It’s it odd how the media picks and chooses who to call out on making “too much” money.
She must be the wrong type of millionaire or something
She must be the wrong type of millionaire or something
She isn’t one at all, she’s a billionaire, and she’s definitely not a fucking victim.
If anything, it’s her fellow billionaires not getting enough shit, not her getting too much.
Look at it realistically.
She’s not living a better life style than Frank Sinatra or Micheal Jackson did in their heyday.
It’s not about how much money you have. It’s owner class vs working class. And even in the case of owner class, I would say that when the thing you own and make money from is yourself and your own image, that’s very different from owning the fruits of other people’s labour.
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Here is my wild take: Making that much money by performing a concert is perfectly fine. Performing a concert is work. People who went there clearly consent to that.
In my opinion, this is different to making money by investing that is meaning making money by just owning stuff.
Pretty sure she has financial managers to keep her earned money working for her by investing in stocks and bonds and such.
Probably. And that is problematic. But it is a completely different criticism.
Why is that problematic? Is it because you think that that is even possible is bad? Or that her investing her money is bad.
I’m genuinely curious.
Right - this is not passive income. She’s just massively in-demand, and can only exist in one place at a time.
How much goes to everyone else at the venue would be a different conversation.
The article doesn’t really specify, but it looks like they’re pretending she keeps all the money to herself. Weird comparison.
And she’s not on the list of the top richest people in the world.
If you look at her life style, she’s not doing much better than Mick Jagger or Michael Jackson were when they were at the top.
On the other hand, look at the salaries of executives. CEOs who used to make 50 times what their employees made are a thing of the distant past.
Not specific to TS but for me personally, I’m just fucking sick of billionaires in this day and age. When so many are struggling just to make ends meet. It’s not their fault they’re this disgustingly rich, but it doesn’t make their unbalanced existence on this planet any easier to digest.
It’s not their fault they’re this disgustingly rich
Whose fucking fault is it then???
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How does she go to so many shows so quickly?
Lots and lots of private jet flights. Also planes/trucks haul tons of gear all over the world. These are sources of resource extraction that show her to sell so many tickets in so many places.
She also cut a check for $100k (of her own money) to each of those truck drivers on top of their normal pay as a thank you.
What people are saying is there’s a lot worse people who deserve the scorn.
If I made a product that sells a lot, be in high demand, and had a fanatic following, I would be rich as well.
Lmmfao, ok, temporarily embarrassed millionaire, you keep telling yourself that…
What is less funny is that you think the people who are manipulated by a trillion dollar industry re to blame, and not those running and profiting from said industry.
You are definitely a bigger part of the problem in shifting the blame the way you are, than any one of her fans buying a ticket or an album trying to enjoy their wage slave life for an hour or two.
The people giving them the fucking money?? Stop buying their shit
Oh yeah, as if there isn’t a trillion dollar industry manipulating them (and you, to defend those profiting from it, well done)… You’ve really got it all solved, haven’t you? 🙄🙄🙄
I’m all for trashing Healthcare CEO billionaires, but dammit… TayTay earns her money and doesn’t intentionally kill anyone doing it.
No billionaire is an ethical billionaire
“Every billionair is bad except for the specific ones I like.”
70% of people so far who voted on my comment understood that I was being sarcastic. Not a bad hit rate, all things considered.
Well, apart from the fact that she mostly doesn’t actually sing in her concerts (and when she does, it’s heavily Autotuned), and her band doesn’t actually play.
Grosses, right? Do I need to wade into the article to find out where the math errors and artistic license are on reporting the income for someone I don’t know, will never know, and don’t much care about?
She sings well. She presents as a decent person. She’s making a lot of money providing a non-essential service people are dumping loads of discretionary spending on, and ancillary businesses in her touring path feel some osmotic benefit.
Cool.
Can we prioritize the Galen Westons and Trumps of the world for our hate and scorn? They seem to be doing far worse on a smaller scale that needs to be smaller still.
Can we prioritize the Galen Westons and Trumps of the world
I don’t know the first person but I assume they’re a rich POS. In which case, yes, we’re already prioritizing them. So much so that comment sections like this are full of apologia when it’s anyone who isn’t a piece of shit
Tax them or shut the fuck up about it
No one should be that rich. At the same time, thousands of people won’t show up to hear me sing.
She also has a giant amount of people she pays with those earnings. Not saying she isn’t filthy rich, but she is an artist, writes most of her own words and music, and fought really hard to get compensated for it.
I respect her for all of that. She probably also does a ton of charity. What she does is not easy. Most people can’t even write a verse/chorus/verse/chorus lyric that works, let alone piano and guitar. Actually make it so other people enjoy it, and perform that shit night after night all over the world. That’s a shit ton of traveling, setting up, doing the set, tearing all of that huge production down, and moving on to the next gig.
I don’t listen to her at all, but I admire the amount of effort ot takes to do it. She’s not some CEO with a laptop flying around meeting other CEOs for drinks. People like her work hard. Other acts that do that have earned thier money too. Metallica, Rolling Stones, what have you. They write and perform and bust ass far more than you and me ever will.
I wasn’t expecting that to pour out of me, i apologize. Lol
All good!
I would say busting ass doesn’t scale your success, but will agree it is a prerequisite. A lot of people with talent and work ethic don’t make it anywhere. Your force multiplier is opportunity, and that is scarce and unevenly distributed.
And yet, she’s still a wealth hoarding billionaire. Womp womp.
I just don’t see how we can reconcile the two. People want to hear her sing and they’re willing to pay a lot for it.
The main alternative I can think of is for her to sing for free and have the government pay for the production of her shows. As popular as she is I can’t see that going over well. Putting the arts under political control leads to the unnecessary politicization of the arts.
Or, hear me out: tax the rich.
I like her though so it’s fine! /s
“Earns”, heh. Cute.
“Earn” is a strong word.
Hey she’s actually doing something. There are plenty of other extremely rich people they could have talked about but for some reason they chose her.
Who gives a shit what this one is “doing differently”?
She represents a cancerous concentration of wealth - fuck her and the rest of them.
You both have good points
Earns is a strange choice of word in my mind.
all full throated choruses of eat the rich and billionaires shouldn’t exist until it’s taylor or gaben
