They would have power outages, followed by demonstrations ending in riots and end up paying the higher price anyway.

displayed but not eaten

When you write that badly you probably overestimated the greatness of the joke.

In many of those cases it would be better to improve adoption of one of the existing standards though. When the EU decided all mobile devices should be chargeable with micro-usb it was known that was not the best port ever. But having everything use the same charger was great and it made it easier to force everyone to update new devices to usb-c.