We need to stop ascribing to INFLATION what is CORPORATE GREED.

Saw something where a guy showed a 4 bdrm beautiful home for $1785 in 1929: plumbing, elec, wiring, paint, everything included.

Adjusted for INFLATION, that house would be $30,769.47 today. The median house is $363,401.00 now, or 11.8x the inflation rate.

If we continue to have our children leave the home at 18, or not live communally..we will a) sprawl too much and run out of space, and b) play right into their hands.

Because..like it or not, if we keep PAYING the price-gouging pipers, we are INCENTIVIZING them. It is mere supply and demand! If we demand goods and are willing to pay the going rate..they will continue to meet that demand with greedy supply.

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deadgerbil · 26-30, M

It's just like gas prices. The only reason people got messed up at the pump was bc of corporate greed

Now gullible people could have a list of excuses for these huge companies, but if they had a humanitarian bone in their corporate bodies, any price hike would've been absorbed by them instead of passed onto every day people

foldedunfolding · 41-45, F

@deadgerbil absolutely..but they are grinding us so far into the ground, we are eventually going to rise up. i feel like that is behind a lottt of the mass shootings in our country. protests out of sheer desperation and suicidality.