Pluralistic: Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions (03 Jun 2024)

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Ticketmaster jacks us for billions so it can pocket millions: Corruption is unimaginably wasteful.
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Pluralistic: Inkjump Linkdump (25 May 2024)

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Inkjump Linkdump: A long weekend's supply of miscellany.
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Pluralistic: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress (30 Apr 2024)

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Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress: The other gig economy.
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Pluralistic: Async mugwump linkdump (30 Mar 2024)

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Async mugwump linkdump: A weekend assortment.
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Pluralistic: Booz Allen ticketmastered America's public lands (30 Nov 2022)

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Booz Allen tickemastered America's public lands: An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around.

Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 (modified)/Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (modified)

A lot of regulations went up in flames in the Reagan/Thatcher era: labor laws, environmental rules, finance frameworks. But the most consequential shift of the age was the change in antitrust law, specifically, the advent of the “consumer welfare” standard that supposed that monopolies were mostly totally amazing, miracles of coordination and efficiency that would make all our lives better thanks to the singular genius of the men (and a few women) who led them.

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