Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job? Are you really free if you have to ration your medicines because they’re too expensive, or if they’re not available at all?
Robert Reich
How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan) (Robert Reich – YouTube)
Well, after farmers wrote that letter, the White House and FTC started making noise about antitrust action. They said egg companies, we heard you’ve been price gouging. You’re just overcharging and you’re using bird flu as an excuse. We see you. The fact that you can play with prices like that tells us that there’s not enough competition happening in the egg market.
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And that’s all the federal government had to do. FTC didn’t have to do anything beyond that, because just threatening antitrust action is often enough to get companies to back off.
Sarah Taber
Egg prices! Bird flu! Price gouging! What’s going on? (Farm to Taber)
Scott Boehmer 