Unpacking Supermarket Price Explosion: More Than Just Inflation
Hello folks, Earnest Mann here! In today’s episode, we’re tackling a hot topic that’s on everyone’s lips—skyrocketing supermarket prices. It’s not just your usual chatter about inflation; we're peeling back the layers to uncover the deeper dynamics at play, including overlooked aspects like market saturation and corporate greed.
The Hidden Culprits Behind Rising Costs
Beyond the visible spikes in food and clothing prices, I reveal some critical but less-discussed drivers of these increases. It’s not just about inflation or the typical market fluctuations you hear about every day. Instead, I discuss the "triumvirate of upness" in pricing—where inflation, greed, and mismanagement converge to push prices to new heights.
Sustainable Solutions: Beyond Conventional Economics
The episode isn’t just an analysis; it's a call to rethink how our economic systems function. I challenge the relentless pursuit of growth akin to cancer in capitalism, highlighting the toxic cycle where perpetual expansion leads to inevitable collapse. We also explore realistic approaches to manage and mitigate these issues on both societal and individual levels.
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00:02 [Music] hello folks and thank you for tuning in on this Monday we're going to have a great episode for you because we're going to be talking about what just about everybody else uh has been talking about there's a million uh you know podcaster certainly talking about this and it has to do with the exploding Supermarket prices and that is a uh a very accurate um observation but we're going to go a little deeper I tend to go a little deeper into things you folks know this by now and I'm going to tell you a
00:54 couple of Secrets okay okay and I'm going to tell you for instance that it is analogous to say that uh if a mechanic were selling a car and you came over and you looked at it and um he said yeah the only thing's wrong with it is it you know doesn't have any gas failing to mention that it also doesn't have an engine or any wheels and that's what I'm getting at here that most of them are are correctly pointing out what a blind man could see that uh prices for food and other items as well cuz it's not just food it's you
01:40 know clothing and such and it's crazy it's you know going through the roof and there's no doubt about that and yes that is the nasty old Dragon of inflation but they want to point out endlessly at this particular market and this other market and another market and oh can of tuna in 2022 it was blah blah blah and now it's increased 15% or 30 or 40 or 70 or whatever the hell the case may be but what I want to tell you is what is missing because you're not going to you're not going to get the full picture
02:29 of what is really going on unless you have that and I would also like to mention in addition to that that there are answers um but the answers are not going to be here the answers are on my website so um but in the meantime we got a rock and roll so um yeah there's a lot more going on here though than just inflation and that is certainly a big part of it but here is the bigger deal you see what it is is actually I call it the triumphant uh of upness as far as you know the whole the whole K Kaboodle the whole
03:19 kabang it's not just inflation now what you have is a major part of it is greed and you have a situation where the psychology or The psychosis depending on your politics of capitalism doesn't allow for the very thing which is destroying capitalism and to use a very quick and simple analogy if you're making wine for instance um the alcohol is produced uh from the uh bacteria that is reproducing uh the yeast let's say there's fermenting or for another uh term but that's uh they're getting it on but um it usually in the
04:09 case of wine for instance it gets up to around 12 12 15% at the highest typically and then it stops and it stops because the environment becomes so toxic with the alcohol meaning their own byproduct if you will that it kills them and that's exactly what's going on here or at least let's just say that's a big part of it okay okay so capitalism has to have um or at least you've been led to believe must have growth it has to have Perpetual growth in order to well basically work the problem with that
04:54 analogy is that it is basically saying well you know it it has to be cancerous because if it's not like cancer well it's going to implode and it isn't going to work actually that's not true but that's a subject for a different time but what is happening is um we have a uh inflation because we keep for instance printing money and the more money we print it devalues the current money that in essence is inflation and that's what we're suffering through the other thing is the greed of a lot of people who are
05:39 rich have been rich and been Rich for a long time and they continue to set their fat asses on the money that they've Acquired and they continue to acquire um from not basically producing anything and so they just get fatter and fatter and richer and richer and we continue to spiral down into Squad Waller another aspect of this though that is summarily ignored um and I want to mention very quickly they always talk about inflation because it's something we can perceive together you know like some great Dragon just oh yeah if we just get
