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Wendy’s Wants to Start Uber-like Surge Pricing in 2025 (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by flumph@programming.dev to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 12 points 9 months ago

Price discrimination should be illegal (with caveats, “student discounts” are considered PD, but not nearly as harmful as individual pricing.)

It’s a dishonest and exploitative practice, and wouldn’t surprise me that with just a few poorly selected datapoints (and with ML, every data point is poorly selected) discriminatory.

Surge pricing might not be price discrimination in the strictest sense, it’s still shitty.