> And even if you think that this kind of market culling is fine, I'm not seeing why all that money should go to the first asshole who managed to secure a large

> And even if you think that this kind of market culling is fine, I'm not seeing why all that money should go to the first asshole who managed to secure a large loan in time to buy off the entire stock of some good. Very well said, but I'd go even further -- scalpers know other scalpers will do the same and create artificial shortage so they are actually preying on legitimate customers, so there's an adversarial component to the behavior of scalpers as well. We rationed toilet paper during the lockdowns and there was a legitimate reason people were hoarding it, but we do nothing about scalpers who have no legitimate reason for their behavior.