A jury found Wednesday that entertainment giant Live Nation, which hosts tens of thousands of concerts a year, and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big venues.

The ruling, in a lawsuit brought by dozens of states, won’t immediately bring relief for concertgoers who have long complained about high ticket prices.

But it could cost Live Nation hundreds of millions of dollars and perhaps force the company to sell some of its concert venues when the judge hands out penalties later.

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    To me, that’s like saying “we have to fix windows”, or “we have to fix slavery”. No. Those are bad systems, beyond repair. They need to be burnt down to the ground.

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      That’s like a house needing new wallpaper so you burn it down…

      You have no idea how much more resources and time it would take to replace the entire house.

      Like, conceptually it feels like you think it’s flipping a switch.

      And I don’t have time to explain everything right now.

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        It’s not just new wallpaper though, that’s making light of capitalism’s problems.

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          It takes our time and money…

          Meanwhile we don’t have any house to live in.

          Like, at least go argue that we should build a new house, then burn down our current shack.