jared123 said: "thinkoflaura said:
I just wish all the line-sitter-bashers would get real and admit that if they had the means to use a line sitter, they would!
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I haven't really been bashing line sitters, so maybe this isn't directed my way. But I could easily have afforded a line sitter, i went with premium tickets when they were available. I didn't cause i would have felt like a dope, a cheater, someone trying to game the system. There is a certain satisfaction one gets by putting in the effort and doing things the right way and not perpetuating a system that is making this line insane because the line-sittters profit the earlier you need to sit.
Just because you can afford it and it's not illegal, does not make it right.
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Ok, let's remove the line sitter equation and pose another situation. Most of the people are in line bc the resale price is insane but let's say you're a regular working class person who is behind an obvious rich person for whom paying $1500 a ticket is like $100 to us. Let's say he gets in and you don't? Would it annoy you? I kind of feel like the sitters are the easiest whipping post but even if they were gone, there would be a new target. The bottom line is who gets in is who gets in. There's a lot of discussion of what's right or who is deserving. You can't look at it like that or what's fair. It may be noble to say I won't do this or that but the people who succeed in life are not always the ones who worry about fair, they are the ones who find an opportunity to get where they want to be. Ok, the start time is pushed up so you can lament it or you can adjust. This is a sport now and if you find out your competitors are at it at 2a then you get at it at 1:59a. That's how careers and college and life work. If people want to be winners they have to be willing to work with the reality and do better.
