So the price insensitive get the security the price sensitive can’t afford.

That’s the same logic some use to explain why university fees have to exist opposed to being tax funded, because otherwise the poorer would finance the education of the wealthy totally ignoring that higher costs are the barrier that makes less likely that the poorer can study in the first place.

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tptacek 2 days ago | parent [-]

You can moralize it all you want. All I'm saying is: the alternative to the SSO tax isn't that everyone gets the features they want at the price they want: it's that the price of the low-end product goes up and the price of the high-end product goes down. If you care about distributional effects, that seems like a step backwards.

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croes 18 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not necessarily true. You make it sound like there are only two group. Big Enterprise with SSO and small without but there are also those small who need SSO and can't afford.

So the overall revenue and profit could be higher if they offer the SSO at the same price as without

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tptacek 18 hours ago | parent [-]

If that were the case, they'd do that.

	▲	croes 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People and companies are less rational than you think.