njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Building on your first one: I would make businesses publish the one, singular, authoritative, legal price for their product and a percentage breakdown of where the money goes (wages, CEO compensation, raw materials, legal battles, royalties, brand name deals). No hiding discounts or costs behind loyalty programs, exclusive tiers, affiliate programs, surveillance pricing, etc. You take the manufacturing cost, add your margin, and divide by the number of units and that’s the price you sell to everyone.
Your product gets judged on a fair playing field based on quality, price, and how you pay your employees/ use your profits.
geekwithsoul@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’ve had the same thought. I think of it as “transparent pricing” - like a nutrition label but for price. Maybe doesn’t even need to be as specific, but has to clearly show the profit the retailers and manufacturers are making on it. Honestly think it’s going to be the only way we get any downward pressure on prices - ever since COVID, they’ve found that they can just keep raising prices and as long as all of them do it, consumers don’t have any leverage.