Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Soulifix@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

What Federal (Or State Laws) would you want to see passed, even under the chances of it being exploited?

I would make it mandatory for all businesses, like Laundromats, to display their prices openly so people can budget ahead of time instead of having to drive around, wasting time to check.

I would pass a firmer law that allows people to cancel subscriptions including gyms, I’d make it illegal for gym memberships to trap a member with made-up contracts to keep them subscribed.

I would be passing and balancing tenant rights so no landlord can pull sneaky shady bullshit on tenants renting from them.

Squatting would be illegal, on a federal level.

Doxxing would be illegal, on a federal level. Registered sex offenders are exempt, meaning, they are not safe from being ousted because of what they’ve done online or offline. Police having sting operations and pretending to be young teenagers to entrap individuals would be a barred practice. Honeypots are one thing, sting operations like these are another.

I’d pass an Anti-Bullying law, stating that victims are allowed to retaliate within proper guidelines and that authorities that downplay the bullied, are obstructing a citizen level of justice and should be penalized in doing so. They would have to go through a series of classes that educate them on the effects of bullying that could lead individuals into boiling up emotions that would later spill over into violent tendencies. I wouldn’t even extend it to the schools, I’d make it applicable to workplaces also and this would be federal too.

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njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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- geekwithsoul@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
so this is a grandstanding community now?

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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
OP:

“I would be passing and balancing tenant rights so no landlord can pull sneaky shady bullshit on tenants renting from them.”

Also OP:

“Squatting would be illegal, on a federal level.”

Tell me again, how does it help to evict people from homes that went unused by the landlord part of the wealthy class?

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Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I would make it illegal to buy a house if the buyer already owns a house which is unoccupied for at least half the year.

Patents expire if six months pass during which the patent holder does not make any products which use that patent. The countdown dies not reset if the patent is sold or traded away.

Companies must publicly post everybody's wages once a year.

All job ads must include wages offered and all benefits. Candidates can try to negotiate higher wages if they wish, but they at least know where the floor is.

Any digital product sold or "licenced" with DRM must be patched to remove the DRM if the verification server goes down (Stop Killing Games is actually making some solid progress on making this into EU law).

Sex workers sharing a home out of which they both work shall not be considered a brothel.

Living off the proceeds of a prostitute will be legal as long as there is no coërcion. The existing law mostly makes it illegal for sex workers to rent homes or support disabled friends and family members, while pimps simply ignore the law.

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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Abolish most poll taxes, as they disproportionally affect the labourers.

Reorient the surveillance state, to dismantle all fascist and oligarch-owned groups. Prevent their re-establishment. Mass deradicalise groups. Mass release all prisoners who have been arrested on anti-labour right premises, and civilly commit the rest.

Prevent wealthy and thus corrupt individuals from leaving the country altogether, until they show full transparency over their net worth, and agree to proper taxation. If they do not comply, they will be imprisoned for life without parole, and must undergo therapy combatting their Napoleon complex fantasies. They and everyone else involved in their schemes must be trialed and face the consequences.

Reform the military and police to be wholly composed of anti-fascists in perpetuity. Disarm all who are far-right. Arm and properly train those who are anti-fascist. Dismantle the punitive system in favour of a rehabilitative one (call it “reform punishment” to get support from those that want revenge more).

From the funds restored back from those wealthy, establish an independent sovereign wealth fund à la Norwegian system, that only invests in what improves labour rights and social progress, transparency, and decentralisation.

Invest in the rust belts so that these areas also will return to a sense of normalcy.

Tax havens must share data and hand over criminals, or they will face a full embargo and further measures.

Establish incentives to make decentralised, unionised, and worker-owned cooperatives (DUWOCs) much more attractive than any other system. Establish multiple community exchange systems that cooperate with one another, replacing money.

Both of the above should be implemented everywhere, but especially at the base of the supply chain for food, shelter, water, and education, but also apply to the rest.

Dismantle the fossil industry in favour of solar, wind, water, and nuclear, and only keep a reserve in case wars occur with powers that control renewable natural resources. Dismantle the military-industrial complex in favour of those that are non-profit.

The fossil and military-industrial CEOs that refuse to cooperate will again, face the same punishments as the oligarchs. Those that cooperate and reduce their wealth, will face amnesty. Families of those CEOs and leaders that help in them being prosecuted, will face no punishment.

Mandate that all areas apply all the above. Establish direct recallability of administratives. Abolish whatever hierarchy is left and decentralise, and then step down.

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