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It's ridiculous to me that a company can say, "Hey, where you live requires less pay for a baseline standard of living, therefore we'll pay you less" but they would never, ever consider saying, "Oh, you live in a town with fewer opportunities and less pay? Well, we'll charge you less for our product then."



While it isn't due to less economic opportunities necessarily, price discrimination is absolutely a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination


Oh, I totally agree that companies do it. Where they choose to differentiate in price or pay is based on their whims, so it's not a question of fairness, IMO.




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