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0 pointsssl-31mo ago0 comments

The UK has done amazingly well at removing short guns from society. It was perhaps erroneous of me to include that.

But do you really think that selling/having illicitly overpriced concert tickets will have the same domestic ire as illicitly selling/having a short gun does? Will the incentive really be gone?

Or do you think that perhaps it will be seen ~the same as selling/having some weed is, instead?

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onion2k1mo ago

Will the incentive really be gone?

The incentive will remain, but doing it at scale will be much harder. That automatically reduces the scale of the problem to what individuals (or small groups) can do. Essentially the law is stopping the mechanisation of scalping rather than scalping itself. That's probably good enough.

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