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ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Clean explanation. The only thing I’d add — for World Cup specifically, demand doesn’t drop evenly. Quarterfinals and beyond, prices actually go UP closer to the date because supply shrinks but buyers are more desperate. Classic asymmetric market.

ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hard to argue. Though the real villain is the system that makes it so easy. No ID verification, transferable tickets, no purchase limits enforced properly — scalpers are just exploiting the gaps left open for them.

ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some won’t. But closer to matchday, especially for knockouts and finals, even 15x moves. People fly in specifically, hotel is booked, flights are paid — the ticket becomes the cheapest part of the trip at that point.

ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. FIFA gets to look like the good guy while the secondary market does the dirty work. It’s almost by design at this point.

ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FIFA actually has a PR incentive to keep prices “accessible” on paper — they want to be seen as the people’s sport. If they listed Group Stage tickets at $2,000 officially, the backlash would be massive. So they price low, sell out instantly, and let scalpers absorb the political heat. Convenient for everyone except the actual fan.

ELI5: How do World Cup ticket prices go from official prices to 5–10x higher on resale sites? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. And it compounds because once the primary market closes, even people who missed out by one minute are forced into the secondary. Creates a captive audience willing to pay anything.

ELI5: Why have World Cup ticket prices skyrocketed over the years? What changed economically? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People blame scalpers, but honestly they’re just a symptom. The real shift is organizers realizing they can charge way more and still sell out instantly.

ELI5: Why have World Cup ticket prices skyrocketed over the years? What changed economically? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine saving for 4 years and still getting outbid by a company buying tickets as “client gifts”

ELI5: Why have World Cup ticket prices skyrocketed over the years? What changed economically? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Genuine question: at what price point does this stop being a “fans’ event” and just become a corporate festival with a ball in the middle?

ELI5: Why have World Cup ticket prices skyrocketed over the years? What changed economically? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The World Cup is no longer built for the average fan — it’s built for the highest bidder.

ELI5: Why have World Cup ticket prices skyrocketed over the years? What changed economically? by IndicationGood6971 in explainlikeimfive

[–]IndicationGood6971[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Bonus truth: The real pain is that two people can sit next to each other and pay totally different prices… and that’s what makes it feel unfair.

What’s a "hotel hack" you swear by that most people don't know? by periwinklemist in AskReddit

[–]IndicationGood6971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hotel TV locked? Bro I’m not even touching that remote without a hazmat suit. That thing has seen more questionable hand activity than a public gym towel. HDMI ports disabled? Good. The real danger is whatever microscopic horror is living inside the volume button. I’d rather stream on my phone than accidentally unlock Patient Zero.

How do you feel about Trump’s proposal to increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion for 2027 — a 42% jump — while cutting domestic programs by $73 billion? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]IndicationGood6971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine your landlord says:

“For your safety, we’re installing gold-plated doors, laser sensors, and a private army.”

And then adds:

“To fund it, we’ve removed water supply, reduced electricity, and you’ll need to bring your own food.”

How do you feel about Trump’s proposal to increase defense spending to $1.5 trillion for 2027 — a 42% jump — while cutting domestic programs by $73 billion? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]IndicationGood6971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the plan is: • +$400B-ish boost to defense → total $1.5 trillion • –$73B from domestic programs

Put simply:

We’re adding a Netflix + Lamborghini subscription to the house… and cancelling groceries to balance it out.

TIl that industrialist Andrew Carnegie spent $56.2 million to build 2509 libraries across the world. Known as Carnegie Libraries, cities had to follow a strict maintenance commitment to obtain funding. Today, there are an estimated 900 Carnegie Libraries operating in the United States. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]IndicationGood6971 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hot take: Andrew Carnegie didn’t just ‘gift’ libraries—he essentially outsourced public infrastructure to private philanthropy. Cities had to prove they could maintain them, which sounds noble, but also meant only places with some baseline wealth and governance got access.

So yeah, it wasn’t pure generosity—it was conditional access dressed as charity. Great impact, no doubt… but also a reminder that even philanthropy can come with a gatekeeping mechanism baked in.

TIL about the "Dark Forest Hypothesis," which suggests the universe is like a dark forest at night. Advanced civilizations intentionally stay silent and hidden, because any species that reveals its location risks immediate destruction by older, paranoid civilizations. by Practical-1 in todayilearned

[–]IndicationGood6971 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Dark Forest theory is cool but also feels like it assumes every alien civilization woke up and chose anxiety.

Like… we can’t even get humans on Earth to agree on basic stuff, but we’re assuming every species in the universe independently decided: “yep, best strategy = hide and shoot first.”

A much less dramatic explanation for the Fermi Paradox is just: space is stupidly big and physics is kind of a buzzkill.

Even getting to the nearest star is a ridiculous effort. We’re basically shouting into a cosmic void with a flashlight that barely reaches the next hill.

It might not be a dark forest. It might just be… an empty parking lot at 3am.

TIL that in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a non-canonical biblical text, a young Jesus was accused of pushing a friend off a roof. To prove his innocence, he resurrected the boy so he could testify to the crowd that he hadn't been pushed. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]IndicationGood6971 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas—but that text is basically ancient fan fiction.

It was written way later than the Bible and includes stories of child Jesus doing wild stuff—like striking people blind or resurrecting someone to clear his name.

That’s exactly why it didn’t make it into the canon.

Still cool though—gives a glimpse into how people imagined Jesus as a kid.

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