Dynamic Pricing isn't Illegal. We Hate It Anyway.

[https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas2-dynamic-pricing-isnt-illegal-we-hate-it-anyway](https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas2-dynamic-pricing-isnt-illegal-we-hate-it-anyway)

It's a good rant, but it does miss the point that most sellers still use dynamic pricing as a binary not an auction. A given buyer has no way to say "I'm only willing to pay this much", they either pay the dynamically determined price or not.

Which means that for people who \*have\* to deal, it's changing the question to "can you live without this more than you can live without other things" as is the case for the dynamic pay arrangements many gig workers are subjected to (which is also different from the 'how much will you pay to work for us' arrangements Uber offer people who drive for them)

For me, right now Google has their recent-ish "just youtube" offering that's cheaper than the old package deal. But I can't subscribe to that for whatever reason, I can either pay the package price that I was on or not pay anything (and use an ad-blocker so it really is no-one gets anything). There's no auction, there's no negotiation, it's take the offered price or fuck off.