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Yeah, I’m not really the best person to speak to this myself as I don’t know a lot about the auto industry. It’s definitely a multifaceted issue, I just wish we had a more equitable system to avoid artificial price increases.

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Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I agree. I worked in the car industry a couple of years and unions (in germany) ensure that workers get the same (okayish) wage everywhere while car companies ensure that everyone who is not covered by unions gets fuckall.

I also worked for an independent contractor once. They were bled dry by a major manufacturer while that manufacturer was raking in billions in profits.

We need a similar system like the german paragraph 138 bgb:

In particular, a legal transaction is void whereby someone, taking advantage of another’s predicament, inexperience, lack of judgment or significant weakness of will, promises or grants themselves or a third party financial advantages in return for a service that are conspicuously disproportionate to the service.

This afaik only concerns citizens, not companies and/or is not taking in financial disproportionate situations. Especially small companies are in a disadvantage, which leads to our dystopian economic system atm.

If we had a law that specifically prohibits large companies to use their size to rob smaller companies, that would probably solve a lot of our problems. Smaller companies are not without failure but they are still led by individuals and not necessarily money making machines.

Have a good one.

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