French supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of “shrinkflation” - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.

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    1 year ago

    The second capitalists gather together they are bound to conspire to fuck over ordinary folks.

    That’s not Marx - that’s literally Adam Smith, the guy who hypothesized the invisible hand of the market that has since been turned into a complete strawman leading people to believe capitalism will somehow fix itself.

    Spoiler: It won’t.

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      Which Adam Smith then follows by saying the craftspeople need to form guilds (unions) in response, which is the only scenario where the invisible hand approach could work

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        The invisible hand was really just mentioned once in relation to the dynamics of trade between states, the whole concept is just taken out of context.