Her father bought her a music studio after she failed to gain recognition. If it wasn’t for her family’s existing wealth, there would had been a possibility thwt we may have never heard of her.
Taylor Swift music is generic white woman fantasy mixed in with her ability to fool her fans into buying multiple copies of the same album. There’s Fandom that are toxic, then there’s hers who drown out any valid criticisms of the artist.
She’s also a MAGA incognito, surrounds herself with MAGAts. Like that saying; if youre having dinner with nazi’s, what does that make you?
TheRealKuni@piefed.social
on 21 Oct 2025 14:48
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Listen, I’m not making value statements about her music or her ethics or her politics or anything. I, as a musician, am saying you can’t call her “no-talent.”
If it wasn’t for her family’s existing wealth, there would had been a possibility thwt we may have never heard of her.
That’s not unique. The most famous in many fields had a helping hand, because success can be expensive. Wealth does not preclude talent or skill. A person can be talented or skilled and come from a wealthy background. In fact, it tends to be common in music because wealthy parents have the resources to get their kids training and instruments at a young age.
Taylor Swift music is generic white woman fantasy
Again, you don’t have to like her music to acknowledge her talents. She’s an accomplished singer/songwriter, performer, and musician regardless of whether you like her content.
There’s Fandom that are toxic, then there’s hers who drown out any valid criticisms of the artist.
“Her music is generic white woman fantasy” is valid criticism. The “therefore she has no talent” part isn’t.
She’s also a MAGA incognito, surrounds herself with MAGAts. Like that saying; if youre having dinner with nazi’s, what does that make you?
I don’t really know anything about her politics. I do recall a video of her arguing with her publicist and parents because she wanted to support a Democrat. But this is an irrelevant non-sequitur. Even if a person were a card carrying member of the Nazi party, they could still be talented.
PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 15:02
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She’s really not talented though. Her performances lean heavily on elaborate set pieces and fifty costume changes. She can barely dance, has the most generic singing voice, minimal vocal range, and she still writes songs like a 20-year-old despite being 36 years old at this point. The most adversity she’s ever faced is “x celebrity was mean to me”. She has no artistic perspective and nothing interesting to say.
In the grand scheme of things, there are hundreds of THOUSANDS of people with more talent than her making art right this moment. I know several personally and I’m not even any kind of name in the industry.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social
on 21 Oct 2025 15:17
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Her performances lean heavily on elaborate set pieces and fifty costume changes.
And this means she has no talent because…?
She can barely dance
Neither can most choral singers, orchestral musicians, concert pianists, does that make them untalented?
has the most generic singing voice, minimal vocal range
Ah yes, famously it is impossible to be a talented mezzo-soprano.
she still writes songs like a 20-year-old despite being 36 years old at this point. The most adversity she’s ever faced is “x celebrity was mean to me”. She has no artistic perspective and nothing interesting to say.
Valid criticism! But it doesn’t mean she isn’t talented.
In the grand scheme of things, there are hundreds of THOUSANDS of people with more talent than her making art right this moment.
Sure, but does that mean she has no talent? There are lots of numbers bigger than 74, does than mean 74 is 0?
I can’t play an instrument and sing at the same time. I also can’t dance. And there are MILLIONS of people more talented than I am in the world, making art. Does that mean I have no talent? Someone should really let the symphony chorus I’ve been singing in for the last 16 years know.
The world isn’t black and white, my friend. You don’t have to be Weird Al or Geddy Lee or Mozart to be talented.
The argument in question. Really hit me in the heart, made me see her as a real person.
I’m no fan, but calling her MAGA and no-talent is ridiculous on it’s face. There were comments on here that her new husband, whatever his name is, is MAGA. Nope, not at all, he just looks like he could be.
Funny thing, I’m a 54-yo white guy, don’t know her songs. My little kids were playing music one day, “That’s kinda badass, who is it?” That’s happened a few times, maybe I ought to give her a shot.
Her Taylor’s Version albums are actually pretty cool. It’s a big middle finger to the music industry that basically swindled her out of the rights to her own music because she was early in her career.
