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Do you actually think Taylor Swift opens her bank account and sees $1,000,000,000 in checking? The overwhelming majority of her wealth is tied to her owning her own catalog of music, which can either be licensed out or earn money directly through streaming/sales. Is she obscenely wealthy? Yeah, absolutely. Is it possible for her to "cut" her money up so that everyone who helped her gets an equal share? No, we're talking about very illiquid assets, not a cookie cake your mom brought in to share with the class.
Here's an article about how she was one of the first people in Hollywood to meet SAG-AFTRA Union demands in order to release her movie, including things like higher pay and better residuals towards crew with streaming.
She could transfer the IP rights of the song to a company, and then evenly distribute shares of that company to everyone who ever worked with her.
That's not an unreasonable point, but we don't actually know the distribution of income. We know she isn't busting unions at her record label or exploiting slave laborers to play bass on her albums. Her success is a direct result of her effort, her performance, and her creativity. Nobody does it alone, but nobody is claiming she's acted unethically (that I know of, but I admit I don't really follow her in the news).
I could be wrong. Maybe she's a horrible person when you get to know her. We do know that Jeff Bezos is a horrible person.
no one knows if bezos is a cunt excpet people close to him. the reason we know he is a cunt is the fact he is a billionaire.
We do know that Bezos is a cunt based on his track record on business practices and employer policies.
How do you know they don't get their fair share? Again, do any of her staff and people actually feel exploited or are you just hoping they do?
She recently gave her entire tour crew $50mm in bonuses. But beyond that, she's a musical artist. Her music is the reason there's anything coming in at all, and not all of them are involved in that part of it.