If you pay $2 for an apple at the grocery store and the same store only charges me $1 for that apple, then that grocer is telling you that your dollars are worth half as much as mine:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
There's a kind of economics brainworm that makes some economists *looooove* surveillance pricing.
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Cory Doctorow
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