This is an ideal, but then you have ‘oh we KNOW they have money we jack up the prices.’
You would need a highly regulated market with checks and balances in place to ensure there cannot be regulatory capture. I would say AI would be a step in the right direction so long as there is enough wiggle for ‘on the ground’ flexibility and whoever wrote the thing that had the AI grow/evolve in simulation didn’t have a ‘we want to show this will fail in the real world’ as their agenda.
I am not an economist so I have zero idea on how to tackle this. However at the same time I keep wondering why it isn’t a point of national convrosat