You can’t buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It’s called a job.
People sell those hours because they have to. It’s called a salary.
You misspelled “wage slavery”
No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods…
Depends on if you can’t live comfortably or not still.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I’d wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages
Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income.
So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.
Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?
this guy has figured out capitalism
Keep it down what if they start organizing?
Great workaround rec, thanks
I think since then it’s happened a few more times. Don’t forget those that have 2-3 full time jobs.
Ugh! I’ll have to hire kids on drugs to compete with those fat cats pulling down three salaries!
Wealthy people don’t buy things, they buy time - other people’s time.
On behalf of landfills and floating trash islands, they buy plenty of thing things, too.
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Where can I buy a ticket?
I will allow someone to buy me, but like software you won’t “own” me. You will just be liscencing me and, at any time, I may revoke your access to myself.
I, too, have a job
Is abduction piracy in this case?
Cloning is more like piracy in this case, unless you are referring to seafaring piracy.
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Sounds like dating!
And they can just use you on the terms which are described in your EULA
Well no, she can’t buy Kanye. He’s not a Supreme Court Justice.
Not yet.
Since we’re already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don’t think there’s any reason he couldn’t be a supreme court justice.
Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.
“But Elmo wants to know why policemen don’t have an obligation to intervene to protect the public.”
“Elmo is a bit confused. Why did Elmo learn to share, when Elon clearly doesn’t?”
“some of Elmos best friends are black people” lol
“Hmmm, Elmo wants to know why people pay most of their piggy banks for in case they get sick, but still have to pay their entire piggy bank when they do get sick.”
It’s treason, then.
Actually slavery is still legal in the United States as a form of legal punishment when legally convicted so she just needs to wait for a jury of his peers to convict him and a judge to Sentence him then she would probably need to pay the state
So your saying all Tay Tay has to do is get into the private prison game and then she can own people?
She can’t “own” people, don’t be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That’s messed up.
Pretty much
She COULD purchase Jay-Z, though.
He said “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man”
@TSwiftFTC? Is this a two-topic account about Taylor Swift and the Federal Trade Commission? 🤔
Her impact on the economy now has its own government agency.
Tbf, Texas was notoriously slow on this
I couldn’t name nor recognize a single song from either of them. Shit, I need to improve my mainstream media knowledge.
Me too :) You are not alone
No you don’t. That’s something to be proud about
Too late.l, I used the last 5 minutes to do it already. :)
I knew several Taylor Swift songs from the radio, but didn’t think more of them but “the usual generic pop music” that normally leads to me changing the station immediatly (I expected this). I don’t think I will recognize her the next time I hear her.
I also knew some Kanye West songs and I even liked some of them (I honestly didn’t expect this). I somehow don’t want to like his music though, saw too much about him on Twitter and here).
Kanye had an absolutely killer music career before he went off the rails
He may have always been a little crazy but the man can write a song, I gotta hand him that, no matter what I think of his personal or political life
The College Dropout is one of the few albums where you just push play & listen to the whole thing.
Yeah it’d be a real shame if that came out twenty years ago.
Inb4 “well Pablo was good”
No it wasn’t, this is scientific FACT
I wish I couldn’t, I needa stop listening to the radio, haha for the occasional song I enjoy on there, theres so many that are like torture
I know the one Quentin sings!
Quentin?
Quentin Coldwater from Magicians!
I just only hear taylor’s bad blood. I knwo nothing of other song of hers or any song of kanye west.
The need coming from the swifties here real.
She should put him on the wall in the downstairs toilet.
If dictaster tRump gets elected, it won’t be long before she’ll be able to buy him
What’s really important is that it’s impossible not to be a bad person and a billionaire. I like her music but being a billionaire means that she is an enemy of society. Period
most bilionares are good people. Some are not though.
They’ve spent more money than you’ll ever make convincing you of that.
Nobody that has exploited and hoarded billions of dollars from society for their personal benefit are good people.
Some can be. You dont know all billionares
Don’t have to, it’s not possible to hoard that much wealth while people starve and be considered ‘good’.
It is possible. You dont know enough to make that judgement.
Self awareness isn’t your strong suite, is it?
its stronger than yours, clearly
Looking at your comments I can see you’re just a troll but if actual humans are reading this: there are exactly zero moral billionaires. It is not possible to be a billionaire and be a good person at the same time. You do not have to know what’s in their heart or whatever the fuck this idiot is trying to say. You can’t earn that kind of money without hurting and exploiting people and if you keep that amount of money you are actively harming society. End of story.
Not really true at all. Judgemental people like you are the reason we cant progress as a species.
Lmao and the people hoarding incalculable wealth that they’ll never ever be able to spend in multiple lifetimes are for sure helping us progress as a species.
Get real.
Wow, now Taylor Swift fans are going mask-off racist. Not only are they simping for a billionaire like a Musk fan, but they’re alluding to going back to the good old days of slavery like Musk’s dad.
lmao no. It’s wealth comparison idiom. You’d have to intentionally miss the point.
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The only surprising thing here really is that Swift isn’t worth substantially more. She’s been the top pop music act for a decade now and has been uncommonly business savvy so I was really expecting that figure to be at least the double.
You do understand how large of a number a billion is? To work only for a decade and have that kind of networth is insane.
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Sure, if we’re talking work as in compensation per hour. But we aren’t here. She’s a product (as in Taylor Swift the artist is, not Taylor Swift the person naturally) and thus can be sold in quantities only limited by the amount of people on our planet that can afford to buy her music/merch/tickets etc. For me as a consultant to make a billion just isn’t possible, but if I start a company selling something which isn’t limited like the amount of hours in a day then… Yeah no, I don’t have it in me to become a billionaire. But you get the picture I hope.
To hammer it home, she’s globally recognizeable as I’d say the most famous active musician right now. And she has been in the top 10 for a long while. That kind of fame begets net worth faster than just about any CEO gig ever will.
Yes, I understand how it seems like I refered to the person and not the artist.
I still don’t understand how you come to the conclusion that the net worth should be at least double? Based on what? My point is that it is extremely impressive to have a billion dollar company as is, in only a decade
You can’t buy Taylor Swift stock on the exchange. Those publicly known double digit billionaires are that wealthy because they put their company public on the exchange. That company stock is sold at a premium because of high demand. Which means that it’s listed for more than the book value of that company often for 20x more. This is how even founders of companies that have never made a profit become billionaires.
Taylor Swift’s net worth is probably from real dollar profits. If she puts her company trough an IPO she will probably be worth way more than $1.1 billion.
Valid point. Unlike other billionaires with public companies connected to them Taylor Swift’s net worth is her value up until this point, what she has generated. There is no pricing in of future potential like what made the Tesla and Nvidia stock absolutely explode (and by that their respective stakeholders net worth). I hadn’t thought of that.
Pollution the planet on that scale isn’t cheap
