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by klatchex_too 6 days ago
>> Literally no single person has produced "a billion dollars value".

How has someone like Taylor Swift not produced a billion dollars value?

Some of her tours have brought in more than 2 billion in revenue, she makes many millions a year in merchandise sales, millions selling streaming rights to her music, she has re-recorded the albums she didn't own the rights to and bought back the rights to others. She has a net worth of over 2 billion, how has she not produced "a billion dollars value"?

What does she do that you think you should be able to tell her that she can't do? And where do you think you get the right to tell her she can't do that?

If she wants to do concerts and concert goers want to go to them, who should stop her? If people want to stream her music and she gets a cut, you're going to tell her she can't do that? If she wants to sell vinyl records and I want to pay for one of them, you should be the boss that says no? Is that what you're saying?

I don't think so. A single person, Taylor Swift, has produced multiple billions of dollars of value.

This is not a problem to be solved. This is America. This is no country for everybody. It's a country for me. For people like me.

This ain't Switzerland.

I'm not saying Taylor Swift never did anything wrong. But mostly, she earned that. You're still allowed to do stuff like that in America. Sorry, not sorry.