Reply #25: It's all about money. Has nothing to do with fear of terror. [View All]

You know who's buying the $300 concert tickets? Its the corporations who buy them for employees. (And probably get a tax deduction -- so the taxpayer's subsidize it.)

The corps get the money for the tickets from the taxpayer and also from the profits they get from not paying their employees what they're worth. But now the employess don't have the money to buy the tickets.

Corporations aren't taking up the slack. They're not buying up the rest of the seats.

The history of the world is filled with stories of societies that started accumulating a lot of wealth in the hands of a very few people, and then failed by having the top collapse down upon the overburdened (formerly) middle class. That's what's happening in the microcosm of the concert business.