[HN Gopher] FIFA's 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hells...
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       FIFA's 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-10-26 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | gtsop wrote:
       | Capitalism commiting literal genocides, but that they can get
       | away with. We draw the line when they fiddle with our sports
       | tickets!
        
         | noir_lord wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
         | We can tackle multiple bad things at once. Enshittification
         | needs to be documented at every stage.
        
       | sema4hacker wrote:
       | 48 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174371
        
       | dmitrygr wrote:
       | 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.
        
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