Sometimes I wonder if we could price things to reflect their true costs, would many of the complex, interconnected problems of the present just naturally start

Sometimes I wonder if we could price things to reflect their true costs, would many of the complex, interconnected problems of the present just naturally start to untangle. For example, I pay ~$60/mo for Recology to drive to our house and take our trash, recycling and compost away. I always think, it can’t cost so little. Yet so many products come with excessive amounts of packaging, which adds to those costs, but no one seems to be overtly paying for it. If it were literally more expensive to buy a product with wasteful and excessive packaging, then maybe company’s would be motivated to invent more creative and effective packaging that wastes less, to compete on price. Another is how most of our internet experiences are subsidized. It’s not like that doesn’t cost us more somewhere else? Advertisers have to cough up the dough for their ads and they’re going to build those costs into their price. However, if we lived in a different world where paying for apps and our online experience in general, then I feel like there’s a much more direct and efficient mechanism to connect the costs of the internet with supporting what you actually like about it. Paying for stuff could probably save the world, and it wouldn’t even require invoking the scary words like “socialism”. Just an old fashioned simple solution.