The Lie That's Destroying the Economy
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This one story explains why everything from Taylor Swift to Tyson Chicken is so f-ed up. SUPPORT ON PATREON - http://patreon.com/adamconover SEE ADAM LIVE - http://adamconover.net/tourdates SUBSCRIBE TO FACTUALLY PODCAST - http://link.chtbl.com/factually SOURCES: TicketMaster dominates the live event industry with threats: https://nyti.ms/2uIOK3O Springsteen vs. LiveNation https://bit.ly/2tBOEHD TicketMaster merger is waved through by Obama admin: https://nyti.ms/3RXcnMK TicketMaster retaliating against venues: https://ampr.gs/3I2fIpu AT&T / TimeWarner merger was a disaster: https://nyti.ms/3YTYRfr WBD to cut 3 billion in budget https://bit.ly/3Yz478u Animation cut from HBO Max https://bit.ly/3K1X1Vw HBO Max price increase: https://bit.ly/3XrP1QB Americans have no choice in internet provider: https://bit.ly/3HRZU8E Matt Stoller's amazing piece on the cheerleading monopoly Varsity: https://bit.ly/3RWJjVU Tyson mistreating chickens: https://wapo.st/3lCESDk Meatpacker profits skyrocket: https://reut.rs/3I2t98D Income inequality graphs: https://bit.ly/2FvT7Rg Judges flown to free market seminars: https://bit.ly/3I3D9P2 Monopolies in every industry: https://bit.ly/2ShvykF Monopolies lead to inequality: https://bit.ly/3xl11sr Gov't blocks Penguin merger: https://reut.rs/3Iot2Wr DOJ investigating TicketMaster: https://nyti.ms/3IpD7mf

I’d love ro hear everyone’s thoughts on this!

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’ve heard economists say that Ticketmaster is a useful scapegoat for a lot of natural problems in the music industry. Taylor swift is selling tickets for what seems like a reasonable price, but the laws of supply and demand say they are worth far more. Taylor doesn’t want to sell her tickets for closer to what they are actually worth since it would make her look like a price gouging jerk. Anytime in economics you have a mismatch between the price something is being sold for and what someone is willing to pay for it, there’s an opportunity for money to be made, people will take that opportunity if they can, and in doing so the price will tend toward the true intersection of supply and demand.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      Completely correct. 10k tickets, the top 10k people who are willing to pay the most get tickets. Any attempt to break this and push to a lower price just means that there is a market gap that can be filled by buying low and selling high. Im a big believer that high demand tickets should have a name on them with ID required - want to sell they go back to retailers at cost.

      She also tried a points system - follow on insta, buy merch, buy CD, get points towards early access so actually fans get tickets for a lower price. She got done for favoritism.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 months ago

        She also tried a points system - follow on insta, buy merch, buy CD, get points towards early access so actually fans get tickets for a lower price. She got done for favoritism.

        There really is no winning once your fanbase grows over a certain size. That’s why I prefer to go see only C-list or locally/regionally famous artists live rather than trying to go see A-listers live.

    • Pandantic@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      But competition would force these middlemen to make their services better, lower prices, etc. This whole comment doesn’t get to the heart of this matter, regardless whether ticket master is a scapegoat, the ticket selling industry would be better off if there was more competition.

      Also, isn’t it still wrong of companies like ticket master to bully artists with their top-down control of venues and promoting?