Such corporations don't price things based on operating cost. They price them based on what they want to have. The two are only tangentially related (though you

Such corporations don't price things based on operating cost. They price them based on what they want to have. The two are only tangentially related (though you can bet that if the costs go up, the price will too. It's just that the price also rises if a middle manager was annoyed with their toilet paper that morning).