EatingOnions@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoWith just days left, the U.S. opening match at the World Cup is still not sold outwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down10
arrow-up1259arrow-down1external-linkWith just days left, the U.S. opening match at the World Cup is still not sold outwww.npr.orgEatingOnions@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareBabalugats@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-216 hours agoit does show the inflated graphs. But it doesn’t really matter, it is obvious that the prices now are insane compared to: 2014 Brazil ticket prices ranged from €69 and the cheapest tickets for the final were priced at around €288 2018 Russia prices ranged from€79, while the most expensive final ticket in Moscow cost around €950 2022 Qatar ranged from€450 up to €1,000 or more. Qatar was just scummy. The US following their lead is the same.
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours ago But it doesn’t really matter Yes it does. There’s literally no reason to not just show the adjusted for inflation graphs.
minus-squareBabalugats@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoThey do show them. But the point is the crazy difference is noticed because it’s so high, even without knowing the inflation rate. But as mentioned. The charts with inflation are there.
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 minutes ago They do show them. They hide them as secondary images. There is literally no reason to show unadjusted numbers for this.
it does show the inflated graphs.
But it doesn’t really matter, it is obvious that the prices now are insane compared to:
2014 Brazil ticket prices ranged from €69 and the cheapest tickets for the final were priced at around €288
2018 Russia prices ranged from€79, while the most expensive final ticket in Moscow cost around €950
2022 Qatar ranged from€450 up to €1,000 or more.
Qatar was just scummy. The US following their lead is the same.
Yes it does. There’s literally no reason to not just show the adjusted for inflation graphs.
They do show them. But the point is the crazy difference is noticed because it’s so high, even without knowing the inflation rate.
But as mentioned. The charts with inflation are there.
They hide them as secondary images. There is literally no reason to show unadjusted numbers for this.