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Ticket Prices Are OUT OF CONTROL
Luke Thomas Gets Political: Ticket prices to concerts, shows and sports have gotten so absurd that nearly $800 for the last row and $150 for a park seat does not even feel like an outlier anymore, it feels like the new baseline. Normal working - and middle! - class fans are being priced out of the culture they built while venues and brands quietly pivot to a smaller pool of wealthier customers who can absorb the pain. That first ticket pricing rant opens into a bigger point about how modern businesses are changing incentives. Instead of filling every seat, the goal becomes extracting maximum…
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