Which is ironic
Is it tho?
It’s capitalism, once you dominate the market share you raise prices.
Fast food pushed out small local shops, but there’s a few major chains everywhere. So now they’re more expensive than sit down restaurants, because the “speed” which isn’t all that fast anymore is treated as a premium and not a side effect from being cheap/easy food.
Like, everything is based off stock price, and stock price is about profit margin going up. And that’s exponential, it’s not mathematically possible to keep going up.
The only way is to keep pushing up prices and making products shittier.
It’s not irony, it’s working as intended.
Capitalism only works when you break up monopolies regularly so there can be competition.
Hell, this is way more evident in a franchise model. The actual owners can’t really do anything, they’re locked in long leases and are forced to buy from only one supplier.
If McDonald’s says party prices go up 50%, the franchise owner has literally zero options. They have to pay it.
The whole system is fucked and pretty much a pyramid scheme.
Just to add, Reagan ‘deregulated’ the hell out of the economy. It gave America a phoney boom in the 1980s.
In 1980, ‘middle class’ was still one Union job supporting a family of four, and $1 million was considered a vast fortune. By 1992, middle class was two incomes to keep the house going, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
Republicans break shit, moderate Dems neglect to fix it.
For generations we’ve had a steady march to the right because of that system.
And considering the same people/corporations donate to both parties, it doesn’t seem overly cynical to say ourmodern political system is working exactly as the wealthy designed it to work.
If voting didn’t work, the GOP wouldn’t be trying to prevent people from voting.
If you don’t like the Dem candidates in your area, you can contribute to AOC or Omar.
Moderate Dems get elected because this country isn’t progressive. We collectively want these things to happen, which is why they do.
