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Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.

There’s a hell of a zap that neoclassical economics puts on your head. After being brainwashed to think that markets “naturally emerge” wherever a shortage occurs, a certain kind of evil asshole will take it upon themselves to “create markets” and thus “solve the problem”

Remember Reservationhop? It was founded by an SF bro who couldn’t get restaurant reservations so he had a brainwave: what if I found a “business” that creates fake identities and books every table in town and then auctions them off to would-be diners?

Markets in everything, right? He’s just using markets to solve a distributional challenge by (checks notes) committing thousands of acts of fraud and selling something that doesn’t belong to him. This guy’s brain-worms are amazing:

https://brianmayer.com/2014/07/how-i-became-the-most-hated-person-in-san-francisco-for-a-day/

Markets in everything! Monkeyparking was another SF startup that let people sell their street-parking spot — before you drove away from the meter, you used an app to auction off the right for someone else to get the spot after you.