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This is just my shower thoughts, but I think it's because getting tickets for the past century has been getting in line early / getting lucky, but now it's just

This is just my shower thoughts, but I think it's because getting tickets for the past century has been getting in line early / getting lucky, but now it's just whoever is the richest wins.

Nextgrid 4y ago
In practice, can't rich people just pay people to stand in queues on their behalf and acquire tickets the same way?
- svachalek 4y ago
  More or less what scalpers are.
  - m000 4y ago
    No, it's not. If there's a cap for how many tickets you can buy, you need 100 persons to buy (100 * cap) tickets. This doesn't scale the way electronic scalping does.
    - bombcar 4y ago
      In the era before electronic scalping, they'd do exactly that (get a bunch of people together, you could often buy two or five tickets) and/or cycle through multiple times.
- xeromal 4y ago
  Yeah, we're on hackernews so I assume most people on here are making a healthy dev salary so hopefully my comment isn't in bad taste, but I've done that with TaskRabbit.
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    Feeling bad about paying for this kind of thing is one of the differences between the upper-middle class and higher, and the middle and lower. Me, my upbringing was at least as much Fussell's "Prole" as his "Middle", so I don't even feel right having contractors do stuff on my house. Feels weird to pay people to do shit I could do, while I'm working or just fucking around or playing with my kids or whatever. I always feel like I ought to be helping. Took me a long time to stop feeling really uncomfortable having a cleaner come in every couple weeks. Still not totally OK with it, even years in. I think some of this plays into success in business. Probably easier to climb the ladder (or just start higher on it) or start a business when you find it totally natural and ordinary to pay people to do stuff for you. TaskRabbit and such are just... I guess, "democratizing" (seems especially wrong in this case) the same shit rich people have always done. Making it accessible a rung or two lower than it used to be. It makes me feel gross, but so does the other stuff that's not some new tech-enabled thing.
redox99 4y ago
This is a typical comparison between capitalism and communism. In capitalist countries, given a scarce resource, what determines who gets it is generally money. In the USSR this was often determined by queues. [1] [1] https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr/ https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr...
- pxmpxm 4y ago
  Well queues for proletariat and magic vouchers for the actual commies that would allow them skip that nonsense.

This is just my shower thoughts, but I think it's because getting tickets for the past century has been getting in line early / getting lucky, but now it's just whoever is the richest wins.

Nextgrid 4y ago

In practice, can't rich people just pay people to stand in queues on their behalf and acquire tickets the same way?

svachalek 4y ago
More or less what scalpers are.
- m000 4y ago
  No, it's not. If there's a cap for how many tickets you can buy, you need 100 persons to buy (100 * cap) tickets. This doesn't scale the way electronic scalping does.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    In the era before electronic scalping, they'd do exactly that (get a bunch of people together, you could often buy two or five tickets) and/or cycle through multiple times.
xeromal 4y ago
Yeah, we're on hackernews so I assume most people on here are making a healthy dev salary so hopefully my comment isn't in bad taste, but I've done that with TaskRabbit.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Feeling bad about paying for this kind of thing is one of the differences between the upper-middle class and higher, and the middle and lower. Me, my upbringing was at least as much Fussell's "Prole" as his "Middle", so I don't even feel right having contractors do stuff on my house. Feels weird to pay people to do shit I could do, while I'm working or just fucking around or playing with my kids or whatever. I always feel like I ought to be helping. Took me a long time to stop feeling really uncomfortable having a cleaner come in every couple weeks. Still not totally OK with it, even years in. I think some of this plays into success in business. Probably easier to climb the ladder (or just start higher on it) or start a business when you find it totally natural and ordinary to pay people to do stuff for you. TaskRabbit and such are just... I guess, "democratizing" (seems especially wrong in this case) the same shit rich people have always done. Making it accessible a rung or two lower than it used to be. It makes me feel gross, but so does the other stuff that's not some new tech-enabled thing.

redox99 4y ago

This is a typical comparison between capitalism and communism. In capitalist countries, given a scarce resource, what determines who gets it is generally money. In the USSR this was often determined by queues. [1] [1] https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr/ https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/queues-in-ussr...

pxmpxm 4y ago
Well queues for proletariat and magic vouchers for the actual commies that would allow them skip that nonsense.