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“Earn” is a strong word.

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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.

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Who gives a shit what this one is “doing differently”?

She represents a cancerous concentration of wealth - fuck her and the rest of them.

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3 points

You both have good points

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The article doesn’t really specify, but it looks like they’re pretending she keeps all the money to herself. Weird comparison.

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I’ve heard she pays her people pretty well, but I’m not in that industry so idk.

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I’d say her being the only person able to get anything produced during the SAG-AFTRA strikes is why she’s being targeted. She proved that meeting their demands is still profitable.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/19/how-taylor-swift-made-eras-tour-movie-during-hollywood-strike/

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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

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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.

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She is a paper billionaire. She is worth all that money if she sells the rights to all her songs, which she just remade to reclaim her rights to those songs, so she isn’t interested in selling.

She might be worth a lot, but she doesn’t have thatmuch because autonomy is worth more to her than money.

She’s not hurting, that’s for sure, but she doesn’t have money like people say.

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Every billionaire is a paper billionaire. Like the others, she can borrow against the value of her assets.

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Even if she did have the cash, she’s an artist who makes things that people love. You don’t need her art to live like you do healthcare and food so as much as I hate billionaires, she’s not anywhere near the same level of bad

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The boot being pink and glittery doesn’t make you any less of a bootlicker…

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3 points

Look at it realistically.

She’s not living a better life style than Frank Sinatra or Micheal Jackson did in their heyday.

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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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Also

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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.

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Pretty sure she has financial managers to keep her earned money working for her by investing in stocks and bonds and such.

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Probably. And that is problematic. But it is a completely different criticism.

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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.

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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.

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