I get that but in the end just as they care about their pockets,I only care about mine. Companies can try to charge endless amounts of stuff,but how is that sustainable when huge amounts of consumer spending in Europe and the US are driven by debt? Most people's income is not even going up properly with inflation. Interest rates are going up and the era of cheap debt is coming to the end. In a few years this will affect the corporate side of things as many companies can't keep borrowing cheaply to expand.
ATM,what we are seeing is too much money being printed due to the Pandemic,etc and its working it's way through the system and causing inflationary problems. But the issue is a lot of that money printed didn't end up in the pockets of the general public - the Pandemic has seen a huge amount of taxpayers money being pushed upwards. To put in context the wealthy have increased their wealth by trillions of dollars
more during more than 99% of the human race during the Pandemic:
Near $1 trillion Euros have been spent on energy support schemes in Europe:
European countries' bill to shield households and companies from soaring energy costs has climbed to nearly 800 billion euros, researchers said on Monday, urging countries to be more targeted in their spending to tackle the energy crisis.
www.reuters.com
This is why taxation is getting worse and worse for us plebs. We are paying for all this printed and borrowed money.
It seems since the Pandemic,the sheer greed of many industries,and any slight pretence of them being "nice" to customers(or even their workers) has finally gone away.
TLDR: I would rather be without than pay extortionate prices for these products.