• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I’m not going to argue that Taylor Swift doesn’t deserve to be on the billionaire list somewhere, but if you were only going to include 4, why would she make the cut?

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      Insofar as Swifties need to be reminded from time to time that their favorite billionaire is still a billionaire, with all the problems that entails, I support reminding them, but Swift being put up as some major public enemy lately is weird.

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    Three of those billionaires made their fortunes by stealing other’s work and exploiting other’s labor. I might dislike Taylor Swift’s music but it is her music and her work that made her a billionaire. When someone stole her work from under her, she re-recorded it from scratch and then put on the most profitable tour in history with each show being 3+ hours long.

    I’m not a Swifty, but I also don’t think she qualifies to join that evil as fuck trio.

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      Yeah I’m not a fan of her private jet shenanigans or her music, but the other 3 also use private jets like it’s going out of style, and are nowhere close to her when it comes to societal impact. If you wanted a 4th you can use one of our own billionaires from the old continent like Bernard Arnault (who is allegedly pals with Musk)

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      6 hours ago

      Hey look everyone! This person’s a billionaire apologist!

      I’m (mostly) joking.
      You are correct that she is not on the aame level as the others but as a billionaire and member of the ruling class T-Swizzle has an elevated responsibility to the rest of the world. Instead of helping she continues her massive destruction of the climate.

      Until she is leveraging her wealth to make positive change she does not get a pass.

      Oh and buying carbon offsets doesn’t count.

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        I’m not a fan of hers but they are still correct that she’s not nearly on the same level as the others.

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        Hey look everyone! This person’s a billionaire apologist!

        What do you expect from somebody who uses a corporate logo (of a Texas gas station, no less) as their avatar pic?

        (I’m (kinda) joking.)

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    It took me way to long to realise that wasn’t Bill Nye…