> How’s the ink jet printer industry doing these days?
There's good competition from cheap laser printers.
> If everyone does it the only fix is a law.
What makes you think so? You could first try opening up the market more. You can lower barriers to market entry. Eg for new upstarts, for established companies in other industries trying to branch out, and for foreign would-be rivals, too.
It doesn't work that way anymore and people need to understand the old rules are gone. We've passed an inflection point where a few companies have dipped their toes into extreme enshittification or excessive price increases and survived, so we're seeing the start of a free for all. Think of Reddit and Twitter doing user hostile shit starting last year, and fast food raising prices beyond the point where it's a discount relative to better food anymore.
A critical mass of consumers is now so passive and docile that they don't change behavior as they're boiled alive.
> fast food raising prices beyond the point where it’s a discount relative to better food anymore.
Fast food has usually been more expensive than (not just “not at a discount to”) better food, ceteris paribus, because you are paying for “fast” in both money and quality.
It is less expensive than better food that also has higher grades of service when the demand for service at the level at issue is sufficiently great compared to the demand for speed.
I don't think you pay for fast. You may need fast so you settle for worse, cheaper food. But you sacrifice a better, slower dining experience. I'd consider that its own qualitative tradeoff separate from pricing.
But even if my framing is wrong, the fact remains that fast food has traditionally been cheaper than better (restaurant) food and only recently has that discount started to go away.
> Fast food raising prices beyond the point where it's a discount relative to better food anymore. A critical mass of consumers is now so passive and docile that they don't change behavior as they're boiled alive.
Sad and self-correcting by self-eliminating consumers. But that will take time and smaller markets are a net negative for the survivors.
How’s the ink jet printer industry doing these days?
Yeah. If everyone does it the only fix is a law. And clearly we don’t pass those anymore.