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[โ€“] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sunglasses are stupid expensive because the Italian company Luxottica owns just about every major brand as well as the stores they're sold in, and jacks the prices through the roof because they e essentially bought up all the competition. Name brand sunglasses are a fucking scam.

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

You know I was joking, right? I have no idea about any of these prices. Only the last sentence was only half joking because inflation doesn't differentiate between cost of living and luxury products so inflation doesn't have to do with working people's everyday lifes