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Agreed, they're one of several "lightning rod" organizations. They exist to deflect hate, while everyone profits. Same thing with academic textbooks. Book publi
by Someone1234 7y ago
Agreed, they're one of several "lightning rod" organizations. They exist to deflect hate, while everyone profits. Same thing with academic textbooks. Book publishers are lightning rods, allowing collages/departments/professors to avoid the reputation hit.
If you want to know who is responsible for a bad thing just answer one question: Who has the power to fix it? For example performers/venues could use a non-ticketmaster intermediary, and college professors/schools could assign a non-$300 textbook, but neither do because they gain substantially from the arrangement (either financially or in terms of free labor in the textbook example).
So if you "hate" ticketmaster or textbook publishers, you're playing right into their game and the problem will never be fixed. You have to pressure actual decision makers, not lightning rods.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoYou can’t fix people, only incentives.
- Teever 7y ago> For example performers/venues could use a non-ticketmaster intermediary, It's not so easy. Doing so can lock them out of business with ticketmaster.
- bsder 7y ago> If you want to know who is responsible for a bad thing just answer one question: Who has the power to fix it? For example performers/venues could use a non-ticketmaster intermediary Is this actually true? I thought Pearl Jam(?) tried this many moons ago when Ticketmaster was far less powerful and eventually caved in because it was so stupidly difficult to coordinate all the idiots infesting the music event business.
- masonic 7y agoPromoters have exclusive deals with ticketing agencies, and venues have exclusive deals with promoters. Groups who choose to avoid them, like ZZ Top did for years, have limited venue options.