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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I totally agree, but also the pop star billionaires are the least offensive type. If you're targeting them before the other billionaires, you got played and are doing it wrong. The richest most politically powerful billionaires are the biggest threat to freedom.

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

strat is to target all billionaires equally

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago

^ This right here.

I'm so tired of "leftists" focusing on inoffensive targets in the middle of the spectrum when the real problem is far to the right of it.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

To me this is the silliest possible counter propaganda. They want to get people fired up about a super popular billionaire that actually works really hard and over pays her people. So then they can paint a picture of radicals who'd have everyone living in the slums no matter what they were able to do with their talents. They won't even wait to see the real responses. They'll put their own in, grab the screen cap and deride us all as anarchists.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

See that picture of the homeless man on top? Bill Gates has literally saved hundreds of thousands of men like him through his charitable foundations. It depends on the person not the size of the bank account.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You know what would help them?

A house.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That wouldn’t help, as they wouldn’t have the means to furnish it or maintain it or pay the taxes on it. What they need is medical care for the sizeable portion that have mental illness keeping them down. And all of them need an economic system that doesn’t let hard luck cases get thrown under the bus.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't believe how many of them have jobs and just need a house. It's the majority actually.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Right. Bill Gates is horribly evil and rich, and like many people in his shoes, he decided to be a philanthropist to fix his image. What if millions of other people had gotten that money instead of him? What if Windows hadn't been monopolistic? What kind of world would we be in today? A better one, most likely.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. Any downvotes you got/get are simple shills of the mindsets "rich people bad" and "Windows bad", both of which are very prevalent here. Multiple people here (not all) throwing those downvotes around would be doing the same shit if they were billionaires, or worse.

Wish we could all be like Pepe.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Idk, when you move from normal wealth to exorbitant wealth AND you’re a international pop star who very clearly has THOUSANDS of workers supporting each show it seems kinda hard to ignore the people who’s work is providing your stage to excess.

They all are a symptom of the same disease, some of them are the disease as well.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pop stars are just the pretty faces in front of the behemoths that are the music labels. These labels are absolutely very politically powerful. Do you think Taylor Swift for rich by paying her staff fair salaries? The cleaning people from the concert venues, the bartenders, the people taking your tickets, etc, they all earned little crumbs while Swift, the venue, and the label made the big bucks.

No one becomes a billionaire by paying fair wages.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most of those people work for the venue though, the performer doesn't control their wages.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taylor Swift has the power to demand basically anything from the venue.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Expecting a performer to go to lengths like that just isn't realistic, they've got their own job to do.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

You can say the same about mega corp CEOs. Poor them, they are so busy with their own job.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 week ago

Taylor Swift has the power to demand basically anything from the venue.