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Avi Lewis
Real Syntactic@avilewis thank you for this call. It’s timely and important. How about turning your attention to data privacy and sovereignty more broadly after that?
Count To Zen@avilewis Some might reasonably suggest that this could be a good thing, i.e. people with more money are charged more. But this technology is not built for social justice, it is built to make money. What actually happens is that people with fewer options are charged more. The wealthy retiree can drive to other stores to price shop, while the single mother with three jobs has not the time or necessarily money for that, and will sigh and pay the extra she can't afford. From an equity perspective It is exactly the wrong people who suffer from this practice.
(^^)@avilewis It will be fine, the capitalist pigs will just extract more wealth from people. They need that wealth more than the people who worked for it do. They're job creators ... remember?
MilitaryG@arrrg @avilewis yeah I see billionareis making billions of jobs.... Oh wait there are little jobs maybe 5k and with minimum salary. Oooooooo making jobs noooooo.... S quizzing money
If workers don't have money. It's simple they can't sell anything. Workers die out of starvation - hey it's his fault he's not working. Money to the people and you'll have plenty of jobs.
Jo - pièce de résistance@avilewis I saw these automatic digital price labels at Farm Boy, and only realized they were digital when one changed next to me. They look like paper, almost undetectable. I hate them already.
DavidM_yegBravo!
I have long thought we need price stability legislation: once a price is set, a retailer should be required to maintain that price for a set period of time. How long might vary by sector depending on how perishable stock is (like, a fresh fish market might need daily variability to clear stock at the end of the day).
The long-standing and most visible (for decades) example is gas pricing: there is no reason for daily or weekly fluctuations, the noise is used to mask straight up profiteering. We tolerated that for too long because it was an exception, but that was only because ‘dynamic pricing’ was too labour intensive. Now that *all* pricing is digital, establishing controls is urgent!
TheZorse
MarkGI'm glad the NDP is bringing attention to the issue of surveillance pricing.
I notice today that the Liberal Party shut down Don's motion on preventing surveillance pricing. Seems they are just sycophants of big business.
#ndp #lpc #surveillancepricing #canpoli #cdnpoli #affordability