RaoulDuke@fedia.io
on 21 Oct 2025 16:05
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Good thing she used her fame to help other female pop stars and not sabotage their album releases.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 16:55
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Nah, she had the opportunity to re buy her master’s much earlier and chose not to to milk it for drama
When you say buy her masters, do you mean the physical masters or the rights to that audio? From what I understand, the company who owned the rights wouldn’t sell them to her.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net
on 21 Oct 2025 13:25
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singer quietly donated the sum to the two-year-old girl…
Yeah quietly enough so articles are written about it
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
on 21 Oct 2025 13:50
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I know, although tbf she kept quiet when she reached out to the families of the little girls murdered in Merseyside
JustJack23@slrpnk.net
on 21 Oct 2025 14:26
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You know about it, so it wasn’t quiet.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
on 21 Oct 2025 17:41
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It really was and it was released by a families social media not her.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 19:45
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If she’s go great, where are the scholarships, hospitals, schools, grants, etc that can help the masses? She could fund so much! Start resources for underserved students and communities. We have a social obligation to our fellow humans. Why? Because we decided to form and live in societies. We wouldn’t live together if we all believed it was every man for himself. If I pay so many taxes that I need to live paycheck to paycheck, then people making more need to pay more taxes. Don’t tell me they earned it and deserve the billions. You have no idea how much value I create for my employer. I deserve to have basic necessities met without going into debt.
You and I don’t have a clue about her charity because she keeps it quiet. Not only is that the morally correct stance, it keeps people like you from beating her up because, “Not good enough!”
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2025 05:42
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All billionaires are bad, mkay?
falseWhite@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2025 13:50
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And that’s how you achieve a proper PR stunt.
It wouldn’t look good otherwise and her PR people know this, a billionaire obviously employs the best.
The donation could have been made completely anonymously. But it clearly wasn’t. Why?
How would anyone ever find out an anonymous donation?
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
on 22 Oct 2025 15:14
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I see it differently for several reasons, but understand where you’re coming from.
She got found out. Far as I can tell she donates anonymously. Worked for a rich family that did the same. They honestly took Jesus’ admonition to give to the poor and STFU about it. Conservative Southern Baptist, if you can believe that. :)
JustJack23@slrpnk.net
on 21 Oct 2025 21:03
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It is still stupid af, because instead of building a system that doesn’t require donations we leave it to the digression of rich (and very very often) greedy people.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 13:47
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Donating that same money to cancer research will save dozens if not hundreds of less photogenic lives, young and old.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
on 21 Oct 2025 13:59
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Considering the health care costs in USA, how many months does 100,000 buy if you’re not 100% covered by insurance?
village604@adultswim.fan
on 21 Oct 2025 14:09
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Like 3 days worth of cancer treatment.
DoctorNope@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 20:39
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Here’s an example. One of the pills my wife took for several years to treat her breast cancer cost $16330.08 per month. Another was $15280 per month. So $100k would’ve lasted her about 6 months (she took one drug, then switched to the other). This of course doesn’t include the chemo given by injection, the medications she took to combat all the side effects from that, the radiation therapy, mastectomy, reconstructive surgery…
But if you’ll let me opine for a minute here, $100k from Taylor Swift is an insult. Just as a goof, let’s reframe this from Taylor’s perspective. She flies around in a Dassault Falcon 7X. This plane has a fuel capacity of about 32,000lbs, which at 6.75lb/gal and a nationwide-average Jet-A price of $6.28/gal today, costs about $29770 to fill. So it’s about 3 1/3 tanks of gas for her plane. Apparently a child’s life is worth about as much to her as not having to fly commercial a couple times.
But it’s even more ridiculous than that, because Taylor Swift is worth $1.6 billion. $100k is a smaller chunk of her net worth than a single fucking Big Mac is to the average American. Don’t go to McDonald’s. Eat the rich instead.
Grebes@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Oct 2025 13:57
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If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 13:59
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I was sad to see this wasn’t the top comment.
Edit: I’m happy now.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 18:03
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It is now if that helps brighten your day.
BassTurd@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 16:13
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If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
And if we had representatives that would vote to use that money for healthcare instead of using it on the military or a new ball room and instead line their pockets with lobbyist bribes donations.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 16:34
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Don’t yall already spend more per capita for health care than the developed nations? I’m not saying don’t tax the fuck outta billionaires, but the USA should already have a single payer Healthcare system
Soulg@ani.social
on 21 Oct 2025 16:57
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Yes we should but some people would make less money that way, can’t have that
We’re both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don’t feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It’s really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.
Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We’re #1! {According to us}
T00l_shed@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 19:55
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Yeah, but if you weren’t poor who would be a billionaire? Gotta have them…for reasons…
shalafi@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 20:53
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Had a friend/coworker, whose family is more than well off, say, “I don’t want my money paying for someone else’s healthcare!”
“How do you think insurance works?”
She stared at me, jaw agape.
“How much do you and Shawn pay for your family’s health insurance?”
Staring.
She had no clue because the cost was below her income horizon. The very next day she was outside my office bitching to her friend about her migraine shots costing $1,000 a pop and they couldn’t really afford that. Oh god, I couldn’t resist.
In passing: “How’s that health care system working for ya?”
More stares.
I know, and everyone clapped. But this women was outrageously attractive, pretty smart, very nice and sociable, no one ever contradicted her. Had great fun poking her now and again. The look of shock on her face was hilarious.
“Can you do $outrageously_stupid_insecure IT thing for me?”
“No way I’m doing that.”
Stares.
“Go ask my boss (her brother-in-law) if that’s a good idea. If he agrees, I’ll do it.”
Stares.
Still giggling about her 7-years later. Sometimes life hands you material. :)
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 22 Oct 2025 09:08
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Yup. Muricans pay 14k$ per capita while the rest of the developed world pays 5-8k$ per capita.
Doubt it would cover the whole cost, but it would go a long damned way, good enough.
Look at Musk for example. If we taxed him so harshly that he had to sell a load of Tesla stock, TSLA would crash and there would be less to extract from him. Not saying we handle them with kid gloves, but their money isn’t our money, isn’t cash in the bank.
If we raised taxes across the board, from what Biden wanted, a modest increase for households (individuals?) making over $400K, increment from there, that would probably be enough to do whatever the hell society needs.
fxleak@lemmings.world
on 22 Oct 2025 00:47
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This is an interesting point to bring up and bears addressing.
See, the problem with “things being too expensive” is that it’s a vicious cycle. Rent is too expensive, which means renters need more money in order to pay their abusive landlords. How do they get that money? Well, they charge more for whatever product/service they provide. Now that’s too expensive.
Something has to give, somewhere, and the first place I’d suggest looking is taxing the ownership class into oblivion.
I’m for taxing them to hell and back just to remove their influence. But I still say, there’s not that many billionaires in the US and most of that money isn’t liquid.
I’ve heard conservatives argue against many solutions because they’re not 100%. NOT where I’m coming from, just saying this isn’t a 100% solution.
You have a great point that health care costs could go down. I firmly believe universal health care would accomplish that, then taxing the snot out of billionaires might cover it.
And regardless of the tax money available, there’s no reason to not do this thing.
hperrin@lemmy.ca
on 21 Oct 2025 14:49
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Meanwhile, in other countries, two year olds don’t need the permission of billionaires to survive.
affenlehrer@feddit.org
on 21 Oct 2025 14:55
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I hope the child makes it. Besides that I wonder if 2 million actually help. Is this kind of cancer “solved” but treatment “just” expensive? If that’s the case it’s a shame it’s so expensive. If it’s not solved, can 2 million solve it?
My first thoughts. $100K seems paltry for her, but is it going to do any real good?
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 15:38
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Still don’t care that a billionaire is doing “charitable works”. It’s wrong that anyone has to depend on the graces of the wealthy to notice a go fund me to afford healthcare.
Botzo@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 17:36
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“A child who’s medical care would be completely free in every other developed nation, and a few underdeveloped ones too receives pocket change from a billionaire so that she doesn’t die under the crushing weight of the American medical system” just does not have the same ring to it for article headlines you know? We gotta get the current youth hyperfixation’s name in the headline for clicks, because we literally only exist to serve ads.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 19:41
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She could do so much good but instead she does this for the glam and fame. I don’t care what anyone says, all billionaires are bad. There’s no good billionaire.
Imagine what she could do for cancer with the rest of that billion.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Oct 2025 20:41
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She’s a billionaire, so for comparison, this is akin to someone who’s net worth is 100k, donating 10 Eur. Hardly something worth writing puff articles about.
Juice@midwest.social
on 21 Oct 2025 22:45
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She’s worth 1.6 billion so its actually less
Godric@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 21:17
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Well that’s nice! Time to read the comments that I predict will be nothing but whineing about it!
