I bought 4 tickets to Taylor Swift for my girlfriend and her friends and paid $407.57 total after all of the bullshit Ticketmaster fees.
~$101 per ticket isn’t cheap, but $900+ per ticket is either scalper/resale prices day of the show, or for some fancy VIP tickets, or just a made up number.
Taylor Swift chose to list on Ticketmaster with full knowledge that those fees would be included.
They sometimes don't have a choice. But also fuck Ticketmaster https://youtu.be/-_Y7uqqEFnY
Note that the only source listed is bls, and I am pretty sure they don't track concert tickets 🤔.
lol yes exactly. Kind of hilarious and stupid that they reference BLS as a source, which I’m assuming they meant for the minimum wage figure to calculate the hours, but they also don’t show what that minimum wage figure is on the infographic….
Just a really poorly crafted piece of rage bait designed to do exactly what it’s doing here - piss people off so they share it.
It took two hours of working minimum wage to buy an Elvis ticket ticket.
Elvis ticket cost in 2023 dollars: $31
But minimum wage is $7.25/hr, so $31 is more like four hou... oh wait.
They meant back in the day it took that time
I know! The point is that we're seeing the combined effect of ticket prices increasing relative to inflation and minimum wage falling relative to inflation, compounding the unaffordability.
Monopolies is what causes this. Capitalism is just the enabler. But don't kid yourself if you think the rich don't gatekeep certain things in "communist" countries.
There aren't any communist countries, only a handful of states run by communists, who don't even claim to have reached socialism yet.
The problem is the commodity form – goods and services made for their use value and their exchange value. This is a problem in the states run by communists. They don't claim otherwise. Neither does any Marxist.
The world is currently dominated by imperialists. According to Marxists, imperialism is the 'monopoly finance' stage of capitalism, which is what you identify.
In a society that doesn't make commodities or which protects certain goods and services from the logic of commodities, the 'gatekeeping' of art (or any other good or service) wouldn't need to happen.
Art under capitalism, like everything else – food, shelter, clothes, air, water, etc – is commodified. This has awful consequences, which affects every commodity-producing society.
The 'communist countries' have only started on the path to abolish the commodity form. It will take decades to complete, maybe a century or more, and is unlikely to be fully achieved before the world is communist.
I bet you'll see a pretty tight correlation between rate of ticket price increase and rate of population growth. This isn't a "capitalism ruined X" problem. It's a "too many people" problem. When supply is so far outstripped by demand of course prices soar.
more population means more artists and artistry, which means more concerts, but please go ahead and make this about "overpopulation"
Lol @ the eco-fascisms dogwhistles these freaks bring 😂
Why is Taylor Swift so popular? She sings well but I don't get the hype.
