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Another point goes to the Streisand Effect.
Considering the amount of MAGA creeps around, I'd reserve judgement on that. She must get 10 credible death threats a day.
She has a 24/7, well paid security team. Most of America is a single $1000 emergency away from homelessness and financial ruin.
Fuck Taylor Swift and fuck idol worship.
You talk tough when you don't have lunatics threatening your life. But, then you can, can't you.
What the actual fuck is wrong with you? Taylor Swift isn't your friend. She isn't creeping around forums making a list of users that defend her. Her success was purchased by her rich father, her music is written and produced by a team of professionals who use scientifically proven methods to make sure the music is palatable to make the most money... Goddamn. Who defends the ultra rich?
It's called empathy my friend. You should try some.
You misspelled psychosis.
You misspelled not caring about anyone.
You can both relax! I checked each word and neither of you misspelled anything.
There is a grammatical error though...Start the fight back up!
KUMITE! KUMITE! KUMITE!
Simp? Bwhahaha. Sorry I hit so close to the nerve.
Please pay attention to our community rules, and tone down the insults.
That's a good one too. You have a nice day.
And now more MAGA creeps know about it, and more trackers will pop up. Streisand Effect.
All it takes is one. Everybody can track planes if they want to. This guy just makes it easy. Everybody knows about him since Musk.
OK is making it easy a threat worth doing something about, or simply making public info easier to find? You're trying to have it both ways. Is it "just easier" or a real threat?
Pick one.
I don't see your logic here.
"All it takes is one."
"Anyone can track planes."
pick one.
Again, I don't see your logic.
In fact, we don't see your logic.
Sucks to be her then. She could just not fly around in her private jet so much if she's so worried.
Everyone has a job to do. Her's forces her to travel a lot. Yours may not.
She's got enough $$ she doesn't HAVE to do anything the rest of her life and still live extremely comfortably.
Her "job" doesn't force her to do shit.
You don't walk in her shoes. You don't know what is or should be important to her. She may be wealthy, but maybe her personal value is something other than what you think it should be.
I don't walk in her shoes. Yeah duh, if I did I wouldn't be, because if I ever made 5 million I'd retire, buy a house, and live off interest comfortably the rest of my life. I don't need any more than that (and technically don't even need that, considering I don't have it now and I'm not dead).
That's you, not her. Like most successful people I suspect she has higher aspirations. Although I find her music a bit jingleistic, I suspect making it is important to her, perhaps even more than her bank account.
In no way am I saying she can't make music.
But making music doesn't require her to charge so much money to make more money, only to break even.
In my opinion Higher aspiration doesn't absolve someone of taking advantage of others, even if it is "fair price" according to capitalism.
Sure it could be important to her. In my opinion that changes her desires from "wanting to make music" to "wanting to make more money".
I have yet to understand how it is "moral" for someone in a society to gather such disparate worth, and then call them "successful". Is society success defined by how much you take advantage of others?
Wealth is a funny thing. Especially these days with so much money at the top. I don't begrudge someone being wealthy. I begrudge those that make money on their money and call it work.
I agree with you there completely.
My aspiration to have 5M and live off the interest would allow me to do what I really want without fear of starving.
I'd be fixing cars left and right for free. It's what I enjoy.
Good luck with that, I guess.
My life experiences tell me that's easier said than done.
Everything in life is easier said than done.
At this point the only way I could feasibly get said 5M would be a windfall.
I don't agree with "positions" that would allow me to "earn" that much in a short amount of time.
If it's too good to be true, it usually is.
Even if it is. I don't personally feel that "CEO" does as much benefit as the multi millions a year they "earn".
Even then. I think my upper limit to "earnings"with the value of the dollar now would probably be ~200k. And only then if I got more specialized and did more projects for more people/companies with it.
It'd take me 25 years at that to get to my "5M". And I doubt I have that much left in me.
The reason CEOs make the money they do is because they have proven their judgemental value and there are few of them. Another reason is that it's a tough job to get, so you have to bail hay while the sun shines. Most CEOs don't find an equal job if replaced.
I am going to have to disagree them proving their judgemental value. Especially not in the many hundreds of percent value above their average worker.
I've managed engineers. It's not easy, but most of them knew they didn't want my job. Now you take that and multiply the effort accross business disciplines and you have to have good judgement to be successful.
That still doesn't match the current state of affairs in my opinion.
Just because effort is more does not inherently mean value generated from said effort is more.
Not to mention the huge jump in compensation for said "effort" by each level.
You say you don't like people who just live off the interest their money collects, I can respect that ideology. I feel that people who are actively funneling more money away from the people doing the useful work are worse than those just living off interest.
In a perfect world we would all die broke, and be born with equal opportunity. This isn't a perfect world.
Edit: thinking about this further. I also have to disagree about the "effort" a CEO puts in to be inherently more or less than any other position. Every job requires effort. I guarantee a server working a double is pouring a ton of effort into that job. For me that job would be a lot of effort, likely more than I ever have exerted in my work. It's what makes me not want that position. Does that mean a server should inherently make more money than I do?
Same with my boss' position. It would take a lot of effort from me, different than the server position would take, but still probably about the same effort in my opinion. Yet he gets easily 5x the pay a server gets (and more than I get).....
The effort claim just doesn't make sense.
Compensation is one of those things you juggle when you decide to take a job that's offered. You, or anyone else, wants as much as you can get. Usually, if the company has anything on the ball, they know the compensation of someone with your experience and ability that other companies offer. Same thing is true with CEOs. It's up to you to accept or not. Maybe the perks you get are worth aa lower offer. It's up to you. CEOs do get tied to performance, though, so if you are successful you get bonuses for that but if you're meh, you don't. If you continue to be meh, you may not be a CEO for long. Getting another CEO job isn't easy.
Yeah and that doesn't make sense, because it's not actually the CEO that's doing the performance.
And against your effort argument.
I agree that's the system that is in place, just not that it makes sense, or should be accepted as a good system, let alone one to protect.
Yeah, I don't know if it's worthwhile responding to you or not.
Respond or not. I've enjoyed the conversation.
I can begrudge the wealthy. Look at where Taylor Swift came from. She's the child of two wealthy investment bankers who moved to Nashville to support their daughters music career when she was still a tween. Taylor Swift has always been a marketing project, it's all she literally knows how to be since she was a literal child.
Billionaires also don't just have "I can live on this comfortably for the rest of my life" money they have "I can impact the world if I want to" money. If she never played another concert ever again she could travel the world and eat out at the world's most expensive restaurants and clothe herself in the most over expensive folies for the rest of her days and still leave a massive fortune to her children. Cupidity has no upper limit though so she's still focused on accruing money by changing the playing field to her advantage.
And instead she makes money for everyone around her venues and gives money to food banks everywhere she goes. I mean, I am envious of her wealth too, but I'm not jealous about it. Some people catch breaks in life, some don't
Ah good old Trickle down economics scattering largess to the peasants. Interesting to see the old grift never dies.
So then make your music, schedule less tour dates, and drive a tour bus like everybody else.
Well apparently the planet isn't important to her.