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Dude has no idea what life is like for the majority of people he "represents"...
That line is taken completely out of context. The full quote, pasted elsewhere in this thread, is about how people can pay these price hikes, technically, but it's rage inducing that they keep having to, and we need to address this kind of corporate greed.
But they can't...
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/february/food-insecurity-for-households-with-children-rose-in-2020-disrupting-decade-long-decline/
Maybe you're fine, but lots of people aren't. The more prices go up, the more people can't.
Desperate people do desperate things.
Do you think you'll feel the effects of prices or starving masses first that effect your life enough for you to care?
Because things aren't heading in the rights direction. Republicans break too much and Dems don't try to fix it all. Damage accumulates if we don't make repairs faster than damage is done.
Electing Dems who try to fix the damage, gets them more votes and more like minded people in office. Half ass measures are what's holding us back, and you need to think about whose donations ensure we keep ratcheting backwards.
I am so lost as to your message here, I'm sorry. Best guess response:
I'm well aware of the rising cost of food, and that people increasingly can't afford it. But desperate people do desperate things, and food insecurity is about as desperate as humans can get. People find the money, usually by reprioritizing other critical needs. This is, of course, fucking insane that they have to do that. But because they are able to do that desperate reprioritizing they can continue to be bled dry by the corporations setting the prices. I'm not disagreeing about the cause or half measures, just that that quote is being used so out of context it's straying into the territory of intentional deception.
It's one banana, Michael. What can it cost? $10?