Tax her, then
Yep, but don't forget the rest of the billionaire class.
And the millionaire class.
And corporations. Allowing profit to go free is allowing the labor who made the profits to go unpaid.
Yay billionaires are cool now
Yeah how many people in the music industry's labor value has she taken?
I mean, there's billionaires and there are asshole billionaires... I don't give two flying fucks about pop music, but she treated her people pretty well (originally read about this from a trucker friend) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/08/04/taylor-swift-says-thank-you-to-eras-tour-workers-by-handing-out-checks/?sh=1011ea6470f6
so while I'd prefer no or fewer billionaires, I'd really prefer rich people who treated their entire ecosystems well over the current hellscape.
oh and TAX THE RICH. If they can stay billionaires by building new industries and competing for great workers by negotiating in good faith with union labor, that's fine.
Trader joe, SpaceX/Tesla Amazon and a bunch of other fucks are trying to destroy the entire NRLB, because they hate unions and think they can get away with it. FUCK THEM.
I'm more worried about how many microphones she's farted into
There's nothing stopping me from writing a $480 million USD check either. Cashing it, on the other hand, that's a you problem.
I mean, there is definitely the hurdle of getting in contact with the bank, explaining to them what checks were, waiting for them to figure things out & explaining to me how that isn't a thing anyone, etc.
Seriously tho, none of my banks offer checks, and I don't know about any that do. Probably a US thing for paychecks from historically significant employers.
Edit: US, India, France (bcs they had/have no transactions fees), and Australia still use checks, the latter two plan to phase them out by 2030. A lot of EU countries just don't offer support anymore & cannot cash existing checks (neither at commercial or central banks).
To add to your list. You could still get checks in Canada as of a couple years ago, but virtually no one does that outside of some seniors who refuse to move on.
Yeah, billionaires!
Yeah. Trump can get fucked, but so can Swift.
There are no ethical billionaires
I mean I agree, though I also see the benefit of pushing the super wealthy who are more on our side to do more good. Like it or not, money go burr. I'd like to keep as much of that working for us as possible.
The rest on the other hand, those purely doing it for the high score and fuck you written in cursive: Those can go play on their private landing strip as a plane comes in.
I love it, my billionaire is better than yours :D
I wish my dad could buy me a recording contract
Let's say that whole idea is true: her dad bought her entire first contract and a warehouse of CDs to get her first album up to [checks notes] 19 in the charts.
Then what? So what? Genuinely curious what a generous startup payment has to do with her future success? How does that differ from parents saving money for their kids college tuition so they can go on to a successful career after? She certainly had a privileges growing up in an upper-middle class with a complete, supporting family that relocated to the heart of her original music's location, but how does that take away from the juggernaut of a career after that? Do you belittle great doctors if their parents funded medical school instead of fearing the debt and never starting? Do you think of an engineer any lesser if they drove 10 hours and dormed at MIT for their schooling instead of sticking with the local community college? This just comes across as being jealous her parents had some money and that she has proven to have talent. It's not like she invested $1bil of daddy's money to make it into $10mil by never turning profit and only keeping 10m by not paying any of the contractors.
I don't even like her music. I don't care for country and none of her pop follows the melody tones I like except one, single song. I just don't get what people try to say when they bring up her dad giving her startup money as a teenager. What, that it gave her a leg up? Nobody just gets lucky
Do you realize how many talented artists are out there that never see the light of day of success just because they do not have the capital, connections, or luck to break through? I don't think most people are saying she doesn't have any talent at all. What people are saying is she owes her initial success to the money and connections her dad has. And it's not even the common stroke of luck that other successful artists get. She was even way ahead. And having that initial success can make or break an artist's career. Talent can then carry you moving forward.
Nobody is saying she's a hack who was only successful because of daddy's money. They're saying she got a very good headstart and hit the ground running. It's primarily directed at people who claim she got there on talent alone. It's like saying Bezos or Musk built their empire from scratch, while forgetting they had the benefit of having huge initial capital from their parents.
Btw, getting to #19 on mainstream charts is not trivial.
dat dere leg-up doe
So you could wind up in the clearance bin in the Wal Mart electronics section?
She easily could beat fat Don’s ass in a fistfight too.
Doubtful.
Look he's an asshole but he is literally double her body weight.
We're forgetting something important: he's really really really stupid, I don't know if he could figure out how to fight her
Rather than get mad that Taylor has an obscene amount of money, let's enjoy the joke on Donnie for not having as much as he pretended. Let's try to be happy about that, sheesh. He's being displayed as the fool he is and I'm gonna enjoy it.
I wouldn't mind the front of those buildings saying "SWIFT" after the city auctions them. Imagine Donny writhing.
TayTay is too good of a business woman to invest into a failing building.
I don't think paying bills is a flex he'd understand, in fact he probably thinks anyone that doesn't cheat the system is a fool.
He definitely thinks that, everything is zero sum for him.
Merkel had to explain eleven times to him that he can't make trade agreements with Germany, only the whole EU. He probably couldn't grasp the concept of mutual gain through cooperation.
Jfc, I'm going to have a block list that will lag the entire internet by the time this shit is finished.
Yeah except probably not. Its not like billionaires have a savings account with $1,000,000,000 sitting there collecting 5% interest (much less sitting collecting even less interest in a checking account...)
They have a net worth based on tons of diverse (non-liquid) assets like securities, company ownership stakes, real estate, art, etc. To say nothing of their holdings in trusts and shell companies abroad, or whatever the latest tax avoidance strategies are.
Yep... It's reddit time 😎
Burgerland liberals not licking bourgeois boot challenge (impossible).
mmm and she probably doesn't fuck with abdl like ol Dorito Donny the fascist cuck
more's the pity
Musk could, be he's too strapped for cash right now, so maybe it's a good thing he bought Twitter after all as he can't bail Donny out.
I hate what Twitter has become, but it keeps the muskrat busy tweeting nonsense, and it costs him a lot of money and time.
She also dated high schoolers so if you go into any business agreement I'm sorry for you being guilty by association.
Article about the idiot saying he'll kill all music artist in a bloodbath in... 3 .. 2 ...
Not all music, just degenerate music.
