The boring answer is that politicians do what voters want.
Voters want homelessness to end.
Voters do not want the solutions implemented to end homelessness.
Politicians try and guess which matters more to voters.
Commercial_Gold_9699 on
No difference to dynamic pricing in flying, hotels etc unfortunately. Customer always gets screwed.
MotherDucker95 on
Also, something hilariously ironic about FG politicians taken a stand on this when they are big proponents of the so called free market….
Easy points scoring exercise I suppose
coffeenvape on
Remember how vocal various politicians were when the cost of living crisis started and supermarket prices were going through the roof? They said it was unacceptable, bla bla bla, supermarkets would be investigated..bla bla bla. It died down and then what happened..the same as always, nothing. Ticketmaster can fuck right off and tbh is it even guaranteed that Oasis can do a gig without battering each other ?!
1Saltyd0g on
They just aren’t happy they didn’t get tickets
SimpleJohn20 on
People still bought tickets though?
If it shows anything people are willing to spend.
Rental market rate increase incoming 📈
das_punter on
We just need FG in power for another 14 years and tickets for Oasis 2040 will be reasonably priced.
Rivenaleem on
Solve the ourtageous ticket prices and you solve homless at the same time.
demonspawns_ghost on
I think it’s important to remember that 14.4k figure is for people in emergency accommodation. I went to the council earlier this year to see if I could get a place, they said there was nothing. I asked if there was a waiting list, they said no. So now I live in a derelict house out in the country with no running water or mains electricity. Could be worse, I suppose.
Franz_Werfel on
There’s a certain irony about people complaining about this here, seeing as r/ireland has been occasionally known to look down on the homeless as well.
YoIronFistBro on
There is genuienly a serious discussion to be had about how ridiculously far in advance everything gets booked/sold out in Ireland. It’s not normal!
spungie on
Just roll with it..it’s their masterplan to get the youth to vote for them, so they can keep on travelling all around the world at the tax payers expensive.
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You can’t fix ticket pricing overnight
There’s popular political capital in being vocal about these things. They shout for a few days and then the hype dies down.
Have the homeless thought about angrily queuing online for a non-essential service?
To be fair this could be a real headline if any of the media had the balls to print it.
If anyone wants to do actually do anything constructive about this, I’ve created a thread to try and get behind an investigation into the practise
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1f6c0m5/public_consultation_investigation_into_dynamic/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1f6c0m5/public_consultation_investigation_into_dynamic/)
The boring answer is that politicians do what voters want.
Voters want homelessness to end.
Voters do not want the solutions implemented to end homelessness.
Politicians try and guess which matters more to voters.
No difference to dynamic pricing in flying, hotels etc unfortunately. Customer always gets screwed.
Also, something hilariously ironic about FG politicians taken a stand on this when they are big proponents of the so called free market….
Easy points scoring exercise I suppose
Remember how vocal various politicians were when the cost of living crisis started and supermarket prices were going through the roof? They said it was unacceptable, bla bla bla, supermarkets would be investigated..bla bla bla. It died down and then what happened..the same as always, nothing. Ticketmaster can fuck right off and tbh is it even guaranteed that Oasis can do a gig without battering each other ?!
They just aren’t happy they didn’t get tickets
People still bought tickets though?
If it shows anything people are willing to spend.
Rental market rate increase incoming 📈
We just need FG in power for another 14 years and tickets for Oasis 2040 will be reasonably priced.
Solve the ourtageous ticket prices and you solve homless at the same time.
I think it’s important to remember that 14.4k figure is for people in emergency accommodation. I went to the council earlier this year to see if I could get a place, they said there was nothing. I asked if there was a waiting list, they said no. So now I live in a derelict house out in the country with no running water or mains electricity. Could be worse, I suppose.
There’s a certain irony about people complaining about this here, seeing as r/ireland has been occasionally known to look down on the homeless as well.
There is genuienly a serious discussion to be had about how ridiculously far in advance everything gets booked/sold out in Ireland. It’s not normal!
Just roll with it..it’s their masterplan to get the youth to vote for them, so they can keep on travelling all around the world at the tax payers expensive.
Homeless dont vote. Expensive ticket buyers vote.