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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 30 May \ on: One stacker's pain - the Euro is coming and the prices are already going up econ
You are missing a point. It is a free market. Euro or not, businesses will always want to raise the prices until there is demand. If there are customers to pay the higher prices then the price will be raised. Euro or not.
Ranting will not help you. People limiting their purchases can move the markets.
The point is the government is forcing things on people and that allows for market distortions. it causes massive pain and reduces people's purchasing power, simple as that.
without the handy pretext of the euro, businesses wouldnt be able to get away with just randomly jacking shit up 10-20% becuase people wouldn't pay, the correct market response.
Now they won't have a choice as many will just say 'oh, it's the euro' and justify it to themselves to take the hit. same shit happened in covid.
When random things get a third more expensive in 6 months for no reason other than 'the euro', im not going to do a fucking happy dance am I. Do a little cheer for free market economics. I would, but this isn't free market economics, it's governments fucking things up economics.
Sadly, in the face of it, having a rant and doing some stacking is all that is to be done.
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