• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 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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      6 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

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      6 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.