It's wild that you can look at a physical testament of the sheer abundance and affordability that capitalism has created for almost every consumer good, and people will call it a dystopia because they experience traffic or fight over the right to buy cardboard childrens toys

I guess it feels less abundant when there's a million people in the store and you're basically in line to check out the minute you step in.

This is Costco literally suffering from success, they have had an enormous growth in subscriptions yet opening stores takes time, faces regulations, has limited availability

Would the world really be worse off without cardboard children's toys but also without people fighting over cardboard children's toys?

There is nothing about Costco that is causing the fighting.

It's entirely a unrelated subculture going insane about pumping up the prices of pieces of cardboard, and 30's-ish adults who never grew up mentally but now have disposable income.

Normal people buy whatever packs for the kids who proceed to play the game completely wrong.