Canada

People aren't generally opposed to the idea of differential algorithmic pricing, they're against the way it'll almost inevitably get implemented if allowed to be done without regulation / public involvement and oversight.

Ask a lefty if they're in favour of charging people fines based on net worth/income, rather than based on a flat rate. Speeding ticket? That'll be 0.5% of your annual salary, or 0.5% of your net worth, or a baseline minimum amount, whatever's higher.

The way it'll get implemented though, is more like "It's hot, so you gotta pay x2 for water if you're poor already". And "you're a privileged race/gender, you get X pricing, it's not discrimination if it's an algorithm doing it!".

Shouldn't "Socialism" be the goal?

I live in Ontario, and I feel like I'm living in a bubble, because not a single person I've talked to likes Drug Fraud, but Ontario voted this sack of shit thrice into the office. Everything feels like it's in fucking shambles: the housing, healthcare, education (all the levels!); anything public aside from fucking businesses.

But then again, there's also an insane amount of political apathy amongst my peers (I'm around 30). No one believes that their ability to vote means anything. I'm not allowed to vote (I'm a PR), and I have to find ways to tell my friends to go fucking vote. While it's true that if shit hits the fucking roof I can always just move out, it hurts me to just watch my friends suffer, especially when a number of them are teachers and nurses, and they recount the sad episodes of the kids in schools and the patients in hospitals not getting the care they need.

Charge Doug Ford 10 billion dollars anytime he tries to purchase an item, you say?

Tell me you don't know what socialism is without saying you don't know what socialism is.

Ah, I see. Socialism is when the market operates fairly...

Socialism isn't a dirty word anymore. I would gladly take socialism over the late stage capitalism that allows surveillance pricing to exist.

Fuck Dougie and his 28 million dollar plane he just bought with tax payers $

Could one of you good folks explain to an outsider how this Muppet is still in elected office?

Like he's infamous on the far side of the Atlantic in the drugs and private jet and "fuck the poors" way. I haven't seen anything that would justify voting for him.

Correction: charging two people...

— in the same store, in the same plaza, on the same day, at the slightly different times (or not!), discriminating between them algorithmically —

different prices for the same item...

• So much for early 2000s "price matching."

• So much for benefits to loyal customers.

• So much for knowing your grocery budget.

• So much for the "neighbourhood store."

• So much for people being anything other than another resource to mine.

Everyone, everywhere is just a "rational consumer" guided by the "invisible hand" and "voting with their dollars" so that "the best products" emerge.

All of these axioms have, in the fullness of time, proven false.