We think it's pretty cool to align a business incentive (reach more markets) with an economic one (poorer nations and richer nations paying different amounts).
I actually wonder a lot what other people think about this because I think it is an important point. Is it fairer to price differently according to willingness to pay given not everyone has the same purchasing power, or to give the same price to everyone?
If $Y > $X and $Y < $VALUE_TO_YOU, how would it be unethical to optimize prices to find $Y?
The big companies are masters of this and continue to get better as computing gets faster. It worries me a great deal that everything is or has become a monthly payment in perpetuity.
In some deeper sense though, I commiserate with your point on technology being alienating through its strive to over-optimize everything. Except, I think much of this friction will inevitably have to be solved by further application of technology itself -- it's always a double edged sword..
In our case, as Abel explained, one of the things we're trying to solve are very apparent international mispricings.
Growing up in post-communist E Europe in the 90s I remember buying pirated games from street vendors. An unawareness of international pricing can easily price out many a potential client! :)
[1]: https://twitter.com/poyark [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/subscription-based-pricing...