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Nobody votes with their wallets when capitalism is the only choice. It's exploitation or nothing.
Really? How come I'm not going to expensive concerts?
It is funny show anti-scalping advocacy is focused solely on luxury items.
Exactly! “Oh you can't reasonably afford going to a Taylor Swift concert with these prices.” Yeah I somehow afforded going to Napalm Death and Cradle of Filth and local bands just fine, so this sounds like an entitlement issue.
Yeah you'll have to help me understand why people didn't have a choice to simply not buy from scalpers. Were they holding guns to their heads?
Because people aren't a hive mind. Voting with the wallet doesn't really work on limited luxury goods due to population scale.
Something like concert tickets or any luxury good is in such a low supply that there will always be enough people with more money or credit than sense.
So there pretty much isn't a choice of not buying and prices eventually getting lower. The prices of luxury goods will always be as high as possible and thanks to population scale and ad campaigns, that's going to be rather high.
Though don't get me wrong, im not advocating in defense of buying expensive useless shit. I've quit quite a few things and at least one addiction because the price rose above some predetermined limit. Just that the voting part doesn't really work anymore.
Sounds like Ticketmaster found the people voting with their wallets to pay the price and go to the concert. As Jimmy Carr has put it, “You wanted to come see me? Looks like you did great.”
I do completely agree with him. As i said, I'm not defending it. A simple solution is to just not buy it. It is a luxury good after all.