FIFA World Cup, Dynamic Pricing & You

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

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[00:00:40]Now we can get into the conversation I actually wanted to have, but I did not have because I had to do some >> [laughter] >> I had to do some explaining about what was going on with the New York State Legislature. And again, just very disappointing when you consider the the demographics of the makeup of the New York State Legislature. It is boy, choices, decisions being made and so advocacy must ensue. But I today I want to talk about the World Cup. It's coming and one of the reasons why I'm a little nervous about this is because a lot of y'all is coming to New York City and a lot of people coming to New York City for the World Cup think that the World Cup is also in New York City and most of the gaming will actually be taking place in New Jersey. So all I know is the trains are going to be disastrous. It's going to be awful between the trains that are in New Jersey, the trains that are in New York City, the trains that connect the two.

[00:01:26]It is it's going to be miserable, but the World Cup is here. And for those of you who are part of the the more traditional American massive, I know that soccer is not necessarily something that this country has really embraced to the extent that the rest of the world has, but it is something that as in terms of a sport, frankly, really connected to the diaspora, really connected to working class realities and communities. And considering what's happening with the World Cup and all these really crazy ass expensive prices people are charging for hotels and tickets and all of the things in between, it's important that we have a real understanding as to the racial components of this, but there's also a connection between what's happening with the World Cup and the way the prices are out of control and what's about to start happening with your supermarket. I know.

[00:02:13]I know y'all be like, "Loree, I don't know how you going to make this connection, girl. I'm just going to have to watch you try to do it and watch you try to make it happen. I don't think it's going to happen, but I want you all to take a listen to this clip and I am not sharing the tab audio, so I think there should not be an echo, but I will be watching the comments. I cuz we're also live on YouTube. I'll be watching the comments to see if y'all hear an echo cuz we couldn't avoid that yesterday. But, I want you all to take a listen to this clip. This is Maurice Mitchell, who is the director the national director of the Working Families Party, which is the party that I typically vote under um because in New York City we have this amazing capacity for the Working Families Party to be able to put forward candidates that I can vote for. They often happen to be candidates that are also on the Democratic Party line, so there's rarely uh tension there, but in light of what I just said about the Democratic Party at the state and federal level, I might not care if they were. Anyway, take a listen to Maurice Mitchell, super dope brother.

[00:02:57]You've seen him on these airways before and he's got something to say. Amina, let's hear it.

[00:03:01]>> No matter how you feel about the World Cup, here's the facts. Soccer is and will always be the people's game. And with the FIFA World Cup pulling up on all of us, I thought it would be a great time to connect some political dots.

[00:03:13]Soccer or football is a sport with deep working class roots because it requires no expensive gear and is accessible enough to be played on any open patch of dirt or streets. It became a great equalizer and provided opportunities for poor and working class people to feel joy and connection. And unsurprisingly, because of corporate greed and political corruption, soccer became a deeply expensive sport, hindering actual working class people's access to it. The World Cup has and continues to be used by fascist regimes for propaganda, but just like in the past, people see through the lies and smoke screens. FIFA wants nothing more than for you to forget their racism and greed and buy, buy, buy. As you're celebrating, remember to give your time, money, and attention back to our people like stadium workers who will be responsible for making all of this happen. Many without protections, unions, or bonuses.

[00:04:09]Check out our Copa page, Working Families Power and Migrante Support Committee join forces to build this beautiful campaign for this beautiful game. There is no World Cup without the people of the world.

