Here's a fast track for you to "get established" and come out at "top-1%" with a "fat rolodex": launch those "fair airlines and hotels" that are not more expensive than you presume to know "they should be". No government needed.
Hotels are generally fairly priced during the off-season.
Airlines: often they have long-term leases on airports (i.e. government favoritism) that give them a gatekeeper privilege. Hence the ridiculous fares .
If you really think that an average person can bring together the means to "launch" an airline, then my advice to you is to stop spending so much time on Hacker News now that the school year has begun. The first rule of freshman-year survival: cut distractions.
True, an "average person" cannot launch an airline, but then, an average person cannot launch much of anything. Is this the extent of your aspirations? Richard Branson could pull it off. As for the freshman thing, thanks for the laughs, trollman. Now please continue with your frustrations about how hotels and airlines destroy your quality of life (rather than, say, contribute to its improvement at any price that works for both parties; otherwise, no one's loss). And if you're deluded that by handcuffing them, "the government" (any govt. really) would be acting only in your own best interest, wait until they stoke you, too.
Okay, okay, s/average person/person of average means .
Yes, I am a fan of government action against private malfeasance. The private health insurance industry, in the form that exists in the U.S., shouldn't exist.
So the solution to government-favoritism is government-cracking-down. Awesome, let's put the flying into govts hands right away, that's easier. Oh wait, we already tried that decades ago.
