[nervousvarun]

This has been discussed a few times before (see link below).

It's difficult to do a TLDR for such a complex issue, but from what I remember the biggest problem seems to be that Ticketmaster is extremely vertical to the degree it either owns or has exclusive contracts with venues.

Seems like a pretty strong argument that they have a monopoly (so gov. regulation might be the only way to change anything).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18025209

[floor2]

This is why it's frustrating that America has no right-wing political party.

Every freshman-level economics 101 course when discussing the basic mechanisms required to have a functioning free market has "no monopolies, no cartels, no anti-competitive agreements between market participants" as necessary conditions.

But functionally, in America today, the Republicans are happy to have money-printing monopolies because their donors are profiting. And the Democrats are happy to have money-printing monopolies because their donors are profiting and large stable incumbents are easier to control with regulation than many small, changing entities.

In a better world, we'd break up the monopolies, and have thousands middle-class-owned small-businesses operating competitively, rather than one corporation.

[vintermann]

Right-wing? When did a right wing party, anywhere in the world, go through with a strong smash-the-monopolies policy?

[skyyler]

Could you give an example of a true right-wing political party, in your eyes? Anywhere in the world.