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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by cush on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:21AM (#40524080)
The feeling we have about changing food prices comes from price sensitivity, not some kind of food cartel secretly jacking up the price of grapes. You can choose to get the cheap grapes or buy bananas instead. There’s no menu to pick the cheap hip replacement from.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-sensitivity.asp

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Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill by srackey on Thursday May 30, 2024 @11:39AM (#40524990)
I shoulda added the “/s”

Food (despite recent inflation) is still very cheap in the grand scheme of things, despite it being something ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for survival.

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