HaruCoryne,

NEW: 🛞 Tires 🛞 illustrate why refuse to, well, deflate.

To prove it @ProPublica sent a reporter to a rubber plantation in and a small business in southern .

Many takeaways, but a less obvious one: dependency on is killing us.

Riding your is coded as an "elite" activity, but imagine paying $500 for new wheels every year and a half 😵‍💫

https://www.propublica.org/article/inflation-tires-rubber-imports-high-prices?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

smallcircles,
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@HaruCoryne @ProPublica

#Greedflation is a damn devious #Hypercapitalism practice.

The oil and retail industry have profited the most. Crazy, deeply immoral and unethical.

The poor folks at the bottom of the supply chain earning mere pennies, and the consumer at the end overpaying significantly. All to the benefit rich shareholders.

The other day I tooted about laurel leaves going from Turkey to Netherlands, and in that short chain rising from 0.33 to 850 Euro/kg.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/109519463630674515

tobi,
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@HaruCoryne @ProPublica My penny pinching ass on a bike is now "elitist"?! Huh, TIL.

LouisIngenthron,
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@tobi @HaruCoryne @ProPublica Yes, because most urban/suburban areas aren't designed for bikes, so living somewhere where biking is even an option is, to a small degree, "elitist".

Now, riding your bike to the bus and then riding the bus across town to work every day... that's how the "real" poor folks live.

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