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Concert tickets cost way more in U.S. than Europe. Swipe fees on credit cards, too. Utility monopolies fight clean energy, etc. Those are regulatory rather than cost input

I’m not referring just to inflation driven by labor or commodities, but also to monopolistic corporations, giant tech firms smothering competition because they can, private equity buying and wrecking stuff that otherwise worked.

there are _very_ few monopolies in America today that aren't public monopolies e.g. Georgia Power the private equity thing is just, and I'm sorry to say, completely made up. if it worked then private equity wouldn't have bought it.