It’s a common claim that price discrimination can be progressive. And in a very narrow sense it can be. That’s the argument made by people (ironically) “on the right”. 1/

People “on the left” tend to emphasize that it’s negative sum for consumers, and where it is “progressive”, the burden for that progressivity is unjustly concentrated on more affluent purchasers of the same good rather than shared more broadly or fairly. /fin