Hey there,
The last year or so I keep hearing the term ‘Greedflation’ pop up more and more. The Idea here is that there are greedy capitalists that are raising the prices on goods and services faster than their own costs are increasing and this is causing prices to rise.
Now if I think about it inflation is always based on some price increasing, and sometimes because there is some shock that limits how mch of something is available. Oil is scarce because of some natural disasters or war, food is scarce because of drought, etc.
Most of the time there are other sources of the same resources (different crops), or the resource was horded before (‘strategic’ oil reserves), in both cases someone is able to charge more (eg Profit) from the situation.
So now it sound to me that normal inflation and greedflation are both simply based on one entity in the supply chain increasing the price to take advantage of the situation. Whether you call it greedflation or not depends on whether your personal “in” group is profiting from or or not.
Where is my thinking error here? Is greedflation a real thing?
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Its as real as the phrase “get woke go broke” is. Its a political chant. If we’re being pedantic, greedflation is actually just price gouging. Sure it manifests as “inflation” to the average consumer, but inflation is a devaluation of currency whereas price gouging is the raising of the price of a product or service above market price.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ahh yes, that’s why so many companies have posted record profifs. Record profits during these checks notes “tough” times.
Tough times for who?
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No no you don’t understand. Every single company needs to double its profits every quarter until we can find a way to turn matter itself into profit, consume all of it, and become pure energy, setting ourselves up for the next big bang. The growth must continue until all existence is consumed
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are you under the assumption that Im defending these actions?
sheeeep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But what is the market price? If people are willing to pay for it then its the market price. So its adjusting the price to the current demand. There are times where this is unethical for example profiting from wars and disasters, but generally this is how things go.
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
While you’re correct within the definitions of the words you’re using, it completely misses the point of what Ive said.