LobsterJim

Many students would rather try to figure it out than sound stupid in class or risk the spotlight of social interaction.

This ignores the entire premise of the experiment. The 39% were not interested in learning regardless of the consequences.

A lot of this comment section does apparently lol

This is discussed in the article

Somebody only read the article title… Give the actual text a look to see it boldly claims the connection to political system is not strongly linked.

I think you may have missed the bottom text

Regardless of whether it’s the producer or someone else along the supply chain, the prices are able to stay up because the consumer will pay the increase price. At the source or not, that’s my only point

It’s not even necessarily unfucking either. When distributors and producers learn a new higher price consumers will pay, it’s very easy for them to default to that price. They can just increase prices to match what it was with tariffs and nothing changes except more profit for the producers. We consumers wouldn’t even realize it since we’re so far removed from the source.

Well-written and surprisingly thoughtful commentary given the heat so far

Oligarchy

Does your manager give you deadlines, even if just in theory? I have an adjacent issue where I’ll do great work for as long as it takes me to do it. But if I have a deadline, I know I can’t delay to meet that goal. Typically the sooner the better

This seems like a non-issue, just personal anxiety.

Why not just bulk up on stock and then raise prices without necessarily needing to to maximize profits but blaming the tariffs as of day one? I don’t see why this wouldn’t happen