oh no, OP had to ask for napkins. Consumers are treated shitty because you are shitty.

It's a pretty complicated economics question why inflation is happening. They're working on it by adjusting interest rates, I guess.

As for why the average American isn't doing so well, it's basically the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer. If this same inflation was happening with a 70's distribution of wealth (and IIRC it actually did) it wouldn't be fun but it wouldn't be pushing so many people to the brink, either.

Shareholders. Part of me thinks they see the writing on the walls of climate change and want to just get the most they can out of the rest of the short time we have left.

It’s because the rate of profit has a tendency to fall.

Taco Bell will just put out a "napkin tipping" jar and blame lack of tips for not providing napkins.

Its hard to believe a fucking nobody bank like SVB collapsing could do this.

It’s all disgusting out there.

My wife and I kicked all fast food 2010.

We use a crock pot for beans. Buy tortillas etc. We can beat Taco Bell burritos with zero worry about disease.

We transmuted our disgust for corporate hegemony into carefully crafted campaign designed to rise above it as much as possible.

And we’re not saints. Still using abuser Amazon because fuck. But we try and I ride right in by fast food faces feeling so good not to give them an effing dime.

Are you sure they didn't just conscript the napkins for TP? It is Taco Bell after all...