• iopq@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s not price gouging, there’s no coca cola shortage and it’s not a necessary for life good. You’re acting like you can’t just stop buying it

    And yes, the price people willing to pay for some goods is a reasonable price for them, unless it’s some necessity or it’s some disaster area. If it was unreasonable, people wouldn’t pay that price. Especially for something like coca cola

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      8 months ago

      Sorry… how is a price increase that is not justified by inflation not price gouging?

      Price gouging has nothing to do with what is necessary and Coca-Cola is being used as an example. I’m not why you think this is singly about coca-cola.

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        8 months ago

        I think this simply depends on your definition of gouging. If I used “to charge someone too much money for something, in a way that is dishonest or unfair” as I found from google, one could argue that the increase was justified by some others means that didn’t qualify as dishonest or unfair, which is also subjective.

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        8 months ago

        It’s justified by inflation, inflation is an average.

        For example, if thing A goes up 20% and thing B goes up 0% we say the inflation is 10%. You will complain that A went up faster than the inflation. But you’re cherry picking the data, since you ignored B not going up