What government overreach is causing corporate grocery price gouging?

I'm not saying they do. I'm saying there's a problem, he identified it, he's trying a solution.

You're acting like there's no problem, which is really the dumbest take

I don't necessarily think his answer is the best one, but if the free market was actually working, this wouldn't be a problem that anyone would bring up.

Unfortunately we're seeing the opposite of that. Price gouging, corporate capture, etc.

Realistically, I guess, at least he's trying something to break up the problem. Everyone other candidate seems to be ok with the status quo.

How was the gold standard not sound money?

I doubt that is where this ends up. I go back to my first response, we've tried having libertarian labor laws.

Long before the invention of huge mega corps; and it lead to company towns, worker exploitation, and unsafe work environments.

ok. While I don't disagree with what you want the end result to be, I think your path to get there ignores a lot of current day realities.

1. There are many reasons that large corporations exist today, some of it is borrowed money, some of it is market capture and non government intervention, leading to what are essentially monopolies.

2. The problem is that those corpos exist today, with near infinite money supplies and supply chains. Even if you increase the costs of them doing business, I don't see how a small business is going to compete. Let's face it, Amazon and Wal-Mart are so far ahead of the game, that the only way to break them up is direct government intervention.

I don't see how you can manipulate the market in any meaningful way to shut them down with increased labor costs. They frankly have enough money to cover that forever. You can't have a small business under pay employees and hope wal-mart eventually doesn't have the capacity to suck up the labor market.

3. Are you arguing for a removal of minimum wage for your last point? Employees and bosses should figure out wages - I agree - but this is only going to work in a vacuum (as of today). Because there is always the ability to ship in cheap labor from out of country, thanks to many legal and not legal venues.

Again, I think we're on the same page for an end goal - but the current market realities do not allow for this sort of utopian, everyone figures out what a job should fairly pay situation.

Sorry, what? I don't follow how sound money would have stopped abusive labor practices.

And why would you ever work for a small company that isn't required to compensate you for your time?

The brain ache is brain exercise. No different than doing push ups or running

I don't think it necessarily curbs productivity. You don't have standard office interruptions, so you can concentrate for longer periods.

Essentially you burst productivity, which gives you time to pop out for a run or whatever.

They tried this already. It's why people unionized and we have 40 hour work weeks.