Welcome to the perfect capitalist model, where the owners of assets such as hotels skim off large profits, while the people who make those profits possible walk away penniless How much is a pint of Guinness, I asked the barman at the Gilded Balloon, one of the major venues for the Edinburgh fringe festival. "It's £5 - but it will be £3.60 when the festival is over," he said, with admirable candour. So-called "surge pricing" has come in for a lot of stick after online taxi firm Uber was found t...
Welcome to the perfect capitalist model, where the owners of assets such as hotels skim off large profits, while the people who make those profits possible walk away penniless How much is a pint of Guinness, I asked the barman at the Gilded Balloon, one of the major venues for the Edinburgh fringe festival. "It's £5 - but it will be £3.60 when the festival is over," he said, with admirable candour. So-called "surge pricing" has come in for a lot of stick after online taxi firm Uber was found t...
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