@elonmusk @cyrusposting @elonmusk, imagine a world where all pizza is free by govt mandate.
In that world, every day at lunch and dinner time, lines for pizza restaurants world stretch around the block. No matter how much someone wanted pizza, he had to wait.
In that world, every day at lunch and dinner time, lines for pizza restaurants world stretch around the block. No matter how much someone wanted pizza, he had to wait.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting Pizza engineers worked tirelessly, trying to make the pizza system exceeded public pizza demand, but every time they opened a new pizza restaurant, it filled up.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting The new people in line were those who had been dissuaded from waiting in a long line before and had been eating elsewhere. But they a new free pizza restaurant and they flooded it, making the line as long as anywhere else.
Experts began calling this "induced pizza demand."
Experts began calling this "induced pizza demand."
@elonmusk @cyrusposting One day a young entrepreneur named Olen Sumk was waiting in a pizza line in LA and decided that the lines needed to be 3D! That would solve everything!
Pizza policy experts told him, no, that's just the same as widening pizza queues. The pizza tunnels will just fill up.
Pizza policy experts told him, no, that's just the same as widening pizza queues. The pizza tunnels will just fill up.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting Decades of Pizza Demand Management (PDM) and Pizza Impact Assessments had not fixed things, and neither had clever queue designs (cloverleafs, diverging diamonds).
Diner throughout increased 3, maybe 4% with each change, but the lines never shortened.
Diner throughout increased 3, maybe 4% with each change, but the lines never shortened.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting On busy pizza days, cities begged people to eat less of the thing they insisted on gaving away for free, launching campaigns called "Forgo the Dough" or "Toss the Sauce."
But the lure of few pizza was just too much.
But the lure of few pizza was just too much.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sumk insisted he had the solution, and cities, desperate to solve their pizza queues without actually *putting a price on pizza* spent millions pursuing his 3D pizza tunnels.
@elonmusk @cyrusposting End scene.
This is why analogies are helpful. When the same principal is applied to a different topic, what we've been doing for decades start to make less sense.
If giving away a desired good for free doesn't ever work, why would it work for road space, above or below ground?
This is why analogies are helpful. When the same principal is applied to a different topic, what we've been doing for decades start to make less sense.
If giving away a desired good for free doesn't ever work, why would it work for road space, above or below ground?