[00:04:22]>> I really like that brother. He does some good stuff and uh we appreciate him. Uh but I wanted to raise that today because I've been looking at what's happening with the World Cup uh not because I plan on buying tickets. I can watch it from the comfort of my own home, but it's been very interesting to see how there's a lot of concern about the World Cup right now because of this dynamic pricing component. And while dynamic pricing, if you thought it was solely connected to the World Cup, it might not interest you as much, you really should know what dynamic pricing is because it is coming to a supermarket and I do mean a supermarket near you. So according to Tasting Times, if you have been following some of the trends recently about how grocery stores have been running, you've been hearing a lot about dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing is a strategy that you also will hear called things like algorithmic pricing or or surveillance pricing. And basically, it's where the entity that is charging you something can use your personal data, right? And they can track you to change the amount of the price that you would be paying basically whenever they wish, right? And so depending on who is buying the thing or when they're buying the thing, the price can change. And you guys have already seen this. So for example, if you are uh trying to buy plane tickets and you're buying the plane tickets, but you didn't you you search for the plane ticket, you went on to whatever search engine, you search for the plane ticket, and then you don't buy the ticket right away, and you go away for a couple of days and you come back and search later, if the database that you're searching on can tell that the date for your your your event is coming up and you still haven't bought a ticket and they can tell based on your previous patterns that you tend to buy tickets kind of sort closer to the time of the event, they're know you're going to buy the ticket or they're willing to bet you're going to buy the ticket no matter what the price. So they'll raise it. Dynamic pricing. They know who you are. Now if they didn't have that information about you, you would just get a standardized price. But if they know the information about you and they know for example your your tastes, right? Let's say they know that you love a good five-star hotel, good four-star, you love a good Michelin, you love all these things. They will if you're buying them online, begin pricing them at a price that they think you personally would be willing to pay based on all the other information that the algorithm has about who you are, what you value and considering algorithms know often more about us than we know about ourselves, child, that could be pretty pretty dangerous. You've also seen this in places like Amazon. They've been doing this for years. But now that we have artificial intelligence here, it has been it's been ex- ploding a bit. We also have learned recently um that one of the reasons that Peter Thiel, for example, has run away to Argentina. We you know we were talking about that. Peter Thiel, head of Palantir, J.D. Vance's backer and and and Sugar Billy, uh basically trying to do all the things he can to convince everybody that the Pope is the Antichrist and that anybody who wants to regulate AI or his money is the Antichrist spirit. We learned that he had left America and gone to Argentina recently and people are like, "What he know about what's happening in America that makes him want to leave and go to Argentina?" Well, it's not necessarily just what's happening in America, it's also about what's happening in Argentina where the president of Argentina just submitted his artificial intelligence legislative framework to their governing bodies and basically he wants zero regulation on artificial intelligence.

[00:07:26]He wants quote a brand new non-human corporation category for AI and robot operated entities that have limited liability and he wants a low tax regime with flexible governance rules, which basically means Argentina, in addition to being a haven for Nazis, is also going to be now a haven for artificial intelligence billionaires like Peter Thiel. We should be concerned about this because of how did Argentina get back on its feet after facing all this economic travail that they've had to face over the past several several years? Oh, right. Donald Trump and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent basically gave Argentina's leadership 40 billion American dollars.

[00:08:02]You still got hospitals open in your community? Anyway, let's get back to dynamic pricing because that's really what I what I wanted to talk about today. So, um as this is happening, artificial intelligence is also driving the expansion of dynamic pricing. So, stores like Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, Albertsons, and more, including Target.

[00:08:20]Well, none of us should be worried about Target cuz none of us are supposed to be shopping there. But, because dynamic pricing relies on algorithmic prices and personal data, it's basically still within the province of online retail, but it's also within the province of the FIFA World Cup. So, we're getting an opportunity to see with FIFA what we will begin seeing in supermarkets and grocery stores and all the other sorts of in real life retail outlets um as it reflects what's happening online. So, dynamic pricing again basically works like this. They go to your social media They look at your social media activity, your online activity, what you have been searching for, uh the website cookies.

[00:08:54]So, when you go to a website and they say, "This website uses cookies." And cookie sounds cute. Who doesn't like a good cookie? And people just say, "Accept." Stop doing that. You should hit deny. Because when you don't hit deny, cookies is basically data. It's information about you. And so, if they can get information about you through the websites that you are willfully giving them over to or willfully giving over to them, well, then that's a problem. Oh, and I see in the chat uh someone has noted, thank you Damian, uh that Uber and Lyft also use dynamic Damn, I love this streaming so much better. I can see y'all's comments. This is so much better. But, Damian says that I Uber and Lyft also use dynamic pricing and depending on where you're going and what's going on in the area, like if you're leaving a concert with or if the weather is really bad, you notice those prices raise because they know well, you got to go somewhere, them prices are going to shoot right up. I'm so dynamic pricing takes all of the online data that we are willfully giving over to the internet and basically since everything is connected, they can not only know what you would be buying at say insert name of store.com, they also know because your phone and your IP address are connected when you and your phone walk into insert name of store brick and mortar. So, let's say if the store is called Martwall and it's martwall.com and martwall.com knows what you're willing to buy, they know what you like, they know what you search for when you go to martwall.com. When you go to martwall the store and martwall is also using dynamic pricing in the store, as soon as your phone comes into the geofencing area that martwall is able to to to recognize, they know they've got a dynamic pricing candidate for increased prices. So, if this strikes you as Tasting Times says, as discriminatory or illegal, it's technically not, although there are a lot of gray areas here.

