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tl;dr -- Surveillance-based dynamic pricing for news articles., i.e. "making the world a worse place."

I don't know anyone who does not loathe booking a flight, and I shudder at the millions of dollars spent by the airlines tweaking ticket prices, by websites wading through that gaming, and by those sites advertising to get clicks. Maybe this is the future of employment[1], but it sounds grim to me.

[1] http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/john_maynard_keynes_quot...

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Mark my words--This is the future of all Retail: Personalized pricing determined by big data's prediction of your ability and willingness to pay. And yes, it will be awful. "Log in to view the price of this item, sucka!"

I would expect that the presence of competition will make this impossible for most things. If two actors are in a space, and one has this tech, then all the above-median-price potential buyers will shop at the one without the tech. If the first sale doctrine were ever eroded, then maybe.

Well, surely, they'll also have a generic guest price.

Those who want to avoid the friction of logging in can pay a little extra (or maybe less sometimes) for the right to do so.

I think the incentives behind your assumptions wont match ground reality incentives to firms.

So They wont keep a guest price, they'll keep a bait price.

The rest of the time price discovery and visibility will be governed by their information of your financial state and habits (maybe just habits, if you have credit).

As an economist, this sounds rather efficient.

Its here already. I noticed that Airbnb increased their fee after I logged in to make a booking for a room that I found.

I made screenshots as proof. Reminds me now to do some more research and blog about it.

Maybe then we'll have a PressScanner (like SkyScanner) service to find the best subscription prices

It's also predicated on the idea that subscriptions will continue to be a thing.

I lack the words to describe how bad that quote is!

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