Eggflation is just more price-gouging

Cal-Maine Foods owns every egg brand you’ve ever heard of and its profits are up 65%.

The very instant that world governments rolled out relief funds so quarantine-shuttered businesses wouldn’t fail and covid-furloughed workers wouldn’t starve, corporate executives started rubbing their forelegs together and planning to raise prices and blame it on inflation brought on by letting The Poors have too much money.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on

They weren’t exactly subtle about it: the CEOs of America’s largest companies got on their quarterly investor calls and chortled about the willingness of “consumers” to blame inflation for the price-hikes they were cramming down their throats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/quiet-part-out-loud/#profiteering

Republicans — always happy to serve as useful idiots for monopolists — stickered gas-pumps up and down the country with Joe Biden “I Did That” stickers, even as gas companies declared record profits and boasted to investors about how they were…