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Originally Posted by loach71
When the input costs of production are not significantly increasing (look at hydrocarbon pricing) then radical price increases in consumer products are tantamount to corporate greed.
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This is way too simplistic view of the energy sector and the final costs related to products. The price per barrel of oil can actually decrease while prices of finished products increase due to a host of other costs/issues your skimming past and simply attributing to corporate greed. Some of the costs may include increases in: environmental costs; permitting; taxes; labor prices; increased competition for the petrochemical portion of barrel (the stuff that makes plastics); inflation (see attached image), etc.. I won't do all your thinking here.
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Originally Posted by loach71
... It is your right to be a corporate apologist.  .....
We are being raped by US based drum head manufacturers. Time to switch to far Eastern products for me. Vote with your money.
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Companies in this sector work on fairly standard gross/profit margins (which, BTW, isn't very high) and therefore you shouldn't conflate the pharmaceutical sector with this one! So the reality is you're not being "raped by US based drum head manufacturers." Running to China with your money is not the best long-term economic solution either and I'll choose to skip the political debate on that one.
If you want to "vote with your money," why don't you do something more practical like getting a "Group Buy" together and work with a retailer to get a more significant discount on the products you want???