Is your example different from someone buying blocks of the best tix for a rock concert, and then selling those tix for profit at far higher prices?

Well, I can go other way with a private property, but not common property. We cannot privatize the commons. that’s the entire point of commons.

I’m not big on scalping. Although what scalping does is make people who have money and no time pay a premium for not waiting in line – and to some degree I find that hard to argue with.