• NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
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    23 hours ago

    It’s a really good point. Sorry, I wasn’t trying to imply people are whining but I can understand in the current environment why it would come across like this.

    I also didn’t realise something so critical has doubled, we historically have relatively cheap food in the UK and I can only imagine the uproar if that doubled over a short period.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      Gotcha gotcha. Yeah I think of it as like systemic problems in society. In some ways, the costs of certain things going up is acceptable or even good (no more slave labor), but then you find out that the money isn’t actually going to workers, but instead CEOs and stockholder investment firms, leeching money and power from society, slowly sucking it dry.

      Every action that benefits them more than the rest of civilization is another step closer to collapse.

      Gas gouging, billionaire deals behind closed doors, extreme consolidation of power, another day without a guillotine… Is another day society gets weaker and frustrated and closer to conflict.