Modern urban rationalization has largely eliminated haggling as a skill
Evidence
With the general rationalization of business in the modern city, haggling, in its pure form, has largely disappeared. Many contemporary urbanites, even those with great knowledge of, and skills in, city ways, cannot play this game-as any number of tourists have discovered to their sorrow. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 980
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The disappearance of haggling under rationalization echoes Weber’s disenchantment and Simmel’s money economy — the shift from personalistic, negotiated exchange to impersonal fixed-price trade.
Related
- Modern rationalization eliminated pure haggling from city life (similarity 0.96)
- Rationalized retail pricing has eliminated haggling as a widespread urban skill (similarity 0.96)