Showing posts with label Disneyland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disneyland. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Seems fair enough to me.

From The New York Post:

They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.

Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned...


Clearly this is rent-collecting by the disabled people concerned - their services only have value because lots of people want to go on the rides provided by a third party (Disney), hence the queues are long and hence the time cost of waiting patiently is high - but so what? It's not like disabled people get that many breaks in life, so why shouldn't they cash in?

Remember - the total waiting time of all people in the queue is unaffected by all of this, it is just distributed differently. What would be truly despicable would be to buy a "blue badge" (or whichever bit of paper you need to prove you are disabled) and make one of your group sit in a wheelchair or carry a white stick. If you are willing to schlepp a legit disabled person round with you - who quite possibly enjoys getting out of the house, being treated like an equal and going on the rides - then that really seems quite innocuous (whether or not money changes hands in either direction).