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How capitalism made concerts be a bourgeois entertainment only (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] erasebegin@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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.

[–] xenautika@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

more population means more artists and artistry, which means more concerts, but please go ahead and make this about "overpopulation"

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure but this chart refers to the most popular artists of a given time period. Regardless of how many concerts there are, there will always be one with the most demand.

If you could find data on the median ticket prices or something like that, you may have a point.

[–] xenautika@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

my point was it doesn't have to do with population as much as it has to do with capitalistic demand and monopoly/cartel dynamics

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