Egg Prices Went Egg-splosive—Because Capitalism Said So

Egg Prices Went Egg-splosive—Because Capitalism Said So

The Free Market Strikes Again (and Your Wallet Is the Victim)

If you're still holding your phone after this, congrats on your self-restraint. Because the latest headline should’ve had it flying across the room like an omelet at a waffle house brawl.

Cal-Maine—the nation’s largest egg supplier—just posted $509 MILLION in quarterly profits.

That’s not a typo. That’s three times their profits from the same quarter last year.

And it gets worse.

The company’s average quarterly profit used to hover around $5 million. But for the last four quarters? $169 million.

All because egg prices tripled while the government handed out bailout money to egg producers to keep prices down.

Let that sink in:

They got free money.

Prices still went up.

Nobody stopped them.

They laughed all the way to the bank.

Because here's the dirty secret behind America’s favorite bedtime story:

“The free market will regulate itself.”

Republicans love to sell it like it’s gospel. They say if a company poisons you, the free market will fix it—because eventually people will stop buying poisoned products and the problem will solve itself.

Sure. After enough people die.

The truth? The biggest players always survive.

And when the little guys go under, they jack up prices in a market they now control, while spinning it as just how capitalism works.

Same thing happened after the 2008 crash:

Big developers bought up property for pennies.

Corporate landlords skyrocketed rents.

And then they blamed the government for the housing crisis they caused.

It’s the same rigged system every time. And the only people pretending it’s working are the ones profiting off your struggle.

Eggs aren’t expensive because of inflation. They’re expensive because someone decided they could be.

And unless someone regulates the rabid wild animal that is the “free market,” it’s gonna keep eating your paycheck alive.

Funny how the only ones who ever try to rein it in are the ones labeled as “anti-business.”

Turns out, the invisible hand is just middle-fingering the rest of us.