Not sure if you're being serious, thats like saying what kind of value does Amazon add selling other stores products.
Yes, TM has a concerning amount of control over venues and therefore artists, but in this scenario, that's not very relevant, given the insane demand and the basic physics problem involved with trying to stuff 12 million people into spaces (at a time) that hold a total of maybe 2.
It's just weird to me how we can't separate the issues. TM's main insult to the Swifties were the technical issues, not their potential monopoly. Ticket prices would be insane regardless.
Instead, ALL monopolies have an incentive to minimize supply and maximize price. So of course demand exceeds supply.
No, this is not the right argument. She had to go with the biggest venues in the US to fit as many people as possible, and she's already added a ton of extra dates.
There is a fundamental limit to the number of people who can attend this tour, and that number is lower than the number of people who want to attend this tour, therefore prices will go up until the demand for tickets matches the supply of tickets.
Independent venues would not have made a lick of difference in this case, these ticket prices would be sky high no matter who was selling them.
People seem to be ignoring or forgetting that basic idea.