By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026Surveillance pricing is when a company spies on you ("surveillance") and uses the resulting dossier to raise its prices to the maximum it calculates you will be willing to pay ("pricing"). With surveillance pricing, a retailer reaches into your bank account and devalues your dollars. 7/ 2295
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026If you pay $2 for an apple at the grocery store and the same store only charges me $1 for that apple, then that grocer is telling you that your dollars are worth half as much as mine: pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/p... 8/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2202
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026There's a kind of economics brainworm that makes some economists *looooove* surveillance pricing. 9/ 1180
Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 30/04/2026In a normal, competitive market, the person who buys the apple for $1 would sell it for $1.01.... and pocket the difference (arbitrage). But we don't have competitive markets, we have monopolies. 0101