I want to know if it could be less but for "fees", and there should be a mandatory amount of transparency in all pricing. Opaque pricing is anti-customer.
I especially love it when business types tell me what I should be caring about with regards to my money.
We can take this even further and demand cost-plus pricing for all things (with a regulated and controlled definition of 'cost'). This idea that pricing should scale to the customers' means needs to die. Good business means leaving money on the table, sometimes lots of it.
That would be a ridiculous overreach of government, not to mention a political disaster.
> with a regulated and controlled definition of 'cost’
Perhaps we can start with a breakdown of your quality of life and come up with what is and is not necessary.
I can start by suggesting getting rid of your detached single family house, greater than 3 liter engine car, restrict eating out to once per quarter, and foregoing vacations involving flights. And that would still be better than how the majority of people in the world live.
Obviously, I mean that as a rhetorical device to show the futility in trying to define what costs are and are not acceptable. The market is capable of figuring that out. The businesses that have the better price will have the appropriate costs.
Of course it would. Capitalists scurry when sunlight is shined on them, much like cockroaches.
People are not businesses, we do not exist to generate money for shareholders. The logic does not apply. Quite the opposite: business serves customers, and an expectation of servant leadership should apply here.
When I feel a price is unreasonable, I want to know whom to complain to. If the taxes are what's making it unreasonable, I want to know to complain to the government rather than the merchant.
The amount of money coming out of your pocket is the only number worth caring about. The rest is for government auditors to worry about.