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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Price discrimination should be illegal (with caveats, “student discounts” are considered PD, but not nearly as harmful as individual pricing.)

It’s a dishonest and exploitative practice, and wouldn’t surprise me that with just a few poorly selected datapoints (and with ML, every data point is poorly selected) discriminatory.

Surge pricing might not be price discrimination in the strictest sense, it’s still shitty.