the.com/waitlist
a queue that pretends to be a privilege.
means a list of people who did not get in yet but were told to hope anyway.
from from wait plus list, formalized in mid-20th-century airline and college-admission bureaucracy where saying no outright was bad for business.
psychology trickscarcity makes people want it more
airlines inventedoverbooking made waitlists standard practice
startups weaponized itfake waitlists manufacture demand before launch