Revenue Management...Evil?

[ThisDinosaur]

Riggerjack, that view changes nothing except *who* is being deceived. The job itself is still embroiled in meaningless bullshit.

SustainableHappiness, you go to this job because they pay you. Not because you are changing the world. If you were a cat burglar or a hit man, you might have a real moral dilemma. Instead, you go to meetings where people discuss how to make a buck fifty more on a can of diabetes water. Not exactly Martin Shkreli. You are not your job. You are not the car you drive. You are not your fucking khakis. Take the paycheck and don't spend it on soda.

[Riggerjack]

Riggerjack, that view changes nothing except *who* is being deceived.

Who is being deceived is the critical issue here. The OP was full of guilt over being part of the deception. This changes if the OP realizes who is deceived...

[Spartan_Warrior]

Some commenters seem to be under the impression that this manipulative practice only happens to "non-necessities", like soda and chips, and that it's therefore morally permissible. Whereas I assumed these were just examples and that such practices, while perhaps more often applied to those items, are by no means exclusive to junk food and vice items that corporations are benevolently protecting us from ( ). Rather, I assume that corporations pull this same crap whenever and wherever they can on any kind of product from flour and rice to baby diapers and toothpaste. Maybe I'm wrong. @SustainableHappiness, perhaps you could shed some light on this point.