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Warren and Dean demand Coke, Pepsi and General Mills stop ‘shrinkflation’
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the right way to go about it. Telling companies they can’t do x or y doesn’t jive with capitalism if they aren’t deemed monopolies.
Unregulated capitalism is clearly a shitshow so why are you arguing against an entire class of regulations for no real reason other than historical precedence? There's no such thing as an inherent rule. They're all just as made up as the rest.
Ok, but how do you see the proposed legislation playing out? How do you expect congress to set a specific amount of product that can no longer be reduced? It’s not like anyone can trust congress to revisit the law when changes are needed. Companies will just start making “six packs” of individual things that used to be sold as a six units per container in order to maintain flexibility to shift quantities in the future. This will lead to way more packaging.
Regulating capitalism is a very good thing, but I don’t see how it makes any sense in this case with the proposed legislation.
No one has proposed any specific legislation. We're talking about theoretical concepts. My only point is that saying "that's not how capitalism works" is a dumb thing to say when it comes to rejecting an idea because we are collectively making up the rules for how capitalism works as we go along. It can work in whatever way we want it to.
That’s a straw man argument and adds nothing to this conversation.
He says, while adding nothing to the conversation.
Can I also add nothing? It'll make me feel important with no consequences.
I got enough out of this that I feel you should try again, but try harder not to try so hard.