Post #4277002
2026-07-30 12:56 UTC
The problem is that as much as companies love this, shoppers *hate* it. Last summer, Delta announced that it was going to surveillance price every seat on every flight, only to face such a massive backlash that they had to make another announcement bemoaning the fact that we'd all misunderstood their (unambiguous and extremely damning) announcement and they were actually going to do no such thing:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/efficiency-washing/#medallion-clubbed
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-30 12:56
One thing Mamdani's campaign impressed on every politician is that people are *pissed* about affordability and they will support anyone who stands up for the public against AI-equipped price gougers. The problem of course is that those price gougers are highly organized and have deep treasuries (stuffed with money they stole from us). With surveillance pricing, politicians face a familiar conundrum: if they do the thing that's popular with voters, they'll enrage donors. 12/