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
on 22 Oct 2025 12:06
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Your prediction was accurate
Raiderkev@lemmy.world
on 21 Oct 2025 22:10
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If she really cared, she would have donated dark and not had a puff piece written about it.
Juice@midwest.social
on 21 Oct 2025 22:45
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Sending that much money to a two year old doesn’t make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.
/s
Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.
If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don’t get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20
I’m glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child’s family. What a moving gesture.
ReiRose@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2025 02:03
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Yeah the article said she did it quietly. If that were true we wouldn’t know about it. You’re right: publicity stunt
Juice@midwest.social
on 22 Oct 2025 12:34
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Sigourney and Gillian aren’t billionaire capitalists, they’re wealthy because they’re talented actresses. Their talent makes the owners of production companies lots of money, and they’re paid a fraction of it. But they still have to find someone to buy their labor. They had to audition to get jobs before they were big stars.
TS’s dad bought a record label and signed her to it.
Class analysis can be tricky, especially the entertainment industry, but it isnt always about being rich or not. The surest way to tell is “what is the relationship to production?” Tay is a billionaire because she helped ticketmaster and Live Nation create a monopoly, she’s a parasite. Without Gillian and Sigourney, the movies and shows they worked in wouldn’t be as good.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml
on 22 Oct 2025 12:51
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There are no billionaires without exploitation.
Juice@midwest.social
on 22 Oct 2025 13:12
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1000%
But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn’t end exploitation. It’s just a beginning.
For sure. You’re totally right. I just mean little girls freaking love TS (whether she earned it or not). If she paid for their treatment I know they’d wanna know.
(I realize this is a 2 yr old, I’m just speaking generally)
badbytes@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2025 01:22
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100k, in the US, that is gone after a few copays.
falseWhite@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2025 13:48
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“Billionaire gives pocket change in a PR stunt”. Is the proper title.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
on 22 Oct 2025 13:57
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While they applaud cutting all NIH research.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
on 22 Oct 2025 14:03
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“Crowd-funded health care is the best American health-care strategy, according to a Fox News/Heritage Foundation funded study.”
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
on 23 Oct 2025 04:08
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I heard Taylor almost has $2 billion or so.
That’s the equivalent of someone with $100,000 donating five bucks.
baatliwala@lemmy.world
on 23 Oct 2025 04:18
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She has 2 billion in cold hard cash?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 23 Oct 2025 04:37
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No no no, billionaires don’t store their wealth in cash, that’s what poor people do.
Rich people can afford stocks which allow them to make money on stored money rather than have it decrease in value from inflation like cash does
For all that leftist talk, lemmy is as billionaire-polluter-taxoptimizer-celebrity starstruck as everywhere else.
On the bright side, since you’re a bit slow she might send some pocket change your way.
threaded - newest
No-talent billionaire tries to salvage public image.
Come on. You don’t have to like her music, but you can’t claim she’s no-talent.
Her father bought her a music studio after she failed to gain recognition. If it wasn’t for her family’s existing wealth, there would had been a possibility thwt we may have never heard of her.
Taylor Swift music is generic white woman fantasy mixed in with her ability to fool her fans into buying multiple copies of the same album. There’s Fandom that are toxic, then there’s hers who drown out any valid criticisms of the artist.
She’s also a MAGA incognito, surrounds herself with MAGAts. Like that saying; if youre having dinner with nazi’s, what does that make you?
Listen, I’m not making value statements about her music or her ethics or her politics or anything. I, as a musician, am saying you can’t call her “no-talent.”
That’s not unique. The most famous in many fields had a helping hand, because success can be expensive. Wealth does not preclude talent or skill. A person can be talented or skilled and come from a wealthy background. In fact, it tends to be common in music because wealthy parents have the resources to get their kids training and instruments at a young age.
Again, you don’t have to like her music to acknowledge her talents. She’s an accomplished singer/songwriter, performer, and musician regardless of whether you like her content.
“Her music is generic white woman fantasy” is valid criticism. The “therefore she has no talent” part isn’t.
I don’t really know anything about her politics. I do recall a video of her arguing with her publicist and parents because she wanted to support a Democrat. But this is an irrelevant non-sequitur. Even if a person were a card carrying member of the Nazi party, they could still be talented.
