The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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dLockers said:
£350 is still value for money tbh. It is 3 days of the best acts in the world, plus all of the side show entertainment. You pay £110 to see the Lion King for 3 hours nowadays.
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I've seen better acts on this forum that I do on side show entertainment festivals.

I wouldn't go see lion king or spend £350 for 3 days at a festival.

What a load of snail poop.
 
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unwashed potato! said:
I don't see how you can compare an event that years ago doesn't match what it is today.
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It has not changed enough (for the positive) for it to now cost five times what it did 2 decades ago.

I've been countless times over the years and worked there not long ago, it's a shadow of the festival it used to be, its now very corporate and full of Giles's from Cheltenham. It lost its character and soul. Still a great weekend out mind you but certainly feels a lot more like every other festival nowadays.
 
Perhaps that's true, but then if it's not worth that price, people won't go. Either this will be what forces the organisers to sort it out and do better, or people will continue paying the price as it still is worth it enough to them
 
unwashed potato! said:
Perhaps that's true, but then if it's not worth that price, people won't go. Either this will be what forces the organisers to sort it out and do better, or people will continue paying the price as it still is worth it enough to them
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I mean its still the best mainstream festival in the UK and the UK has no shortage of middle class people so I doubt the price hike will effect attendance, also if you haven't experienced what it was like when it was £70 then you have no real reference as to whether its good value or not and as you say it simply comes down to 'did I have fun ?. was that fun worth £350 ?
 
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I don't feel the £70 is useful any way. Once upon a time it cost something that no doubt has changed since then. You can say for better or worse, but it has changed, artists being one surely we'd expect to be demanding more money now than back when it was £70 entry, plus rent the land etc.

What it needs to be compared to is what else people would do and pay for concerts, theatre, events, holidays, weekend aways etc.

My partner and I had a weekend away to Edinburgh last year which I think cost around £700 excluding food, though there was a flight in that.

To a music lover, glastonbury is much better value.
 
VincentHanna said:
I saw that he plans to get rid of 75% of twitter's staff almost immediately.

How can you possibly know you can do such a thing before you've even taken control over the company ?
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Everything Elon is doing now in relation to twitter seems to me, you can answer any questions with "he is trying to get out buying twitter"

Even if it won't work, it just seems like some stupid idea of his that if he pretends he is going to fire them all, maybe they will panic and express concern with him buying, which he can then use to point to say, he can't buy twitter as the staff don't want him etc.
 
I'm starting to wonder if he's attempting to make the US government get involved and block him from owning Twitter. Why else is he doing this?

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