These are a collection of Guardian tales from this morning:
What we now have are huge corporates, working both as oligopolies or as efficient monopolies behind the facility of their company manufacturers, and subsequently capable of go on value will increase to shoppers with out obvious resistance arising (to date), making shed a great deal of cash in full and whole clarification of the true reason behind the 2022 value of residing disaster.
In 1976 the price of residing disaster was blamed on the facility of commerce unions.
In 2022 the price of residing disaster is the fault of enormous corporates screwing shoppers into the bottom, utilizing the facility of their company manufacturers and talent to circumnavigate laws to extract revenue for the good thing about a number of at extraordinary value to society as a complete.
I forecast this earlier this year: I mentioned then that it was the state’s job to scale back the extent of profiteering to guard strange folks.
The profiteering has received a lot worse since then.
The predicament of hundreds of thousands of strange individuals who will this winter actually be unable to pay their payments for power, water, lease, or their mortgages if they’re nonetheless to be fed, is unthinkably unhealthy.
I’m conscious that union are actually speaking a few normal strike in response to this example. I’m not positive that shall be sufficient.
Companies assume the world is now their oyster: I very a lot doubt this could final.