[00:10:35]Dynamic pricing has been used by some retailers for decades like hotels and airlines that adjust their prices on demand. Yet, the new modern version supercharges it with personalized data that never used to be available.

[00:10:47]Let's get back to the World Cup.

[00:10:48]According to Bloomberg, in an article entitled The Hidden Cost of the Most Expensive World Cup Ever, FIFA is poised to make billions of dollars. But, cities across Canada, US, and Mexico, not to mention the fans, are going to end up losing out. And the reason they're concerned about this is because of the high levels of the ticket prices, which are being driven by ding ding ding ding ding, dynamic pricing. I know, it's almost like I read the news and [ __ ] So, what is the concern right now is that the World Cup is kicking off next week, which is why I am trying to get everything I can done at my office so that I can let people work from home as much as possible because I know or to be have the flexibility because what I know is going to happen is getting on them trains is going to be ridiculous. The public transportation is going to be overrun with tourists and people Nothing wrong with tourists. We love tourists.

[00:11:38]Tourists help drive America.

[00:11:40]>> [gasps] >> Tourists in New York City, y'all y'all don't walk fast. Y'all y'all slow. Y'all want to look at [ __ ] while we got stuff to do. We got places to be and I just know it's going to be absolutely miserable. But it's kicking off next week and I'm holding my pearls because I'm very concerned about what it's going to look like just in terms of traffic.

[00:11:57]But the host cities outside of this to traffic issues, the host cities according to Bloomberg are incurring a lot of costs, a lot of costs with regards to the games because they don't get they don't have a relationship with FIFA. FIFA doesn't is not set up so that the host cities are able to pay for the hosting fees without coming out of their own pockets. According to Bloomberg, host cities are looking to offset costs associated with the games by passing them on to consumers and taxpayers as they don't receive revenue from the games. All of the revenue goes to FIFA. So, I hope that your city or your town, if y'all are hosting FIFA, I hope you don't got all your other [ __ ] paid for because your city budget, your municipality budget is about to go through some things. Uh Bloomberg continues, "The US government approved $625 million in grants for the 11 US host cities. But experts say it may not be enough to cover your expenses." I'm sorry.

[00:12:50]"Experts say it may not be enough to cover expenses and cities may rely on local sponsorship deals, private donations, and taxpayer money to defray costs." And because a lot of our cities are already struggling to meet their budgetary needs and obligations, host cities, according to Bloomberg, are scrambling to avoid a loss with ticket prices sky skyrocketing to six-figures, eye-watering costs for everything from transit to parking, and fear of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies, some fans have sworn off attending at all. 866-801-8255.

[00:13:26]If the FIFA World Cup is being hosted in your city, are you going? I could easily get there.

[00:13:31]Obviously the the concerns about traffic and all the tourists that I just yelled out notwithstanding. I can definitely get to where the matches are going to be. There are tickets available and because of the dynamic pricing involved in all this which we're going to get to in a minute, those ticket prices are still extraordinarily too high for most people who want to attend them. Again, host cities are avoiding or scrambling to avoid a loss. They're looking to offset costs associated with the games by passing them on to consumers and taxpayers. Here we go. In the New York City area where the World Cup final will be held. Thanks. Thanks, New York City. In the New York City area where the World Cup final will be held, New Jersey Transit because it's not it's going to be in the New York City area.

