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Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% (viewfromthewing.com)
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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Interesting. There are a whole group of people against this type of "economy". I want "cost accounting" to rule the economic landscape. We might be very surprised to learn what things cost versus what they sell for. It should def not be "Whatever the rube will pay".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    The problem is that the theory of supply and demand requires the assumption that buyers and sellers are rational actors, and if there's one thing the last 25 years has taught the corpocrats, it's that humans are not rational, and are easily manipulated.

    The other thing they learned is that, if you don't want to face regulation, you just need to buy the government. They already knew this, but now the process is perfected.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Doordash alone has proven that people will buy anything at any price. Someone with severe depression takes it as a mental health tax, someone with a bunch of money takes it as a convenience fee, and doordash laughs all the way to the bank

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I'm cynical as hell. I have never had any "faith" in the consumer to be able to regulate things with their wallet, but even I was shocked by DD's success.

    I remember finding out how shit the whole system was for the "employee" and thinking "that sucks. If it's a good deal, this will take off and become the new type of low work". Then, I was so relieved when I saw that everything was 2x the price and always arrived cold, on the floor outside.

    I watched in horror as everyone started buying it every chance they could! At every income level!

    Watching people use DD has done more harm to my view of people than I could ever have imagined possible. I thought it was already so low, and then, a new floor in a lower hell opened up before me like some kind of toothy, butthole-lotus with tentacles.

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