• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Actually asking, not rhetorical: if poor people are already getting charged based on what they can afford, would this policy exert a downward force on prices?

    So way less financing options, slightly more buying outright?

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Problem is the assumption that prices would go down if some people cannot afford it.

      Whats happening instead is people going hungry and homeless.

      The reason for this is that Supply:Demand Equilibrium is further up in price range where fewer sales at higher value yields the maximum profit.