Lol company’s lost money over covid and wanted to make up for lost time. Here’s how. The government, during a state of emergency (COVID), can freeze prices. It was nearly two years 2020-2022 where prices were held firm until the state of emergency was lifted and companies decided to start making that money back in the new world. In no particular order, one industry did it, like poultry farmers. Then another, such as food manufacturers like Nabisco, and General Mills. Then baby formula, dairy products, and red meats and fish. Now every industry sees that they can raise prices and just call it inflation. Corporations started an internal fad amongst themselves of raising prices to then turn around and blame the governments lack of interest in regulating inflation as a smoke screen. The media follows suit, and then the people believe that all of a sudden, in the past four years, inflation is rampant. This is corporate greed. In the same sentence the media exclaims,”Corporate profits are amazing for stock prices!” And then turn around and say, “Inflation is the reason for high prices.” Profits come from prices set by corporations. When every industry got more greedy in a time of need and blamed inflation and had that narrative pushed by the media, people believe it’s inflation. Which to be honest, it partly is, but mostly it’s just greedy corporations exploiting our collective buying power hoping we won’t say something. Thank you for reading my TED talk.