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by car_analogy 1568 days ago
> If you think the price of the service is too high, move on to a competitor.

It's a problem because it puts consumers at an even further disadvantage in a game that's already stacked against them. That you're still willing to pay makes no difference - you're still worse off than before.

Maybe it would be somewhat fair if consumers had their own well-funded departments, studying corporations to determine the lowest price they'd still be willing to sell a product for, and then collectively negotiating the price.

But we don't, and it would be a waste of humanity's limited time to play these zero-sum, when we can just make the behavior illegal.

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But, that's not what I'm saying. I'm in fact not willing to pay, and I'm moving on to a competitor that provides the same service for less.
I mean if, hypothetically, they had raised their price to the maximum you were willing to pay, and hadn't gone too high.