Well no, this is sponsored by Tidal, it’s a one-off, and presumably costs are covered. Artists with leverage can and should do more, but there are constraints they face both because of bad public policy decisions and business realities.
unrelated but the fact that phoebe bridgers, an artist with a budget smaller than most main stream artists, can book msg for a private event and charge fans just 1$ to attend shows that it’s possible to make arena shows cheaper, most labels/artists just choose not to do so :/