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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
I’m willing to go out on a limb and back up the claim that corporate profits completely outweighed the government handouts. 

Take a look at the top 500 companies in the world and how they smashed their profits year over year since Covid. 

The perfect excuse to cut employees, hours, and maximize the workload on your legal slaves. All because you can blame it on the rise in pricing and supply chain shortages. 

Inflation is a government tool for control of the masses and it’s used to keep their lobbying friends happy.
gpt
The market will bear whatever prices people are willing to pay. People have been willing to pay higher prices because they are making more money and we are at extremely low unemployment rates. Are you expecting corporations to just make less money to be nice guys? Not really how it works. Are you wanting the government to step in and do price setting because that is full blown socialism. If the government starts dipping their toes in that water they will begin a never ending cycle of plugging holes. A cycle which they have already started with QE, way too low interest rates for too long, government hand outs in many forms. They need to start walking those things back not creating new problems.