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They’re colluding to fix prices. That is a cartel. It is facilitated by a middleman app. Still unethical, and should be illegal.
by DasCorCor 2y ago
They’re colluding to fix prices. That is a cartel. It is facilitated by a middleman app. Still unethical, and should be illegal.
- gruez 2y agoRight, but "companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for" non-sequitur. There's plenty of ways that prices can raise faster than input costs, that doesn't imply price fixing.
- ddtaylor 2y agoThe author is doing some extra work to connect dots that might otherwise be better left connected by the readers.
- MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago> that doesn't imply price fixing But Potatorac and Agri Stats do. They are price-fixing right out in the open.
- naijaboiler 2y agosame thing realpage was doing for renting. It is 21st century version of a cartel. Cartel via an app. It should be illegal. I was hoping feds going after RealPage would be a deterrent to that trend. But with the new admin, yeah thats over.