That's the price *floor* for live theatre, that's what you pay for a show that's only trying to recoup its expenses for rent and materials and a couple of full-time office employees, with all the talent being volunteers
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Live theatre that's actually run like a business where the actors are being paid something approximating a decent wage for their labor starts in the $50-100 range and goes up rapidly from there I'm sorry, but that's how much it actually costs
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The price can go down if you go to a very popular show in a big auditorium But since live theatre is not a movie and the labor cost of actually doing the show cannot be infinitely reproduced over thousands of screening rooms it cannot go below that $20 floor
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For most people who are used to watching movies this is just emotional sticker shock and they get over it For some people this really bothers them on a fundamental level Being upset that there are prices you can't drive toward zero is what they call "Baumol's cost disease"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I know people are cheap and like free stuff, but I place a lot of blame on the tech guys of the late ‘90s who argued all industries should be disrupted and stuff should be cheaper.
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Replying to @pjrodriguez @arthur_affect
I sincerely don't think nearly as many people would have been so eagerly receptive to the '90s tech guy idea that everything should be cheaper if they weren't getting squeezed so hard by the simple fact that, for most of us, cost-of-living goes up, but income doesn't anymore.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @arthur_affect
Fair. Lotta people who liked cheap socks from Walmart, but didn’t connect it to manufacturing going overseas.
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Replying to @pjrodriguez @arthur_affect
That's not my point. People who buy cheap socks at WalMart generally don't just "like" cheap socks. They don't have any other choice. They can't afford anything else. There are no other stores nearby.
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Poor people (which is most people) aren't just "unwilling" to pay for quality. They can't. It's not practical to have to do laundry every other day because you bought one pair of high-quality socks for the same price as a week's worth of cheap ones.
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I feel like there’s no more “middle” in some categories. You’re either buying junk or state of the art.
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The "death of the middle" (ie inequality shooting up) is the story of everything these days really
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