Dive bars are like carnivals, then, and can only exist if they extract consumer surplus. I reckon there is a reason carnivals no longer thrive with the advent

Dive bars are like carnivals, then, and can only exist if they extract consumer surplus. I reckon there is a reason carnivals no longer thrive with the advent of public parks. Perhaps similar capitalistic creative destruction would occur for dive bars if the incentives were changed.