> your motivation to simp

Crossing into personal attack, as you did here, will get your account banned—especially when the account has a long history of breaking the site guidelines. We've had to ask you about this many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748588 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748560 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28611505 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648230 (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263907 (Feb 2020)

I don't want to ban you! But we really need you to stick to the rules, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do that from now on, that would be good.

It is not "simping" to point out that factor prices have an impact on consumer prices. And while some companies do have (too much) pricing power, I wouldn't categorize it as unilateral and unchecked