Prices are not static. Learn basic economics. Poor people paying poor prices is not bad thing.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Sadly, I think the flat rate (which is inevitable) would be way more than what we want to pay. Then paying for the internet we use... So frickin expensive 😔 Great idea otherwise. It'd be awesome. We never use what we're paying for... But it's the minimum.
Doesn't this open up a clear pathway way to discrimination?
Even AI and data has bias, add that with malicious intent, and what stops a grocer from charging exploited communities higher prices?
Look at who's coming into power tomorrow, and who's sucking him off the most. This shit is about to get ten times worse.
Companies like Amazon been doing this for a long time. Yes, it's discriminatory. No one has done anything about it. And they probably won't for at least another 4 years.
4 years
If we're lucky. And even if we have another president and that president is a Democrat and even if that president has a Democrat super majority in the House and Senate, I am not convinced that they will prioritize breaking up monopolies.
Why 4 years? Edit: oh... Oh no.
Buckle up, buckaroos!
Why don't Americans put pressure on legislation like Europeans did with the GDPR?
Because they work three jobs to get food on their table and have to remortgage their house to pay for an ambulance. Privacy is a first-world problem and the US is a third-world country.
Still ain't buying their shit. I grow veggies and buy from Chinese market.