Two people in the same store seeing different prices isn't a glitch. It's the system working as designed.
From The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality on michaeljoelhall.com
The Shala Daily
YOGA • PHILOSOPHY • LIFE
March 27, 2026
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The Price You Were Meant to Pay
Two people in the same store seeing different prices isn't a glitch. It's the system working as designed.
🕉️ KEY CONCEPTS
Aparigraha
Non-grasping; freedom from being defined by what we consume
Saṃtoṣa
Contentment; resisting manufactured desire
Asteya
Non-stealing; recognizing extraction disguised as exchange
Dharma
Right action; economic choices as ethical practice
""This is price discrimination refined to the individual level. It is, in effect, a caste tax: an invisible surcharge applied based on your position in a hierarchy you didn't choose and can't see.""
— MJH
Two people in the same store seeing different prices isn't a glitch—it's the system working as designed
— MJH
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Original Article: "The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality" by Michael Joel Hall, michaeljoelhall.com
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