• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Supply demand economics was a great concept in grade 8, but in the real world, price fixing and monopolies rule unchecked.

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      23 hours ago

      Imagine if all of us cared about the regulatory capture rampant in the baby formula industry they gave us that US baby formula crisis at the start of the decade, as much as we care about our computer memory.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Myth vs reality type thing. A charitable thing to say is that its an incomplete theory. There are political interests to keep it that way.