"of course it starts the car lol"
No it doesn't. The key has a chip in it. When the key is placed into the ignition switch the chip disengages the immobiliser. Therefore unless the key has a chip with has been programmed to the correct frequency it will not start the car.
Also capitalism only works where Governments force business to compete and penalise them when they don’t.
The car key is a perfect example. There is no way $380 could be justified on any other basis but, ‘you need it because your car is useless without it, so I can charge pretty much as much as I want’. Now a locksmith could produce the same item for less than $50, whilst still leaving a healthy profit margin. However because the car company charges so much, they follow suit. That is, reduce the already significantly inflated cost by a few dollars and call it competition. The solution, if the product being sold falls within the definition of “a necessary item” then the profit margin is a regulated, with mandatory fines for those caught charging in excess of the regulated amount.
The phone bill is even easier to implement. All that is required is a small change to the existing legation to the effect that, if a company supplies item or service which fall within the definition of “necessary” then all customers are entitled to the same product and/or at the same price. That is if Telstra has a plan which provides free calls and a given amount of gigs of data to landline customers at a fixed price, then the same product at the same price, must be made available to those customers, who because of the lack of infrastructure, are forced to use wireless.
