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> record profits This term is 'triggering' for me because it is such a thoughtless complaint. Between inflation and economic growth (and population growth), re
by brvsft 3y ago
> record profits
This term is 'triggering' for me because it is such a thoughtless complaint. Between inflation and economic growth (and population growth), record profits are practically inescapable.
Further, I doubt that when people use the term, they actually spent the time looking at the financial statements for the businesses they're talking about. Did you? Or was it just a headline?
As an aside, the eating bugs thing is a meme that goes along with you will own nothing and be happy, which was a real article title about a potential future, written ahead of some WEF event. I don't think there's any conspiracy here, but it is somewhat amusing that WEF promotes futurism (own nothing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=4cce6e4e1735 https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s..., eat bugs: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/how-insects-positively-impact-climate-change/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/how-insects-positivel...) that would reflexively sound dystopian to a lot of people.
Whey protein tastes pretty gross too. If there's a cheap insect alternative, I admit I'll try it.
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- JackMorgan 3y agoIt would seem that yes inflation makes things expensive, but also yes they are raising prices because of "increased demand". And possibly illegally price fixing because it's a monopoly. We really need to get back into antitrust busting https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-lawsuits-sysco-corp-6010a49a323bf63260d7eeae4f88e2f8 https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-lawsuits-sysco-corp-...