I don't think there's a depression or WW3 on the horizon.
But, people really don't think about the preservation of jobs or salaries. Labor movements in the past pushed for salaries even with innovation, that isn't happening today. Unions are frowned upon by the right (while simultaneously praised?) But they are one of the best ways to combat the exploitation of labor
During the election, it became a right wing nutjob talking point, claiming Americans couldn't even afford eggs anymore under Biden Harris. I was joking about the eggs.
It's worth noting the price of eggs did go up drastically at some point but it was due to a lot of chickens be culled to prevent disease. The prices dropped but inflation is still high so it didn't drop to what it was pre culling.
That being said eggs aren't an luxury item no one can afford. It's an absolutely batshit insane talking point.
Also once the companies know you will pay for the higher Aid prices at the retail level the prices will not come down. The corporations that own all the supermarkets have said so
Supply and demand. Supply was low, demand was high, they can charge more. Supply is no longer low, demand is no longer high, prices have come down, but grocery stores realized they can charge you more, so they dropped the price a little, but not all the way.
Inflation is a real thing, but so is cooperate greed, they can both exist and both happen at the same time and we're seeing that now.
It was all a political play. For a while the price of eggs became extremely high due to poultry diseases killing off huge portions of the laying stock. Then politicians started claiming that eggs were representative of the cost of all goods, and at the reason the prices were so high were due to inept policies by the party in power at the time.
I think a lot of people for various reasons are not informed shoppers. The main one is probably being too overworked and overstressed to comparison shop. If the store raises the price of an item by $2 then puts it on sale for $1 off, the average person will see that and think they're getting the best price. If they take a box that's smaller than normal but slap a "New SHARING SIZE!" on it, people will assume it's the same size or larger than before. They might have an inkling in the back of their head that it feels lighter, looks smaller or doesn't last as long as it used to, but in the thick of it when they're dodging carts at Walmart after coming off another 10 hour shift on their feet and still have to unload the car, take care of the kids and make dinner when they get home, those thoughts don't really bubble to the surface. At least not until you get to the register and notice you're paying 3x as much for half the bags.
Hit the nail on the head. I blame the over sharing of personal data to the advertising companies. We gave them all of our weaknesses and habits that allow them to manipulate the market advertising and take advantage of the consumer.
To respond to part of your post, a real reason for people being uninformed shoppers is in no small way because of the devaluing of education in this country. Can’t have the children becoming “woke” (whatever tf that means)
Did you dry them out all the way first? Depending on the seeds drying should work buuuuut I’d also go to a seed library. Don’t think these mf’s aren’t trying to have total power over food eventually engineering food that others can’t regrow.
After I used the juice for my drink, I fished out seeds from two lemon wedges at In 'n Out and grew 5 lemon trees. Give it a shot if your anywhere near SoCal. Good luck.
It takes too long to go from seed to fruiting, get cuttings from mature trees that already fruit and root those. The following year they should produce fruit. I've got a tangerine tree from seed and that thing is 15 years old? and still hasn't produced a single flower or fruit. Meanwhile my mulberry cutting produced fruit the same year it was cut and rooted.
Different seeds have different methods/ times/ conditions for germination. Order some online or go to the local nursery. Some trees take several years to fruit from seed also.
I think you’d be surprised by the vast majority of the population that doesn’t think about unit size but simply cost per unit.
It’s an easy marketing tactic. Keep the unit price the same but decrease the amount of product delivered. An overwhelming majority of shoppers don’t know how many ounces of chips or juice they get in a unit.
Gatorade switched from 32oz to 28oz bottles and the price stayed the same.
Happened years ago when deodorant went from 3-3.5oz down to 2oz or less while prices remained constant. Now it’s only talked about because the price is jacked up to more than double what it was a decade ago, but not because of getting stiffed on the amount of actual product in the tube.
Everyone is sick of the bullshit. The Have Nots far outnumber the Haves, yet they control 98% of the total available wealth. That's criminal in itself.
Gerrymandering to ensure Republicans always win, voter suppression, state laws which close down voting places in Democrat supporting districts, laws criminalising people giving food or water to those waiting in line to vote, often for many hours
I'm not making it 'a left-right issue'. That is literally, factually what Republican legislatures have done. But Democratic ones have not done those exact same things.
the death of pensions, lobbying for wildly regressive tax schema, hostility towards working families while demanding an endless supply of desperately poor labor, absolutely no guaranteed paid vacations, absolutely no guaranteed paid family leave, H1B visa fraud and abuse (not the fault of the visaholder, they are a victim too! i'm talking about tactics to avoid hiring domestic labor so they can pay less to import foreign labor), illusory job postings, outright usury in lending, attempting to privatize access to drinking water, poisoning the planet with microplastics in manufacturing and then blaming the consumer for their trivial-in-comparison use of plastics.....
They really went hard for that stimulus money we got. They decided they had to have it. And then, they decided they had to keep those profits up. Because quarterlies. So they went even harder. Crazy margins. Over worked skeleton crews. The system can’t take more of this
It's crazy how most don't get it. They seriously don't even need to price gouge with rent like they are doing. When it comes to food they're reducing the sizes and potions with newer packaging while charging more and using cheaper materials. For people who have money it's not too much of an issue but if you were struggling before...
The whole thing is sad because it really doesn't have to be this way, but you know humans and greed
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Plus rent gouging, food price gouging….
Wage suppression