She’s really not talented though. Her performances lean heavily on elaborate set pieces and fifty costume changes. She can barely dance, has the most generic singing voice, minimal vocal range, and she still writes songs like a 20-year-old despite being 36 years old at this point. The most adversity she’s ever faced is “x celebrity was mean to me”. She has no artistic perspective and nothing interesting to say.
In the grand scheme of things, there are hundreds of THOUSANDS of people with more talent than her making art right this moment. I know several personally and I’m not even any kind of name in the industry.
And this means she has no talent because…?
Neither can most choral singers, orchestral musicians, concert pianists, does that make them untalented?
Ah yes, famously it is impossible to be a talented mezzo-soprano.
Valid criticism! But it doesn’t mean she isn’t talented.
Sure, but does that mean she has no talent? There are lots of numbers bigger than 74, does than mean 74 is 0?
I can’t play an instrument and sing at the same time. I also can’t dance. And there are MILLIONS of people more talented than I am in the world, making art. Does that mean I have no talent? Someone should really let the symphony chorus I’ve been singing in for the last 16 years know.
The world isn’t black and white, my friend. You don’t have to be Weird Al or Geddy Lee or Mozart to be talented.
My god, some of the takes in this thread are straight childish. Thanks for hitting back with reality.
So, what’s a “mezzo-soprano”?
Range between soprano and alto.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo-soprano
If it were as easy as having rich, industry parents Jayden Smith would have an Oscar by now.
Exactly. And Lance Stroll would be a multi-time Formula 1 champion, rather than a joke who only has a drive because his dad bought the team.
Now that is a bangin’ reply! Much love, gotta remember that.
Yeah, wealth is a hand up, not a guarantee of success .
The argument in question. Really hit me in the heart, made me see her as a real person.
I’m no fan, but calling her MAGA and no-talent is ridiculous on it’s face. There were comments on here that her new husband, whatever his name is, is MAGA. Nope, not at all, he just looks like he could be.
Funny thing, I’m a 54-yo white guy, don’t know her songs. My little kids were playing music one day, “That’s kinda badass, who is it?” That’s happened a few times, maybe I ought to give her a shot.
Her Taylor’s Version albums are actually pretty cool. It’s a big middle finger to the music industry that basically swindled her out of the rights to her own music because she was early in her career.
Good thing she used her fame to help other female pop stars and not sabotage their album releases.
Nah, she had the opportunity to re buy her master’s much earlier and chose not to to milk it for drama
When you say buy her masters, do you mean the physical masters or the rights to that audio? From what I understand, the company who owned the rights wouldn’t sell them to her.
Someone sounds jealous…
Yeah quietly enough so articles are written about it
I know, although tbf she kept quiet when she reached out to the families of the little girls murdered in Merseyside
You know about it, so it wasn’t quiet.
It really was and it was released by a families social media not her.
If she’s go great, where are the scholarships, hospitals, schools, grants, etc that can help the masses? She could fund so much! Start resources for underserved students and communities. We have a social obligation to our fellow humans. Why? Because we decided to form and live in societies. We wouldn’t live together if we all believed it was every man for himself. If I pay so many taxes that I need to live paycheck to paycheck, then people making more need to pay more taxes. Don’t tell me they earned it and deserve the billions. You have no idea how much value I create for my employer. I deserve to have basic necessities met without going into debt.
You and I don’t have a clue about her charity because she keeps it quiet. Not only is that the morally correct stance, it keeps people like you from beating her up because, “Not good enough!”
All billionaires are bad, mkay?
And that’s how you achieve a proper PR stunt.
It wouldn’t look good otherwise and her PR people know this, a billionaire obviously employs the best.
The donation could have been made completely anonymously. But it clearly wasn’t. Why?
How would anyone ever find out an anonymous donation?
I see it differently for several reasons, but understand where you’re coming from.
She got found out. Far as I can tell she donates anonymously. Worked for a rich family that did the same. They honestly took Jesus’ admonition to give to the poor and STFU about it. Conservative Southern Baptist, if you can believe that. :)
It is still stupid af, because instead of building a system that doesn’t require donations we leave it to the digression of rich (and very very often) greedy people.
Well, yeah? I agree, but that wasn’t what I was replying to.
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She most definitely did not do it anonymously…
Rofl, George Tabor-King will be so angry he is not the person donating the most.
When is she going to deny being a white supremacist rather than suing the people reporting her ties to them?
Also this is like 20 bucks to her.
