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.
“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.
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Yeah, that’s fair. Claiming she made none of her money off her music is certainly nonsensical.
Yeah. Issues of wealth inequality in the US aside, I think it is indicative of how well the lemmy.ml hivemind grapples with factual reality (which is, it doesn’t).
There’s definitely a number of reasons why it’s the only instance I’ve got blocked. It’s just not worth it.