• bizarroland@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I would say even one a year would be too much.

    That unless the business has failed and is no longer operating, for a merger and acquisition to occur they would have to petition the courts for permission first.

    Imagine the shit that Microsoft and Google and Adobe and Amazon would be doing if they had to start their companies from scratch and compete against the already extant players in the field?

    It would create so many jobs, and create an excess of consumer choice opportunity, lowering prices and fighting against inflation far more than a couple of percentage points on the interest rate index ever would.

    I’m tired of only being offered incredibly overpriced very shitty low quality options in every single category.

    We don’t need $100,000 cars. We need $5,000 cars.

    We don’t need $1,000,000 homes, we need $25,000 homes that anyone in America who works a full-time job regardless of if they’re slinging fries at McDonald’s or digging ditches can afford.

    We don’t need $100 a week grocery bills. We need $5 a week grocery bills.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Your arguments are all invalid because capitalism

      (I fully agree with your post, I sorry the world is shit)

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      We don’t need $100,000 cars. We need $5,000 cars

      A lot of this cost is in materials, quality control and safety testing, plus requirements by trade agreements for where components are allowed to be manufactured and assembled

      We don’t need $1,000,000 homes, we need $25,000 homes

      Most of this cost is land. A tiny home can be self built for a few thousand, and starts at ~20k professionally built, and a small, say 800 sq foot house that someone might actually want to live in can generally be built for under 100k.

      Most houses aren’t worth that much but the land under them is. So more townhouses, duplexes and smaller lots, smaller lawns and a lot more apartments and condos will help