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Re:A Parable by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:04PM (#5140426)
I'm an economist and saw a story about innovation. An arbitrage was identified and, after some searching, a mechanism found to exploit it. The process was messy, but resulted in a system which increased profitability (or lowered ticket prices or freed up capital to make the chairs comfier) by more efficiently allocating limited resources (note that none of the complaints were about lines outside the toilet) through the deployment of technology.
Re:A Parable by redwood on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:31PM (#5140599)
Are you sure the added congestion in the yards didn't mitigate the cost savings? It's not so cut and dry from the parable.
Re:A Parable by run4yourlives on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:43PM (#5140659)
I wonder how much profit was left on the table though because of this "innovation". :-)
Re:A Parable by Semaphor on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @03:05PM (#5141463)
Theoretical economist. The trains run forever.