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0 pointsvasco1y ago0 comments

Interacting with faceless entities with the power to buy multiple countries the same way you'd interact with some interested independent young person wanting to learn.

Interesting moral proposition, I doubt you'd get many followers. I think it's perfectly reasonable to treat people differently from corporations, and random small and medium corporations differently than huge megacorps without losing any sleep.

Specially in business, charging more to those that can pay more is a very common approach.

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chii1y ago

> charging more to those that can pay more is a very common approach.

and all consumers dislike price discrimination. Airlines is the classic example.

It's just that those companies do this because they can. And i hate it. I much prefer a static, single price for a product.

homebrewer1y ago

No, it's also because some consumers can't pay the "original" price. Steam in "developing" countries is a classic example — you as a game developer can ask a guy from my country $60 for a game (and some companies do try that), but he will simply go back to torrent trackers because $60 is a week's worth of living expenses.

gaben figured that out and successfully expanded into many markets that were considered basket cases for software licensing.

jimbokun1y ago

> Interesting moral proposition, I doubt you'd get many followers.

But the US Supreme Court would be one of them.

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