Gm everyone. Looking for work and learning more Rust today.

Look into organoid computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid_intelligence

Good read, thanks for posting

This is nuts

I feel the same way in the other direction. Maybe the lines get blurred between line stander and scalper but I think the behaviour would be pretty locked in.

I spoke of inequality at first. If the prices go up of course wealthier people will still buy the tickets.

Yes. At that point we'd call them investors, but yes. Buying charizards is lower time preference, but it's pretty much the same behaviour. The scalper in this case is the guy who would have bought whole boxes of cards early on.

Scalpers are a different behaviour group from the line standers. Scalpers will always exist and aim to buy as many tickets as they can move, the line stander is someone paid by one person to get a ticket. And if they start to behave like scalpers, the lines get even more blurred. I still think higher prices wouldn't curtail the behaviour. This is also ignoring that the well to do procure their tickets from the companies they work for, etc

Scalpers always buy to sell later at a higher price and they will exist at any price, no? It'll just be more organized, well-funded scalpers? Also the higher the price per ticket, the smaller the line stander fee would seem. If you're paying 1000 per ticket, paying some guy min wage to stand in line is closer to nothing.

I guess we're both talking about price discovery. If they raised the prices for a concert, what you would get is still scalpers and line standers, but the scalpers would be making even more of a killing. And there would be perhaps fewer professional line standers, but still some. It would all still depend on the price, I suppose. There's probably some range of prices that would still have line standers and scalpers, but I think if the price was set too high all you would have is scalpers and the odd wealthy person who really wants to see the Rolling Stones standing in line.

E: Thinking a bit further on this, even if you raised the prices to a higher level, you would now only entice scalpers and those who can pay for a line stander to get in line. I don't think there's a way to get rid of the behaviour even by raising prices. Not sure.

But something about this doesn't sit well with me, and it harkens back to the days of the aristocracy who had servants do everything include put on their clothes for them.

It hints at an equality. I think jobs like this exist only because extreme inequality does, but then who am I to tell someone trying to claw their way up that they shouldn't be a line stander? I'm okay with it because there is an agreed upon price and the person isn't "forced" into it. Also some places like local eateries / ticket sales are just ridiculous when it comes to interest in them, they are actually providing a useful service.

When I was younger I read the Han Solo trilogy by AC Crispin and I really liked it. It's been ages since I read / watched any SW stuff. I still need to catch up on Andor and probably rewatch Rogue One

Good morning all. Spent a little extra on a bigger VPS, going to try to mess with some nostr stuff today. Need to learn more about how it all works.

If using python, use virtual environments to avoid messing up the base Python needed for your distribution to function. Found this out the hard way with some versions of Ubuntu

The guitar in this rips, I have listened to this a lot since finding it