Of course, here in His Majesty's Dominion it's indeed Thanksgiving, where this tweet has been making the rounds:
Thanksgiving shopping: Here's a look at how prices have changed since October 2022.
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) October 5, 2023
🦃 Turkey: +18%
🌱 Tofu: -6%
🍯 Hummus: +2%
🥔 Potatoes: +13%
🧈 Butter: +10%
🥛 Milk: +5%
🥛 Protein-based milk: +1%
🌱 Green Beans: +11%
🍠 Squash: +63%
🍠 Sweet Potatoes:…
Which led me to a question I would love to pose to anybody who's convinced that "corporate greed" is the cause of higher grocery prices:
How exactly do you explain why these aren't all similar numbers?
After all, if the greedy capitalists who own Sobeys and Superstore are raising food prices all willy-nilly, why are they 18% greedy when it comes to turkey but only 13% greedy when it comes to potatoes and a paltry 5% greedy when it comes to milk?
And what's with the gap between squash and tofu? Why did they decide to become so insanely greedy when it came to squash only to look at their tofu profits and suddenly decide no, these are way too high, let's dial it back?
The reason of course is that woke government fiscal and economic policies across the Western world in the wake of the China Virus are causing rampant inflation: Shiny Pony deciding to artificially raise prices here there and everywhere is probably the most dramatic, but hardly the only guilty candidate.
However that requires Jazz Meat and company to acknowledge that their distortion of free markets has huge negative consequences, and we know how likely that is.
