There's nothing new or sinister about price discrimination. What is suspect, however, is that the source of the delays and inconvenience in the airline security

There's nothing new or sinister about price discrimination. What is suspect, however, is that the source of the delays and inconvenience in the airline security regime are introduced and controlled by the same actor who sells the upgraded access -- and they have a conceivably unlimited mandate to make the unprivileged experience bad, in the name of security.