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Michael Bateman
Personal blog · passingtime.substack.comeconomicsculture
Michael Bateman writes Passing Time, a personal blog at passingtime.substack.com about economics and culture. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Consulting and finance as black holes of elite human capital”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Bateman's blog for writing on hidden fees and drip pricing. One commenter cites 'Perfidious Pricing' as an egregious example of the practice a California bill aims to stop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Time is your most valuable asset. Thank you for spending some of it with me. I write about the outdoors, the media I consume, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Consulting and finance as black holes of elite human capital2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-02
- Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-24
What Hacker News says?
This is welcome news. An egregious example of what they are (hopefully) aiming to stop: https://passingtime.substack.com/p/perfidious-pricing Also, a 2021 story from the Times about how drip pricing is getting out of control: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/opinion/consumers-drip-pr...
Comment linking /p/perfidious-pricing
on “California AG and state senators introduce bill to ban hidden fees”Submitted Learning not to trust the All-In podcast as a story · 460 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Least Impactful Way to Spend $300,000,000? as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Asymmetry of Destruction as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consulting and finance as black holes of elite human capital as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Valuable, but not productive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to improve traffic efficiency and save time – zipper merge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Trying Hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tipping Is Spreading and It Sucks as a story · 1 points
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