> companies have been behaving the same way forever (trying to maximize profits), yet inflation has been low for a decade This isn't true. Companies only star

> companies have been behaving the same way forever (trying to maximize profits), yet inflation has been low for a decade This isn't true. Companies only started to maximize profits under shareholder value recently. Corporations originally were thought to have a responsibility to society at large, thus with things like pensions being provided to their employees. Additionally, the small handouts to the poor are much more dwarfed by handouts to the employers at the time. Which made it baffling that large employers then raised prices anyways, when they already got the vast majority of covid relief money. No, it is pure greed.