• Ioughttamow@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Nope. That amount of wealth is only generated via exploitation. Exploiting workers or exploiting customers, or cutting corners and skirting regulations, failing to internalize externalities. Mostly all of the above

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        Some people think all profit is “stolen” labor value, and thus all wage labor is exploitation. I don’t think that’s true, but it is true that all for-profit firms have an incentive to pay their workers as little as possible, while getting as much productivity from them as possible, because that will maximize profits.

        For-profit companies also have an incentive to cut other costs as much as possible, to maximize profits. This is why we see things like shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, or products just getting gradually crappier over time.

        For-profit companies also have an incentive to externalize certain costs, like pollution, environmental destruction, or resource depletion, to, once again, maximize profits.

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        2 days ago

        I love how swifties always say, “WhAt AbOuT tAyLoR?!”

        And I say this as someone who loves her music.

        She’s still a bad billionaire.

        EVEN IF she paid everyone who works for her or her label above market rate, even if she charged her concert tickets below market value, even if she “goes green” with every CD, every piece of merchandise, the fact that she has more money than most people makes her a bad billionaire.

        She could easily give half of her wealth away and still be okay.

        She’s a bad billionaire.

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        2 days ago

        Where do you think that wealth comes from? They don’t produce it. The workers create the value, which is stolen from them for the owners and shareholders.

        To be fair to Taylor she is producing a show, but the wealth should be fairly distributed with the crew that make those performances possible

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          Most of her wealth comes from merchandising anyway, i.e, profiting from the excess value created by the labor to produce goods.

          But yes, the shows are also the same concept.

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        Unless her financials are public, it’ll be hard to do but the general principle is that everyone’s labour is worth the same.

        She’s able to get more money through manipulation, whether intending to or not, through her fans buying multiples of her merchandise, to playing her songs on Spotify non stop to boost her profits etc.

        Applying this principle, she’s gaining profit from the work of her fans who aren’t getting any compensation for their labour, resulting in millions of dollars.

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          Do you really belive that everyone’s labor is worth the same? So a miner that spends hours on end underground risking black lung or a ton of other nasty stuff and a Walmart greeter should have the same compensation?

          Also, how is listening a song on Spotify “labor”??? Where can I get that job? Are you guys getting paid for being fans of someone?