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If the city owns a ballpark, and 50,000 people want to sit behind homeplate on opening day, you still need a mechanism for allocating those seats. You can lott
by danielweber 12y ago
If the city owns a ballpark, and 50,000 people want to sit behind homeplate on opening day, you still need a mechanism for allocating those seats.
You can lottery, but then people would just trade the seats for money themselves. Why bother? If you want poor people to have more money, give them more money. You can even do it randomly if the lottery aspect is fun for them.
- gambiting 12y agoBecause if you think about it, you paid in your taxes to build and maintain a parking place, and now some asshole sits there all day, waiting for someone to pay him to move his car. Even if it is not illegal, it is unethical.
- danielweber 12y agoThis doesn't seem to be a response to me. I think it's good for the government to put a stop to this racket (which is the term for creating a problem and then offering to receive money to stop it).