• @Wooster@startrek.website
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    01 year ago

    Article mentions nothing with regards to holding corporations accountable nor any plan or threat of action on the president’s part.

      • @Fisk400@feddit.nu
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        01 year ago

        Make it expensive to change the weight of a product. Standardize the size and weight of a given type of product. Require the packaging to alert consumers that the weight have changed in the last year and how much it has changed. Tie the trademark of a given product to a certain weight.

        Are these good ideas? I don’t know, I literally made them up just now while shitting. I am sure the president of the United States could hire at least one dude to come up with better ones.

          • @Fisk400@feddit.nu
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            01 year ago

            I understand that you are very into the position of going face down ass up for corporations but can I interest you in the idea that politicians are allowed to express things they would like to work towards even if they are personally not able to make it happen the second they say it.

            Biden is a very powerful man that employs a large number of very smart people. If he wants to he can put together an action plan on how to make things happen.

  • @mindlight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If politicians were serious in their criticism they would vote for laws forcing comparison price to be displayed next to the purchase price.

        • @Morgoon@startrek.website
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          01 year ago

          That has never stopped presidents before. In response to inflation in 1971 President Nixon issued an executive order making it illegal to raise prices for several months and before him FDR went even farther with rationing and controlling wages.

          Inflation is actually super easy to control. You just need to be willing to threaten business leaders with serious jail time.