Corporations are a lot more willing than usual to raise their prices lately, and it’s putting more of the burden of high inflation on consumers.

That may not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has browsed a grocery aisle, kicked the tires at a car dealership or filled up a gas tank of late, but even the Bank of Canada is starting to take notice of the trend, as the central bank continues its battle to wrestle inflation into submission.

Speaking to a parliamentary committee in Ottawa this week, the bank’s governor, Tiff Macklem, told lawmakers that the bank has noticed a troubling new trend coming out of the corporate sector.

For much of the past few decades, any time businesses have seen a jump in their input costs — the amount they pay for things like raw materials, energy and even workers — “they were pretty cautious about passing on [that cost into] the prices they charged for goods and services,” Macklem said.

Their reasoning was simple: they were afraid of losing customers.

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    Hey, everyone. You don’t show up to the semi finals without practicing and think you’re going to accomplish anything else but getting dunked on.

    You can’t just wait around and then react when bad stuff happens. You need to practice and organize and scrimmage throughout the year. Then when the big day arrives, you all know what to do.

    Start small, and grow your action. Started by building channels to coordinate actual group actions/boycotts. Tell all those bots that work real hard to tell us all to just ignore their collusion instead of organizing. Then start picking off small players with organized boycotts. Build momentum. Start fucking stuff up over super minor inconveniences to scare the ever loving shit out of these companies trying to pull bigger schemes.

    You would think we didn’t have a massive communication channel attached to our hips ffs

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      Wouldn’t picking off small players just make the problem worse? We’d have even less options than we do now.

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      The sheep can’t hear you over the sound of munching grass. The cattle have no care for what their bells say.

      You show me how to eradicate wilful ignorance and deliberate belligerence and I’ll show you a functional society.

      You would think we didn’t have a massive communication channel attached to our hips ffs

      It might as well be a broken translator.

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            I dunno, your doom and gloom shit is pretty old

            You can think theres no hope if you like, but kindly shut the fuck up about it if youre not interested in trying to fix things.

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                No one is ignoring reality.

                You can acknowledge shits fucked without falling into dispair about how utterly pointless and unfixable it is.

                Its not unfixable.

                I dont give a shit if youve got depression dude, get a therapist or meds. The world isnt over, and your doom and gloom bullshit isnt helping improve the situation.

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                  You’re the one having a teary over people being ignorant. I’m just pointing out reality. If reality hurts your fefe’s so much maybe you are better off without it. Maybe don’t project your depression and impotency on others.

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                    Youre literally throwing a piss party, and getting upset at being told to quit pissing yourself in public.

                    You arent pointing out reality, youre acting like a loser who just got dumped

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        My translator doesn’t have the “pompous cliché” language pack installed so I’m afraid idk what you said there.

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              If normies are wilfully ignorant and intentionally belligerent, then yes. Anyone with an iota of cognizance would have disdain for that. But don’t cry about being what you are, if you don’t like it be different.

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                You can argue about willful and intentional. Political corruption gives evil people a means with which to undermine education. Not a hard concept.

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                  Lack of education undermines democracy, wilful ignorance undermines personal intelligence, deliberate belligerence undermines communication.

                  Ones own ignorance can be eliminated by their own actions alone.

                  To remain uneducated is to hate democracy.