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Newsom should make sure that his air board appointees don’t gouge motorists even more.

Its control over the industry has made way for dynamic pricing and it "has the power to destroy venues and artists who refuse to work with them. They even have their own resale platform and they encourage ticket resellers to gouge fans," The Perfect Union's Cory Doctorow said.

That doesn’t mean that the grocers can’t gouge shoppers.

He added: "They want to give more power to big corporate interests that can raise prices on middle class families as they see fit, more power to insurance companies to deny care, more power to drug companies to gouge seniors or everyone with prescription drugs."

Others used more direct means to gain an advantage, even when the rules were simple and permissive; one cup from 490 BC depicts a wrestler breaking the only two prohibitions in that sport by biting his opponent and attempting to gouge out his eyes.