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French supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of "shrinkflation" - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which Adam Smith then follows by saying the craftspeople need to form guilds (unions) in response, which is the only scenario where the invisible hand approach could work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The invisible hand was really just mentioned once in relation to the dynamics of trade between states, the whole concept is just taken out of context.