@employedrat There are choices for a lot of things we buy, like eggs having greatly inflated prices? Don't buy eggs. Good part of things like food is there's usually an alternative. Problem is when you get into more inelastic products like gas/electricity where you can easily get price gouged
@employedrat it's just corporate greed. Companies raise prices, people pay those prices, companies say "hmm I wonder how far we can take this" and companies are reporting record profits. Also constantly increasing consumerism and people don't realize they speak with the money they spend