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Fuck all billionaires. Fuck Taylor. Fuck AI.
Yeah this is one of those ones like:
She's not wrong, but also, she can get bent.
It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward so I'm kinda with her on this one. If there's one person who can make a stink about this and have it matter, it's probably her.
It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.
But I guess you take what you can get.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Won't someone think of the poor swifties,