Every ticket to a live event has become an investment. Brutal.

They've had 15 years to offer an alternative. Their plan has always been "tough shit get sick and go broke and/or die."

This is bad. Very, very bad.

My favourite Baldwin video:

Small Yorkie dog ate the four sticks of butter acquired for Thanksgiving cooking. Yorkie proceeded to be extremely greasy all over, seemingly extruding the butter through her fur, for *three full weeks*!

James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

they could also be a "good shit" or a "hot shit."

You know we’re deep in the bad place when people have a million bucks to essentially light on fire.

There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.

It's also how we get US sweatshops

How is this not showing in the Boston area?!