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  It hasn't just been the oil companies, either.
context: Also Shell: Gas is just expensive at the moment, nothing we can do >
  
  Inflation had stagnated for decades, because of massive wealth consolidation for that period - there are thousands of people in this world making money faster than spending is even possible.
  This inflation is artificial. >
  
  Inflation can't happen organically if money isn't spent. The hoarding of wealth in the US made inflation disappear, unless inflation was introduced maliciously. >
  
  This isn't a conspiracy, it's just how publicly owned companies operate in this day and age. Private equity has entrenched their power, same game that Enron pulled in the California energy market. >
  
  So if they can't fail during a good economy and they thrive during a bad one where is the risk inherit to justifying their profits? >
  
  Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said anything about risk? Big Corpo is here for maximum profit and zero risk. That's why they feign victim status during the pandemic, it helps to minimize their risk. They're not actually victims, never were, and their profit records prove it. 
  But - so help me good - show them one single quarter without growth, and holy crap, there goes 30% of their workforce laid off. And of course it's not their fault when they have to lay off workers. Economic conditions, yada yada, all that.
  Free market at work, friends. >
  
  Basically used inflation to hide profiteering.