“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to that and you want to make it a special night, you’re talking $500 to $1,000 a night for a couple to go out. It’s capitalism at its best.”
Our owner class truly believes they can sustain an economy made up of and powered by the 90% almost exclusively for the top 10%.
Almost makes me glad they’re also recklessly ending the world (for humans and other not so physically resilient/hearty species, not all life thankfully) in pursuit of even moooaaaar short term growth/metastasis cash crabs. I’d prefer nature go back to the drawing board to having a few humans exploit the value out of most humans very lives in perpetuity.
That ongoing reality makes me ashamed to call myself human, not proud.