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There's a solution: legally mandating price ceilings. Good luck getting through Congress but the solution to market coordination can't be market forces.
We don't have a congress in Canada, so it would be impossible.
Oh he was talking about America on an article about Canada in a Canadian community. Because he doesnβt read articles, just posts uninformed hot takes that he expects everyone to agree with.
I did the same thing, but it's because we're all seeing the same things as far as cost increases and governments sitting on their hands.
Couldn't your parliament enact such price caps?
Yes they absolutely could.
This populist idea has been done many times and it always leads to the same outcome: businesses stop stocking unprofitable items.
Learn from history, people.
The ceiling would have to still be profitable. And if this is a thing people need but can't afford while profitable, the government should provide it.
People need to learn from history and realize corporations exist to serve the people and at the people's pleasure. You have to apply for a corporation and a we've seen with Trump, can be dissolved. Which should really happen a lot more often.
That leads to unexpected consequences of them. Shrinkflation, strong-arming suppliers even more, etc. And then adminstrating/enforcing against infractions just becomes prohibitive to maintain.
Maybe. But we already do this for a lot of things. Drugs is the most well-known. If we know what the production cost is (and the government can just request that info), we can set the price ceiling to ensure the profit floor still exists. This is pretty common in government contracts: % profit.
There's a solution to price controls: bread lines
We already have those. It's called EBT/food stamps, and we just outsource it to local grocers and philanthropy food banks.