Sor­ry: eng­lish on­ly be­cause my kbd is act­ing up an typ­ing is a chore.

Here I am, writ­ing in a place of evil so deep they charge you $56 (that's pe­sos) for a tiny sand­wich and a bot­tle of wa­ter: the Gi­an­ni & Vit­to­rio café at Cór­do­ba Air­port.

It's like Mor­dor, ex­cept the wa­ter is kin­da-­sor­ta-s­light­ly-­cold, and I car­ry no rings. And there is very lit­tle la­va. But the evil... the evil is dense, as it can on­ly be at air­port­s, Mi­nas Morgul, and per­haps the choripán place near Lisan­dro de la Torre sta­tion (which I strong­ly rec­om­mend).

But why do I do it? Be­cause I have al­ready failed. I will not post ev­ery­day this year. I may not even be close. But I will post as much as I can. And I prom­ise it won't be filler about why I did not do a re­al post.

So, on­to the meat of this post we go.

It's in­evitable that air­ports will have ex­pen­sive and bad food. It will be ex­pen­sive be­cause there are a lim­it­ed num­ber of sell­er­s, and get­ting to be one of them is ex­pen­sive. Since they can charge what­ev­er they wan­t, they have no in­cen­tives to pro­vide qual­i­ty or ser­vice.

Plus, they own a cap­tive cus­tomer base, since you are locked there, and there is no place to go out­side the air­port eti­her.

That is clas­sic gov­ern­men­t-­man­dat­ed mar­ket dis­tor­tion, with the air­port man­age­ment as the gov­ern­men­t, and you play­ing the role of you. This kind of clear ex­am­ples are good be­cause they show cap­i­tal­ism and free mar­ket ad­vo­cates ac­tu­al­ly have a de­cent point when they re­mark on the de­fects of im­per­fect mar­ket­s.

OTO­H, I don't see any com­mu­nists around here op­press­ing me, I see on­ly hap­py cap­i­tal­ists tak­ing my mon­ey.

PS: it seems there was a tor­na­do here to­day.