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[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 86 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tax her, then

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 55 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yep, but don't forget the rest of the billionaire class.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 27 points 7 months ago

And the millionaire class.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago (14 children)

There's nothing stopping me from writing a $480 million USD check either. Cashing it, on the other hand, that's a you problem.

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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yay billionaires are cool now

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah how many people in the music industry's labor value has she taken?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (6 children)

There are no good billionaires. Nobody can possible "earn" a billion dollars in one life time, that's impossible. If you're a billionaire, you are one because you stole wealth from those people below you, by paying them improperly, or screwing them. If Taylor is a billionaire it means she hasn't paid her people enough, and that she's charging too much for her work.

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I actually disagree. She's an example of one of the few (maybe only) ways to earn a billion dollars— through extreme fame

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Unless everyone on her staff is a millionaire and she uses nothing but union labor at her concerts, then she's screwing people

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, billionaires!

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Trump can get fucked, but so can Swift.

There are no ethical billionaires

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] telllos@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

I love it, my billionaire is better than yours :D

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't mind the front of those buildings saying "SWIFT" after the city auctions them. Imagine Donny writhing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 7 months ago

TayTay is too good of a business woman to invest into a failing building.

[–] extant@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Which is weird because the exact same concept applies to the United States, and has for over 200 years

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[–] PastaCeci@lemmy.ml 30 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I wish my dad could buy me a recording contract

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Are you telling me she didn't buy it with the money she made babysitting double J, Jeff Jarrett's kids?

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago

Yep... It's reddit time 😎

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

Burgerland liberals not licking bourgeois boot challenge (impossible).

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jfc, I'm going to have a block list that will lag the entire internet by the time this shit is finished.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I reckon. Is there a way to effectively filter out American politics from my Lemmy feed?

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (18 children)

She easily could beat fat Don’s ass in a fistfight too.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

I hate what Twitter has become, but it keeps the muskrat busy tweeting nonsense, and it costs him a lot of money and time.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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