What prevents companies in Canada from setting prices in such a way that they always round up?

There’s no guarantee that such a law would be the same in America. The majority of our law makers are bought and paid for. It would be trivial to “lobby” them to just leave that part out.

My concern is not coming from any information provided by a lobby. It’s coming from my past experiences seeing corporations jump on any and every chance to take more money out of my pocket.

“Even if they stopped making them I wouldn’t get that money back” except you would in the form of other places that the money could be allocated to.

More than likely it would go to some other graft, not anything that would benefit me. It might as well be wasted on pennies which at least keep corporations from increasing prices due to having to round. That at least keeps some money in my pocket.

What would be the mechanism by which this ‘price gouging’ would occur

The easiest method would be just to always round up. If they wanted to squeeze a little harder then maybe go up 10-15 instead. What’s anyone going to do about it? You may say a few cents doesn’t matter but I get a few cents cash back every time I use my card and that alone covers all my christmas shopping on amazon at the end of the year. It’s not negligible. As for why it hasn’t happened in canada, capitalism has escalated a lot since then and they’ve gotten a taste of what they can get away with during covid.

I’m not reading all that. I rarely use cash so all the bits about time spent handling it don’t affect me. Also it’s not me paying to mint pennies, it’s taxes, even if they stopped making them I wouldn’t get that money back. It’d just be spent on some other bullshit. The only factor I care about is the prices of things and after seeing what they did with the excuse covid provided I don’t trust corporations to not do it again.

Nah, getting rid of the penny will require rounding prices of things and there’s no way stores won’t take that opportunity to gouge us even more.

Yeah, I’ve seen people claim they stopped making them because they didn’t sell but when I was in high school half the students had one of one sort or the other and then working at various auto shops afterwards they were at least as common as full size trucks if not more so. People stopped buying them because they stopped making them.

I just want to see what happens when a bullet train hits a moose.

Is that what killed that girl at Panera a while back?

I have to leave extra early during the school year because if I don’t it takes like 5-10 minutes just to get through the section of the neighborhood that has the bus stop (which is in the middle of the neighborhood for some reason instead of by the entrance where it would make sense) because both sides of the street are lined with parents waiting on the bus in their cars and the street is only wide enough for one car to pass through at a time. They sit there and wait longer than it would take to just drive their kid to the fucking school.

They are actually controlled by goose brains. AI is a scam!

I’d love someone to make a small (at least by today’s standards) electric pickup similar to a 90s ranger or S10. If there was a cargo van I’d certainly consider it though.

Yea. That’s what advertising should be. What it is is worthless nonsense which is why everyone blocks as much of it as they possibly can.

The rest of the world proves there’s no need for people to pump your gas for you. Just about anyone can do that themselves. My point was that if this is the only way these people can be employed then we should instead take the money would they’d be paid for this and pay them to go to school instead so they can acquire the skills the need to get other jobs, whatever those jobs may be. Having them stand by a pump to put gas in people’s cars is just a waste of everyone’s time and resources. If this is somehow the only job they are capable of doing even with training available then just pay them to stay home. If there aren’t enough low skill jobs to go around this is a better solution then making up busy work for people to do.

The only advertising I want is a list of specs for the product and maybe a video demonstration of it’s capabilities (not a highly edited misleading video like most advertising we see today).

That money would be better spent sending them to school to learn something useful.

Not bad but not good enough to be as popular as they are.

Has anyone tried getting into his Wi-Fi with that?

Someone needs to tech Mr. Wizard about consent.

That was my first thought when I saw it. “That’s something my dad would do to get past an inspection”.

It actually told me how to do something in excel last week. It took like 5 attempts and me giving up, trying to find an answer on google, giving up on that, and trying another 3 or 4 prompts but it’s progress I suppose.

Outside I hope.