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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026

If 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/

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Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026

There's a kind of economics brainworm that makes some economists *looooove* surveillance pricing. 9/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026

They will insist that this is an "efficient" way to price goods, and claim that surveillance pricing isn't just a way to *raise* prices on people who are willing to pay more, it's a way to *lower* prices for people who are willing to pay less. 10/

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