I just bought some mayonnaise and realized that all the jars are smaller of all the brands? Did they get together behind closed doors and decide to make all of their containers smaller? Many products all got small at the same time from different companies? Those manufacturing machines cost a lot of money to replace?
Buybacks, then = Shrinkflation.
Hence, an inflated-with-air bag of potato chips contains fewer chips in the same bag, for the same cost. Thereby, increasing the price of each chip.
In a Plantation Economy we are merely sharecroppers, shopping for stocks and chips at the exploitative company store.
And, we get to pay the plantation owners' share of taxes, too; since his/her income is in Panama.
I just bought some mayonnaise and realized that all the jars are smaller of all the brands? Did they get together behind closed doors and decide to make all of their containers smaller? Many products all got small at the same time from different companies? Those manufacturing machines cost a lot of money to replace?