It takes a special kind of stupid to pay these ridiculous high ticket prices. No one is forced to go. I can’t feel bad for those who are that stupid but do wonder what their families had to do without in order to buy the tickets.
The people snapping up those high ticket prices can easily afford them. The Baby Boomers (the primary Springsteen demographic) are at the very pinnacle of their wealth creation. They have mostly retired or are about to and are now spending down all the money they made on their investments the past 40 years. So they can afford to splurge, especially to relive a part of their youth.
Bruce Springsteen (and other Boomer acts) are simply taking advantage of that fact. Who can blame them?