If something isn't more valuable to you than its price, why would you buy it?
If $Y > $X and $Y < $VALUE_TO_YOU, how would it be unethical to optimize prices to find $Y?
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...