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BeejOnABiscuit t1_je45p4m wrote

Reply to comment by taylortwentytwo in ELI5: Everyone knows that Ticketmaster is the biggest scumbucket enterprise on the planet yet no band seems able to avoid their grasp. What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster, or just setting up a parallel company? by havereddit

Agree but I haven’t been buying tix in protest and it looks to have no effect. It will take more than hoping people will boycott for things to change. The problem is so big it will require government intervention.

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Dangerous_Affect_861 t1_je46e69 wrote

Because it is necessary to use the power of the majority. When a major event with an expected crowd of, for example, 100 thousand people will sell only 5 thousand tickets, then they will change.

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BeejOnABiscuit t1_je46lu8 wrote

That is true, but what would it take to pull off a boycott of that scale? I bet most people value entertainment now over the slight possibility of future change. How do you get so many people to go against their own self interest?

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