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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,