@thendrix @lain @Moon
>They couldn’t let people introduce supply to the market was their excuse.
Lol. The US gov pays Mexican farmers to not grow corn, for the same reason.

The shinkflation thing is such a misdirection, too. Companies have been very reluctant to be the first to raise prices, and "shrinkflation", selling a smaller amount for the same price is an alternative, albeit lousy and short-sighted. It's still all just symptoms of inflation, but they're trying to frame it as corporate greed ("capitalism"). If they're only doing it because they're greedy, then why didn't they do it five years ago? If they could make more profit by selling less stuff for the same price, why don't they just keep doing that? It makes no sense. Like you said, the point is to agitate and manufacture consent for price controls.

It's more like Venezuela or the USSR than Ukraine.