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by kqr 2974 days ago
It is useful to talk about both inefficiency (the thing you point out) and exploitability (the ability for any individual actor to make useful amounts of money out of fixing the inefficiency.)

Unless an area is both inefficient and exploitable, it is plausible that it will go unfixed for a long time.

When you start viewing it in those terms, you find obvious inefficiencies everywhere.