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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket (fortune.com)
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Delta has a long-term strategy to boost its profitability by moving away from set fares and toward individualized pricing using AI. The pilot program, which uses AI for 3% of fares, has so far been “amazingly favorable,” the airline said. Privacy advocates fear this will lead to price-gouging, with one consumer advocate comparing the tactic to “hacking our brains.”

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Making sure you pay the absolute most possible for everything you buy. Welcome to tyranny capitalism. You will be charged a poor tax in the form of optimised pricing exploitation.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's econ 101.

Also the poor should have not seemed desperate.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Econ 101 also states that a failed business stops existing. In reality, failed businesses are endlessly bailed out as "too big to fail" and they pay their executives bonuses with that bailout money while continuing to rip off customers along with the other one or two companies in the same industry that do the same.