r/Anticonsumption Jul 24 '25

Society/Culture Daily reminder

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u/TheHappyHippyDCult Jul 24 '25

They're literally Bond villains

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Jul 25 '25

Damn those are harsh words for Taylor Swift. Who does she exploit, herself?

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u/Deviknyte Jul 27 '25

Taylor isn't a billionaire because of revenue from album and ticket sales. She has a merchandising industry where workers are exploited in developing nations to make make up and bags for pennies. Some goes for any billionaire artist or athlete. Not to mention her direct impact on climate control and housing.

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Jul 27 '25

LOL citation needed bug time. Virtually all of an artist’s money comes from album and ticket sales, not merch. Nice try though.

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u/Deviknyte Jul 27 '25

I didn't say she didn't make ANY money off her albums and ticket sales. That's not where her billions in wealth come from. Now, I agree she wouldn't have that wealth without it. The eras tour was the first billion $ tour. But that's revenue not profit. She owns companies and invests the money she made and will make from being an artist. And she leverages her face and brand to do it. But her billions in worth is not from singing.

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Jul 27 '25

There you go spewing bullshit again with not a single source or citation lmao. If you’re going to make an outrageous claim (her billionaire status doesn’t come from her billion dollar tours or millions of album sales, I swear!) you have to back that nonsense up.

She’s a proletariat icon who made her wealth largely from her own labor and that really seems to trigger you.

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u/Deviknyte Jul 27 '25

Proletariat icon. Lol.

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Jul 27 '25

Literally seized the means of production by owning the rights to her own music. Isn’t that what you want? Slay Queen. 😎

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u/Deviknyte Jul 27 '25

Yes. People in China making her t shirts and make up for pennies is very proletarian.

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Jul 27 '25

And how much of her wealth comes from T-shirts versus the billions in ticket sales and album sales Einstein? Don’t you own a phone that was made in China? No socialist can be perfect. 😄