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    318 days ago

    Uhm. They control the price of things. They control wages. They control different markets, like the housing market. They control land development and energy. You know, things the economy relies on.

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        18 days ago

        … they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”

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        317 days ago

        They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?

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          017 days ago

          Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?

          Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?

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            217 days ago

            They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.

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              017 days ago

              They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could.

              What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?

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                217 days ago

                Because we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.