Some people may even find a kind of beauty in the way the system was designed to keep special interests in check.
“To have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, who called the hearing.
“You can’t have too much consolidation — something that, unfortunately for this country, as an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say, we know all too well.”(Nice one, Ames.)
ICYMI, tickets for Swift’s Eras Tour, which begins in March, went up for pre-sale on Ticketmaster in mid-November.
But the bigger question of whether Live Nation is a monopoly is up to the Department of Justice.