The thing I wonder about with movies and food: where is the competition? Where is the free market thing? If the price of tickets and food is an issue for people to not go to the cinema more often, surely a competitor would see that as an opportunity and gouge prices?
I mean that's basically what Uber did with a ton of investor money; undercut the competition out of business. Muh free market.
edit: oh you mentioned monopolies already, I should've finished reading your reply lmao
Movies at least are a dying breed; the local theatre just closed down, and the total number of theaters in the US is dropping (though it's leveled out from the huge crash around 2000).
I mean that's basically what Uber did with a ton of investor money; undercut the competition out of business. Muh free market.
edit: oh you mentioned monopolies already, I should've finished reading your reply lmao