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Economists praise "price discrimination" as "efficient." Th… |
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Post #AvSTJH7FDjz6BbeiNE by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic I believe gas stations use that pricing model. Whatever the marke… |
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Post #AvSTJHEKnNeiXayNQO by [email protected] |
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@EndicottAuthor @pluralistic That's different. Gas stations don't chang… |
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Post #AvSTJHKMQyTaqHnBom by [email protected] |
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@bodhipaksa @EndicottAuthor @pluralistic Hush down! Don't give them any id… |
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Post #AvSTJHRnzIQnDNH8QC by [email protected] |
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That's not how economists see it, of course. When a hotel sells you a room … |
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Post #AvSTJHsOORhMXpiMrY by [email protected] |
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There's a kind of metaphysics at work here, in which the room that is for s… |
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Post #AvSTJIIynaxvsI9bIu by [email protected] |
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But what if you show up at the hotel at 9pm and the hotelier can ask a credit b… |
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Post #AvSTJIirFNfLAYGGdk by [email protected] |
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What if they charge you more because they can see that your kids are exhausted … |
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Post #AvSTJJ9ReWvuV0hV56 by [email protected] |
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The metaphysics of "room you booked two weeks ago" as a different pro… |
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Post #AvSTJJZg4zutoMyRyC by [email protected] |
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"Surveillance pricing" is the practice of spying on you to figure out… |
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Post #AvSTJK0yRVkdB1kFW4 by [email protected] |
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For example, a McDonald's ventures portfolio company called Plexure offers … |
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Post #AvSTJKRupLImWaLlVg by [email protected] |
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Personalized pricing (that is, "surveillance pricing") is part of the… |
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Post #AvSTJL5yQPLQWp5kwq by [email protected] |
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So long as everyone follows that advice, we poor suckers have nowhere else to g… |
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Post #AvSTJLVUtVlFnz28jQ by [email protected] |
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These companies pretend that when all the meat-packers in America send their pr… |
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Post #AvSTJLw5If1p8RTNAm by [email protected] |
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Same goes for when all the landlords in town send their rental data to a compan… |
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Post #AvSTJMMfhoIOStubc8 by [email protected] |
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Take contract nursing, where a cartel of three staffing apps have displaced the… |
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Post #AvSTJMmY9aznlA1Gwy by [email protected] |
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They're checking to see whether a nurse who's looking for a shift has a… |
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Post #AvSTJNECUn778uxM36 by [email protected] |
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This is surveillance pricing for *buyers*, and as with the sell-side pricing re… |
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Post #AvSTJNdMzDFMOyjSHQ by [email protected] |
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Veena Dubal calls this "algorithmic wage discrimination." Algorithmic… |
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Post #AvSTJO4JN2nVkXKyH2 by [email protected] |
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But this gets much creepier and more powerful when combined with aggregated sur… |
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Post #AvSTJOXjbeKjDn6T8S by [email protected] |
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This is one of the real labor consequences of AI: not the hypothetical millions… |
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This is as good a candidate for AI regulation as any, but it's also a *very… |
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Post #AvSTJPOCSaIhqVeMue by [email protected] |
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But then Trump got elected and his despicable minions killed that rule, giving … |
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But then Trump got elected and his despicable minions killed that investigation… |
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Naomi Klein's *Doppelganger* proposes a "mirror world" that the f… |
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Post #AvSTJQdpnwOvjHyMvA by [email protected] |
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A recent episode of the excellent Organized Money podcast featured an interview… |
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Post #AvSTJR4QD5fV3kPbMW by [email protected] |
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Hepner is the one who proposed the formulation that personalized pricing is a w… |
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Post #AvSTJRTwgC5KKuLz96 by [email protected] |
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Now, this isn't always true. Earlier this month, the Delta, United and Amer… |
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Post #AvSTJRuB6f4JeGcw2C by [email protected] |
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That's a way to charge business travelers extra - for valuing their dollars… |
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Post #AvSTJSL7UUcSzpES1o by [email protected] |
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But here's the difference: when the news about the business-traveler's … |
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Post #AvSTJSkzwHJsI5L7Me by [email protected] |
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This is something British Airways is already teeing up, offering essentially *z… |
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So for now, BA travleers might be safe from surveillance pricing, at least in t… |
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Post #AvSTJTdEgchl0IiQu8 by [email protected] |
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The future of the fight against corporate power and oligarchy is something for … |
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Post #AvSTJU3T75gkJezNnE by [email protected] |
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I'm writing comments for this one. If you're in Canada, or a Canadian a… |
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*… |
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