"I paid $300/hour for the VIP experience at Disney"
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:37 pm
This article is really about "skipping the line" in many ways (no line at Disney, first class flights, donating $25 million to Stanford to get them to take a closer look at your child's admissions application, etc.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mon ... dxC_KkXCDc
We've all probably "skipped a line" through something like FastPass at Disney, "status" in frequent flyer programs, HOV lanes, TSA precheck, etc., and this article doesn't really even go into all the "hidden" lines that exist. It just takes a brief look at whether this even makes sense and how it goes on and on. Everyone wants to "skip a line" and once people get more and more money, they try to pay to skip more and more. Even gerrymandering is really this skipping of a line to a twisted, corrupt degree - picking your voters so you stay in power, instead of voters picking you.
The book presumably goes into much more interesting details. https://www.amazon.com/How-Money-Became ... 8&qid=&sr=
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mon ... dxC_KkXCDc
We've all probably "skipped a line" through something like FastPass at Disney, "status" in frequent flyer programs, HOV lanes, TSA precheck, etc., and this article doesn't really even go into all the "hidden" lines that exist. It just takes a brief look at whether this even makes sense and how it goes on and on. Everyone wants to "skip a line" and once people get more and more money, they try to pay to skip more and more. Even gerrymandering is really this skipping of a line to a twisted, corrupt degree - picking your voters so you stay in power, instead of voters picking you.
The book presumably goes into much more interesting details. https://www.amazon.com/How-Money-Became ... 8&qid=&sr=