[00:14:10]It's not in New York City. It's in northern New Jersey which is across the river from New York City. So technically I guess in the area but y'all's marketing is really going to have a lot of people confused cuz they think they're coming to New York City for the World Cup. They're going to be in New York City with the hotels, with the transportation. They don't have to get their asses over to another state, New Jersey which is right nearby. It's doable but it's going to be miserable for everybody. New Jersey Transit is offering tickets to MetLife Stadium for $98. A trip that usually costs 13.

[00:14:38]So New Jersey Transit which typically for $13 you can get from where you're at in New Jersey Transit to the MetLife Stadium usually costs $13. Now it's going to cost 98.

[00:14:49]And that's just one example the article says of the premium tied to the event that promises to earn FIFA as much as $13 billion. And Bloomberg actually has a documentary that's breaking down the the very unique nature of this year's World Cup and they say and why it may run the risk of being its own goal.

[00:15:05]There's dynamic pricing happening at the World Cup. This is the first year that FIFA introduced this sort of ticket pricing and the governing body of soccer according to Bloomberg quote said ticket demand reached unprecedented levels for this tournament with more than half a billion ticket requests submitted in the first phase of sales. Given the nature of dynamic pricing, more demand causes the prices to rise, which is why the tickets for this year's World Cup are higher than ever. So, half a billion people requested tickets. That signaled to the algorithm that was managing pricing for these tickets, well, there's unlimited demand. Well, practically unlimited. Half a billion is a There's technically a limit, but half a billion people are not coming to the United States. God, please. Half a billion people don't come to the United States.

[00:15:48]Half a billion people are not coming to the United States. So, that told the algorithm and the the the AI generating systems that monitor the pricing for the dynamic pricing programs that were a part of this effort, that told them, you can raise those prices as high as you want.

[00:16:03]That's a problem. Because when you see what happens in the grocery stores and you extrapolate against that for what's happening at FIFA, it's a real problem indeed. AOL News is talking about more about what's happening with these grocery prices. Now, this is an article that I feel like was written from a somebody who was a part of the retail industry because I'm about to share with you a clip that's going to also give us an opportunity to explore a media literacy. And the reason we need to have some media literacy um is because when you listen to something that sounds like it's selling something very much in alignment with the truth that you already know, you can sometimes miss some of the cues. I'm going to point those cues out for you, but this clip is important because it does give us a better sense as to what dynamic pricing is and how it operates in real life. And then I hopefully I'll be able to remember where the negative parts come out and I can tell Amina uh to not play that particular part, to stop the video.

[00:16:48]Amina, did I send you this clip? I'm going to make sure I did. I might not have.

[00:16:51]>> Yeah, the YouTube one.

[00:16:52]>> Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you so much.

[00:16:54]Let's get this going. This is Digital Shelf Labs Explained and it's some propaganda in here, but then we're going to come back on the other side cuz I want to know, are y'all seeing dynamic pricing in your supermarkets? Are you seeing dynamic pricing in your communities? And if so, are you happy about it? Let's take a listen to this explainer. Let's hear it. Walk into a grocery Walk into a grocery store. You probably don't think much about the little price tags the shelf.

[00:17:17]>> But right now >> But right now >> state legislators are debating >> debating >> whether to ban all >> digital shelf labels.

[00:17:22]>> digital shelf labels.

[00:17:23]>> So, what are they really?

[00:17:25]>> What are they really?

[00:17:25]>> Digital shelf labels are simply electronic price displays.

[00:17:29]Instead of paper tags that employees have to print, cut, and replace by hand, these small screens show prices digitally.

[00:17:37]That's it. They don't decide prices.

[00:17:40]They don't track customers.

[00:17:42]They don't collect personal data. They just display the price more accurately, timely, and more efficiently. You see this technology every day. Gas station signs, >> Making the echo >> drive-thru menus, digital boards at coffee shops.

[00:17:56]>> I mean I just pause it right where it was and I want you to just pick it back up. Y'all, I'm not going to share the video again. I will stop the share.

[00:18:02]Amina, continue playing uh so that they can hear it without the >> and more efficiently. You see this technology every day. Gas station signs, drive-thru menus, digital boards at coffee shops. We've trusted those displays for decades. Digital shelf labels bring the same idea inside grocery stores.

