Taylor Swift

Aren't properly bracketed* or properly incentivized for the less wealthy*.

Taxes at this moment are more than high enough for lower to middle class, but that's the class who can't spend millions in tax write offs through charity and 'expenses' or hire financial advisors and managers. Also the class who sees the least return on investment through federal tax usage despite making up the most of collection.

Make the government fear your anger again.

Sorry, that's not good for me. Work means 100 different things and can't always be measured by "how much you do."

When the amount of money a person exceeds the benefit they can possibly receive is when society needs to intervene. Money is a social agreement and does not belong to any one person. If we had a cap it would disallow people to exploit others and would give more people opportunity to max out. There could be exceptions and permits for distribution purposes but otherwise if the cup never overflows it will never trickle down.

Paying by market value is inevitable in a functioning market economy, but we should balance it out with progressive taxes.

I bet she's worked 600x harder than Jeff Bezos

Income being dependant on how hard we work instead of the type of work is a waste of resources though. The goal of economic systems is to allocate our limited resources to our unlimited desires as efficiently as possible.

Some usage of resources are more efficient than others. Capitalism says that peak efficiency can be reached by letting supply and demand dictate the price. Other systems have other methods.

Your proposed system values 1 hour of shoveling the same as 1 hour of moving ground with a specialized machine, which makes no sense since the latter produces much more value with the same amount of work. I'm also assuming that amount of work = hours spent doing that work, but how else would you measure it? Any other measuring system is as subjective as 1 hour of Taylor swift = 1800 hours of average american.

There's no way to gauge how hard people work.

You can't reach billion dollars without exploitation

She didn't mistreat thousands of warehouse employees or spy on and manipulate three generations with social media to do it.

Maybe, but most music industry jobs are kinda shit same as any other job. The people that help set up the stage, the people working on her makeup, costumes, the people working in the labels, cleanup crews after concerts, people doing marketing/promotion etc. they all contribute to her success. Sure it's overall probably a bit less exploitative than Amazon warehouses but exploitation still happens.

You don't make a billion dollars on your own.

On the flip side, who is benefitting from her billions, other than herself and her immediate family?

While billionaires are scum, a good chunk of their money is tied up in businesses that keep tens/hundreds of thousands of people worldwide employed.

I like Taylor Swift, but I don't know her well enough to know if she actually is the exception to the rule. None of us do. The real question is "what does she need $1b for?"

Imagine living on a planet with millions of people struggling day to day with bare essentials like food and water and also having people that own enough money help millions. Why is it ok to hort wealth while you could easily help a lot of people? Like dont get me wrong, Taylor Swift is a cool artist not doing anything considered wrong by society. I simply find it odd to see people literally starving or freezing to death outside in the winter while they could be helped and no one bats an eye.

Hmm I bet she has her own clothing line.

/s?

I'm a swiftie posting in a swiftie community. 💅