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Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

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Re: Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

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> Dynamic personalized pricing is a real thing. Has been for ages. The thing where you get a discount for making a below-average number of returns is also dynamic personalized pricing. > Competition isn't nearly as perfect as you say. It's very common for high-end stores to sell identical items at higher prices and still sell plenty of them. High-end stores are often selling more than just the product. Some people pu…

You pivoted awfully fast from “nobody does this” to “everybody does this and it’s fine.” Anyway, suffice to say that I disagree about the desirability of these techniques and the ability of the market to straighten things out.

> You pivoted awfully fast from “nobody does this” to “everybody does this and it’s fine.”

"Everybody does this and it's not actually bad" was the starting point.

Re: Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

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If someone owns a home with a garage, you don't need to know what kind of car they own to case how wealthy they are. It'll be pretty obvious just by looking at the house, the lawn, the neighbors homes, their lawns, their cars, is there a pool in the backyard, is there a community pool with expensive memberships, etc. Google maps and social media will tell you a whole lot... for free. Why pay? Clearly not because some…

Just because lots of info is available doesn't mean more info wouldn't be useful. You never know if your customer might be well above the neighborhood's average wealth. Or be average but have poor impulse control when spending money, which is even more valuable.

No company wants to blow $50 a customer on tokens for the possibility of maybe selling them a roof, when they can use the free bits of the internet... for free.

Given the recent exposure of how token usage and limits have somehow gone through the roof in the past few months reinforces this point.

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