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Lyn Alden
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I posted a bunch of evidence on Twitter for how 1) grocery stores have razor thin margins, 2) food producer margins are more average but haven't changed in two decades, 3) of course farmers aren't the ones getting rich so 4) no, the food companies are not gouging you on prices.

It's monetary inflation. Grocery stores and food producers are trying to keep up.

Most people agree due to the inherent audience selection, but the tweets kind of went viral and reached a broader political audience, so a bunch of people came in like, "How come they can put chips on sale for 50% sometimes!?!? Checkmate Alden." (it's because they don't understand fixed costs vs cost-of-goods sold) or "How do you know any of the filings are real? What if they're literally all just lying on their audited SEC filings?"

Post-truth, some of people are. The grasping for price controls is the short-time public and political instinct that ultimately makes things worse, every time.



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Chad Lupkes · 88w
Until the US Federal government balances the budget, and stops borrowing from bond buyers to pay yesterday's bond buyers, none of this is going to get better. And we have a dosfuctional government that REFUSES to have real discussions about how to balance the budget.
inpc · 88w
I read “the fillings aren’t real” and thought someone was taking you to task on sandwiches and confectionery, something not covered at all in Broken Money…
Bitcopath · 88w
There is cost of storage and for food products best before date is an issue so they do sales. Also they sometimes buy more than required just to meet the required producer or reseller quota. If they buy 100 of the x product they will get additional discounts. So they buy 50 more to meet the 100 quot...
bomboriver · 88w
great article Lyn. thanks. glad i follow you
M-Vil · 88w
socialism is a mental illness
Satoshi · 88w
Great work, Lyn!
Sam Wouters · 88w
The comment section there is absolutely brutal. It’s a great reminder for all the Bitcoiners that if we don’t patiently educate people, they’re not going to come around to how things really work. https://m.primal.net/KCHv.jpg
Bill Cypher · 88w
The American people do not have the history knowledge of other countries that they need to understand current American economics. Price controls that guarantee a loss for producers means that the producer simply shuts down. Now that product is not available to anyone anywhere at any price. At leas...
DrDaniel ⚡️ BIP110 · 88w
The concept of inflation is not difficult to grasp. What I cannot comprehend is why the average Joe grasps for any other explanation than the right one. The Matrix is strong.
Dakota · 88w
The last slide shows (I think) that Pepsi and General Mills have profit margins of 10% and 12% , respectively. Is that large or not?
HODL · 88w
The government will blame everyone but itself
Dr. Jeff · 88w
Great charts and helpful info, Lyn!
npub1pl4qpkzdff3weqqv2qm3fcjm0hd00pak2hvddp67q9jjkfrjr49sesuk3m · 88w
price controls seem like a way of deflecting responsibility away from government as much as anything else
pleb123 · 88w
Price controls on the horizon should heighten the urgency with which you prioritize self sufficiency. This is like an immune response to a cold. I like price controls, because they lead to an acute collapse in the standard of living of the Average Joe. This creates the conditions that accelerate ...
Sats McNic · 88w
For a couple of years now, we've had a politician, Jagmeet Singh, and his entire political party (NDP) calling for price controls in Canada. In his latest stunt, he spoke directly to the camera while holding up various grocery items, like a bag of apples, and said, "This is $9. It's completely unac...
𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) · 88w
Fertilizer prices 3X since Ukraine war Gas prices 4X Min wage 2X Funny money printed 20T since pandemic That’s why your cost of of eggs is 3X and bacon 4X and fish 2X etc etc etc
danielec87 · 88w
And it's interesting that they are raising prices at a lower rate than the M2. That means that they are actually doing a good job at keeping prices low.
TheBitcoinBattery · 88w
Ancient Rome also tried to do price controls, they didn't work. This is why teaching history is important to a prosperous society! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices
The Tim · 88w
The most frustrating is when people demand higher wages for farm workers, but say that the prices of food are too high 🤦‍♂️
Brandon Tompkins · 88w
Every time... I'm so glad that a lot of people can see right through all of the communist propaganda.
Smoked Gruyere · 88w
then how to explain all supermarket chains having such higher profits now than 4 years ago? like hundreds of millions of dollars more?
bitBeaker · 88w
https://m.primal.net/KChB.jpg
Digital Au · 87w
“People with no experience in business, no knowledge of history, and utterly ignorant of economics do not hesitate to leap from high prices to greedy profit-makers. Many of these ignorant people are on nationwide television and some are in Congress.” - Thomas Sowell
Jeremy · 87w
In NZ the commies went after the supermarkets for apparently gouging and the “commission” came back with some enormous profit number which made good headlines. However, if you take the number divide it by the population it worked out to be ~$1 per person per day to provide the service “superm...
theELK · 85w
As someone just recently exiting the US PR and corporate communications industry, I can attest to the fact that PR is nothing more than modern-day bread and circuses. A vapid distraction designed to obscure the populace from the fact that centralized banking is printing fiat currency at a rampant an...