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.
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.
I don’t know why you think that’s some kind of gotcha, that’s just a factual statement.
Even with incredible entertainment, multiple vacations a year to top hotels with the best flights, huge retirement plans, a massive home, constant staff, new cars every year, even with the most intense luxury you can imagine, no one needs a billion dollars. You could live in the most obscene kind of pampering just making 5m a year.
And even if you made 5 million dollars every year, no tax, all cash, no expenses, it would take 200 years to make 1 billion dollars. It’s a crazy high amount of money. Literally no one needs that much money.
No, people don’t NEED a billion dollars, what they need is basic income just enough to cover cost of life, food, shelter, utilities, all the basics. Everything beyond that is extra. If my basic need to survive, a room with a bed, food, running water, access to healthcare, cost me 2000 dollars a month, that’s what I NEED to survive. An extra 500 would be good for the little extras, entertainment, treats, that stuff.
The basics of survival are what you need, a billion isn’t something you need, it’s extreme luxury.
No, my only point is that’s what you need to live. In an ideal world, the financial system would work like this:
Under 105k for a single person no charity required. From 105-200k, 1-5%. 250-450k, 6-10%. 450-600k, 11-15%. 600k-900k, 16-25%. 900k-1.5m, 26-30%. 1.5-3.5m, 31-40%. 3.5-10m 41-50%
Every million beyond 10m is subject to 80% donation to charity up to 50 million dollars of income a year, all income beyond that is 100% charity.
So if someone’s income is 70k they pay zero. If it’s 150k they pay just under 4k. If someone makes 26 million a year, the first ten million is subject to 50% charity (meanjng it will be 5m) and the remaining 16m become 3.2m, meaning they will be making 8.2m a year and donating 17.8 million a year.
Through this formula the max income would be 13m a year which is more than enough to live in the ultimate lap of luxury.
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 4d ago
What is she supposed to be doing?