This article was an easy way to get into the discussion of why market controls can be seriously broken. Any time artificial controls are put in place, it's a lot of fun to read the way that people circumvent them. The human race might be great at coming up with new inventions to fix serious problems, but we're just as good at finding out how to get to our favorite golf course. It's all about marginal value.
1 Is golf the kind of sport that would naturally develop approaches to breaking rules more than any others? (think: how much richer is the average golfer than most of us? Does that change anything?)
2 What happens to people who aren't breaking the rules when market controls are put in place
3 If this many people want to pay this much to golf, why aren't there more golf courses?
This article perfectly illustrates the point that if you want to take something away the right thing to do is not to eliminate a market. Prices might not be a perfectly fair way to distribute a product, but they just might be the fairest there is. The second you remove markets and eliminate a price system, you make it easier for those who already have an unfair advantage to scam the system even more.
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