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>I do find market segmentation to be morally wrong What about student discount at cinemas and other places?

• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Offtopic, but I think it's high time to reverse the discounts - students should have it more expensive than employed people. Right now in my country, as a student you get discounts everywhere - in restaurations, cinemas, in transportation, etc. And the country also suffers from having way too many people with degrees and no job. Those discounts serve as a big incentive for people to stay in "education" (it's hard to call it an actual education) as long as they can.
• asgard1024 11y ago
  That's a good and interesting point. I guess I have less moral problem with it if the item in question is a final product (such as work of art) than a tool, and if the price difference is not large (say up to half of order of magnitude). But I actually think student discounts are wrong for moral reasons, because they discriminate against non-students, but I do find discounts for young people and older people (in most cases) acceptable.
  • Asbostos 11y ago
    Once you start grouping people into big lumps like "student" and "old", it opens up a rat's nest of unfairness. What about disabled people who aren't old? What about old people who are very rich and healthy? Etc. I think we have to tolerate a bit of unfairness so that a large chunk of needy people can benefit, even if a few outliers miss our or are unfairly advantaged.