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> “Sorry, we can’t ‘sell’ our cars anymore. The law says we have to call them a ‘lease’ and that’ll be be $X,XXX/year” Wouldn't that be enough reason to take y

• dceddia 2y ago
  I mean, that assumes there's anywhere else to go that's doing it differently. It feels like market forces can push things in either of 2 directions: (a) People hate practice X, so they shun companies that do it, and enough go to companies who don't do X, which leads to fewer companies doing X (b) One company gets away with doing X, and despite some complaints, they do just fine – and other companies realize they can get away doing X too, and soon every company is doing it
  • diffeomorphism 2y ago
    (c) some companies get away with it because they have a fan base who will lease it anyway. Most companies don't. People always jump to 0% vs 100%. That almost never happens but rather you get some percentage and that is often enough for a law to be considered successful.
• rvba 2y ago
  There arent that many console manufacturers / tractor manufacturers / car manufacturers / phone manufacturers / (and unrelated: banks). Some specialized equipment has few manufacturers. Arguably this allready happened with computer games.