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My guess is that we'll get legislation preventing price surges, but won't address retailers setting their prices sky high, applying sales to basically everything, and then "reducing sale prices to more closely align with the products actual cost" as they see fit.
We know we are getting fucked, the retailers know they are fucking us, and our legislators know they are allowing us to get fucked, but the law passes anyways.
That would be a cheeky way to circumvent the intention of the legislation. Fortunately, as @Banana@sh.itjust.works mentioned, some places are getting these laws put in place.
I, too, am wary of these laws passed by those that might not understand the technology they're legislating. Especially when so many of our laws get written by the corporations in the first place. The things you and I suspect could easily be done, only for authorities to be caught and fined one percent of one percent of the profits they made by doing so.
Time will tell I suppose. It's a lovely grey day in this dystopia we find ourselves living in. Time to take another blue pill.