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This is pretty meaningless though since that 18 wheeler is transporting your magnum condoms to walmart so it's just going to be passed back onto you in higher p

• danaris 5y ago
  The idea that any and all cost increases to businesses are directly passed on to the consumer is overly simplistic, and would logically mean that we should never make businesses pay for anything extra ever.
  • salawat 5y ago
    ... That's generally how it does work. I mean, yeah, when you hit a certain point, you might forego a bit of profitability a little here and there, but if you can't even get the stuff where it needs to be to do good for less than $X when it used to be $Y where Y<X for less than your overhead + outlay, you have to bump your price ask up to reflect the market reality. It feels like it shouldn't be that way, but a surprisingly large amount of what makes the modern world work is proxying and physical caching as a business model.
• causality0 5y ago
  Which I can reduce by being a frugal and responsible consumer. Laws and regulations should encourage good behavior.