🗣️ Inflation is out of control, but Arizona Iced Tea has kept their can under $1 for over 20 years! 🥤💵 What does this tell us about other businesses? 🤔 Many are price gouging for bigger profits. But why? It’s tied to excessive money printing and a few wealthy individuals buying up businesses. Let’s discuss how this impacts our economy and what we can do about it! 💬 #Inflation #Economy #PriceGouging #ArizonaIcedTea #globaleconomicdiscussion

So this story's gone viral all over the internet, but the entire country is missing the point. Let me tell you the point. Yes, the founder of Arizona has made a great product for like 20 years, and he's never raised the price. It's been under a dollar, and he's gonna keep it that way, and that's a beautiful story. But why isn't the rest of our economy anything close to that? Let me tell you some truths. The business owners are gone. We don't have people who actually own businesses, take the profit, and say, oh man, I'm good. I can continue to deliver my customers a great product. No, that doesn't exist anymore. We have private equity that buys all the businesses. Why is private equity so big? There's too much fucking money that they've printed and that they've said that the stock market and these companies are worth. And so now people just have so much money that they're just sitting around saying, let me buy this, let me buy that. They're buying albums, they're buying people's catalogs, they're buying gas stations, medical practices. Investors have bought everything, and everything becomes these huge corporations. And those corporations have to keep delivering more and more money to their investors, and there's only one way to do that, and that's raising the price, raising the price. America has turned in to this stupid, broken economy where middle-class people, people for whom price actually matters, like the cost of my fucking gas matters, subsidize the ultra-rich lifestyle of the private equity ownership class that owns everything.