Taylor Swift earns in ONE show what you earn in 283 YEARS
Taylor Swift earns in ONE show what you earn in 283 YEARS
It's it odd how the media picks and chooses who to call out on making "too much" money.
She must be the wrong type of millionaire or something
She must be the wrong type of millionaire or something
She isn't one at all, she's a billionaire, and she's definitely not a fucking victim.
If anything, it's her fellow billionaires not getting enough shit, not her getting too much.
She is a paper billionaire. She is worth all that money if she sells the rights to all her songs, which she just remade to reclaim her rights to those songs, so she isn't interested in selling.
She might be worth a lot, but she doesn't have thatmuch because autonomy is worth more to her than money.
She's not hurting, that's for sure, but she doesn't have money like people say.
Look at it realistically.
She's not living a better life style than Frank Sinatra or Micheal Jackson did in their heyday.
It's not about how much money you have. It's owner class vs working class. And even in the case of owner class, I would say that when the thing you own and make money from is yourself and your own image, that's very different from owning the fruits of other people's labour.
From my quick look at the source, this headline is just plain wrong. They simply multiply concert attendance by ticket price and call that Swift's earnings. I'm assuming that other people need to be paid from those sales- like, I dunno, the production team, the dancers, the suppliers of staging, the ticket distributor, the cleanup crew, the people who make the lunch for the crew, the people who supply the ingredients for the lunch, the people who co-ordinate the vehicles that deliver the ingredients, the website design team, the stadiums themselves...
Without weighing in on the subject of TS being a billionaire, it's just a terribly written article. Essentially just repeats the same phrases over and over about a handful of different states.
Also, where the fuck did they get an average lifespan of 47.9 years???> residents would still need to work a whopping 215 years, or 4.59 lifetimes...215 / 4.59 = 47.98My mistake. It didn't click for me that the article is talking about working years, not lifespan. Still a shittily written article.
It's probably LLM ("AI") generated. As we all are probably aware now, it's anything but intelligent. It just says bullshit confidently. The average lifespan number probably comes from some third world countries wiki page or something, but it doesn't understand context and just uses pattern matching to fill in the next expected word. It doesn't know what the information came from or how to apply it to other information.
Ticketmaster takes something like half straight off the top. Then there's a separate venue owner much of the time, concessions, technical staff, security, medical, and finally Swift's staff who build the stage and maintain her equipment, any other talent on stage and then, the last person to get paid is Taylor Swift.
It does specifically say revenue of a single show. Which as far as I'm concerned would include all ticket sales even if the proceeds from those sales don't entirely go to Taylor. Though I do agree the headline is a bit disingenuous. If I'm being generous I'd say they're referring to Taylor Swift the money making apparatus and less so Taylor Swift the person.
They repeatedly say "Taylor Swift earns". If they were concerned at all about presenting information properly, they would say "gross income from a Taylor Swift concert". It's outrage clickbait, through and through. While I agree that Swift makes an outrageous amount of money, that outrage should be based on fact, not hyperbole.
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Here is my wild take: Making that much money by performing a concert is perfectly fine. Performing a concert is work. People who went there clearly consent to that.
In my opinion, this is different to making money by investing that is meaning making money by just owning stuff.
And she's not on the list of the top richest people in the world.
If you look at her life style, she's not doing much better than Mick Jagger or Michael Jackson were when they were at the top.
On the other hand, look at the salaries of executives. CEOs who used to make 50 times what their employees made are a thing of the distant past.
Not specific to TS but for me personally, I’m just fucking sick of billionaires in this day and age. When so many are struggling just to make ends meet. It’s not their fault they’re this disgustingly rich, but it doesn’t make their unbalanced existence on this planet any easier to digest.
It’s not their fault they’re this disgustingly rich
Whose fucking fault is it then????
Deny. Defend. Depose.
The article doesn’t really specify, but it looks like they’re pretending she keeps all the money to herself. Weird comparison.
I've heard she pays her people pretty well, but I'm not in that industry so idk.
