Re: The public is dangerously misinformed about supermarkets

On 8/23/26 11:20 AM, Julian wrote:
> The real driver of higher grocery prices is not greed; it’s policy.
> 
> 
> I have at least one thing in common with Boris Yeltsin, the first 
> president of the Russian Federation. When I’m travelling, one of my 
> favourite activities is visiting a local supermarket. In 1989, when 
> still a communist, Yeltsin made an impromptu stop at Randall’s 
> supermarket in the suburbs of Houston.
> 
> “When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, 
> cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt 
> quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote in 
> his memoir. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been 
> brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
> 
> It is often said this visit helped puncture any remaining faith he had 
> in the Soviet system, hastening the collapse of communism...
> 
> https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/the-public-is-dangerously-misinformed

There'll always be some who insist the ideology is infallible
and it's just a simple matter of correct implementation that
has, conveniently, finally emerged and is in their possession.

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let's end war 🙃