• StillAlive@piefed.world
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          12 days ago

          impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting someone, not paying taxes, and not being greedy as fuck.

          You’re stating your opinion as fact.

          There are billionaire artists simply because people want to buy what they’re selling. Equating Taylor Swift or James Cameron to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos is absolute cringe behaviour, devoid of all nuance.

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              12 days ago

              Maybe you should do some math before equating Taylor Swift to Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe you can’t. So let me make it easy for you. Zucc’s networth is 100x that of Swift.

              You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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            11 days ago

            You can always tell whose frontal lobes haven’t fully formed before they post by how incapable of nuance they are.

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            Those billions came from underpaid workers that supported the billionaire in their endeavors. Think road crew and tour bus drivers and beverage stand workers.

            Someone somewhere was getting screwed in order for her to make billions.

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              Great. No one should do any work then.

              You fucking zealots are even more annoying than Swifties.

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                12 days ago

                If I were you I wouldn’t post when I was so upset over trivial matters. It’s not good for your mental health. Maybe take a break from the internet for a bit. You seem to need it.

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        Between an exploitative streaming economy and a “cost-of-touring crisis,” buying merch is sometimes the most direct way to get money into an artist’s pocket, even with venue cuts. Just ask Taylor Swift, who, according to Pollstar, made approximately $200 million in merchandise from her 2023 Eras tour dates.

        The Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion, Explained

        Fast fashion companies focus on low-cost garments that replicate the latest fashion trends, quickly pushing them into stores to capitalize on these trends. This means that retailers are able to offer a greater variety of products in large quantities and allow consumers to get more fashion and product differentiation at a low price.

        According to an analysis by Business Insider, fashion production comprises 10% of total global carbon emissions, as much as the emissions generated by the European Union. The industry dries up water resources and pollutes rivers and streams, while 85% of all textiles go to dumps each year. Even washing clothes releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.

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          12 days ago

          Band T-shirts are sometimes — or even often — the highest quality T-shirts available. Many bands bother to make sure that the stuff they sell is 100% cotton, fair trade, etc. I think I even have some that were made by union labor.

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            Band T-shirts are sometimes — or even often — the highest quality T-shirts available.

            Small local bands tend to source from local manufacturers and distributors. And as they consider their merch a form of advertising, it pays to invest in material that lasts.

            But the bigger and more volume-based franchises tend to get their clothes from the same global production and distribution chains as every other Fast Fashion brand. Taylor Swift isn’t contracting with a dozen different local print shops per venue to fill an order big enough to saturate a stadium. She’s going to the same folks that sell to H&M and Zara.

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              11 days ago

              Yeah I’ve never cared enough to check and don’t own any of her merch but you’re probably right in this specific case.