It’s stressful but it serves a purpose. In the west, we use “sliding scales”, or “surge pricing”, or “suggested donations” to charge people different prices according to their means. The rest of the world has very similar mechanisms. The main difference is the sliding scales aren’t published, even if they are well known.
It's a hilarious (nefarious?) kind of xenophobia that's repulsed by this kind of stuff but is wilfully ignorant of exactly the same thing, by another name, in the developed world. And I'm not even talking about "sliding scales" but the well known grift and corruption. The truth is this kind of exploit exists everywhere institutions exist because individuals are not identical with institutions.
