Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps
by Nursie on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:09AM
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Seeking rent from public property is a a problem in itself.
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You pay to get in and pay to get out. Doesn't really seem like seeking [net] rent as much as it is efficiently allocating available resources.
It's not efficient if you park longer, waiting for someone who's going to pay you, rather than just pull out and let anyone else in. Drivers are being paid explicitly for making the allocation less efficient for everyone apart from the app user. It's the tragedy of the commons again.
Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps
by danielweber on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @10:02AM
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Closer to racket[1]: causing a problem in order to get paid to fix it
Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps
by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:27AM
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How is it a problem that the public entity responsible for the property charges rent to individual users?
EDIT: Or is the problem you are referring to what the app is doing? I read it as that the app wasn't the problem, but that the underlying idea of paid parking which it sits on top of is wrong, but I realize that it might also be read the other way.