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Yeah, they only affect the business of and most people's favorite way to enjoy one of the main types of human creative endeavor, no biggie!
Absolutely true but also completely beside the point.
Again, yes, but that ALSO doesn't make Ticketmaster/Live Nation any better
Again true, except Monsanto got bought by Bayer a few years ago. I've been unable to find out how much of their evil fuckery they're still doing under the new name (which is probably because of a deliberate cover job by Bayer), but my guess would be "most, if not all of it"
That STILL doesn't mean that an effective monopoly should ever be allowed to charge the equivalent of a car for a single concert ticket.
You don't recall correctly:
As a side note, I had no idea they were that old!
Yup, deleted my comment, thanks!
Missing the point. Again.
Run the cost. Benefit analysis. Each of those mega corps affect every American every day. And not in any positive way.
Nope, I got your point just fine. You're just wrong.
Oh?
So you’re saying that breaking one of those companies would help fewer people than live nation?
You’re saying that tens of millions of people living with food and housing insecurity is less of a problem than people not being able to afford concert and other tickets?
Explain it to me because you seem to have weird priorities.
Nope.
Nope
I'm saying that there's no need to prioritize in the way that you're suggesting. It's not a zero sum game where going after TM/LN means you can't do anything about even worse companies.