Because politicians stopped working for us since a long time ago
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I would normally advise you to stick to the small stage stuff. Unfortunately anymore you have to go through a ticket service to see most of those shows. Fucking "convenience fees"
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Deregulation and regulatory capture
We were warned in the 90's.
Ticket Ghost of Ticket Future: "Don't buy from Ticketmaster"
Me, in the Present: "Okay, but I still want to go to the concert"
Ticket Ghost: "You're going to feel weird in ten years, when you find out what Kanye gets up to. But you do meet someone at the event to hook up with, have an on-again off-again relationship for three years, the sex is amazing but you're on totally different career tracks. You end up seeing other people, and now you live in the same neighborhood and your kids are friends. Which is nice but also a bit weird at parties."
Me: "Wow. That's... a lot to take in."
Ticket Ghost: "Sorry, bro. I tried to warn you two weeks ago not to take those edibles because they'd give you psychic premonitions, but you hadn't taken the edibles yet so you couldn't listen..."
Me: vomiting sounds as I clutch the toilet
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Because people keep buying the tickets even though they aren't a necessity. This should be an easy boycott.
And congratulations, the current US administration now considers you a terrorist. Complaining about being abused and exploited is anti-capitalist.
Because people keep giving them money
They haven't actually got a full monopoly. You can give axs money. You can in some cases go to the box office ahead of time like it's 1980.
If you want to see taytay, you are indeed going to pay ticketmaster, but the only way to defeat them is by not giving them money.
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Capitalism inevitably regressed to end stage.
🎶 The answer is always capitalism 🎵
Something happened in the last 20 years where billionaires were able to buy the government and monopolies are now no longer illegal or controlled.
I have a rare one, i've NEVER purchased a ticket through ticketmaster, so i'm glad they never got my money. Too much free/cheap live music local to me anyway.
Citizens United
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Why? As with most awful things in America, the answer is Ronald Reagan.
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The answer is capitalism, I know
No it isnt. Its because dumb cunts keep on giving them money. Dont blame FOMO on capitalism. Every single one of us has the 100% choice of not going, and not paying those stupid prices.
On the legal side of things, the DOJ has on going investigations into Live nation-Ticketmaster threatening venues is they use AXS or SeatGeek. Nothing has been done about, not even fines. Live nation-Ticketmaster also lobbys congress and others, and spends A LOT to make sure that its always sunny for them.
Got to smaller shows at local clubs
This is the way. I've seen so many great bands at clubs before they blew up. Why spend hundreds of dollars to see a show produced for mass consumption at a stadium when you can drop $20 and see a hungry up-and-comer pour out their heart and soul to a hundred people. It's a way better experience.
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Because anti-capitalists are afraid to throw a punch.
Basically, through mergers and acquisitions they're dominating the venue market. It used to be that there were many actors, but now everything is everything under the Ticketmaster umbrella.
It's convenient for artists, as they only have one point if contact needed per location in terms of booking, ticket sales, merch, and everything else around the concert/event.
It's convenient for venues, as Ticketmaster brings in business. However, it's a double edged sword: Do something Ticketmaster doesn't approve of, such as use a competitor, and you're not getting the big headliners.
It's awful for the rest of us, as we then have to deal with a monopoly pushing up the prices.
I am cautiously optimistic about the long term outlook, though: The Ticketmaster hate is widespread to the point where some artists refuse to work with them, as they feel their fans are getting robbed with the band getting the blame. And they are the ones with the leverage to turn things around - artists with integrity will put their fans first, and that is what will hopefully bring long term change for the better.
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Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.
You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems