Capitalist theory said the price should drop. You wouldn't believe how many Freepers refused to believe a price could ever come down due to oversupply and competition.
Same thing here ~ salmon is not currently a luxury food. Steak is. The price of beans is up. So is wheat. So is corn. So is rice, but if you shop carefully you can nick a buck off here or there.
Some prefer soup kitchens and bread lines.
We’re living in an illusion of continued relative prosperity due to EBT cards and the like. It’s hidden. Perhaps soup kit hens and bread lines would have made the election results of the past week unthinkable. But, we’ll never know. What I do know is, public assistance that is generous to the point of comfortable provides a perverse incentive to remain on that assistance for as long as possible, and to seek more of it whenever possible. This is the route to fiscal ruin as anyone who has bothered to take a look can see. We’re practically there, we’re coasting on fumes. Resources actually are limited, they are not bottomless.