I'd say her being the only person able to get anything produced during the SAG-AFTRA strikes is why she's being targeted. She proved that meeting their demands is still profitable.
https://fortune.com/2023/09/19/how-taylor-swift-made-eras-tour-movie-during-hollywood-strike/
I'm all for trashing Healthcare CEO billionaires, but dammit... TayTay earns her money and doesn't intentionally kill anyone doing it.
No billionaire is an ethical billionaire
Capitalism is a system based on exploitation. She takes far, far, far more than her fair share, leading to others losing out.
"Every billionair is bad except for the specific ones I like."
70% of people so far who voted on my comment understood that I was being sarcastic. Not a bad hit rate, all things considered.
Well, apart from the fact that she mostly doesn't actually sing in her concerts (and when she does, it's heavily Autotuned), and her band doesn't actually play.
Grosses, right? Do I need to wade into the article to find out where the math errors and artistic license are on reporting the income for someone I don't know, will never know, and don't much care about?
She sings well. She presents as a decent person. She's making a lot of money providing a non-essential service people are dumping loads of discretionary spending on, and ancillary businesses in her touring path feel some osmotic benefit.
Cool.
Can we prioritize the Galen Westons and Trumps of the world for our hate and scorn? They seem to be doing far worse on a smaller scale that needs to be smaller still.
Can we prioritize the Galen Westons and Trumps of the world
I don't know the first person but I assume they're a rich POS. In which case, yes, we're already prioritizing them. So much so that comment sections like this are full of apologia when it's anyone who isn't a piece of shit
There are hundreds of famous billionaires. Why the focus on her?
Strong public perception. Swift is often portrayed as a front runner of liberated women and modern (however-manyth wave) feminism as well as "woke" (I really hate that word) lifestyle aka pluralistic and aware of socioeconomic issues, which certain people don't like. At the same time Swift was cited as one of the "worst" private jet owners for having taken the highest number of private flights in a certain group and timeframe (citation gravely needed). She is easy to attack due to the (supposedly) high moral standard people attribute to her image. Probably comparable to Gates in this regard.
Feminism has been weaponized today and it's very entertaining to see it play out. :)
Everyone is being turned against eachother and these celebrities are just branded in a specific way to make them likeable to the majority.
Deny. Defend. Depose.
Immmhotep. Immmhotep. Immmhotep.
No one should be that rich. At the same time, thousands of people won't show up to hear me sing.
She also has a giant amount of people she pays with those earnings. Not saying she isn't filthy rich, but she is an artist, writes most of her own words and music, and fought really hard to get compensated for it.
I respect her for all of that. She probably also does a ton of charity. What she does is not easy. Most people can't even write a verse/chorus/verse/chorus lyric that works, let alone piano and guitar. Actually make it so other people enjoy it, and perform that shit night after night all over the world. That's a shit ton of traveling, setting up, doing the set, tearing all of that huge production down, and moving on to the next gig.
I don't listen to her at all, but I admire the amount of effort ot takes to do it. She's not some CEO with a laptop flying around meeting other CEOs for drinks. People like her work hard. Other acts that do that have earned thier money too. Metallica, Rolling Stones, what have you. They write and perform and bust ass far more than you and me ever will.
I wasn't expecting that to pour out of me, i apologize. Lol
All good!
I would say busting ass doesn't scale your success, but will agree it is a prerequisite. A lot of people with talent and work ethic don't make it anywhere. Your force multiplier is opportunity, and that is scarce and unevenly distributed.
And yet, she's still a wealth hoarding billionaire. Womp womp.
I just don’t see how we can reconcile the two. People want to hear her sing and they’re willing to pay a lot for it.
The main alternative I can think of is for her to sing for free and have the government pay for the production of her shows. As popular as she is I can’t see that going over well. Putting the arts under political control leads to the unnecessary politicization of the arts.
Or, hear me out: tax the rich.
I like her though so it's fine! /s
"Earn" is a strong word.
all full throated choruses of eat the rich and billionaires shouldn't exist until it's taylor or gaben