• Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    in terms of how bad billionaires are, she’s significantly better than a lot of others

    “He was a very gentle rapist”

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      16 hours ago

      “He was a very gentle rapist”

      That’s not exactly a good-faith argument. You said she should pay her staff more and charge less for tickets. I provided a counterpoint to that.

      Going back to the original question that you were asked, should she have retired when she started to approach $1 billion in net worth?

      I will point out that the ownership rights to her music, which she purchased with the money she made from The Eras Tour and now owns completely, is probably worth close to $1 billion in valuation alone. Even if her entire liquid net worth was taxed from her, she’d be a billionaire on paper just by virtue of her music catalog & the value of her name.

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        5 hours ago

        Your own argument wasn’t made in good faith. I didn’t argue that she was the greediest person in the world, which is what you counter-argued.

        You’re singing her praises for the $200 million dollar bonus she paid out to her Eras Tour staff, out of her $1.2 billion dollar profit.

        Going back to the original question that you were asked, should she have retired when she started to approach $1 billion in net worth?

        She could pay her staff more, and charge her customers less…

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          I didn’t assume you were saying she was the greediest person in the world. You said she should pay her staff more and charge her customers less, and I pointed out that she pays her staff more than anyone else would, and that the prices people pay for her seats and merch are often highly inflated by scalpers, not by her.
          And even if she paid all her cash money to her staff and gave her products away for free, she would still be a billionaire off of her catalog and name.

          You responded with a very dismissive comment about rapists, which was both insensitive towards victims of sexual assault and a complete failure to engage with the conversation. That’s why I said it was made in bad faith.