We absolutely do have laws that are the equivalent of “no one is allowed to sell their used car for less than X".
These laws take the form of transfer and registration fees for vehicles, taxes, and especially inspection requirements. We also have much stricter requirements on what a large commercial enterprise can sell versus a private individual.
We have rules like that for everything. We also say you can’t sell houses for less than X by mandating things like how many stairwells they have, and so on.
To the extent you’re tempted to argue some semantics about how you could still sell a car for a dollar you’re wrong and missing the point on purpose by arguing over the definitions in a way that doesn’t change the principle.
We do this because we are a society and we get to decide what the society looks like. Prices are downstream of our value system.
These laws take the form of transfer and registration fees for vehicles, taxes, and especially inspection requirements. We also have much stricter requirements on what a large commercial enterprise can sell versus a private individual.
We have rules like that for everything. We also say you can’t sell houses for less than X by mandating things like how many stairwells they have, and so on.
To the extent you’re tempted to argue some semantics about how you could still sell a car for a dollar you’re wrong and missing the point on purpose by arguing over the definitions in a way that doesn’t change the principle.
We do this because we are a society and we get to decide what the society looks like. Prices are downstream of our value system.