Closer to 2 cents
You know this is 100% a way to distract from the lightning bolt necklace debacle.
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wow - how is this even a debate - she straight up released an SS necklace and there are people genuinely going “hmm idk about this”??
Yeah and they pulled it from her merch store with no explanation whatsoever.
Her net worth acorting to Forbes is $1.6B
Acorting to the article she donates $100k. Meaning 0.0000625% of her new worth.
The typical American household according to this article is $193,000
So donation of the same proportion would be $12.0625. This is just laughable. I have tipped higher amount.
$193k for a typical household? Fuck I’m poor.
This is for America so the average is fucked up.
I am impressed that I wasnt off by an order of magnitude with my quick brain guesstimations. I was going to say $10, but that seemed a bit too low.
Stop tipping. The whole idea is asinine.
Donating that same money to cancer research will save dozens if not hundreds of less photogenic lives, young and old.
Considering the health care costs in USA, how many months does 100,000 buy if you’re not 100% covered by insurance?
Like 3 days worth of cancer treatment.
Here’s an example. One of the pills my wife took for several years to treat her breast cancer cost $16330.08 per month. Another was $15280 per month. So $100k would’ve lasted her about 6 months (she took one drug, then switched to the other). This of course doesn’t include the chemo given by injection, the medications she took to combat all the side effects from that, the radiation therapy, mastectomy, reconstructive surgery…
But if you’ll let me opine for a minute here, $100k from Taylor Swift is an insult. Just as a goof, let’s reframe this from Taylor’s perspective. She flies around in a Dassault Falcon 7X. This plane has a fuel capacity of about 32,000lbs, which at 6.75lb/gal and a nationwide-average Jet-A price of $6.28/gal today, costs about $29770 to fill. So it’s about 3 1/3 tanks of gas for her plane. Apparently a child’s life is worth about as much to her as not having to fly commercial a couple times.
But it’s even more ridiculous than that, because Taylor Swift is worth $1.6 billion. $100k is a smaller chunk of her net worth than a single fucking Big Mac is to the average American. Don’t go to McDonald’s. Eat the rich instead.
If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
I was sad to see this wasn’t the top comment.
Edit: I’m happy now.
It is now if that helps brighten your day.
And if we had representatives that would vote to use that money for healthcare instead of using it on the military or a new ball room and instead line their pockets with lobbyist
bribesdonations.Don’t yall already spend more per capita for health care than the developed nations? I’m not saying don’t tax the fuck outta billionaires, but the USA should already have a single payer Healthcare system
Yes we should but some people would make less money that way, can’t have that
We’re both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don’t feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It’s really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.
Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We’re #1! {According to us}
Yeah, but if you weren’t poor who would be a billionaire? Gotta have them…for reasons…
Had a friend/coworker, whose family is more than well off, say, “I don’t want my money paying for someone else’s healthcare!”
“How do you think insurance works?”
She stared at me, jaw agape.
“How much do you and Shawn pay for your family’s health insurance?”
Staring.
She had no clue because the cost was below her income horizon. The very next day she was outside my office bitching to her friend about her migraine shots costing $1,000 a pop and they couldn’t really afford that. Oh god, I couldn’t resist.
In passing: “How’s that health care system working for ya?”
More stares.
I know, and everyone clapped. But this women was outrageously attractive, pretty smart, very nice and sociable, no one ever contradicted her. Had great fun poking her now and again. The look of shock on her face was hilarious.
“Can you do $outrageously_stupid_insecure IT thing for me?”
“No way I’m doing that.”
Stares.
“Go ask my boss (her brother-in-law) if that’s a good idea. If he agrees, I’ll do it.”
Stares.
Still giggling about her 7-years later. Sometimes life hands you material. :)
Yup. Muricans pay 14k$ per capita while the rest of the developed world pays 5-8k$ per capita.
Doubt it would cover the whole cost, but it would go a long damned way, good enough.
Look at Musk for example. If we taxed him so harshly that he had to sell a load of Tesla stock, TSLA would crash and there would be less to extract from him. Not saying we handle them with kid gloves, but their money isn’t our money, isn’t cash in the bank.
If we raised taxes across the board, from what Biden wanted, a modest increase for households (individuals?) making over $400K, increment from there, that would probably be enough to do whatever the hell society needs.
This is an interesting point to bring up and bears addressing.
