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>there would probably be personal shoppers who would buy things for you at a lower price with their "poor person" data profile and pocket a percentage of the di
by grawprog 6y ago
>there would probably be personal shoppers who would buy things for you at a lower price with their "poor person" data profile and pocket a percentage of the difference
See...there's always someone that can come up with an even more awful scenario.
I'd never even thought of such a thing...but that really doesn't sound too far fetched.
I guess it would create a new little economy, but i dunno, these things always remind me of something from black mirror.
And most of the depictions of the future in that show kinda horrified me.
- Rmblnm4n 6y ago“New little economy” = market Adam Smith only mentions markets in terms of free labor market A new little economy, a niche for someone to work on something. Later he warned against such granular role. Writing such deep division of labor would make humans as dumb a creature of possible. He also suggested protection of equality of condition to avoid monopolizing behavior would be required to control aristocracy But that part of the story is omitted for “find a widget you like making and stick to it forever.” Easier to keep people in their box if they just stick to being some normalized role. Of course this made perfect sense to aristocrats whose normalized role was handed to them by deity or unethical law protecting fruits of violent conquest, but whatever, got my iPhone.