[00:18:21]Why does this matter? Because accuracy matters. With paper tags, mistakes happen. Prices don't always get updated on time. That leads to confusion at checkout. Digital shelf labels help make sure the price you see is the price you pay. And when prices go down, stores can update in an instant. So, store savings reach families faster. Digital shelf labels are a price display tool. They do not set or change prices based on data.

[00:18:50]They help stores run more efficiently.

[00:18:52]>> Because you heard what they said.

[00:18:54]Digital labels do not change prices based on who you are. That's a lie. I did So, this is So, this is where again media literacy is very, very important.

[00:19:03]Cuz that's the whole That last part that was a whole last lie. It does change.

[00:19:06]That's why there's a problem. And that's why FIFA World Cup is basically going to be giving itself its own goal in this effort because of how they are playing this situation. Uh the FIFA Men's World Cup uh again will be kicking off next week and seats are still available for most of the matches. And because these ticket frustrations now the prices are so high, people are not willing to actually pay any money to see the games.

[00:19:30]Most people are now saying they're going to stay home. And you've got a whole lot of people who have decided, have you seen Trump's America? Why would I, a brown or someone with melanated skin, think that I might actually be able to be safe going into Donald Trump's America? And and so in addition to the fact that you've got the dynamic pricing of the tickets, hotels now who many of which raised their prices extraordinarily high thinking the same thing that the algorithms were thinking that they were going to be able to get all the money that they needed because the demand was so high, ain't nobody booking them hotels.

[00:20:02]Airbnbs, not booking them Airbnbs. The motels, not being booked.

[00:20:09]So, there are a number of of of fans who are now raising a lot of concerns and raising alarm because this something feels very very off. We've got the California Attorney General who's requesting information from FIFA about their ticketing prices. They're trying to figure out why it is that now even when you get your tickets in places like Seattle, they have a reselling portal and the secondary market is in in it's disrupting the sales of tickets because basically they've got a category seating model that is also based on the algorithm, also based on dynamic pricing and dynamic information. And what's been very interesting to a lot of people is despite the fact that demand was really really high at the beginning and then dropped, prices have not dropped.

[00:20:51]So, the people indicated that their their demand was there. The artificial intelligence gave them dynamic priced tickets based on what the artificial intelligence understood about the people asking for those tickets. The people have not bought the tickets, but the prices have not come down. Which is a suggestion that dynamic pricing only works in one direction. I you heard what they said there in that video clip. They said, well, dynamic pricing could be a good thing because when prices get lower or when prices are are less what than what they are on the ticket, then you'll know right away. How often have you seen prices decrease at your supermarket without a coupon or or some sort of momentary special? Right? Prices don't generally go down and that's one of the reasons why we got all these barbecues uh store not barbecue stores, barbecue restaurants and stores across the South having to put uh limited hours on their their their restaurants because they don't have enough money coming in to be able to support the increased prices of food that they have to purchase. If you're making a whole lot of brisket, you're doing a whole lot of barbecue, prices for beef have skyrocketed, which we've talked about, and now y'all got the screwworm infestation. We are not going to talk really much about that today. We're going to have to save that for Monday because it's a very sad story. Let me just give you the little the highlight version of it. The highlight version of it is there's there's this there's uh this parasite called the screwworm. Screwworm used to be all around the country here all throughout the Western Hemisphere, but screwworm is a dangerous insect because it lays eggs in open sores on animals.

[00:22:19]You can technically also get screwworm as a human, but we don't pass it to each other the same way at least not the strains that we have seen before. And so in order to eradicate the screwworm because of the screwworm when they lay eggs in the sores of an animal, um those eggs hatch and then they begin immediately eating the surrounding flesh of of whatever sore that they were implanted in. They mature, they fly off, and then they go legs in another animal's wound somewhere else. You can devastate entire herds very very quickly with a screwworm infestation screwworm infestation. America since for the past 60 years has been rid of the screwworm through investments and programs like USAID, programs like these these sort of soft power programs that were designed to not necessarily uh increase your military apparatus, but were designed to see how can science help us figure out how to solve this problem. And one of the ways that they did that was they had an agency that was literally dedicated to making sure that they were employing preventative measures so that the screw worm infestation did not spread. I'm giving this an example because I'm talking about these beef prices. We're going to bring it all back in just a second. Well, your president decided to cancel the funding for that program and decided to cancel the funding for the agency that managed that program even though we knew that the screw worm had been making a comeback in South America.

