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An arbitrarily restricted resource leads to a failure of the market. The solution is to have enough slots. How hard can it be, everybody gets an education and
by tinus_hn 3y ago
An arbitrarily restricted resource leads to a failure of the market.
The solution is to have enough slots. How hard can it be, everybody gets an education and exams, why is this suddenly difficult if it involves pricy driving tests?
- arcticbull 3y agoThere can be enough slots and still have them all be booked up by third parties for resale. This is an orthogonal issue.
- johngladtj 3y agoIf they are booked out, there aren't enough slots
- doix 3y agoBots can book an infinite amount of slots. Like the parent said, it's an orthogonal problem.
- tinus_hn 3y agoYou have a product and bots are willing to buy an infinite amount of it? Tell me again how this is an unsolvable problem.
- arcticbull 3y agoHow can you do capacity planning then for a finite real world space?
- tinus_hn 3y agoYou just decide how much money you want to earn and provide capacity for that. Demand is infinite so you will sell whatever you produce.
- arcticbull 3y agoAs a government service, certifying drivers, the goal shouldn't be to earn money right but instead to maximize the number of humans who end up certified.
- tinus_hn 3y agoAnd then just complain how it’s all a big problem that’s someone else’s fault and can’t be fixed because it’s all so complicated. Right. Sounds like typical government busybody work.
- tinus_hn 3y agoThat’s just not true, because it implies a lot of slots go unused and those would then be paid for by the resellers. The solution is to create more slots to meet demand until the resellers can’t pay those costs anymore. However you do have to accept that then again some slots will go unused and the cost of those will be borne by the party that runs the exams. But that isn’t a whole lot of cost really because it’s just a small proportion of a room that exists regardless and an attendant that is handsomely paid by the fees.
- zabzonk 3y agolimited number of expensive cars and expensive one-to-one examiners.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoBoth driving instruction and tests can be done in the applicant's own vehicle or in the instructor's car, in the UK, so the vehicle isn't the issue. Examiners were expensive and rare already before 2020, and a hell of a lot of them dropped out in the covid era for health and practicality reasons. Testing and examination was impossible for a period of time and then impractical for a period afterwards which hit the profession. It caused an enormous backlog of driving tests which I think is not even resolved now. But also driving instruction and examination is a popular career choice for older people made redundant or "invalided-out" of jobs (particularly in the police or forces). Many of those people did not return when they could, for safety reasons.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoIt's not an arbitrary restriction; it's largely a post-Covid era scarcity issue.