[antisthenes]

I find it hilarious you're trying to take the moral high ground in THIS particular case, which could be just chalked up as good business sense, and not in any of the immoral things they have actually done like stealing intellectual property via a shell company or sexual harassment in the workplace. All it really shows is your lack of economic understanding.

Businesses price discriminate. Against different bands of customers, perhaps by race, income, zip code or gender. It happens. It's smart. It's profit-maximizing. It's amoral. There's nothing inherently bad about it.

So what if a band of customers is being charged higher? What if they are actually willing to pay more? Why leave the surplus on the table? Are they satisfied with the service?

Look, I'm about as far as you can get from a free market Randroid, but this is just basic microeconomics.