[00:23:25]And screw worms unfortunately don't read English. They don't speak either white English or black English as an as an aside to or not to our conversation about code switching yesterday. So screw worms don't care about what your borders say. Screw worms don't care about where your country ends and their country begins. They fly. They travel. They migrate. And now we have screw worm infestations back here in these United States found in a three-week-old calf in the state of Texas because y'alls president, who y'all voted for Texas, decided to cancel the programs and the funding that would have prevented that infestation from coming back. So those restaurants and those barbecue houses that have to now close their doors because they can't afford the brisket are going to have a whole lot more problems on their hand because we're about to have a massive infestation. And unfortunately, um the people who are very upset about this, the farmers, are very upset at the Trump administration for having allowed this to happen. Not so upset that they would have voted the right way. FAFO. You You [ __ ] around and now we all going to find out. Using that as a way of talking about the fact that the environment that you do these sorts of pricing measures in really does matter. I know that was a long away around the back to scratch the elbow.

[00:24:28]But this is important because what we see happening with the collapse of these FIFA ticket prices or not the the collapse of the prices, of collapse of the sales is an indication that when you employ dynamic pricing without limitation, this is sudden the stuff that can happen. According to Ken Biegelow, who's the founder of ticketdata.com, he says, "Quote, the most surprising thing is that over the past week, the prices have been relatively flat. I think most people thought that they were going to go down and some people thought that they might go up, but no one adamantly said it was going to be the same place a week later, and it's in the same place a week later because somebody ain't fixed the algorithm.

[00:25:03]And it looks as though the World Cup is going to experience a severe loss when it comes to sales and attendance at the first two sets of games, and there are some indication that that's when the dynamic pricing feature of the ticket sales will kick in, and then prices might go down because no one will actually be attending the games themselves. So, this is a concern because again, while whether you watch soccer or not, whether you are into the World Cup or not, what we're seeing happening with this methodology of pricing and knowing that this methodology of pricing is already happening in the country in a set number of stores and is going to increase and become even more powerful, that to me is one of the reasons why these artificial intelligence centers are getting such a push from corporate America. If I am going to be expanding my capacity to surveil, if I'm if I'm Larry, no, I don't want to use my name. I'm I'm Mean I'm Mean Corporation I'm Mean Corporation Inc. If I am Mean Corporation Inc. and I sell you products online, and I know that I as Mean Corporation also have a lot of stores that I want to sell you products at as well, and I want to use this dynamic pricing, I know that if I am able to use that online, that's one thing. But if I'm going to expand it to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of my stores all across the country, I'm going to need the data capacity to do that. I'm going to need the surveillance capacity to do that. I'm not going to be able to do all that dynamic pricing in my brick-and-mortar stores based on our our Wi-Fi connection. I'm going to need something way more robust like a data center. A surveillance center to be specific. As I heard one of the callers on the show say, "Stop calling them data centers, they're surveillance centers." So, it's it's beginning to me to make a whole lot more sense as to why it is we are seeing sort of this this coalescing of the corporate entities in favor of artificial intelligence. If they are going to continue expanding data or dynamic pricing, they're going to need the power to be able to do that.

[00:27:05]The artificial intelligence power to be able to do that. And I think that this World Cup's fiasco is going to give us a real example as to the potential failures of being so god damn greedy that you are willing to shoot your own self in the foot. I know some of you are thinking I'm just being angry at the tourist and I just don't like what it is that they're doing. But have you seen dynamic pricing in your stores? Have you seen dynamic pricing? I'm sure you've seen it online. We know you've seen it online because you can't go to Amazon today and then tomorrow and find out that and and and come back to the same price half the damn time.

[00:27:38]So if you're seeing it online as you're as you're buying tickets, if you're seeing it online when you're in the in the small versions of buying airline tickets or or looking for hotels, try this. Try this. Test it out and see how it works for you. Go online to wherever it is that you typically go to buy your tickets for hotels or travel and type in an itinerary or or look search for the the parameters of a trip that is you're not actually going to take, right? Let's say you let's everybody plan let's do this as a as a group test as a group project and then we'll come back and report uh if we can remember to come back to the story next week.

