I should be able to pay premium to cut the line anywhere

You can at airports, that's pretty much exactly what Clear does. Or pay for the various upgrades - get the premium security line, board early..

If you want it more wide spread, go to vegas, just flash a noir card and cut any line you want in an mgm resort.

You must be poor, because when you are like us rich folk of LetsRun, you just pay others to get you what you want.

In the words of the great Ted DiBiase, aka The Million Dollar Man:

"Everybody's Got A Price"

Just offer each customer in front of you $5. I'm sure you'll be served next.

Hardloper wrote:

The first person to be served at coffeeshops, DMV, airport, etc should go to the highest bidder, not who arrived first. If I decide my time is valuable and want to pay an extra 25% to cut the line, it should be offered. This extra revenue can be offset by discounting prices to the people willing to go to the back of the queue, so everyone wins.

Unfortunately this will never happen. Instead of embracing freer markets, we have this inefficient belief that we're always "equal" and we all have to wait our turn.

you can already do this by offering people money to let you cut in front of them.

but you are either too cowardly or broke to actually do this.

put your money where your mouth is.

Sloinnorcal wrote:

Just offer each customer in front of you $5. I'm sure you'll be served next.

I know but that's tedious and inefficient. I would need some startup to build me an app - "Clear but for everyday 24/7 life"

LOL . . . you are on record for refusing to pay for health insurance. That is why you are a diehard Trumpster. So, you intent to use your saved health insurance money to buy cuts in line. Okay.

you are free to open your own coffee shop and try this business model and see how it works (unless you have no money to do so of course)

I have a hunch this model only works in places like airports where cutting in line doesn't really matter except as an ego trip or at DisneyLand which is such a hell hole that no one want to go back again.

Hardloper wrote:

The first person to be served at coffeeshops, DMV, airport, etc should go to the highest bidder, not who arrived first. If I decide my time is valuable and want to pay an extra 25% to cut the line, it should be offered. This extra revenue can be offset by discounting prices to the people willing to go to the back of the queue, so everyone wins.

Unfortunately this will never happen. Instead of embracing freer markets, we have this inefficient belief that we're always "equal" and we all have to wait our turn.

At Starbucks, you can use the app to order ahead so that it is ready when you get there. It costs nothing extra.

Clear and Pre-Check allow you to skip the longer lines. The $17/month for Pre-Check is one of the best bargains I have gotten in a while. (I should have gone for Clear for the extra money. Bonehead move on my part).

Buying a first class ticket gets you on the plane earlier.

Nothing we can do about DMV.

Here is an interested piece on paying people to cut in line.

Here is another one on waiting in line.

be my guest wrote:

you are free to open your own coffee shop and try this business model and see how it works (unless you have no money to do so of course)

I have a hunch this model only works in places like airports where cutting in line doesn't really matter except as an ego trip or at DisneyLand which is such a hell hole that no one want to go back again.

Water parks and amusement parks have speed pass. The cost seems crazy. I went to a water park a couple of weeks ago. The cost of the speed pass was just a little less that the cost of admission. If I were only paying for myself, I might do it, but for four of us it was crazy. Yet you do get to ride a lot more rides. I need to do the arithmetic on that one day.

Hardloper wrote:

Sloinnorcal wrote:

Just offer each customer in front of you $5. I'm sure you'll be served next.

I know but that's tedious and inefficient. I would need some startup to build me an app - "Clear but for everyday 24/7 life"

Yeah I've read about the experiment where if you offer money to cut in line, people will let you, and refuse the money. They just assume you're in a hurry and let you I guess.

be my guest wrote:

you are free to open your own coffee shop and try this business model and see how it works (unless you have no money to do so of course)

I have a hunch this model only works in places like airports where cutting in line doesn't really matter except as an ego trip or at DisneyLand which is such a hell hole that no one want to go back again.

I know, that's why I said it won't happen

Lol, thank you

I've said it before, I've never really been religious, I even went through a ImSoSmart atheist phase, But as I've grown older, My beliefs have changed as I've been exposed to the reality of the world. We've seen evil and degeneracy almost daily in the news and in the culture being embraced - Nobody being truly held to account. I don't want to call myself a Christian exactly as I'd feel like I'm larping, I understand the ancient Pagan stuff too. Perhaps it's a form of Perrennial Philosophy that I've organically come to feel, I don't really know.

I'm well aware that it could also be wishful thinking or something, but I want there to be inescapable justice brought to those who cause harm and suffering to innocent people. You may have enough money to be untouchable, But the idea that doing evil has a price that nobody can escape is a comforting one. That a divine judge will hold you to account.

Some of the degenerating culture we see -As people have joked about, the symptoms look straight up demonic, sometimes literally with that trans-hellspawn image, where it's reading books to children with the horns and all.

I know it sounds crazy, but then there's the reality of when you become aware of subversion, You start to question what if spirituality and even God was subverted, But we were just born in that period, so it's all we've ever known?

It's all rather complicated and philosophical.

Does anyone understand what I mean though?

Airline and hotels do this with their rewards programs, and it can really get annoying.

I was flying from Bentonville to NYC and got stuck in ATL due to thunderstorms. I had to spend the night in the Airport Marriott (along with like 25 other people). I don't travel much for work, so while I do have reward programs set up for travel, they're not super impressive.

So I hustle down to the cabs, book a room on my phone, and get into the hotel lobby at like 12:45 am. This is after waiting to get a flight out and being delayed, delayed, delayed and then cancelled. I now have a 5:45 am flight to LGA and just want to get a few hours of sleep. So I am behind one person in line and there is only one guy at the receptionist desk. He finishes the guy in front of me and all I need to do is show my ID, get the key, and I can hit my room. But no....

As I am walking up, a bus full of "regulars" pile into the lobby. Guy gives me a "I am so sorry look" and says, "anyone with Marriott Platinum (or whatever) please step over here" and gestures to a "special" section of the desk for members. He proceeds to take three guys ahead of me, none of whom have already booked rooms, so each one is like 5 minutes. Finally, one good soul says, "please let this guy get his room" and points to me. Receptionist gives me my key and I get to my room at 1:30am. I sleep for 2 hours, shower, and head back to the airport. On my way out, the receptionist is still there and apologizes and says it was policy. I just smiled and said I understood.

UninuredLoper wrote:

LOL . . . you are on record for refusing to pay for health insurance. That is why you are a diehard Trumpster. So, you intent to use your saved health insurance money to buy cuts in line. Okay.

Notice how Ed "forgot" to reply to your post?

Waits for government services should be inverse to your tax returns.

I pay a ton of taxes and it costs me a fortune to wait at the DMV, even with an appointment. But the unemployed contribute nothing and have nothing to do, so it’s costless for them to wait. Then they get user fees waived so they aren’t even covering their own costs.