See, the problem with “things being too expensive” is that it’s a vicious cycle. Rent is too expensive, which means renters need more money in order to pay their abusive landlords. How do they get that money? Well, they charge more for whatever product/service they provide. Now that’s too expensive.
Something has to give, somewhere, and the first place I’d suggest looking is taxing the ownership class into oblivion.
I’m for taxing them to hell and back just to remove their influence. But I still say, there’s not that many billionaires in the US and most of that money isn’t liquid.
I’ve heard conservatives argue against many solutions because they’re not 100%. NOT where I’m coming from, just saying this isn’t a 100% solution.
You have a great point that health care costs could go down. I firmly believe universal health care would accomplish that, then taxing the snot out of billionaires might cover it.
And regardless of the tax money available, there’s no reason to not do this thing.
Meanwhile, in other countries, two year olds don’t need the permission of billionaires to survive.
I hope the child makes it. Besides that I wonder if 2 million actually help. Is this kind of cancer “solved” but treatment “just” expensive? If that’s the case it’s a shame it’s so expensive. If it’s not solved, can 2 million solve it?
My first thoughts. $100K seems paltry for her, but is it going to do any real good?
Still don’t care that a billionaire is doing “charitable works”. It’s wrong that anyone has to depend on the graces of the wealthy to notice a go fund me to afford healthcare.
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“A child who’s medical care would be completely free in every other developed nation, and a few underdeveloped ones too receives pocket change from a billionaire so that she doesn’t die under the crushing weight of the American medical system” just does not have the same ring to it for article headlines you know? We gotta get the current youth hyperfixation’s name in the headline for clicks, because we literally only exist to serve ads.
She could do so much good but instead she does this for the glam and fame. I don’t care what anyone says, all billionaires are bad. There’s no good billionaire.
Imagine what she could do for cancer with the rest of that billion.
She’s a billionaire, so for comparison, this is akin to someone who’s net worth is 100k, donating 10 Eur. Hardly something worth writing puff articles about.
She’s worth 1.6 billion so its actually less
Well that’s nice! Time to read the comments that I predict will be nothing but whineing about it!
Your prediction was accurate
If she really cared, she would have donated dark and not had a puff piece written about it.
Sending that much money to a two year old doesn’t make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.
/s
Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.
If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don’t get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20
I’m glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child’s family. What a moving gesture.
Yeah the article said she did it quietly. If that were true we wouldn’t know about it. You’re right: publicity stunt
I agree with except if I was a super fan of the rich person sending money.
If Sigourney Weaver or Gillian Anderson want to pay for my CPAP machine, I’d like to know if they’ll also autograph it.
You get me. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Sigourney and Gillian aren’t billionaire capitalists, they’re wealthy because they’re talented actresses. Their talent makes the owners of production companies lots of money, and they’re paid a fraction of it. But they still have to find someone to buy their labor. They had to audition to get jobs before they were big stars.
TS’s dad bought a record label and signed her to it.
Class analysis can be tricky, especially the entertainment industry, but it isnt always about being rich or not. The surest way to tell is “what is the relationship to production?” Tay is a billionaire because she helped ticketmaster and Live Nation create a monopoly, she’s a parasite. Without Gillian and Sigourney, the movies and shows they worked in wouldn’t be as good.
There are no billionaires without exploitation.
1000%
But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn’t end exploitation. It’s just a beginning.
The struggle for human freedom will never end
For sure. You’re totally right. I just mean little girls freaking love TS (whether she earned it or not). If she paid for their treatment I know they’d wanna know.
(I realize this is a 2 yr old, I’m just speaking generally)
100k, in the US, that is gone after a few copays.
“Billionaire gives pocket change in a PR stunt”. Is the proper title.
While they applaud cutting all NIH research.
“Crowd-funded health care is the best American health-care strategy, according to a Fox News/Heritage Foundation funded study.”
I heard Taylor almost has $2 billion or so.
That’s the equivalent of someone with $100,000 donating five bucks.
She has 2 billion in cold hard cash?
No no no, billionaires don’t store their wealth in cash, that’s what poor people do.
Rich people can afford stocks which allow them to make money on stored money rather than have it decrease in value from inflation like cash does
For all that leftist talk, lemmy is as billionaire-polluter-taxoptimizer-celebrity starstruck as everywhere else. On the bright side, since you’re a bit slow she might send some pocket change your way.