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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by ls612 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:58AM (#38232030)
The first paragraph is only true if you believe the supply is fixed (ie the elasticity on the extensive margin is zero). This is often a good way to teach economics because much of the math remains the same in a production environment but when you apply it in an environment it isn’t designed for it leads to fallacies like this one. Free markets and capitalism work precisely because it isn’t a zero sum game like this.

And your last two paragraphs are nonsensical, you are comparing the right to eat at a top end restaurant with the right to not have your kids kidnapped it’s downright laughable that you’d see such a moral equivalence.

Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by etchalon on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:33PM (#38237330)
It’s hard to take a reply serious from a person who doesn’t understand analogies.
Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by ls612 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:22PM (#38242742)
I understand analogies just fine, your analogy is just ridiculous because you analogize kidnapping and ticket scalping.