>If the two alternatives are a world where no new Switches are available for anyone to buy, and a world where some new Switches are available for a high price

>If the two alternatives are a world where no new Switches are available for anyone to buy, and a world where some new Switches are available for a high price And if that high price is too high for you to afford, then you are strictly worse off in a world with scalpers. >if you try to make a problem slightly better, then by not fixing it entirely you are now to blame. Explain how scalpers are trying to make the problem slightly better. I understand that you may think that they are making the problem slightly better for certain subset of people, but that most certainly isn't their goal. Scalpers are trying to make money, that is their only motive. The end result is to allow people with a surplus of money to acquire items, at the expense of people who have a surplus of time. Since people who have a surplus of money tend towards the poorer end of the spectrum, overall scalpers benefit the comparatively wealthy at the expense of the poor.