Comments on: Let the psychologists keep their reverse psychology

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 01:48:10 +0000

Landsburg queue… sounds like ‘standing in line’ in a crowded market in China.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 01:22:33 +0000

In practice, people would just hang around in the vicinity, trying to get there right when the current customer is finishing up. If non-orderly people, they might get into a fistfight. If orderly, they might start an informal line next to the “real” one. :)

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:47:30 +0000

This is beyond idiotic. Suppose I’m waiting in a “Landsburg queue,” and someone new joins the line and goes ahead of me. I give up and leave the line, but I still want the mulled wine, so I rejoin the line. Wow, I’m now at the front of the line! What a deal! But wait, the person now behind me sees what I did, and copies my trick. Now he’s at the front of the line, and I’m behind him. But I can just repeat, and so can he, ad infinitum. We mill around like morons for a minute until someone gets served at random, or more likely, the whole thing degenerates into a fistfight.

Aren’t economists supposed to take incentives into account? Isn’t that the magic that they say gives them such supposedly great insights? These people are hubris-drunk trash and their “counter-intuitive” ideas aren’t even fit to line birdcages.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:07:15 +0000

Darwin favors the successful line cutter: he’s successful because Darwin favors him.

No one tolerates the unsuccessful line cutter. Minding your place is a way for the weak to survive. Survival, for the weak, is all about buying time.

Walking away is a good way to starve to death.