Everything is expensive because there exist people who are willing to stand by their values?

Shitty* values but yes, try to keep up.

we can keep up with well-reasoned arguments, it's just that the words that you're typing are incoherent. i guess we can assume that you think racial profiling is ok and being against it is "shitty"?

How about this: you construct a society that obsesses about race, I build a society that obsesses about property rights and we’ll see who wants to live where?

yeah we already live in a society that's obsessed with both. you can clearly see that when corporations use untested "AI" that racially profile minorities as a way to "protect" their property. again, can you present some kind of coherent argument? are you trying to convince us of something, or just trying to be smug? bc i still don't understand what your point is or what you have to be smug about.

Given the context, I suppose it's because people are stealing things and thus stores have to raise their prices?