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>Like I said, I don't actually care how rational it all might be in economic terms. I'm not willing to allow rich people to pay for more privileges than they al
by snrplfth 10y ago
>Like I said, I don't actually care how rational it all might be in economic terms. I'm not willing to allow rich people to pay for more privileges than they already have, even if we might all be better off as a result.
Cool, we'll just do envy-based policy then. That'll work.
- marssaxman 10y agoIt's not envy; it's more like resentment. There's something wrong with a system producing such outcomes; lacking the power to change the fundamental character of that system, I fall back on refusing to cooperate with it. I'm not really advocating that other people should adopt this point of view; I'm simply observing the fact that I have been responding this way, as further supporting evidence for ZeroGravitas' suggestion about surge pricing.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoFor an example which isn't envy based, see the performers who fight against ticket touts and reselling. Again, my nerdy economics answer is to bid up the price of the tickets so that the people who really want to go pay more and all that extra profit goes to the performer. Yet, they explicitly fight against this, to their own detriment, because they don't want only the rich to be able to buy their tickets. (I still think my solution has potential. Reserve some small amount of tickets for people with lots of money to buy at short notice. Don't make them Vips or anything, just convienient for busy people and to undercut touts reselling the standard tickets.)