[Syd Thrift]

I'm seeing nothing in there about being "woke". Can we not turn this into politics, please?

I do see one very dumb take on sports economics, though. Assuming the Yankees have already slotted in the ideal price point for tickets and beer, if they raise prices, they'll sell less of them and get less revenue. Like, what do people think is the alternative? The owners are just like "well, hey, we want to basically just give away beer for $20 but now that the GREEDY PLAYERS have signed a contract we wrote out for them, we can't do that anymore"? Come on. MLB is a business. They operate as a business, not a charity. Hell, if someone figured out they'd make more money by *lowering* prices, they'd do that (in the case of Yankee Stadium, where they have pretty high attendance, that seems unlikely, but still).

But this is like basic Econ 101 stuff. How much it costs to "build" something has little to do with how much people are willing to pay for it except when it comes to your sales pitch on what you want to charge them. People have this weird view of businesses, particularly large businesses, as somehow being detached from this, but no, if anything the bigger business are more detached from the human "we will charge less because we're giving back or whatever" stuff you might see from small business (or of course "we're charging more because we're manufacturing bespoke products" or "you pay for quality", but I digress). There is a point at which your sales x what your charge multiplies into the biggest number and businesses try to peg that as much as they can, regardless of what they just paid out to some outfielder or other.