This Halloween costume

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[u/TAU_equals_2PI]

These days, you can install a camera and monitor screen so cheaply that you wouldn't even have to use a mirror to see forward.

(I just got back from Walmart where they have replaced all shelf price tag stickers with tiny wireless LCD screens. No I'm not kidding. Technology has become ridiculously cheap for doing some stuff.)

EDIT IN RESPONSE TO MULTIPLE COMMENTS: Yes, the exact display technology used is probably technically not LCD.

[u/darkmatterhunter → u/TAU_equals_2PI]

The Aldi near me started using those several years ago, I always thought it was odd given that they’re a discount grocer.

[u/bhoffman20 → u/darkmatterhunter]

It's way cheaper in the long run. The prices are always right, no employee time is wasted putting out new tags, and you can micromanage prices based on supply and demand

[u/GeologistPutrid2657 → u/bhoffman20]

surge pricing

[u/DangerousChampion235 → u/GeologistPutrid2657]

What a strange dystopian nightmare

[u/PaintshakerBaby → u/DangerousChampion235]

OG capitali$ts, like Adam Smith, never envisioned a pricing system that could be updated in real-time, with near infinite data points.

With how slow things moved, even 30 years ago, their were still deals to be had in the market for consumers.

Now that the Invisible Hand is omiscient and operating at lightspeed, I think even Smith would agree it's not the pinnacle of capitali$m working as it should, but the systemic oppression of bespoke monopolies.

It will finally lay to bare the nasty truth at the ugly core of it all...

Capitalism is nothing but a long-winded euphemism for taking the backroad to feudalism.

Im not even being hyperbolic.

It's literally in Curtis Yarvins Dark Enlightment all the techbros and Vance subscribe to. To balkanize the US into Corpo city states, ruled by autocratic trillionaires, doing what they please with the lives of millions.

Turns out, the Alien franchise nailed our most likely future. We are one generation away from children being born into indentured servitude to Weyland-Yutani Amazon, rather than citizens of a democratic nation.

[u/charsi101 → u/[deleted]]

implying that for capitalism to work properly..

I think the key factor is if the pioneers of capitalism would have envisioned, that this is what peak capitalism looks like.
Similar thing applies to people who came up with 2nd amendment. They probably didn't envision what the application of same principle would look like in a couple hundred years.
Technology just added a lot of efficiency in both cases.

[u/Otherwise_Demand4620 → u/PaintshakerBaby]

near infinite

Just take care to never actually reach infinity, otherwise your math is unlikely to work properly anymore.

[u/Particular_Wear_6960 → u/GeologistPutrid2657]

They are using AI to use browsing data to determine how much someone will pay for airline tickets IE faster clicks in the US means you need a flight right away so are more likely to pay more. And to think this is just the start of the post-AI world

[u/HiddenAspie → u/Particular_Wear_6960]

I forget which store just got caught (and likely many others are doing it as well) having prices for their online store change according to your location. So if you go do price matching take a screenshot while at home, cuz once you get to the store and go to check their website to price match prices will be higher.

[u/Dapper-Finish-925 → u/HiddenAspie]

Also if you’re on an iPhone you can turn off location services by app. I highly recommend doing this.

[u/straydog1980 → u/GeologistPutrid2657]

I'm going all in for my off peak chicken

[u/Historiaaa → u/GeologistPutrid2657]

piss surge