It may seem like kind of a minor complaint. Whatever, she’s a pop star. I just thought it was weird. Also I felt like it was notable because I haven’t seen this style of disagreement in a while on “main Lemmy”. I feel like this sort of unanimity of whatever-viewpoint-they-have-chosen, impervious to any logic or reasonable question, is getting more and more isolated to the banhappy instances as time goes on.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well, I mean… A quick search seems to indicate that she does indeed have a pretty extensive property portfolio to the tune of 150 million USD. Now, I don’t have a principal problem with the concept of landlords, but it’s not entirely unreasonable to criticize people using the housing market as a speculative investment vehicle to the collective detriment of people who, you know, need to be able to afford to live somewhere.

    I sincerely doubt she’s somehow actually concurrently living in all those properties, so that’s probably not why she bought them.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      “She didn’t get there through album sales, she got there through hoarding real estate and becoming a landlord, and investing heavily in the corporations that have ruined our lives.” was specifically what the lemmy.ml people said that I disagreed with.

      The actual reality is that she made a little over 2 billion dollars in her career, almost all of it on selling tickets to live shows, and then… (lost half a billion? taxes? unclear) and now her net worth is $1.6 billion of which 10% ($150 million) is real estate. That makes sense to me. If you want to say our whole system where someone can spend $150 million on real estate is fucked (and it sounds like you do), I will completely agree with you. If you want to pretend she’s at heart a parasite and bad person because she directly physically traveled around and performed shows in front of enough people that they each bought their individual ticket and she got a cut and it all added up to billions of dollars, I will disagree.

      I feel like it’s also an example of the kind of “I like to attack people as a way of indicating my displeasure with the wider system, because it’s easy and emotionally satisfying, and all issues are black and white now” Lemmy brain thinking.