• dislocate_expansion@reddthat.comB
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              Local money tends to stay local, but yeah eventually the local farmer might need to buy some specialized tool that only some big corporation manufactures. But we got ourselves in this mess from supporting these massive greedy corporations, so as the average person is more educated than 50 years ago we might be able to get ourselves out

              https://sustainableconnections.org/why-buy-local/

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                Does it actually stay local? Pretty sure the local farmers are buying standard issue tractors and equipment from the likes of John Deere.

                Granted, the money has a few stops before making its way into the hands of those mega corps, but it definitely doesn’t stay with small businesses.

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    5 months ago

    All horseshit. Prices went up because of price gouging, not “inflation.” They’re pretending to fight a problem their real constituency creates every day.

    Audit the Fed.

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      These are two different concepts. Auditing the fed does make sense since no knows the true number of USD. Price gouging could also be an influence, but we need to remember that commodity prices went up 400%+ during covid for things like corn and lumber which could take years before those ripples are felt