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From my quick look at the source, this headline is just plain wrong. They simply multiply concert attendance by ticket price and call that Swift's earnings. I'm assuming that other people need to be paid from those sales- like, I dunno, the production team, the dancers, the suppliers of staging, the ticket distributor, the cleanup crew, the people who make the lunch for the crew, the people who supply the ingredients for the lunch, the people who co-ordinate the vehicles that deliver the ingredients, the website design team, the stadiums themselves...
Without weighing in on the subject of TS being a billionaire, it's just a terribly written article. Essentially just repeats the same phrases over and over about a handful of different states.
~~Also, where the fuck did they get an average lifespan of 47.9 years???~~
~~> residents would still need to work a whopping 215 years, or 4.59 lifetimes...~~
~~215 / 4.59 = 47.98~~
My mistake. It didn't click for me that the article is talking about working years, not lifespan. Still a shittily written article.
Believe it or not, you don't work your whole life. If you start working at 19 and work until retirement age(67) that's 48 years
Damn, you're right. I absolutely did not make that connection. Updated.