Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

It doesn't have anything to do with productivity, except in a financial sense of profit. 1/

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

Perfect price discrimination is "efficient" in the sense that any transaction that would be net-worth-it to the two parties is made. 2/

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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

It's distributionally very skewed. The consumer gets "epsilon"—infinitessimal benefit, barely finds the transaction worthwhile—while the seller appropriates all the surplus. /fin

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