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tech ruined society with predatory pricing
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: lime market somehow we all think that tech companies charging below cost for 10 years is ackshully good for customers because it gets the tech company's foot in the door on a more efficient service. but that is not true, it's a scam and is anti-human and we all go along with the short-term predation and anti-competitive behavior because we want to be the cool guys supporting tech progress. if you look at the ends as justifying the means you're a satanist and should spend the rest of your life with a digital dildo in ur rectum (you already are) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172753) |
Date: October 5th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster Cr it's literally just Moloch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172758) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: razzmatazz police squad pit uber has made my life much much better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172766) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: lime market you don't know that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172769) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: razzmatazz police squad pit i do. i used to take cabs. they were a nightmare. uber changed that entire experience in a snap.
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: lime market you havent done the full econometrics on this. no one has (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172772) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: razzmatazz police squad pit i've noticed i no longer have to stand on the curb with a suitcase for an hour and a half wondering if that cab i called to take me to the airport is ever going to actually arrive
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: lime market you have not considered the externalities. you're glib. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172787) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: razzmatazz police squad pit you sound like a retarded highschool kid who's dad just got fired from the cab depot
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:20 PM Author: lime market you're glib. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172800) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:17 PM Author: mind-boggling set famous landscape painting WWUTD? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172788) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: offensive theater Technology has genuinely ruined everything. Teddy K should have run for president instead of blowing motherfuckers up through the US mail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172789) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:24 PM Author: twinkling hairraiser associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172807) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:24 PM Author: mind-boggling set famous landscape painting should have done both imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172808) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: offensive theater You make a compelling case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172862) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: lime market the only reason ted got violent is because he bought shitty property too close to a saw mill and the noise pissed him off (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172809) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster He wasn't even "violent" really all of those people could have avoided getting blown up by simply not opening the packages that were sent to them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172856) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:52 PM Author: lime market you're glib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172857) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: offensive theater Hi Tom! Are you disappointed with the Digger reviews? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172860) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:54 PM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster I've thought about this issue a lot actually (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172863) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:55 PM Author: lime market that makes it worse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172865) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:56 PM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster You desperately want to be a Computer-Person but you're not and you're in denial about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172867) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 3:56 PM Author: lime market ad hom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172869) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster The highest form of "argument" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172875) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Talented incel netflix used to be $6.99/month with NO ADS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172886) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: offensive theater I peace outed when they raised HD to like $12 and did the same with Prime when they introduced ads. Can't believe people pay for that shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172946) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: lime market you sure showed them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172947) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: offensive theater I didn't do it because I had some kind of grand plan to teach them a lesson. Self respect and doing what you think is appropriate is its own reward (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172952) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 4:59 PM Author: lime market true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172954) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 5:04 PM Author: Glittery Goyim tech didnt do shit, humans are just shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172958) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 8:55 AM Author: offensive theater It enables us to be shit and do shit more than our past shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173813) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 5:08 PM Author: Sable Disturbing Boiling Water Stain was in LA a few weeks back. people lay on the pavement doing crack with self driving delivery dogs going past them, tourists running to their waymo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172967) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 5:09 PM Author: lime market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50172968) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 7:22 PM Author: Sable Disturbing Boiling Water Stain wouldn’t be surprised if those robot delivery dogs make additional trip fees sending video data of junkies dead/alive to local gov and then additional face tracking for everyone else sending that data to third parties (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173165) |
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Date: October 5th, 2026 7:50 PM Author: chartreuse bat shit crazy dysfunction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173216) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 8:30 AM Author: twisted native azn Silver lining is we get to experience the sci-fi technodystopia we grew up reading about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173787) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 8:48 AM Author: Sable Disturbing Boiling Water Stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173809) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 8:36 AM Author: twisted native azn It sucks. Dynamic pricing has a lot of potential to make the market more efficient but it inevitably will be used to grift people. We should create laws people can't be offered different prices for the same thing.
Adjusting an Uber's price based on supply in demand is just automating ordinary market dynamics. Adjusting it because a user has a low cellphone battery and is likely to be willing to pay more is predatory. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 9:02 AM Author: Clear boyish abode deer antler Lmao shitlib. Companies charging a different price for the same thing is the only way for shrewd Losers to get a deal. If you outlaw that you’re just going to be Buying High. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173821) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 9:13 AM Author: twisted native azn Don't you live in a trailer and have spent the last 20 years bloviating about video games and movies? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173834) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 10:10 AM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster There's no difference between those two actually. They should both be illegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50173940) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 10:31 AM Author: twisted native azn Price controls on supply and demand always fail.
