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Eh that's a weird take - The Guardian is better than most (whether that is itself good enough is going to depend on your viewpoint) main stream media sources at calling out some of the worst capitalism abuses.

They aren't a bad newspaper by the standards of what passes as our press these days.

Cpoll•1h ago

I think their point is that "late-capitalist hellscape" is a bit breathless considering we're just talking about football tickets and not, say, insulin. (I acknowledge it's not "just" football tickets for everyone).

thebruce87m•1h ago

We can tackle multiple bad things at once. Enshittification needs to be documented at every stage.

sema4hacker•1h ago

48 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174371

dmitrygr•1h ago

FIFA invented ticket options (they call it RTBs), a ticket derivatives market (their marketplace allowing trades and sales of RTBs), and then cross-bred that with loot boxes (random cheap “cards” that may or may not contain RTBs). I bet that with some effort, you could figure out how to short tickets given the tools they have created.

We finally found a worthy competitor to Ticketmaster in the “worst way to buy tickets to an event” competition, it seems.

Fade_Dance•7m ago

You know, now that I think about it, I have seen an actual ticket short squeeze before - when the airline is overbooked and has to run a reverse auction to buy back their ticket.

travelalberta•21m ago

“Sports are the opiate of the middle class” as a reframe sucked all the fun out of sports for me. Overvalued to watch in person, too many ads to watch digitally. Not to mention having sports betting rammed down my throat. Professional sports is like any other medium from my childhood, monetized into the abyss and not as fun to interact with.