> A millenium ago when you bought everything haggling in the market, the rich guy was paying 3x as much as everyone else because the vendors knew they could mak

> A millenium ago when you bought everything haggling in the market, the rich guy was paying 3x as much as everyone else because the vendors knew they could make him. Meanwhile, the impoverished grandmother gets the unsold leftovers for free. (The specifics obviously are made-up, but you get the gist. It's still the same in much of the world today. Foreigners visiting China pay much, much much more than locals.) Did he though? Or did he send his servant to the market for him and chastise the servant if ever he over-payed by a penny or more? It's a real stretch to try to add a moral imperative to Uber's price gauging. Speaking of historical references, why don't we mention Uber's history alongside this rich old man of yours?