A Family Guide to Paying Less in the Age of AlgorithmsBy Justin Z. Martinez
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Length1h 49m
About this audiobook
From Pricing Products to Pricing People explores how prices quietly stopped being about products and started being about you. Powered by algorithms and data, modern pricing systems adjust costs based on behavior, urgency, location, devices, and household routines—often without consumers realizing it.
Written for families, this book explains personalized pricing in clear, plain language and shows where households overpay most: groceries, travel, subscriptions, and everyday essentials. It offers practical, realistic strategies to reduce costs without giving up technology or convenience.
This is not a call to paranoia or perfection. It’s a guide to awareness. By slowing urgency, reducing predictability, and making more intentional choices, families can reclaim agency in an economy designed to watch, learn, and extract. Paying less isn’t about beating algorithms—it’s about restoring power through understanding.
