Political Memes

Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods. The logical solution is to identify how much of everything people actually need and domestically produce at that scale. And, along the way, cutting a bunch of the subsidy and industrial waste that dilutes retail buying power.

Shrinkflation, Greedflation, etc - these aren't symptoms of potato chips and bottled water suddenly becoming way more expensive to produce. They're purely profit-driven price increases. So establish a state mandate on a "small" / "medium" / "large" bag of chips at X / 2X / 4X oz of foodstuff, nationalize a potato chip factory that's been scraped by a manufacturer, and start putting out bags at that size for a fixed price relative to the input cost of potatoes, energy, and labor.

Then, if the private sector wants to compete, they can try and match a generic quality of food produced by a non-profit state actor operating at cost. And set the production quota of the non-profit state actor as "number of bags of chips people pre-order for next month" - "number of bags of chips private agents commit to produce at a fixed unit price".

Fill the supply gap so everyone who wants a bag of chips can have one at a designated price. Do it at cost, rather than at some ill-defined wholesale + retail markup rate. Distribute the bags through the USPS, just like Amazon distributes private potato chip bags through their privatized postal system.

I guarantee you'll be able to supply chips at a lower price than current retail rates and at a price that is far more stable than what we've seen in grocery stories nationally over the last ten years.