[TeMPOraL]

Doing that would be considered deeply immoral and sociopathic in any sane culture. Do you really want to live in a society that finds such attitudes acceptable?

Instead of blindly jumping on a manipulated outrage bandwagon, people would do well to maybe read some of those old books, not even the rare ones - they tend to contain plenty of parables and stories explaining basics of morality and civilized conduct. We used to teach that to kids at homes and in primary education...

[abustamam]

I've seen many people sell products and courses with price parity, meaning someone in the US pays one price and someone in South Africa pays less.

Me, as a software engineer, will do research on a company to determine how much they can afford to pay me before giving them my salary range.

And almost every SAAS company charges people differently depending on their needs, even if the underlying software is identical between customers.

So no, I don't think it's inherently immoral to charge different prices to people depending on their ability to pay or use cases. It can be, but it's not a defacto standard.

[qwytw]

Money is relative, though. I guess the question is if it's acceptable to charge a tiny symbolic fee for that cup of water if the other person's pockets are visibly overflowing with cash. If yes then it's more than reasonably to charge Musk a few million.

Turning it the other way around is it deeply immoral and sociopathic for someone to hoard massive amounts of money/resources if there are people dying or suffering around them (even if not on the spot but e.g. due to poor access to healthcare)?