Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.ca · 3 days agoDoug Ford says he will not ban companies from charging two people different prices for the same item, saying that doing so would be “socialism.”www.thetrillium.caexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down13 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1278arrow-down1external-linkDoug Ford says he will not ban companies from charging two people different prices for the same item, saying that doing so would be “socialism.”www.thetrillium.caCows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.ca · 3 days agomessage-square81linkfedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareeightpix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·3 days agoCorrection: charging two people… — in the same store, in the same plaza, on the same day, at the slightly different times (or not!), discriminating between them algorithmically — different prices for the same item… So much for early 2000s “price matching.” So much for benefits to loyal customers. So much for knowing your grocery budget. So much for the “neighbourhood store.” So much for people being anything other than another resource to mine. Everyone, everywhere is just a “rational consumer” guided by the “invisible hand” and “voting with their dollars” so that “the best products” emerge. All of these axioms have, in the fullness of time, proven false.
Correction: charging two people…
— in the same store, in the same plaza, on the same day, at the slightly different times (or not!), discriminating between them algorithmically —
different prices for the same item…
So much for early 2000s “price matching.”
So much for benefits to loyal customers.
So much for knowing your grocery budget.
So much for the “neighbourhood store.”
So much for people being anything other than another resource to mine.
Everyone, everywhere is just a “rational consumer” guided by the “invisible hand” and “voting with their dollars” so that “the best products” emerge.
All of these axioms have, in the fullness of time, proven false.