[extropy-chat] Re: Ethics and evolution

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of David Lubkin
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:53 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Re: Ethics and evolution
> 
> spike wrote:
> 
> >Artificially inflated?  What is that, where prices are
> >raised by an AI?  ...
> 
> artifice: a clever trick or stratagem. Cunning; ingenuity; guile;
> craftiness.
> 
> Although up here it doesn't seem very clever. Twenty feet after a gas
> station is another that's charging thirty cents a gallon more. A
> driver can see both stations' signs with sufficient time to choose
> the cheaper alternative.
> 
> 
> -- David

They price raisers also run the risk of driving
away clientele permanently.  I saw this when a
station went to 3 bucks a gallon the day the
shock and awe campaign started.  I was out of
fuel and needed to buy some there, but fortunately
I was on a motorcycle so I bought only half a
gallon, drove twenty miles on that and filled
up.  The locals wouldn't buy gas there anymore.

All pricing is a calculated risk.  I don't criticize
the business owner, I just take my trade elsewhere.
Gasoline is not different than other consumables.

spike