[00:28:11]As a group project, I want us to pretend we're going to go on a vacation on July 15th. We're going to go on a vacation from July 15th until July 20th in uh let's say we're going to go on vacation.

[00:28:22]Where should we go on vacation? Let's go on vacation uh let's go to Grenada. I don't know why. Well, I have a trip coming up for to Grenada soon. So let's say we're going to go to Grenada from July 15th to July 20th. July is just next month.

[00:28:35]Let's search for it today and take screenshots of the prices. And then let's come back in a week or so and take screenshots of the prices. Now we're all expecting that the prices are going to go up a little bit because we know that the closer you get to a thing, the more the prices increase. So, maybe this is actually not I should have thought about this experiment a little more. That's probably not going to be the best of experiment because we're going to really be proving what we already know to be true. I got to think of what the parameters of an experiment like this would be, but I want you at the very least to pay attention to how dynamic pricing is showing up in your community. Uh we had our call our our friend of the show who commented that we're already seeing it with Uber and Lyft. We're already seeing it when it comes to if you're leaving a concert, if the weather is bad, Uber and Lyft their prices are going to increase. Let's think about all the other goods that we rely upon that might also begin incorporating dynamic pricing if they were free to do so.

[00:29:23]It's scary because if you're going to a hospital for medical care and the hospital is using dynamic pricing, what would that look like? Hell, for all we know the hospitals are using dynamic pricing now. Y'all charge hundreds of dollars for Tylenol. So, for all we know, that could be happening right now.

[00:29:39]You don't list your prices anywhere. You don't post a standardized pricing schedule. For all we know, that could be happening right now. How are we to know whether or not dynamic pricing is determining whether or not I'm paying more for this particular procedure because uh because of the date or because of the doctor that's affiliated with it, because of the hospital that's affiliated with it? Where are these prices being generated from? This is a conversation we're going to have to ask ourselves increasingly because dynamic pricing is spreading. I think the FIFA World Cup is going to give people some pause about this and give them an opportunity to rethink it, but you know, rethinking doesn't always happen in the way that we want. And I'm looking right now at the the Financial Times, which has an article that should encourage some of us, those of us anyway who are opposed to artificial intelligence, because according to the Financial Times, they said quote Americans are leading AI data center backlash according to a global poll. Uh Joe Miller uh writing out of Washington notes that Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centers than citizens of other big economies as a grassroots backlash against the rollout of technology gains momentum across the country. And I think that that's explainable for a number of reasons. We don't see other other countries saying that they're going to allow the corporations to fire the entire workforce so that they can replace them with AI. In fact, in countries like China, they have said, "Of course we want you to use AI." Oh my god, a bee just came in here. There's an open window.

[00:30:59]Oh my god, y'all, there's a bee in my room.

[00:31:01]Damn it, I told myself to close that window before I got started. I did not.

[00:31:05]And now I am very nervous. We're about to end the show and I'm going to pray that I don't scream. Because if this bee comes anywhere near me, I am going to have an absolute connection. Oh my god, I hear it buzzing. Okay.

[00:31:17]And I'm wearing yellow. Amina just pointed out to me, "And you're wearing yellow." Jiminy Christmas on a cracker.

[00:31:22]Anyway, I'm saying that I think the reason Oh Jesus, I'm so nervous. The reason Oh my god, it's so big.

[00:31:29]Okay, I think if I just stay very, very still, it will ignore me. And I'm going to have to ball up my paper cuz I am going to I'm not opposed to sock it to to pop in a bee if I have to in the middle of a show. And y'all going to see some craziness in a minute, but I'm not opposed to it. Get out Oh lord, I'm not opposed to it. All right. Let me focus on my point. The point I'm trying to make is that the reason that I think Americans are more opposed to artificial intelligence is because as I said, American corporations have said they're going to fire all of you so we can replace you with AI. And in China, they said, "We want you to use AI, but you're not allowed to fire anybody to use AI.

[00:32:01]You're not going to be able to create harm to the economy and and in the public just because you want to lower prices. You're not going to be able to do that." So part of the reason I think Americans are very concerned about artificial intelligence is because we're in America.

