I understand the price signal and the process of price detection through the myriads of needs and abilities. That's all fine and actually great, as a relatively robust distributed system.

What I do not get is why keeping people in the dark is a cornerstone to many endeavours - value-based pricing just being an example of that.

Edit: maybe I spend too much time in the open source world and mistake it for some model setup for other parts of society that do not work like that at all.