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.

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

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.

“Every billionair is bad except for the specific ones I like.”

Capitalism is a system based on exploitation. She takes far, far, far more than her fair share, leading to others losing out.

No billionaire is an ethical billionaire

She sells a product that people volunteer to buy.

Yeah? She isn’t billing you monthly.

You don’t have to buy anything from her.