I teach economics and today we talked about Perfect Price Discrimination, where a firm charges different prices for the same product and ends up charging everyone the maximum they are willing to pay. It's only theoretical, because no one knows completely what a consumer is willing to pay.

However, what if it weren't theoretical? What if you were so telepathic you could know the maximum the consumer was always willing to pay? The firm would have a tremendous advantage in negotiations.

Of course, if the buyer were telepathic, they would know the minimum price the firm would accept for a product.

The point of this post is, with telepathy, I guess negotiations are going to get more direct. You can't bluff as easily. Everyone would know the maximum the buyer is willing to fork over and the minimum the seller would tolerate. I wonder how economics works with telepathy, but it seems like there would be less incomplete information.

Courtney has alleged in some interviews that thoughts can be made hidden with technology, just as sharper knives can also be refined to try and cut those barriers. I imagine such things would be employed in negotiations. But you're right, in everyday life, remote viewers changes the implications so drastically that you have to throw out a whole basket of old comforts you may have once held dear.

Your attractions, your bitter hatreds, your strange fixations ... will no longer be secret. But let's pile on another deeper fear: all this time those secrets of yours have been accessible to beings who look at you as a commodifiable resource. They love your computational potential, your matter manipulation mechanisms. They hate your budding sense of socereignty and individuality.

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The strategy that me and Solace propose--

Tear the veil and the comforts along with it.

Sorry privacy-lovers. We don't care, the stakes are too high. This is not about doxxing the hackers. Yes, hackers, keep your anonymity. But the everyday world: welcome to the excruciating spotlight. No it won't always be this way. But do you want out of the prison or not? Take your stand, make the necessary sacrifices.

The price is only one aspect in the marketing mix. It might be most important for a one-time used car deal. But for most other business cases and long term success another aspect is much more important: Enthusiasm. The customer must become positively surprised. That will enable positive word-of-mouth propaganda and customer binding. Those can only be achieved through a COMPLETE learning process. This process should involve unexpected (scheme-incongruent) elements to create attention and expected elements (scheme-congruent) to create trust (also by showing openness, acceptance, straightforwardness, credibility -depending on the personality of the customer). So it is not the highest price the customer would be willing to pay what one should look for, but the highest price the customer is surprised with / sees as cheap or fair accordingly to the value he gets. And this value can have also soft elements like service quality, image potential, even altruism (he might feel like doing something good by buying the product). I think for the purpose of evaluating the weight of these elements for a specific customer telepathy would be even more helpful.
Just finding the highest price a customer is willing to pay in the sales situation might not be helpful, as the customer might feel bad/ ripped off afterwards. It is what the customer has to learn to be enthusiasted. And how to make him learn -as an incomplete learning process (failed new creation of a scheme or adaptation of an existing scheme) will lead to avoidance and a negative word-of-mouth reaction.
The next level (which is not in the textbooks) after this enthusiasm would be: How to motivate and enable him to become a teacher to make others enthusiasted about the product/company.

There's a difference between knowing things and doing things.

Telepathy doesn't mean that people will always know what you will do. So to keep your freedom in negotiations, you need the ability to create a "public intention" (I call this honeypot) inside your mind, while at the same time holding a hidden intention. If the person you are negotiating with is capable of detecting that you have a hidden intention, it means that that person also is capable of having a hidden intention, so you end up in a situation where both sides know that both have hidden intentions.

Now imagine the other person tries to penetrate your mental protection to get to your hidden intention. This means you are allowed to do this as well. If both are successful, the hidden intentions get revealed. If you aren't successful, just end the negotiation.