> If you are a performer, sometimes you want to sell to the biggest fans. What's the market mechanism for that?
This is what I don't get about some of the arguments here. In the freest markets, doesn't that mean I have the right refuse service to anyone? Doesn't that mean I have every right to do everything in my power to avoid selling to scalpers? If that artists wanted to do an auction type system, the arguments being made would make sense, but that isn't what most artists are trying to do.
I just read another story here about the letter Bill and Melinda Gates wrote to Warren Buffet to tell him what they are doing with his money. Market mechanisms are part of it (like giving vaccine makers purchasing guarantees so they will work at getting the cost of vaccines down) but there aren't good market mechanisms for a lot of the foundation's philanthropic work. They aren't maximizing for profit, their goal is to maximize other goals.
This is what I don't get about some of the arguments here. In the freest markets, doesn't that mean I have the right refuse service to anyone? Doesn't that mean I have every right to do everything in my power to avoid selling to scalpers? If that artists wanted to do an auction type system, the arguments being made would make sense, but that isn't what most artists are trying to do.