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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7810081" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>Definitely. The much more egalitarian culture (with many flaws, as you noted) that existed in the immediate post-World War II era has been going away. Modern society has more and more become like the Gilded Age.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are lots of other examples of how businesses use price differentiation to try to get customers to reveal their "willingness to pay". Airline tickets used to be a few choices. Now it's pretty much all about how to upsell and charge in various ways for bits and pieces of the ticket that used to be bundled in the price. In a sense, the Disney theme park method is really similar. It's setting the base price for the product that essentially nobody wants, and then charges for what appear to be add-ons that make the product usable, rather than pricing straight out. There are many other examples. Once you know what to look for it's really obvious (and often rather frustrating). </p><p></p><p>Many of these kinds of things existed in the Gilded Age but they'd gone away during the mid 20th Century. For example, I once read about a train in France that had third class passengers seated in train cars that lacked roofs. Compare that to modern airline practices!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>100% on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7810081, member: 6873517"] Definitely. The much more egalitarian culture (with many flaws, as you noted) that existed in the immediate post-World War II era has been going away. Modern society has more and more become like the Gilded Age. There are lots of other examples of how businesses use price differentiation to try to get customers to reveal their "willingness to pay". Airline tickets used to be a few choices. Now it's pretty much all about how to upsell and charge in various ways for bits and pieces of the ticket that used to be bundled in the price. In a sense, the Disney theme park method is really similar. It's setting the base price for the product that essentially nobody wants, and then charges for what appear to be add-ons that make the product usable, rather than pricing straight out. There are many other examples. Once you know what to look for it's really obvious (and often rather frustrating). Many of these kinds of things existed in the Gilded Age but they'd gone away during the mid 20th Century. For example, I once read about a train in France that had third class passengers seated in train cars that lacked roofs. Compare that to modern airline practices! 100% on that. [/QUOTE]
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