You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.
People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.
You misspelled "wage slavery"
No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods...
Depends on if you can't live comfortably or not still.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I'd wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages
Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income.
So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.
I will allow someone to buy me, but like software you won't "own" me. You will just be liscencing me and, at any time, I may revoke your access to myself.
I, too, have a job
Is abduction piracy in this case?
If licensing people isn’t slavery,
then abduction isn’t kidnappingCloning is more like piracy in this case, unless you are referring to seafaring piracy.
Sounds like dating!
And they can just use you on the terms which are described in your EULA
Well no, she can't buy Kanye. He's not a Supreme Court Justice.
Not yet.
Since we're already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don't think there's any reason he couldn't be a supreme court justice.
Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.
"But Elmo wants to know why policemen don't have an obligation to intervene to protect the public."
It's treason, then.
What's really important is that it's impossible not to be a bad person and a billionaire. I like her music but being a billionaire means that she is an enemy of society. Period
"One cannot reign innocently... Every king is a rebel and a usurper."
what makes you think it's impossible? it seems unlikely but I wouldn't say impossible
There's no moral reason to have that much money. If you earned $2500 a day (about a million dollars a year) it would take you just under 1200 years to earn a billion dollars. I personally believe you should earn more if you work harder than others but there's simply no way anyone could work hard enough to deserve more than anyone should make in 15 lifetimes. If you are lucky enough to get that amount of money there's no moral reason to keep it all.
Now think about how Bezos is worth 192.4 billion dollars. Hopefully that helps folks understand the problem. And by problem, I mean the largest threat we are facing to human existence. Every other issue we're having stems from the fact that billionaires exist.
Say you work on a team with, say 50 people. Everyone works hard to generate money, but you're the star of the show, so naturally you get to keep a little more of that money than everyone else. The question is, how much? Is it morally questionable to make double what everyone else does? What about 10x? What if you keep half for yourself, meaning those 49 other people combined make the same as you? Not enough? What about 100x as much as everyone else? 1000x?
Taylor Swift's salary is about 1,700x the average in the music industry. People on her team are likely struggling to make ends meet or pay for hospital bills or support a family. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is hoarding money like a fucking dragon.
A good person would never make it to a net worth of a billion dollars though. A good person would give away 999,999,000 to charity, for example.
most bilionares are good people. Some are not though.
They've spent more money than you'll ever make convincing you of that.
Looking at your comments I can see you're just a troll but if actual humans are reading this: there are exactly zero moral billionaires. It is not possible to be a billionaire and be a good person at the same time. You do not have to know what's in their heart or whatever the fuck this idiot is trying to say. You can't earn that kind of money without hurting and exploiting people and if you keep that amount of money you are actively harming society. End of story.
Actually slavery is still legal in the United States as a form of legal punishment when legally convicted so she just needs to wait for a jury of his peers to convict him and a judge to Sentence him then she would probably need to pay the state
So your saying all Tay Tay has to do is get into the private prison game and then she can own people?
She can't "own" people, don't be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That's messed up.
Pretty much
@TSwiftFTC? Is this a two-topic account about Taylor Swift and the Federal Trade Commission? 🤔
Her impact on the economy now has its own government agency.
She COULD purchase Jay-Z, though.
He said "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"
Tbf, Texas was notoriously slow on this
I couldn't name nor recognize a single song from either of them. Shit, I need to improve my mainstream media knowledge.
Me too :) You are not alone
I wish I couldn't, I needa stop listening to the radio, haha for the occasional song I enjoy on there, theres so many that are like torture
No you don’t. That’s something to be proud about
Too late.l, I used the last 5 minutes to do it already. :)
I knew several Taylor Swift songs from the radio, but didn't think more of them but "the usual generic pop music" that normally leads to me changing the station immediatly (I expected this). I don't think I will recognize her the next time I hear her.
I also knew some Kanye West songs and I even liked some of them (I honestly didn't expect this). I somehow don't want to like his music though, saw too much about him on Twitter and here).
The need coming from the swifties here real.
She should put him on the wall in the downstairs toilet.
If dictaster tRump gets elected, it won't be long before she'll be able to buy him
Wow, now Taylor Swift fans are going mask-off racist. Not only are they simping for a billionaire like a Musk fan, but they're alluding to going back to the good old days of slavery like Musk's dad.
lmao no. It's wealth comparison idiom. You'd have to intentionally miss the point.
The only surprising thing here really is that Swift isn't worth substantially more. She's been the top pop music act for a decade now and has been uncommonly business savvy so I was really expecting that figure to be at least the double.
You do understand how large of a number a billion is? To work only for a decade and have that kind of networth is insane.
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Sure, if we're talking work as in compensation per hour. But we aren't here. She's a product (as in Taylor Swift the artist is, not Taylor Swift the person naturally) and thus can be sold in quantities only limited by the amount of people on our planet that can afford to buy her music/merch/tickets etc. For me as a consultant to make a billion just isn't possible, but if I start a company selling something which isn't limited like the amount of hours in a day then... Yeah no, I don't have it in me to become a billionaire. But you get the picture I hope.
To hammer it home, she's globally recognizeable as I'd say the most famous active musician right now. And she has been in the top 10 for a long while. That kind of fame begets net worth faster than just about any CEO gig ever will.
Pollution the planet on that scale isn't cheap
She gives away a lot. Food banks everywhere she goes, Tennessee tornado relief, a wide variety of gofundmes, etc.
That has probably only ever helped her gain more. There is a good reason why rich people like to start charities and give money. It's for publicity and as a tax write-off.
USA is the perfect country for getting rich and staying rich and getting richer. She could never have that kind of networth in any other country in the world as a pop act.
