They keep raising prices, stating that it’s due to inflation, but then they keep having record profits.
Meanwhile, the average American can barely afford rent or food nowadays.
What are we to do? Vote? I have been but that doesn’t seem to do much since I’m just voting for a representative that makes the actual decisions.
The cost of ingredients have gone up anywhere from 75%-300% from corporate greed. Flour went from $1/Lb to $5/Lb. It’s actually cheaper in some cases to buy the mass produced version of things like bread.
TL;DR: You can only lower you consumption so much before you starve
The idea that an average person in the US is anywhere near starving is ridiculous. Except a tiny, almost vanishingly small minority, americans would be healtier consuming significantly less.
What we need are non-profits who engage in agriculture specifically to sell basic goods cheap and to undercut for-profit companies. With automation advancing, it’s possible to slash prices in that way.
That would help shift Americans away from capitalism to a post-scarcity economy where they don’t have to worry about buying food and such.