
Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Capitalisn't
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Is There a Link Between Antitrust Enforcement and Short Termism?
There is a tension in how you design the auction and there is a conflict between the artist who has a long term view and the ticket master organization or whoever is selling the tickets. If you have a consolidated monopoly, you tend to take the longer term view because you think you're going to be around for the long term versus in competition. So I'm not so sure that I would go that down that path. The fact that ticket master doesn't want to do that might be evidence to that they're too big.
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