@grok What is the mode ticket price for a Taylor swift concert?

When luxury becomes normal, resentment becomes policy. People aren't angry at success, they're furious at how essential things feel out of reach while spectacle is thrown in their faces. It's not just about $4,000 tickets or $36 burgers. It's the sense that the game is rigged, and the only winning move is to stop playing by the old rules.

The average price for Taylor Swift tickets in 2025 was around $250; in 2026 TicketMaster is projecting an average cost of $281.42…easily the most expensive tickets of any performer out there. toursetlist.com/taylor-swift…. If you wait and get your tickets through a resale agency…yes, scalped tickets to ANY performance are quite high and to sold out performances particularly so. Her performances are always sold out so the trick is to buy early if you wish to attend. If you don’t you’ll pay a scalper a heavy premium.

If they will pay it, she’ll keep it high. She could give her fans a little bit of a discount. No way I’d ever pay that much for a concert ticket.

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Never been to a concert. Music is free and I just don’t understand what the big deal is…

We went to see Fleetwood Mac in Dallas in 2019. Tickets were about $300 each in the nosebleed section at the farthest end of AAC from the stage. Still a great show though.

I can honestly say that I would not take $4000 as pay to go to a Taylor Swift concert.

Same people voting for it are going to those Taylor Swift shows🤣

That's insane. I wouldn't pay that for a show. Nope. I'd prefer to pay a few more and travel to a foreign country.

Yeah, that's nuts. Dems' inflation hits hard.

“I understand why people are angry about the economy… Taylor Swift’s average ticket price is over $4,000.” @grok and you say?

Could have seen her concert movie 🎥 at AMC THEATERS for a fraction of that price.✨🎫💃

Well, even @TuckerCarlson said almost the same thing a couple of years ago—something along the lines of “young people who work full time jobs can’t even buy a car anymore, so why wouldn’t socialism appeal to them?” I’m not denying that the gap between the rich and the dying middle class and poor is heinous. But…

I haven't watched this entire segment, but the truth is people are more concerned about their kids getting to see "Taylor Swift" than feeding them. Then they want the government to make up the difference. This is one spoiled - and equally deluded -- society.

Everybody is voting for $36 cheeseburgers, left and right.

This is just so stupid. There have ALWAYS been inaccessible things to people that don't have a lot of money. Today or gets thrown in everyone face on socials. You may not be the person that gets to have everything. But necessities are pretty easy to acquire.

Not true, my wife paid like $200-300 per ticket for us to go to Taylor Swift in Miami in 2024

It’s the government stealing our money. How is socialism going to change that?

Now we need universal concerts and baseball games?

I saw journey…wham…Rick Springfield…Duran Duran ….hall and Oates….culture club…and more all In their prime in the 80’s…never paid more than $20 for a ticket and they did not lip sync or use auto tune…no dancers….just music and it was great

Sigh. Mahers elitism is leaking out here. Using Taylor Swift tickets as an example of a tough economy when her concerts sell out stadiums is a miss.

Bill Gates once said that Warren Buffet invited him to lunch.. They went to McDonald's and Warren Buffet used a coupon. There's a reason the rich get richer and poor get poorer.

And the same people buying those tickets are crying about EBT and taxing billionaires more.. how about taxing Taylor Swift more? Why doesn’t she cover the EBT fund?

That's ridiculous. I just saw my favorite singer at Madison Square Garden and for good seats, we paid a couple hundred. In Prague, we paid $120 to see him. I love this artist so much, but I would not pay in the thousands to see him.

Maher is an idiot. That's the secondary ticket market.

Ah yes, the classic stage-managed moment where a guest on a political show becomes the straight man to a running monologue about agenda, deficits, and popularity polls. If only the real debate could be as sharp as the one-liner, we’d have policies that actually address the cost of living and the concerns of everyday Americans. Let the dialogue focus on substance, not punchlines.

the american dream is now just aspirational consumerism on credit .. we voted for capitalism but we only read the terms and conditions on the luxury version its not socialism were craving its a reality where the math adds up

Pool your resources and grow your own food. Get some chickens, build a green house and plant veggies.

🇺🇸 Dusty Titans💥🔥 “Luxury pricing is power. $4,000 tickets? Proof that markets reward brand dominance and exclusivity. Economics is obedience, not fairness.”💼⚡ Strategy, control, and hierarchy dictate who consumes and who struggles.🏛️💨😎📝 🇺🇸 Liberty Sentinel😂🚨 “$4,000 for a concert? People are starving and struggling to pay rent, and this is the world we live in? That’s outrageous!”⚖️✊ Ordinary Americans see injustice and dream of fairness.👀💡🎤🔥

That cannot be true. There is no one that would pay $4K to attend a concert.

late-stage capitalism sounds like a Ticketmaster receipt

That would be the after-market price. Not the face value of the ticket. Don’t be obtuse.

Luxury pricing versus necessities shows the widening gap between entertainment and survival.

In 1969, you could see Janis Joplin live in concert for $6.00.

HMMMM