A reader suggests the topic:
While you’re mulling over paying for restaurant reservations, how about the public variation on this issue? I speak of companies that pay people to occupy public street parking spaces and then sell the use of the space to the highest bidder, or companies that provide apps allowing people to do this on their own.
This has become an issue here in San Francisco, where the city attorney has just sent a cease-and-desist letter to one business. In essence, a driver pulls into a parking space on the public street in a neighborhood where parking is especially scarce. They then advertise the immediate availability of that space online to the highest bidder. When the bidder arrives, they pull out of the space, and the “buyer” pulls in.
The city attorney’s argument is that parking is a public resource that shouldn’t and can’t be privatized. I happen to agree with him, but maybe your readers would like to discuss?
They previously discussed the topic here, here, and here. After almost fifteen years of Dish, there seems to be no subject you readers haven’t tackled.
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