@MoreOrLessAMess Every year in my elementary school we did "silhouette tracing" in arts & crafts... it's a basic term in fashion, comes up all the time in detective/mystery fiction, incredibly common word.
Thinking of the last two books I read in a single day, one was Piranesi by Suzanne Collins, simple & entertaining sci-fi/fantasy concepts, not much meat on the bone, like a long Twilight Zone episode. The other was Grendel by John Gardner which was like a life-changing DMT trip.
@abou_rijal it is the core miracle of the human condition that we have the privilege to midwife those inarticulate, inchoate notions into fully formed ideas through the sieve of language. language is almost the death->life barrier of thoughts
Of course, it also shows that the asymptote of "correct" pricing is "precisely what the market (ie the customer) can bear at this moment", which is to say, it is socially constructed
Dynamic pricing is a clear, instructive example of a practice that is completely congruous with capitalist logicโwhy wouldn't an avowed capitalist support it?โand yet is self-evidently manipulative and immoral. Once more widely adopted it will be a primary radicalizing force.
Walmart's CEO is bragging that Sparky, the company's in-app AI agent, is leading people to spend 35% more.
He told investors that Sparky gives them a better ability to understand their customers.
This comes as Walmart patents tech that allows for more dynamic pricing.