The app crime angle for uber/airbnb is a now familiar topic that gets heated and still draws a variety of different kinds of opinions. Landlord price cabals en

The app crime angle for uber/airbnb is a now familiar topic that gets heated and still draws a variety of different kinds of opinions. Landlord price cabals enabled by apps have started to get press.. this surprises almost no one and makes everyone angry. Price fixing, consolidation, and greedflation in food sources though does not seem to get much press. I think the revelation would be extremely surprising, scary, and absolutely infuriating to most people. What is really striking here is how the tired old “vote with your wallet!” advice won’t even work for potatoes anymore. And yet the staunch defenders of business-as-usual capitalism still insist nothing has changed, that we only need to “use our agency!” to effectively fight against whatever kinds of abusive corporate bullshit is getting normalized this week. That’s not just a tired rhetorical trick to win points in an argument or to blame the victim, it’s becoming very transparently absurd.