• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    You tell me. But I know it’s impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.

    Change my mind.

    • StillAlive@piefed.world
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      23 hours ago

      impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.

      You’re stating your opinion as fact.

      There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they’re selling. Equating Taylor Swift or James Cameron to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is absolute cringe behaviour, devoid of all nuance.

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        9 hours ago

        You can always tell whose frontal lobes haven’t fully formed before they post by how incapable of nuance they are.

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        23 hours ago

        How are the bodies of all of the people that build her stages doing? How about all of her dancers and backup singers? “But she gave a huge bonus to everyone on her last tour!!” Okay, and what about the dozens of tours before that?

        Nobody becomes a billionaire without exploiting someone.

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          21 hours ago

          Cool. No one should do any work by that metric.

          You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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            10 hours ago

            There are plenty of companies run by single (or even double!)-digit millionaires that are enriched by their wealth without effectively stealing the labor of most of their employees 🤷‍♂️ but, by all means, feel free to just give up and keep licking that boot.

            Why do you think we need billionaires? What do they accomplish for the good of the country or the people in it that couldn’t be accomplished at half or 1/10 or 1/1000th the cost?

            How does Bezos putting 99% of his competitors out of business, reducing competition through market capture, help you? How does Zuck or Pichai selling your browsing habits, which you see no proceeds from, improve your life? What do these billions sitting in oligarchs’ bank accounts do for you that they wouldn’t be able to as public funds, fixing your roads or building new rails?

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              11 hours ago

              my thing is that while a lot of people are struggling to even eat or house themselves, cunts like taylor are sitting pretty on their fucking billions.

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        23 hours ago

        If jesus made 1500 dollars every day since he was born without paying taxes and spending any money, he would now be a billionaire. But sure, she cracked the code of becoming an ethical billionaire in a few years.

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          21 hours ago

          Zucc’s networth is 100x of Swift’s.

          You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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        22 hours ago

        There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they’re selling.

        You’re stating your opinion as fact.

        You should go and do some math to understand what it actually takes to become a billionaire and what an insane amount of money that is. Then you can try and explain to me how an honest person can achieve that in a lifetime.

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          21 hours ago

          Maybe you should do some math before equating Taylor Swift to Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe you can’t. So let me make it easy for you. Zucc’s networth is 100x that of Swift.

          You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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        22 hours ago

        Those billions came from underpaid workers that supported the billionaire in their endeavors. Think road crew and tour bus drivers and beverage stand workers.

        Someone somewhere was getting screwed in order for her to make billions.

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          21 hours ago

          Great. No one should do any work then.

          You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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                11 hours ago

                Awww, boo hoo, people don’t like my billionaires overlords 😭😭😭 so sad, how will they ever sleep at night

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            21 hours ago

            If I were you I wouldn’t post when I was so upset over trivial matters. It’s not good for your mental health. Maybe take a break from the internet for a bit. You seem to need it.