Good for her. She didn’t mistreat thousands of warehouse employees or spy on and manipulate three generations with social media to do it.
I’m okay with her being the exception to the rule, as long as she doesn’t turn into a monster.
It’s not hard.
You can’t reach billion dollars without exploitation
Imagine living on a planet with millions of people struggling day to day with bare essentials like food and water and also having people that own enough money help millions. Why is it ok to hort wealth while you could easily help a lot of people? Like dont get me wrong, Taylor Swift is a cool artist not doing anything considered wrong by society. I simply find it odd to see people literally starving or freezing to death outside in the winter while they could be helped and no one bats an eye.
Oh I think you totally have a point. Came across this post in the main feed. The moral thing for her to do would be spend a shit ton of that wealth helping people in need. I was just commenting about how it’s nice for someone to end up rich without being a complete piece of crap to get there.
She didn’t mistreat thousands of warehouse employees or spy on and manipulate three generations with social media to do it.
Maybe, but most music industry jobs are kinda shit same as any other job. The people that help set up the stage, the people working on her makeup, costumes, the people working in the labels, cleanup crews after concerts, people doing marketing/promotion etc. they all contribute to her success. Sure it’s overall probably a bit less exploitative than Amazon warehouses but exploitation still happens.
You don’t make a billion dollars on your own.
Damn, lots of people made good points.
I guess I was just engaged in wishful thinking.
I’d be curious to hear an actual Marxist analysis of Swift’s relationship to the means of production because it’s clearly different than the owner of a company.
For one, Swift is actually a major contributor the production and is actually necessary unlike CEOs. She also doesn’t have control of the stadiums that she performs at, so it’s harder to say that she’s profiting off of their surplus labor.
While it’s true that she obviously couldn’t do this stuff alone, I’d like to see an analysis sketched out for celebrities or prominent athletes in general.
I’m betting these comments are going to get spicy
One of the things you’re all forgetting is that she’s a billionaire because of her catalog and music and stuff. She does not have a bank account with $1,00,000 sitting in it. I’m not saying billionaires should or shouldn’t exist, just reminding you that the valuation comes from intangible things that don’t have that value unless they’re sold to somebody. Her music is only worth what somebody wants to pay for it, if she even wants to sell it in the first place.
No billionaire has a billion on their bank account. It’s all stocks and other assets.
That is my entire point. She doesn’t have a billion dollars to give out because she doesn’t actually have a billion dollars.
Good billionaires:
01There are actually quite a few. This Forbes article says that there were 29 good billionaires in 2023. Hopefully Taylor leaves the billionaire club before she joins that list!
This is totally uncalled for. Please don’t have this mindset jeez.
What’s totally uncalled for is the fact that billionaires exist in the first place
You’re in the wrong part of the internet if you want to argue against putting Taylor Swift in a guillotine. “Eat the Rich” is hardly a nonlethal slogan.
Most people who want to eat Taylor Swift mean something…else…
Her homemade beef stroganoff?
Mmmmm. I could go for that
