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!

  • ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world
    101·
    8 months ago

    While I agree that Ticketmaster is a fucked up monopoly, the only one fucked were those buying tickets. Taylor will easily survive another day; those that sold their pancreases for a seat…not so much

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      Your comment is confusing me.

      While I agree that Ticketmaster is a fucked up monopoly,

      Implies that what you’re going to say next is something that either excuses them or is worse than them, but you go on to say:

      the only one fucked were those buying tickets.

      Which, imo, is true but does not follow the logic of the “while” statement.

      Then you go on to say:

      Taylor will easily survive another day; those that sold their pancreases for a seat…not so much

      Which makes me think you are blaming Taylor Swift for Ticketmaster’s prices, or at least saying that she is complacent in some way. But the point is the prices were set by Ticketmaster, and padded with exorbitant fees that Taylor had no control over.