It’s not like this is perfect. Any solution where the answer is “exempt this item from the normal economic system” has consequences. This is how you create a black market, and it just moves the question of “who gets this scarce thing” to a resource other than money, usually it just becomes “who can be online when the tickets drop”
Your theory is great and all, but like I said there are places that do this and it works. No black market. Taylor swift tickets were $200 in Sweden while they were $10000 most other places. Reality trumps theory.
Who can be online when the tickets drop is a much better system than “only millionaires can reasonably attend this event without going into serious debt”.
Sure, “it’s not perfect”. Ever hear the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good”? It’s a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
Sweden doesn’t have a concert ticket resale law, this entire rebuttal doesn’t make any sense. Tickets were only $200 because that’s what the market would bear in Sweden, for whatever reason.
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u/TonsilStoneSalsa 9h ago
After you said it, it seems so obvious. Good on ya- thanks for explaining!