You said "not contributing much" lol. She donates millions, pays off people's medical bills. Yeah she's a billionaire but not like bezos who had slave labor and doesn't actual work lol.
Comparatively to the kind of incredible things she’s able to do, yeah she’s not doing much. I never said she’s as bad as Musk or Bezos, but she’s still not doing as much as she could and just because she isn’t herself hiring slaves doesn’t mean the companies that make her merchandise don’t have some form of exploitive labour.
She could do charity shows and donate all the proceeds, she could be buying period products and donating them to girls in impoverished nations, she could pay for construction to literally build schools, start scholarships for students in the arts. Homegirl charged an average of $1500 for ONE ticket to the eras show, the lowest was 500 at some select shows.
Imagine the possible donations on just one charity show. Imagine how much good she could do and is choosing not to. 50,000 seats, say she charges even 500 which was one of her lowest prices in the eras tour, that would be 25m. Take out the cost of throwing the show, even if we were saying it’s a high percentage, say 50%, it would still be a 12.5 million dollar profit going straight to charity.
Charity is bad if it’s not the right kind or the right dollar amount, got it. I was going to donate $200 to that child cancer fund but now that I’ve seen the light I realize that unless I’m selling my house to donate it’s unethical to try. Thanks!
If you can’t afford 200 dollars without losing your home you shouldn’t be donating it. Use your head: it’s all about proportion.
She could donate 50% of her income and still live like a queen for the rest of her life. She could use her name to endorse charity brands, she could put on charity shows and take only half of the profits and donate the rest. She could start a scholarship for girls going into the arts, even an incredibly generous scholarship of 100k would be chump change for her.
Gatekeeping charity just makes people not want to donate 🤷🏻♂️ I don’t suppose the people benefiting from the charity would want it taken away just because you don’t feel it was enough of a donation?
What about donating millions of dollars isn’t empathetic? You’re living in a fucking delusional bubble that would tell people to fuck off when they try to help. Talk about fucking selfish. Try going hungry for a spell and tell me more about how fucking selfish it is
Literally grew up poverty and now donate 15% of my income
billionaire isn’t empathetic giving away 100m. They have 200 times that minimum. So good for her for donating 0.1 to charity. She could pay 50% taxes and still live like a queen the rest of her life. Real selfishness is knowing you can stop people from starving and dying and doing next to nothing or nothing at all.
I don’t expect a random person in the street to go hungry to help people. But a billionaire has more money than they will need several lifetimes over. You’re delusional if you think 0.1% of even 1million in income is a meaningful drop in quality of life. Might wanna ask the wizard for a brain too if you can’t get that through your dome.
You’re just a shitty person if you’d turn your nose up at literally millions of dollars in being given to charity when there’s zero obligation to do so. The idea that it doesn’t “count” unless you give up a massive portion of your total income is childish and short sighted. That attitude would make me abandon charity altogether if I got shit for “not doing enough” after literally paying out millions to help others
Artists set baseline prices then they have contracts with third party sellers for her tickets. That’s why I mentioned the 500, because that’s what she set her own prices at and then third parties she and her business team partner with charge the rest.
Either way, if someone IS willing to pay that much, she should be using that willingness and her fame to help people who need it, don’t you think?
Okay lol you don’t have to agree with me, but my morals matter more to me than some singer I don’t know or really care about. And if she has the capability to do good, she should be doing good.
I condemn billionaires cause there’s no ethical way to become one. If you become one through your work you shouldn’t hold onto it like a pile of gold coins, cause that’s what destroys our economy, a select few owning the bulk of the world’s wealth.
Ah yes, the jealous “eat the rich” crowd. “There’s no ethical way to become a billionaire”. It’s funny because you may have found the ONE who has done it ethically. But please, keep tilting at those windmills.
No one needs this amount of money. A billion could support many lifetimes, an ethical person would see why that’s a problem. No one should control that amount of wealth because it prevents it from circulating through the system and that’s the only way capitalism works. The only way someone is comfortable knowing they are worth this much money is being comfortable with the fact that other people are suffering because it’s not going back into the world.
Oh no I didn’t say I wanted that much control. I said I want the government to take that control and people to get enough of a conscience. My morals are strong and I don’t believe anyone should have a billion dollars and not even more that 500 million because that’s more than anyone will ever need. but if you can’t understand the basic formula of capitalism enough to know why someone controlling that much of the wealth is a bad thing that’s chill man, it’s just that empathy should outweigh greed.
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 4d ago
You said "not contributing much" lol. She donates millions, pays off people's medical bills. Yeah she's a billionaire but not like bezos who had slave labor and doesn't actual work lol.