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No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods...

Depends on if you can't live comfortably or not still.

The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I'd wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.

https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages

Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/household-income-distribution-wealth-inequality-united-states/

So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.

this guy has figured out capitalism

Wealthy people don't buy things, they buy time - other people's time.

If licensing people isn’t slavery,
then abduction isn’t kidnapping

Cloning is more like piracy in this case, unless you are referring to seafaring piracy.

Since we're already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don't think there's any reason he couldn't be a supreme court justice.

Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.

"But Elmo wants to know why policemen don't have an obligation to intervene to protect the public."

It's treason, then.

Because you can't get that much without exploitation and refusing to share.

There's no moral reason to have that much money. If you earned $2500 a day (about a million dollars a year) it would take you just under 1200 years to earn a billion dollars. I personally believe you should earn more if you work harder than others but there's simply no way anyone could work hard enough to deserve more than anyone should make in 15 lifetimes. If you are lucky enough to get that amount of money there's no moral reason to keep it all.

Now think about how Bezos is worth 192.4 billion dollars. Hopefully that helps folks understand the problem. And by problem, I mean the largest threat we are facing to human existence. Every other issue we're having stems from the fact that billionaires exist.

Say you work on a team with, say 50 people. Everyone works hard to generate money, but you're the star of the show, so naturally you get to keep a little more of that money than everyone else. The question is, how much? Is it morally questionable to make double what everyone else does? What about 10x? What if you keep half for yourself, meaning those 49 other people combined make the same as you? Not enough? What about 100x as much as everyone else? 1000x?

Taylor Swift's salary is about 1,700x the average in the music industry. People on her team are likely struggling to make ends meet or pay for hospital bills or support a family. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is hoarding money like a fucking dragon.

A good person would never make it to a net worth of a billion dollars though. A good person would give away 999,999,000 to charity, for example.

They've spent more money than you'll ever make convincing you of that.

Nobody that has exploited and hoarded billions of dollars from society for their personal benefit are good people.

Looking at your comments I can see you're just a troll but if actual humans are reading this: there are exactly zero moral billionaires. It is not possible to be a billionaire and be a good person at the same time. You do not have to know what's in their heart or whatever the fuck this idiot is trying to say. You can't earn that kind of money without hurting and exploiting people and if you keep that amount of money you are actively harming society. End of story.

I'm assuming Elon is a "good" billionaire?

She can't "own" people, don't be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That's messed up.

Pretty much

Quentin?

Too late.l, I used the last 5 minutes to do it already. :)

I knew several Taylor Swift songs from the radio, but didn't think more of them but "the usual generic pop music" that normally leads to me changing the station immediatly (I expected this). I don't think I will recognize her the next time I hear her.

I also knew some Kanye West songs and I even liked some of them (I honestly didn't expect this). I somehow don't want to like his music though, saw too much about him on Twitter and here).

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Sure, if we're talking work as in compensation per hour. But we aren't here. She's a product (as in Taylor Swift the artist is, not Taylor Swift the person naturally) and thus can be sold in quantities only limited by the amount of people on our planet that can afford to buy her music/merch/tickets etc. For me as a consultant to make a billion just isn't possible, but if I start a company selling something which isn't limited like the amount of hours in a day then... Yeah no, I don't have it in me to become a billionaire. But you get the picture I hope.

To hammer it home, she's globally recognizeable as I'd say the most famous active musician right now. And she has been in the top 10 for a long while. That kind of fame begets net worth faster than just about any CEO gig ever will.

That has probably only ever helped her gain more. There is a good reason why rich people like to start charities and give money. It's for publicity and as a tax write-off.

USA is the perfect country for getting rich and staying rich and getting richer. She could never have that kind of networth in any other country in the world as a pop act.