06:22 inflation under control no I'm sorry it doesn't work that way there are the other elements like I said and the other element again has to do with growth okay we we're talking about uh different markets which we've pretty much exhausted the US has pretty much exhausted throughout the world um yeah we that that is it that's the expansion as far as that's concerned but that that's come pretty much to an end especially with the Chinese competition so um we are basically um we're we're
07:05 we're screwed there's no way around it we're screwed now you might ask the question and you you could say well now is there anything we can do as a society or as an individual so you know if you're selfish and you just want to save your own ass um is there a way out well the question is quickly is yes and yes um but as far as the society thing is concerned unfortunately that's something which is very tenuous and very unlikely and as far as individually is concerned uh yes there are things that
07:46 you can do and that is information that is actually on my website so um but yeah if you want to for instance understand that you're simply not you know you're not going to be able to um well you're not going to techno your way out of this technology is great but as applied to just about anything it has its limits one of the major problems is and I've said countless times on my program is the population and no one will address that and especially you're not going to hear it from any you know main stream media or
08:39 anything like that because again as I said that is the whole one of the huge uh tenants of capitalism is growth and so they love population growth because well it's selling more product and they don't care they don't see the other side of the equation and the destruction that it causes they don't give a damn it's that it's it's basically psych Psychopathic and its desire it's like cancer that's I don't know any damn simpler way to um you know describe it it is just reproducing uncontrollably
09:19 with no thought of the future and that's what cancer does until it kills the host and in this case we collectively on the planet Are host and it uh it doesn't believe it doesn't it does not want to have a static economy because they'll tell you that is a contradiction in terms when in reality it's not that is simply it's it's not it is not okay the other uh form of capitalism and expansion and whatnot it is simply not SU sustainable to life I'm not just talking the resource I'm just talking about
10:05 human life first of all as I've explained there are too many people that's right there are way too many people with the current population and it's supposed to expand to I don't know 10 11 billion um to have any semblance of non-chaos a non- craziness which we are certainly entering in casee you've been watching any of the news forget about the the sh the details the about the migrant thing those are just symptoms those are symptoms of a much bigger bigger problem okay that's what I'm talking about is
10:51 uncontrolled and unregulated population as any farmer whose worth is waiting let's say uh will tell you if they have are breeders of stock you can't just endlessly breed stock willy-nilly you have to know the resources you have to know have how much land do I have and how much water and how much food and all of these things they have to be for a self sustaining system you have to recognize the realities of those things and you act accordingly and you just don't let your animals breed willy-nilly
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13:45 sound completely crazy what you say what I say yep two billion two billion for the planet now if you had two billion on the planet suddenly just about everything you have plenty of it you have plenty of space Water Shelter food the wars pretty much dry up so do the gangs a whole host of things simply just go away as bad memories but you have to get it at two billion on the planet and you have to maintain it that means means that females can't just keep breeding beings and humans like they're puppies and just think oh some will just pop the
14:40 resources out of out of the air somewhere somehow no it doesn't work that way reality doesn't work that way and so you have to have an entire you know an entire shift in Consciousness and thought but then this is this is this is it because if you don't do this you know what you're going to have you're going to have this exactly what you're having you know people bitching and moaning and this oh the price of eggs and the price of this and the the price of every thing is just going to keep
15:19 going up with your population not to mention your greed that's a long way people sitting on 3 four five 50 billion 200 gazillion dollar whatever the hell it is and essentially they do nothing with it but acquire so that's what I mean there's just a whole bunch of things that need to change it's not just the economy that one little thing and one little aspect of it like I said that's like noticing the car won't run because there's no gas and completely ignoring the fact that it has no wheels and it has no
16:04 engine and I simply don't know how to explain that any simpler if you want to have any kind of discussion with me about this if you have any questions if I sound completely crazy and outlandish please drop me a line or drop me a dime as they used to say but this is where we're at folks I would love to continue this conversation about this so but this you know this is where we're at so until next Monday or Friday this is earnest wishing you peace and good things