I keep hearing people talk about and reading articles about inflation and how companies have no choice but to raise prices to keep up with the rising cost of material and this so-called labor shortage.
Then we're told that these same companies are reporting record profits.
Why do we keep blaming rising prices on every single other factor out there besides the obvious? Why is no one (aside from the anti-work community) talking about the fact that companies are choosing to raise their prices?
Is everyone just willfully ignorant or is this a case of 'if we say something else enough, they'll believe us despite the evidence?'