• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Biden, and his FTC has limited resources. He’s expending tax-payer-funded effort. It’s a basic cost-benefit analysis I expect better and more prudent decisions from lowest level of supervisors in my management chain.

    It’s a fallacy when they’re otherwise unrelated. They’re not unrelated in that going after one precludes the other. The FTC can only handle so many at once- and it’s Biden’s job to give them the top-level direction.

    Biden is unwilling or incapable of doing what’s necessary to protect Americans- actual, breathing Americans.

    As for experiencing live music… yeah. I get that. There’s plenty of avenues for experiencing live music that don’t involve live nation. You don’t have to go to the top stars; and chances are solid, you’ll like the experience better.

    Biden is the one directing the trade commission to go after them, so yes, it’s about Biden and his priorities. Which apparently, American families are not.

    Two things can be independently wrong. But as is the entire point I’ve been trying to make, the resources to solve them are limited. Biden, the FTC, doesn’t have the ability to go after everyone.

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      Biden, and his FTC has limited resources

      Nowhere near as limited as you seem to be imagining.

      They’re not unrelated in that going after one precludes the other

      That’s just categorically false.

      Biden is unwilling or incapable of doing what’s necessary to protect Americans- actual, breathing Americans.

      I’d be inclined to agree with you on that, but that’s still besides the point.

      There’s plenty of avenues for experiencing live music that don’t involve live nation.

      No there isn’t. That’s the problem. Bands below a certain level of popularity only get rare booking at low capacity venues and bands above that level almost invariably depend on TM/LN to book larger venues.

      The end result is that no matter whose music you prefer, you’re not likely to get to experience it anywhere near as often as you’d like without going bankrupt, unless you’re rich.

      You don’t have to go to the top stars; and chances are solid, you’ll like the experience better.

      Yeah, sometimes the “top stars” are the favorites of people and/or their peer group. It’s not a fungible thing where if you’re only into punk, a jazz festival will do in a pinch.

      • Obviously, good music that’s either free or lower cost is dependent on people’s location. I would argue that there is a significant portion of Americans that could find that music if they tried and were willing to go to shows with artists they aren’t familiar with. I personally go to a great local brewery every Thursday evening that features top quality jazz. Many of the performers are professors and/or students from Berklee College of Music. Free.