Maybe money will ruin professional sports.
Only when there aren’t enough rich people to support it.
That’s the difference between now and then. When there were relatively few rich people, it would be suicide to raise prices to the point where you kill the market.
But now we have a lot of rich people, so many that you can raise prices without suffering the consequences, the market is still big enough, because now you have a global market. That is why globalism is ultimately doomed to crash, with violent consequences.
I keep waiting for it. I think we're getting close.
Exorbitant pricing finally drove my company out of hosting customers for the Ky Derby
“Maybe money will ruin professional sports”
And to think, 1930s depression era was the Golden Years of baseball.