Shrinkflation is a lie: how companies used inflation as cover

Ever notice your chip bag feels lighter but somehow still costs the same? Tyler's had it with companies calling that inflation when it's really just shrinking the product, keeping the price, and quietly banking record profits. This episode walks through real examples from Doritos to Gatorade to General Mills, breaks down corporate profit margins and the growing gap between CEO pay and everyone else's paycheck, and looks at the bills in Congress that could have addressed it and died without so much as a hearing. It's less a tidy explainer and more an argument for calling shrinkflation and greedflation what they actually are, and a reminder that your gut feeling about that lighter bag isn't you being petty. It's a straight shot to the heart of consumer rights and who actually gets a say in what you pay for.

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