[00:32:16]And because there is no protections for us here, because we coexist with white narcissistic psychopaths who believe that it's okay to go without clean food and water and air and shelter because they don't have to be black. And they would rather go with nothing and make sure that the world has nothing so long as they get to be white.

[00:32:34]I think that's why Americans are much more concerned about artificial intelligence than are anybody else on the planet. Doesn't take a genius to write that. I don't think he put that in his article though, so I just had to say it. All right. Are we at the end of the show? God damn, there's 3 minutes left at the end of the show and the bee just came at my forehead. You know what? If there weren't a bee in here and I had way more commentary to share, the time would be flying by like crazy, but no, because I'm in fear of my life and because there is a deadly animal in the room with me, time has decided to >> [laughter] >> Somebody said in the comments, you got to end the show, girl. I can't end the show.

[00:33:08]We are we're on a time thing and the man will cut us off, but the man does not let us cut ourselves >> [laughter] >> earlier. So, y'all pray for me.

[00:33:17]Pray for me. Pray for me. Pray for me.

[00:33:18]The stimulus said African speak with the ecosystem.

[00:33:21]Don't be afraid of the bee. You know what? Thank you.

[00:33:25]I'm going to tap into my Africanity. I'm going to abandon my Americanity in this moment because as an American, as a descendant of the American culture, which is rooted in whiteness and domination, I believe I have a right to own the planet, but as an African descendant, I recognize that I coexist with the planet. So, thank you, stimulus. Somebody said maybe Trump sent that bee.

[00:33:49]I'm going to thank stimulus for reminding me that I can tap into my greater power. The last time there was a bee in the house, it actually landed and I was able to use a cup to cover it and I slipped a piece of paper underneath it and I was able to just walk to the door and then let it go. Cuz I don't want to kill it, right? I told y'all I live with a man who doesn't believe in owning animals because he says that anything that if you open the door and it runs away and and would try to leave without your permission would is slavery if you closing the door. So, he also doesn't believe in killing insects just because we're uncomfortable. My husband is very very connected to the earth. He doesn't believe in killing insects just because we're uncomfortable. So, he will open the door and allow a a to crawl out of the house as opposed to having to kill the centipede. He is he's a It's funny. As I'm even saying that I'm realizing that he and I are both nature lovers but in very [laughter] very different ways because I have a real issue with nature being in the house. He has an issue with nature being kept in the house. So, saying that to say um we are not yet at the end of the show. I am now just talking ad nauseam because I have lost track of what it is I want to say. I just want to make sure that you all know dynamic pricing is a terrible thing. YouTube, we appreciate you. We're going to close the YouTube now because if I have to scream, "Oh my god! Oh Jesus!"

[00:35:05]Did y'all see that just go in my eye?

[00:35:08]All right, I'm closing the YouTube now.

[00:35:10]Somebody said, "Forget that Africanity.

[00:35:13]You have power in the name of Jesus."

[00:35:15]>> [laughter] >> This is okay. Y'all know on this show we have a problem in that we often end Friday um as dramatically or as as >> [laughter] >> talking about as serious of issues as we do Monday through Friday or Monday through Thursday and I try not to. I try to make Friday a more light-hearted day and I didn't think we were going to be able to do it today but I'm seeing all y'all laughing at me.

[00:35:39]>> [laughter] >> I'm not this bee. I'm about to trigger a hot flash. This is not how I planned on ending the show and I >> [laughter] >> All right, so I love y'all. YouTube, we appreciate you. Um if you see me with a big old bump on my head on Monday, it's because the bee um stung me and I'm fanning myself right now. So, Urban View, I'm sorry if y'all hear a bunch of wind in the microphone but I have a hot flash coming and I can't afford to manage all the things cuz my brain is about to go on fire because my brain melts down in the middle of a hot flash.

[00:36:07]So, hope all of you on YouTube enjoy your weekend. We love y'all. [laughter] We love y'all. Adios. Bye-bye. I have a tear coming.

[00:36:14]This is so bad. Bye, YouTube. We love y'all. Urban View, we love y'all and um we still at the end of the show because I'm still now trying to hold on to time.