If you're a good business person that knows how to read the times and study the market, there is so much you can make out of this consistent increase in the price of major goods in this country
Does that mean, that we should be happy when the price of things constantly increase in the market? For all I know, what ever goods you are selling or what ever business you are into, an increase in price in the general market will also make you spend more than you used to while purchasing your goods. Most time, the problem of our country is we the people. Just last 2weeks here, the price of a water bag went up to 500naira. Traders saw this as a way of making profits for them self. Selling one sachet for 50 naira(here in my area). This I think it's unfair because if you are to buy from factory as a trader fr maybe 400 or 350 then you are selling a sachet for 50naira that means you mean to make profit of 500 back that's over gain and not right. We shouldn't see the condition of the country as a means to be smart as we will all suffer the consequences. If you notice in This country, what goes up doesn't come down.
The economic hardship in the country we have times without number blamed it on the politicians that are in charge of the allocation of resources (don't get me wrong about what I want to say, am no way exonerating them either on this) but imagine where all the marketers/businesses men/women have now without conscience are poised to make an extra 3 times gain of whatever item they are selling out there
and to them they fill it's an opportunity to make profit thereby causing an artificial economic hardship that could be avoided if all decides to make at least a 10-15% gain in whatever items they are selling. But because the institutions responsible for price control has failed in it's duties the market men and women has jump on the crude opportunity to pillage the people forgotten that what goes around comes around.
Days ago, a fellow Nigeria was complaining on X about his ordeal with a sachet water seller that took the opportunity of his car breaking down along the Lagos mainland bridge due to overheating, and he called on the sachet water seller to get him about 10 sachet of water thereabout so he could pour into his radiator (engine cooling) the young lad sold each sachet for #50 which was not supposed to be so but the car owner had no option but to buy at that price due to his state at the moment (and this is same in all other commodities). Now the young lad will go home feeling he had made a profitable business for the day but that's bad and exploitative business.
This is exactly the nature of things now in the country, the prices of alot of goods and services are outrageously inflated by the business men and women when the actual price has gone anywhere near what they are selling at, and we all keep blaming the government when we are our problem in the first place. This is all greed. On the other hand I blame the government because they are failing on their mandate to judiciously enforce the legitimate coercive use of force through it's appropriate price regulatory agency in all of these happenings.
I don't know or understand anymore where we're going again. Only time will tell.