructure. No need to deplete local stockpiles by giving them away to foreign civilians rather than your own. No need steal people's money to give away.
https://www.la-croix.com/France/Inflation-vraiment-hausse-vo...
It was inevitable. Whole chickens now cost €7.99/kg, up from €1.99/kg last year. Eggplants are priced at €3.99/kg, compared to €0.99/kg previously. Even basic apples now cost €2.99/kg, up from €0.99/kg. The cause of this increase is not due to war, but rather it is a result of pure speculation driven by greed.
Headline should in fact read: "In supermarkets across Europe, corporate greed is leading to a surge in food theft." And that theft is entirely justifiable as these corporate grocery chains are effectively stealing from all of us with this greed disguised as inflation bullshit.