Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Grocery Store Greedflation - Is Price Gouging Behind Higher Food Prices?" video.

Accessibility request: charts like @6:47 for a person without colour sensitivities are 80% broken if the order of the legend doesn't line up with where the lines charted either start or end. At least if ordered by by the ending positions even colour blind folk could gain everything from this chart instead of only see dots, dashes, and solid lines. Or colour selection could maybe work too, not sure though because I'm not even fully blind but still can't tell lol 😅 If you're looking for ways to improve that'd be an easy one to write as a script, that's all, not a big deal. Thanks for all the hard work, love this channel. People who aren't subscribed are doing themselves a disservice.
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For context, working at Safeway used to be union, and the lifers could save up for and buy houses and drive used cars on that salary. Even the poorest shopped for groceries at Safeway if it was closest or saved them bus fare. If prices were high but the neighbourhood grocery lifer was also watching the kids play, babysitting, and just being a good neighbour because she wasn't afraid of being attacked outside her home, that's a benefit. It's fewer defaults, fewer senior citizen poverty thanks to the pension plan, and motivated workers who got to know their neighbours at work over decades of consistency. We've lost a lot to be asked to accept food prices to rise in lock step with everything else considering tax subsidize them too, we've already given up a lot, and we're more pinched than ever somehow while they are the highest paid rent-seekers this country has, as far as executives and businessmen/leaders they presume to be to be worth their weight in salt... Just think cost benefit compared to 20 years ago - it doesn't even compare relative to the average budget for groceries these days. That's why I'm launching an app soon, because I have grocery prices in Canada over time, and I've built a platform to help people save money on their groceries in Canada.
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The stock prices are a good example, bonuses, staff reductions and union busting, the price gouging doesn't have to only be monetary. Cutting full time workers to reduce liabilities is also a price we pay, and fewer, less reliable, hours of work means even more inefficient uses of human capital and the health of the next generation raised impoverished and afraid of starving in a country where food production is a national export... Nobody in this country should have trouble securing food or shelter. We have nothing but labour intelligence, space and resources. It's absurd to think even modestly high food prices should be tolerated when the stuff is mostly grown in the dirt all around us which we insure and subsidize.
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Answer: executive pay bumps and expense accounts have anything to do with that calculation? Sounds like a bonus might be considered a direct labour cost which the accountants might like to accrue over the year to help the optics...
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