Inflation 2024

[Frayed Knot]

Well then Whoopi may have been a lot closer to the truth than you gave her credit for.

I have no idea how you got from point A to B on this one, but I hope you enjoyed the ride.

[batmagadanleadoff]

You were mocking her for saying that the high prices aren't Biden's fault and that prices are hitgher than they need to be. This isn't hard stuff. But go ahead and obfuscate.

[Frayed Knot]

You were mocking her for saying that the high prices aren't Biden's fault and that prices are hitgher than they need to be.

And how does what I just said make me do a 180 and suddenly agree with her?

My point is to try and push back on this notion that there's a 'correct' price for items, one that's universally known and agreed upon, and that there needs to be some sort of retribution or government action taken against those charging a higer price. If you think someone is selling something at the 'wrong' price then don't buy it. If it's something you need or want then buy it somewhere where it's being sold at the right price. And if everyone is selling it at the supposed wrong price then, absent massive collusion and price-fixing, it's not really the wrong price, is it?

She's saying that prices are too high (according to who and based on what?) and I'm saying that the whole idea of there being some 'correct' price we can simply decide on, other than one set by the market, doesn't exist.
And also that she seems to think that the "pigs" who run stores have the ability to charge whatever they feel like since there's no such thing as competition and as if they don't work in an industry that exists on lower profit margins than almost any other.
My position is the exact opposite of her clueless rant.



This isn't hard stuff. But go ahead and react to what you want to pretend I said rather than to what I actually said.