• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Buy-here-pay-here car dealers

    Pawn shops

    Payroll advance loans

    Title loans

    Private prisons

    Bankruptcy-proof loans

    Bankruptcy for corporations

    Just spitballing here, feel free to add any I missed…

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    Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

    Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

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    Advertising. I just hate how it’s crept into every facet of our lives and it’s not done intruding in on our daily lives either.

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      Yep. It’s insane to me how society goes to such lengths to make road transportation, driving, cars etc safer, and then is perfectly fine with billboards. It’s super illegal to be distracted by your phone whilst driving, but a giant graphical ad on the side of the road is totally cool. Whut

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    • not having the day off to vote
    • FPTP
    • unlimited funding from unrestricted sources in politics
    • impunity for blatantly corrupt unelected political appointees

    Etc.

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    Ridiculous rental prices and annual rent increases with no improvements to show for it.

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    Requiring the purchase or use of proprietary software or formats to view or submit public records.

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        A throwaway reference to another thread on here …. Someone tried to sue a restaurant when he choked on a bone in his boneless chicken wings. The court ruled he can’t sue because “boneless” is just a style of cooking and doesn’t make any claim about whether that meal has bones. …. That kind of misrepresentation, and dodging responsibility should be illegal. All sorts of scamming the customer should be illegal and isn’t

        If I can go on a bit of a rant, I do believe in the power of the market to shape our lives, our economy, our society. Conservatives got that part right. But a market is only “free” when everyone plays by the same rules and has same facts and knowledge, free choice. A market is only beneficial when it is shaped by regulators to benefit society. A market is only sustainable when it incorporates externalities. If Conservatives are gung ho about free markets, they need to step up and do their part. While there’s a nice theory about the usefulness of Marketting, the primary use is to lie, subvert, fool, distort the market, and THAT should be illegal

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    Nutrition information based on unrealistic serving sizes.

    I’ve seen an individually wrapped muffin “servings per pack: 2”.

    Then there’s that Tom Scott video on how “zero calory” sweetener can be 4 calories.

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    Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

    Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

    Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies