• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Three of those billionaires made their fortunes by stealing other’s work and exploiting other’s labor. I might dislike Taylor Swift’s music but it is her music and her work that made her a billionaire. When someone stole her work from under her, she re-recorded it from scratch and then put on the most profitable tour in history with each show being 3+ hours long.

    I’m not a Swifty, but I also don’t think she qualifies to join that evil as fuck trio.

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      Of all the things to be wealthy for, making music and brining people a little bit of joy ain’t bad. Don’t condone the jet or the lifestyle. But I don’t think it’s fair to lump her in with exon and zuk

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      Yeah I’m not a fan of her private jet shenanigans or her music, but the other 3 also use private jets like it’s going out of style, and are nowhere close to her when it comes to societal impact. If you wanted a 4th you can use one of our own billionaires from the old continent like Bernard Arnault (who is allegedly pals with Musk)

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      Hey look everyone! This person’s a billionaire apologist!

      I’m (mostly) joking.
      You are correct that she is not on the aame level as the others but as a billionaire and member of the ruling class T-Swizzle has an elevated responsibility to the rest of the world. Instead of helping she continues her massive destruction of the climate.

      Until she is leveraging her wealth to make positive change she does not get a pass.

      Oh and buying carbon offsets doesn’t count.

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        I’m not a fan of hers but they are still correct that she’s not nearly on the same level as the others.

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        Hey look everyone! This person’s a billionaire apologist!

        What do you expect from somebody who uses a corporate logo (of a Texas gas station, no less) as their avatar pic?

        (I’m (kinda) joking.)

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      Okay but it’s not a 1 woman show. She has likely hundreds of people employed she would not have succeeded without, yet she’s about 1b richer than those combined

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        She is known for giving these people bonuses that surpass anything I’ve heard about outside corpo management, though. The occasion that made the press mention 100k USD for truckdrivers for one tour and while I dont know how much a truck driver makes a year, it’d sure make my life easier for a couple of years.

        Not saying she isn’t good at making money, but I’d say the jury is still out on the issue of hoarding all of it for herself.

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      It’s people’s money that made her a billionaire, if she became a billionaire it’s because everyone who ever paid for something that brought her money was overpaying. It’s the same for each and every billionaire, even the ones you appreciate, you’re paying too much for shit so they can have more money than they can spend in a lifetime.

      “I got my money’s worth!” Well no buddy, you only think so because there’s always a billionaire at the top inflating the price of everything, your money is worth a lot more if they all disappear.

      I guess that all the people who downvoted think that it’s perfectly ok for billionaires to exist…

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        I think it’s more your implication that every time anyone make a purchase they get duped or scammed as if they’re stupid and helpless.

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          Everyone but the ultra rich get duped and scammed in this system, we don’t have a choice but to pay the price we’re being charged, but the price we’re being charged is inflated to enrich the few without and benefits to the majority!

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      There’ll be a place for you in the gulag after the Revolution