The economic/commercial system itself creates the problems that economics is attempting to fix. Hence there is no solution to micro-economic problems by applying inputs into the system first, or of dealing with aggregate/macro-economic statistics without waiting until after a period of time has elapsed in order to perceive the policy necessary, and only then applying them directly to those aggregations which are the actual and operative problems.

The two most significant and chronic problems of modern economies are a scarcity of actually available money to spend by the individual and the continuous condition of inflation.  Given these two metrics and the above fact of the system itself being the problem it follows that an input of money, a dividend, must go directly to the individual without it going through commerce/the economy first, otherwise it will initiate/re-initiate the disequilibrium of the system. This is the essence of Direct Distributism. Likewise and macro-economically, an attempt to regulate only a specific aggregate or one that is not systemically significant will never encompass the entire macro-economy including as per above the element of time. That is why a discount based on a ratio of aggregate statistics and applied to retail sales to the individual which is the sum point of costs for that item, is the macro-economic policy that will maintain and continue through time, the virtual equilibrium created by the dividend.

The essential goal to always keep in mind is the freedom of the individual. In a monetary economy such as ours freeing the individual monetarily and economically also frees the system, and then adjusting the system in aggregate, in order to keep its costs and abilities to clear them as equal as possible, maintains that freedom for all entities individual, commercial and national within the economy. This is the adult, concrete, responsible and most importantly individually ethical thing to do as opposed to declaring that the market, like some conscious and rational entity, will automatically clear itself despite its incredible complexity of form and individual decision making.