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There is no such thing as a "fair" way to sell anything where demand vastly outstrips supply.

There are just choices about what resource you want to prejudice for: money, time or luck.



Right, this is a values problem, not a technical problem.

Who should get to see Taylor Swift? How much should they pay? How should profits be distributed?

These are philosophical questions. If you assume a particular set of answers to these questions, designing the correct sales process is not difficult. But everyone has a different set of answers.


This really made me reconsider my phrasing, and then the basis for my assumption about “fairness”. Thank you for your thought provoking comment.




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