Comment on Scalper economy
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 months ago6 as well. Imagine if nobody would buy houses and just expand their parents house by a floor for their own family.
If that doesn’t work - make the neighborhood criminal by yourself right after those “people” bought houses.
If that doesn’t work, just purge them.
Oh yeah its totally affordable to just expand in existing houses. Why didn’t i think of that?
I didn’t say anything about affordability, just stated that it’s cheaper than purchasing land + house
I think that’s what caused the housing market to crash.
Surely it’ll happen one of these days right?
If my assumptions are correct, there should be a crash of something within the next 4-6 months. My problem is that a new president always means a new unknown variable, like Bitcoin did nearly double its value after Trump won, there will be a still unknown thing once he gets into office.
Damn I’ll probably be in a reeducation camp by then
You could, but they aren’t the ones causing the issue, they’re just enabling profits to be made from it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When scalpers buy all the tickets to a concert in milliseconds, and the only way to buy a ticket is through a scalper, why are you blaming the person who wants to go to the concert instead of the scalper?
killingspark@feddit.org 2 months ago
If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Would thry?
The ticket seller doesn’t care if there’s an empty hall, he got paid early on.
You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.
killingspark@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That “solution” suffers from the problem that requiring hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to get informed about and agree to do something is incredibly more hard than it is for a few tens of people or maybe a couple hundred to as individuals swarm the sales venues and take all the tickets to resell them for more money.
Or putting things another way, it’s a mountain to climb for large numbers of people to organise and stop scalpers (and that, only for a while), whilst in the current commercial environment scalpers appearing is a natural outcome.
This kind of thing usually requires changing the structures that make scalping so easy, rather than hoping that somehow (magic?) hundreds of thousands or miliions of people agree to do something.
killingspark@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Gestures broadly
killingspark@feddit.org 2 months ago
I mean, yeah but have you seen…
Gestures broadly
… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Woah woah woah, we weren’t expecting an easy example to prove us wrong, how dare you.