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Taylor uses her talent to produce a sound. Not listening to those sounds is very easy. She did not extract an element from a mine or oil from the ground. Only her talents made her rich. She absolutely deserves her wealth.

Yes. She earned her wealth by creating value with her own skills and talent. If anyone has earned their wealth it's the people who did so using their own skills and talent.

@baswallet1760

2 ай бұрын

You mean the people who exploit other people's vulnerabilities to enrich themselves like Bezos, Musk, Koch, etc. etc?

you can't restrict people earning potential. Folks who work harder and archive more ... should have the ability to earn more.

As a swiftie, I appreciate this wonderful debate. I learned a lot ❤

@OpentoDebate

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing!

Yes ❤

Taylor is ❤

Taylor Swift told young people " do not give up. This my 256 mistakes. I finally got it rt. : people I am sitting here

I love Taylor Swift! Great discussion ❤

This clickbait title seems like designed to disfavor notions along the lines that ideal economic policies would somehow prevent huge economic disparities, not singling out a singer who probably didn't steal anything (although examples of somewhat similar songs are not uncommon) nor even did anything corrupt to acquire anything as someone whose earnings are questioned. Even "equality of outcome" seems biased against a more nuanced notion, rarely anyone would actually support that whether one is a hard worker who delivers something that people desire should have the same outcomes as someone who does nothing or something very lazily and poorly. Rather, people will more likely argue for some decent baseline/safety-net, funded by redistribution from the top, but not to the level of produce equality of outcome regardless of output.

@DocOmally101

2 ай бұрын

Hear, hear

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I don't give a damn (sorry, Google Community rules) Yes. Taylor Swift must have millions or Billlions inheritance. She deserves any inheritance coming to her politics or , no politics. Don't care. I listento soneth8ng she said when she got an award. 😊

Deserve? What a weird thing to say. She produces a product. People buy her product. The end.

@growtocycle6992

2 ай бұрын

In what world is one person's efforts worth more than FIVE THOUSAND normal people's amount of wealth?? 1 billion= 1 thousand million 1 billion = 5,000 x 200,000

@DocOmally101

2 ай бұрын

​@@growtocycle6992 in a world where one person's efforts are desired that much more. Where one person's time produces that much more resources. Not all labor is equal

it s really a shame for any society or city that tolerates the existence of billionnaires and homeless within their boundaries concentration of weath will be always a big problem for liberalism

Jessica is really trying to sell the idea that Taylor Swift's music is as important as a malaria vaccine, or lifting billions of people out of poverty. I would have disagreed with this debate on the premise alone because hyper focusing on Taylor Swift is a distraction from the real issue, which is those who got their billions through unjust means, especially those who have hundreds of times as much wealth as even Taylor has. I'm sorry to say that we've entered the era where a billion dollars is still a mind-blowing amount of money but it's not enough to change the world. A trillion dollars? Sure. Which is why we should collectively tax all of those billionaires heavily. We're focusing too much though on the dollar amount, and not enough on how those people made their wealth, which entirely comes down to control of land, resources, and labor, and then lastly the control of inherited capital.

Eat the rich 😋

nope

I do believe this is a waste of time worrying about whether it's fair for T.S. to be a billionaire. The TRUTH is, she has EARNED IT, IT'S HERS PERIOD. To insist that she spread her wealth. That word ,"distribution of resources, " is just another word for ," stealing." To "take," from one person to give to another violates a moral commandment: Thou shalt not steal. But this really an argument BETWEEN capitalism v socialism. And we all KNOW how socialism produces.

@growtocycle6992

2 ай бұрын

She deserves to earn more but herself then at least 5000 "normal people"? Are you sure she works harder than FIVE THOUSAND people!???

@growtocycle6992

2 ай бұрын

To clarify. 1 billion = 1 thousand million. 1 billion = 5,000 x (200,000)

Yeah.. I'm done here. Un-subscribing.

A debate between two capitalists, how boring. No talk of anything remotely human here.

A debate between two capitalists, how boring. No talk of anything remotely human here.