Or to put it another way, lets them exploit your circumstances in order to extract more money from you, or to pay you less.
The article goes beyond that by including a lot of relevant references. It might be worth a read even if the headline is unsurprising.
Ipsos custodes ipsos?
I dunno, but i hope theyre watching through a properly zeroed scope.
This is anti-fungibility. Your dollar is not worth the same as somebody else’s dollar. P sure that’s illegal.
Is it actually?
I’m not arguing, I would think it is too. But i know companies find ways to structure things specifically to avoid legal/regulatory issues, or at least so they can argue something is legal to get away with it until legal action is taken and a judge disagrees with them.
It is extremely legal, under the US’s current governmental infrastructure. The linked article gives a bunch of examples including legalized price-fixing on rent and meat prices, and how they function.
I’m honestly a little surprised and saddened to read these comments and votes and realize that reading the article is a pretty rare thing on Lemmy, before starting to broadcast what is the poster’s opinion of what might be in it and their reaction to the imagining.
The linked article does not talk about fungibility at all, let alone anything about NAFTA, HTS, CFR, or anything else concerning laws in place for fungibility.
Correct. What it talks about is other laws, and how the government and industry has been breaking them, and the harm that it’s causing. Which is what confused me about your comment and led me to the conclusion maybe you just hadn’t read the article and were talking about something mostly unrelated based on just reading the headline.
Not when corpos do it. That’s how laws work.
Have you been paying any attention this century?