Apple raises iPhone prices.

Netflix raises subscription prices.
Streaming adds ads after promising an ad-free future.
Groceries cost more.
Rent keeps climbing.
Insurance goes up.
Almost every major company seems to find a new reason to charge you more every year.
But the moment workers ask for higher pay…
Suddenly we’re told it would “fuel inflation.”
That’s the part I can’t wrap my head around.
Higher corporate prices are treated like the cost of doing business.
Higher wages are treated like an economic emergency.
Maybe the real question isn’t why everything is getting more expensive.
Maybe it’s why price hikes are accepted as normal while better pay is constantly framed as the problem.
Who exactly benefits from that narrative?