Communism doesn't even work at a village level. It breaks down as soon as it reaches the limit of a resource, and all resources are limited. Someone has to allocate that resource. Under capitalism, the most productive user would, ie, the user that creates the most value, would be able to pay more for their need than less productive users. Thus you have a system that produces the most wealth possible with the resources available to the village. Under communism, the user with the most political clout would get decide who uses the resources regardless of productivity. Thus you have a less productive, less wealthy and more slowly advancing society. And that's before the inevitable corruption of the communist committee. And it gets even worse when the common ownership of the resource inevitably leads to the Tragedy of the commons..

Communism is a bad system and cannot succeed at any level. It isn't even internally consistent.

How do they cheat? If you claim that they are getting the tickets from the venue, then there must be some procedure in the agreement between the venue and the Ticketmaster that allows this diversion of tickets to employees. That's not cheating, it's built into the rules of the game and neither the band, venue nor Ticketmaster are losing anything. Or do you imagine that security is so lax that the scalpers are stealing tickets? That's a whole different problem.

But nobody seems to be addressing the real issue here: Just exactly who are scalpers harming? The band gets paid the amount they contracted for, as do the venue and Ticketmaster. It's the scalpers take the risk and end up eating unsold tickets. The consumers who buy their tickets from the scalpers are not forced to spend any more money than they are willing to spend for that show. They may piss and moan, but it is they who decide how much their tickets will cost, no one else. That's pretty much the definition of an open market. In stock markets, scalpers are called market makers.

A more perfect method for selling tickets would be for the band to auction off the seats, either individually or in small blocks, on eBay. That way everyone would be able to get as good a ticket as they are willing to pay for and all the money goes directly to the band. Short of that, having scalpers making the ticket market is the best system for consumers and bands - the middleman, Ticketmaster, only loses opportunity because they collect every cent of the price they set.

And here's another rule that NBA teams have figured out but not musicians - if you sell out a show, you aren't charging enough for the tickets.

no longer the biggest software company in the world ?

Yep, no longer. As of right now, MSFT market cap is $208.75 B while AAPL is $226.23 B .

Well, there's that, but also porn is in color whereas erotica is graytone or sepia.

Yeah, there was quite a bit of that in the middle years, but in the end, of the four main guys, one killed another one and himself, and then the heroic cop-killer ratted out his last friend to save his own ass.