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Yeah, I just can't buy this being a victim thing. I'll put the slider somewhere between nothing and victim, but you don't need to see Taylor Swift. I'll even accept that you need to see live music, but there is live music available at better rates and in smaller venues.
I do think the monopoly needs to be broken up, it I also think consumers need to be better. I swear, consumerism is such a problem in the US. They could literally write "Fuck You" on price tags and people would be like, well, fuck me I guess, as they buy shit they don't need.
And I'm not suggesting we shouldn't spoil ourselves, it's all good, but if you complain about concert tickets and then go and spend 350-500$ on shitty seats in a stadium that sits 100k people, you need to do better.
Even victims' lives go on, though. And many things are not "necessary" but still we used to break up monopolies, because they are a societal plague, not a consumer choice problem. So again, you are blaming people for not solving a problem that they cannot possibility solve.
Yeah, this ain't food, or access to the Internet or some other utility. It's concert tickets. And I agree they should step in to stop the monopoly, but at the same time consumers can exercise some modicum of restraint and not spend a fortune to go see shows. I'm not paying 500$ for tickets to see Blink 182, fuck that and fuck them for allowing it to happen. Cash grabs have become the norm for bands these days and I'm just not going to support that shit.