Increasingly sophisticated pricing is behind that segmenting of demand.
Instead, we attend school and college to swallow the facts our particular segment of society demands us to swallow, then we join that segment and criticize everyone outside of it.
So it's coal, gas or nuclear for this segment of our power demand.
At no time, however, did either the German authorities or any significant segment of public opinion demand Eichmann's extradition, which seemed the obvious move, since every sovereign state is jealous of its right to sit in judgment on its own offenders.
The greater flexibility in leisure water use, concentrated in outdoor water use, encouraged municipal governments to focus on curbing this segment of domestic water demand: it was deemed easier for consumers to give up cleaning the car every week than trying to reduce indoor use (cooking, laundry, toilet use, hygiene…).
First, a segment of the on-demand industry gets hot (like ridesharing or cleaning companies).
Denote by ( s=left tilde{x},tilde{t}right) ) the particular demand segment of a user.
A main reason is that monopsonistic local authority (public) purchasers operate in the lower quality segment where also, respectively, the size of demand relative to optimal home size is greater, and barriers to entry lower than the higher quality segment.
The disaggregation of demand into several segments with different socio-economic parameters α, β, γ/γ + and physical parameters v, w is discussed at the end of the section 5 (§5.4).
