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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Of course there are always many different factors that come together to cause an inflation. However, corporate profiteering is clearly one of the major factors here. As the articles I linked above explain, the rate of profit has increased since the pandemic, so it's not just companies raising prices to make up for higher costs.