Ticketing Platforms Normalize Price‑Gouging Culture

Internal Slack chats released during the DOJ antitrust case show Live Nation regional directors joking about 'robbing' concertgoers and freely marking up parking and ancillary fees. The messages were withheld from jurors but later unsealed, illustrating how platform firms' internal culture can normalize opportunistic pricing even amid legal scrutiny. — This matters because it links corporate culture (what employees say and laugh about) to antitrust enforcement, consumer harm, and the political case for stronger regulation of dominant ticketing platforms.