They’re literally doing capitalism. M - C - M’ is described in the first part of Capital. This is money operating as capital. Buy a commodity for M, then sell it for M’ that is greater than M. You have no interest in the use value of the commodity. The only thing that matters is it’s exchange value.
because the only way to beat bots is to write better bots which is pretty difficult so there is no choice but to submit to the scalper. It's different from what they expected to be doing so it is bad.
capitalism sucks when you're not the one exploiting others. who knew? :curious-marx: