We’re dramatically under-policing price fraud
You never know what anything costs anymore. Fees, forced tipping, mystery expenses for auto repair, tuition, the entire medical industry
This is why Spirit Airlines mattered. Whether you flew them or wouldn’t be caught dead, they served as an industry deterrent to shit like this. With Spirit gone and no real national low-cost successor, the same shitty legacy airlines are freer than ever to price gouge.
The worst part about this outbreak is that, bc every news agency is owned by corporate billionaires, not a SINGLE ONE has the courage to link this outbreak to Trump and his dismantling of our food safety protections. So the general public just assumes this is business as usual.
I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.