Ticketmaster's tech problem isn't a tech problem
Maybe I&#x27;m the only one who doesn&#x27;t really see a problem with ticket prices being as high as they are.<p>There is much more demand for these tickets than there are supply of tickets, so my econ 101 tells me the price <i>should</i> go up until the demand drops to match the supply.<p>Any other argument just feels like sour grapes from folks who don&#x27;t have the means to buy this luxury item.<p><i>Separately</i>, Ticketmaster&#x27;s monopoly is concerning, but in <i>this</i> case I don&#x27;t see that impacting prices.  In fact it seems like Ticketmaster <i>did</i> try to do a handful of things to artificially lower ticket prices, those things just were not effective due to <i>technical</i> issues (so the article title may be wrong).<p>Music fans like to moralize about how they &quot;deserve&quot; to go to concerts, but the reality is nobody deserves to go anywhere; attending a concert is not something you must do in order to survive.  It&#x27;s not even a thing you must do in order to enjoy an artist&#x27;s music or support that artist.  There is absolutely no imperative or necessity to attend this tour, and in cases like that I have no problem with pricing matching demand and supply pretty directly.