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Pluralistic: Booz Allen ticketmastered America's publicĀ lands (30 Nov 2022)


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Anything That Canā€™t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

Ticketmaster and Ideas LyingĀ 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 ā€œconsumer welfareā€ 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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