2035.

This is a darkly amusing “Day in the life” post. From 2035. I both enjoyed it bigly and wish I had never read it.

I enter, take my seat, and after a few minutes a haggard looking waiter in her 60's makes her way over to me. "What can I get for you?"

"I'll just take two eggs and a cup of coffee, please."

"No problem. That'll be $31."

"Jesus Christ! $31?!"

She looks at me with a no annoyed expression on her face. "It's the market price right now."

Marc Andressen again. One of his other ideas was to allow for dynamic pricing at food places when he took over the consumer protection bureau. Originally the prices were just supposed to be based on the time of day, but independent investigators found that the companies have backend access to smartphone data. This means they are likely aware when a given customer is hungry or not. Nobody's been able to prove it though.

It all feels horribly plausible.