You’ll never believe it, but despite the endless promises of prosperity and liberation from the tyranny of work , late capitalism is proving—for ordinary workers and consumers, anyway—to be an ongoing exercise in basking in the freedom to choose from a smorgasbord of shit sandwiches. One of the more odious developments on this front over the last couple of years has been the phenomenon of retailers using personal data to adjust the price a person—or a given demographic—is charged for goods or services. This practice—often called “surveillance pricing”—has begun to spread from its origins online into IRL locations like grocery stores, becoming such a concern that some US states have tried to ban it . Oh, you loved the experience of getting a personalized price increase on that flight you wanted? Just wait and see how much you’ll adore the same thing happening to your weekly groceries! The practice manages to combine several of the most dystopian technologies of recent years.…