Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 9 months agoThe 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
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.
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.