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Who did she exploit to earn her billions?
You tell me. But I know it's impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.
Change my mind.
You're stating your opinion as fact.
There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they're selling. Equating Taylor Swift or James Cameron to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is absolute cringe behaviour, devoid of all nuance.
How are the bodies of all of the people that build her stages doing? How about all of her dancers and backup singers? "But she gave a huge bonus to everyone on her last tour!!" Okay, and what about the dozens of tours before that?
Nobody becomes a billionaire without exploiting someone.
Cool. No one should do any work by that metric.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
There are plenty of companies run by single (or even double!)-digit millionaires that are enriched by their wealth without effectively stealing the labor of most of their employees 🤷♂️ but, by all means, feel free to just give up and keep licking that boot.
Why do you think we need billionaires? What do they accomplish for the good of the country or the people in it that couldn't be accomplished at half or 1/10 or 1/1000th the cost?
How does Bezos putting 99% of his competitors out of business, reducing competition through market capture, help you? How does Zuck or Pichai selling your browsing habits, which you see no proceeds from, improve your life? What do these billions sitting in oligarchs' bank accounts do for you that they wouldn't be able to as public funds, fixing your roads or building new rails?
my thing is that while a lot of people are struggling to even eat or house themselves, cunts like taylor are sitting pretty on their fucking billions.
If jesus made 1500 dollars every day since he was born without paying taxes and spending any money, he would now be a billionaire. But sure, she cracked the code of becoming an ethical billionaire in a few years.
Zucc's networth is 100x of Swift's.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
You're stating your opinion as fact.
You should go and do some math to understand what it actually takes to become a billionaire and what an insane amount of money that is. Then you can try and explain to me how an honest person can achieve that in a lifetime.
Maybe you should do some math before equating Taylor Swift to Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe you can't. So let me make it easy for you. Zucc's networth is 100x that of Swift.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
You can always tell whose frontal lobes haven't fully formed before they post by how incapable of nuance they are.
Those billions came from underpaid workers that supported the billionaire in their endeavors. Think road crew and tour bus drivers and beverage stand workers.
Someone somewhere was getting screwed in order for her to make billions.
Great. No one should do any work then.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
If I were you I wouldn't post when I was so upset over trivial matters. It's not good for your mental health. Maybe take a break from the internet for a bit. You seem to need it.
Dude, stop posting the exact same fucking thing over and over again.
I'm making sure all these asshats can read my reply.
Awww, boo hoo, people don't like my billionaires overlords 😭😭😭 so sad, how will they ever sleep at night
her fans, for one.
Then I'm being exploited by the farmers. 🙄
by paying them the same money twice?
Pretending her fans choosing to buy her merch multiple times is same as billionaires fucking over their employees is a dishonest stance. Don't pretend otherwise.
a bunch of people buying the same piece of merch multiple times because of a dishonest marketing ploy? yeah i consider that exploitive.
Their money, their choice.
You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.
oh wow did we just out you as a swifty? you need something more original to say?
Won't someone think of the poor swifties,
Fans who would pay $1000+ for a ticket, but that's on them anyway for making a poor choice.
Exactly.
Between an exploitative streaming economy and a “cost-of-touring crisis,” buying merch is sometimes the most direct way to get money into an artist’s pocket, even with venue cuts. Just ask Taylor Swift, who, according to Pollstar, made approximately $200 million in merchandise from her 2023 Eras tour dates.
The Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion, Explained
Band T-shirts are sometimes
or even often
the highest quality T-shirts available. Many bands bother to make sure that the stuff they sell is 100% cotton, fair trade, etc. I think I even have some that were made by union labor.
Small local bands tend to source from local manufacturers and distributors. And as they consider their merch a form of advertising, it pays to invest in material that lasts.
But the bigger and more volume-based franchises tend to get their clothes from the same global production and distribution chains as every other Fast Fashion brand. Taylor Swift isn't contracting with a dozen different local print shops per venue to fill an order big enough to saturate a stadium. She's going to the same folks that sell to H&M and Zara.
Yeah I've never cared enough to check and don't own any of her merch but you're probably right in this specific case.