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Dynamic pricing should be illegal. A price for a product should be the same for everyone and not dependant on their income, which smartphone brand they use or how much yoghurt they eat per day.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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If corpos start dynamically charging for shit, im gonna start to dynamically disassemble they're stores with vodka, some paper and a lighter.
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"If you're starving, we'll use an API with your bank to charge you $10 more than your entire net worth. In that moment we'll offer you a credit card with a 37% adjustable interest rate that only adjusts up to cover the overage (but credit card takes 6-8 business days to process, so you will go over). We'll then be left with no choice but to also process an overdraft fee on your bank account with daily penalties for the overage since you are being irresponsible.
And we'll use AI to generate a picture of everyone you love in a room laughing at you, because fuck you. By overdrafting, you triggered a clause in our user agreement (that you agreed to) which states that we can charge you whatever we think it's fair for that picture. The picture will then regenerate each month, indefinitely, on an auto subscription, unless you cancel by hand delivering a paper cancellation form to our cancellation office in Guam."
How would that even work though?
This sounds more like a shareholder soapy titwank than a real plan.
You know a much better way to do this? Government oversight on pricing of staples to prevent shit like $4 cartons of eggs and $5 sticks of butter like we had in 2022/23
Stop these companies from gouging us on products we need by making it impossible for them to get away with it.
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This sounds very illegal.
"I will make it legal"
-Capitalists since before Reagan, but especially and most successfully during and after Reagan.
They've literally made political bribery as legal as ~~apple pie~~ assault rifles, you think some consumer protection laws will stand in the way of their greed?
greedy workers hoarding all their income
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
That "to each according to his need" is the important part here. It's not going to help anyone, it's going to like pockets
Getting pretty sick of being bled dry by greedy wealth hoarders who have captured the regulatory system. Looking more and more like they WANT violence.
Now, if the extra paid were to go to help those less fortunate. To make the community better, etc. This may not be such a bad thing.
And if the "pay more" was based solely on how much money you have, not how much you're likely to want the thing being bought.
But capitalism has to capitalism and so the extra goes to rich assholes yacht and bunker funds.
I agree to an extent, but watch out for this:
Now, if the extra paid were to go to help those less fortunate. To make the community better, etc. This may not be such a bad thing
That's what they'll claim. They'll say the people with money are subsidizing the poor single mothers with two jobs (but they'll say it in a way that makes people feel good) so that they can get reasonably priced groceries. But we all know that those poor single mothers will be paying the current margins while everyone else is paying extra that goes directly to profit those at the top.
Agreed fully. Capitalists must capitalize, especially when those being capitalized have no choice.