The price of bread fluctuating based on supply and demand can't be stopped. But we shouldn't allow people to use technology to adjust the price of bread for individuals based on how hungry they are. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 10:36 AM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster Dynamic pricing is literally just a zero sum wealth transfer. It provides no "price discovery" utility to "the market." It's just someone with leverage stealing from someone who they have leverage over
You might as well legalize mugging |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 10:42 AM Author: twisted native azn I think it's fine to have dynamic pricing to adjust prices based on supply and demand. For example, if the demand for ubers is high drivers deserve the increase in profit, which will incentive more drivers to enter the market.
The problem is:
1) We shouldn't allow the market middlemen to profit and not the actual providers. This would be like letting the CME reap all the gains from fluctuating commodities prices over the providers.
2) We should prohibit predatory dynamic pricing. There's a difference between charging more to the market because of increased demand and charging more to a single person because you've identified they need it more. Inherently that means charging above the actual market rate. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: offensive theater I think the lesson from modern times is that we should not have complex systems that are difficult to police. Although it's true that technology allows more effective policing of systems, you'll end up in the fight of your life to determine what is simply dynamic versus what is actually predatory to the point that government will allow all but the most egregious examples (and even those if donations and lobbying are hitting right)
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:25 AM Author: twisted native azn But eliminating it entirely is tantamount to price fixing which has a bunch of other problems. If a landlord uses technology to determine the market value of hisnl property that's dynamic pricing.
Ultimately you're right that the problem is rooted in the system overall being captured and unworkable. But then bitching about dynamic pricing is rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Theres a thousand things more egregious that GC does we haven't stopped, dynamic pricing ia just another cock in the Cornell ketamine gangbang of modern life. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster "I think it's fine to have dynamic pricing to adjust prices based on supply and demand. For example, if the demand for ubers is high drivers deserve the increase in profit, which will incentive more drivers to enter the market."
Uber drives do not make additional money that matches the increase in surge pricing. They make some small added static bonus. Uber pockets the rest. They're just stealing from the customer. Also, there is no accompanying magical increase in supply like you're alluding to. Surge pricing happens in real time
I am surprised you are defending this practice. I have not met a single other person who defends dynamic pricing. It is laughably Molochian. Like a strawman parody of the worst, most destructive excesses of capitalism |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:07 AM Author: offensive theater The root of much of our evil is the Ferengi-esque perpetual expansion of profit motive that corporations need to pursue. That's exactly the type of shit that drives your uber example and BMW seeking to rent to owners the right to have heated seats and... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50174034) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:26 AM Author: twisted native azn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50174075) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:22 AM Author: twisted native azn We're talking about dynamic pricing in general. Uber taking the profit is problem 1 I mentioned. They are essentially operating as a market middleman pairing consumers with independent contractors. Them stealing drivers profit should be prohibited too, but that doesnt require eliminating dynamic pricing entirely.
Elimonating it entirely would be impossible. From the price of gas to airline tickets, everything with fluctuating pricing is automated in some way. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:27 AM Author: vivacious volcanic crater toaster It would not be impossible at all. The state would just have to actually assert itself over capital. If it is not stopped now, things are going to get really, really bad with AI
People just have to chimp out about it bad enough to get the state to act. Very "odd case," btw, that no "anti-capitalist" "progressives" who "care about regular people" have taken up this extremely low hanging fruit |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 11:34 AM Author: twisted native azn Yes we could just set the price for cabs, food, apartments, etc but that leads to a lot of other issues.
I think there is a line that can be drawn between allowing people to use technology for price discovery for the market and using it against an individual. There's nothing wrong with charging more during rush hour because of higher demand, there is something wrong with charging more than the market rate because a person's cell phone is about to die and they're desperate. |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Yapping psychic french chef Amazon existing has done more to benefit families/encourage procreation and also stabilizing the American working class than any other company/policy out there. Trump's immigration policy is a distant second. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50174181) |
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Date: October 6th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: lime market wow procreation you say (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50174386) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 7:26 AM Author: Yapping psychic french chef It’s a huge time saver for families who need to buy shit for their household to get it at a click of a button vs aimlessly walking around Walmart for two hours. In turn it makes the whole kid raising process an easier hill to climb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5909998&forum_id=2#50175620) |