Michael J. Sandel - Excerpt from What Money Can't Buy lyrics

The tendency of markets to displace queues, and other nonmarket ways of allocating goods, so pervades modern life that we scarcely notice it anymore. It is striking that most of the paid queue-jumping schemes we've considered -- at airports and amusement parks, at Shakespeare festivals and congressional hearings, in call centers and doctors' offices, on freeways and in national parks -- are recent developments, scarcely imaginable three decades ago. The demise of the queue in these domains may seem a quaint concern. But these are not the only places that markets have invaded. (Sandel 41)