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Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps by jtc331 on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:32AM (#7937589)
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.
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Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps by viraptor on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:43AM (#7937653)
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.
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Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps by danielweber on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @10:02AM (#7937762)
Closer to racket[1]: causing a problem in order to get paid to fix it

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)

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