▲ 831 ▼ Did grocery chains take advantage of COVID shortages to raise prices? FTC says yes in new report (www.usatoday.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 160 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 years ago Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. -Milton Friedman permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 years ago Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. -Milton Friedman permalink fedilink source parent