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In the US the congress has largely been stopped for a long time from doing any real checking on these things. Minimum wage could be increased. There’s investiga
by ianai 3y ago
In the US the congress has largely been stopped for a long time from doing any real checking on these things. Minimum wage could be increased. There’s investigations going into rental price fixing through industry wide software usage. Local, city, regional, up to national governments could but blockades up against corporate ownership of residential properties. But democracy has to work first.
As for cars, there is new manufacturing being added to the industry. Further, prices are slower to fall than to rise. In the real estate market it’s the slow trickle of homes selling due to factors forcing them to sell which will push prices down.
And grocery prices are possibly a combination of corporate power concentration (see above about democracy needing to work) and an invasion destroying one of the world’s most important breadbaskets (Ukraine).
- class3shock 3y agoThe democracy / government needing to work to fix (or even just improve) things seems like a constraint at the moment, atleast in the USA. I hope things change for the better but it's hard to see a path towards that.
- ianai 3y agoThere are elections every year in the US. Even just going to local council meetings and voting out local electives has profound effects. Then there’s the more visible elections for House Representatives, Senators, and POTUS. But people have to do their civic duty first. Also writing your local representatives is a thing-which is also a civic duty. The more they hear the more likely it goes into their career calculations. Generally these people are reachable via email so I don't want to hear “the work week wont allow it.” If you have time to post to HN or reddit or wherever about what’s pissing you off you can do some civic duty to effect change.