Wouldn't that mean the person scanning your ticket at Disney should be making like $60k for SoCal "living wages"?If a business can't pay living wages then that business should not exist.
I do think a lot of the higher ticket prices are crowd control. I think Disney is largely happy with the number of people in the park and I absolutely recall a few years back them stating that they were trying to improve customer satisfaction on over crowding by increasing ticket prices to lower demand, so I totally think this is a thing they do.
I will admit that I'm a little surprised things have remained so strong for them this long. Back in the early summer I thought tides may have shifted by now and crowds might start to thin out and Disney would need to pull some demand levers (promos). Doesn't appear to be the case.