[lux-lux-lux]

That’s because it’s smart business when you abuse your captive customer base, totally different thing. When pesky customers do the same back to you, well, time to complain about the ‘third worldification of American institutions,’ or something.

[ameliaquining]

In Tan's partial defense, I don't think he would be complaining about "third worldification of American institutions" just over evasion of meal-plan rent-seeking. The original, much higher-profile story was about the failure modes of using the disability accommodations process to allocate broadly desirable things that are rivalrous or positional (as opposed to narrowly-scoped accommodations), and then Tan tacked on a tangent about the meal-plan thing because it has surface similarities and also doesn't make the students look great, without considering whether it's really an instance of the same core issue.

[direwolf20]

Oh like people who claim they need all the GPU and RAM supply to save the world

[CodingJeebus]

People are going to act to further their economic position. Water is wet.

There's an entire misalignment of economic incentives in that world that he just completely glosses over in favor of "third-worldification".

[UncleMeat]

Remember that Garry Tan believes in a largely illiberal society where our institutions are organized around CEOs rather than democratic control. Of course the people exist to be turned into goo to be extracted as dollar bills.