For all that leftist talk, lemmy is as billionaire-polluter-taxoptimizer-celebrity starstruck as everywhere else. On the bright side, since you're a bit slow she might send some pocket change your way.
"Billionaire gives pocket change in a PR stunt". Is the proper title.
I heard Taylor almost has $2 billion or so.
That's the equivalent of someone with $100,000 donating five bucks.
"Crowd-funded health care is the best American health-care strategy, according to a Fox News/Heritage Foundation funded study."
While they applaud cutting all NIH research.
If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
If billionaires paid more taxes we could all get healthcare
And if we had representatives that would vote to use that money for healthcare instead of using it on the military or a new ball room and instead line their pockets with lobbyist ~~bribes~~ donations.
Don't yall already spend more per capita for health care than the developed nations? I'm not saying don't tax the fuck outta billionaires, but the USA should already have a single payer Healthcare system
Yup. Muricans pay 14k$ per capita while the rest of the developed world pays 5-8k$ per capita.
Yes we should but some people would make less money that way, can't have that
We're both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don't feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It's really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.
Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We're #1! {According to us}
"A child who's medical care would be completely free in every other developed nation, and a few underdeveloped ones too receives pocket change from a billionaire so that she doesn't die under the crushing weight of the American medical system" just does not have the same ring to it for article headlines you know? We gotta get the current youth hyperfixation's name in the headline for clicks, because we literally only exist to serve ads.
Sending that much money to a two year old doesn't make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.
/s
Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.
If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don't get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20
I'm glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child's family. What a moving gesture.
I agree with you except if I was a super fan of the rich person sending money.
If Sigourney Weaver or Gillian Anderson want to pay for my CPAP machine, I’d like to know if they’ll also autograph it.
Sigourney and Gillian aren't billionaire capitalists, they're wealthy because they're talented actresses. Their talent makes the owners of production companies lots of money, and they're paid a fraction of it. But they still have to find someone to buy their labor. They had to audition to get jobs before they were big stars.
TS's dad bought a record label and signed her to it.
Class analysis can be tricky, especially the entertainment industry, but it isnt always about being rich or not. The surest way to tell is "what is the relationship to production?" Tay is a billionaire because she helped ticketmaster and Live Nation create a monopoly, she's a parasite. Without Gillian and Sigourney, the movies and shows they worked in wouldn't be as good.
There are no billionaires without exploitation.
1000%
But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn't end exploitation. It's just a beginning.
The struggle for human freedom will never end
For sure. You’re totally right. I just mean little girls freaking love TS (whether she earned it or not). If she paid for their treatment I know they’d wanna know.
(I realize this is a 2 yr old, I’m just speaking generally)
I’d like to know if they’ll also autograph it, try it on, sleep over for the night.
You get me. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Yeah the article said she did it quietly. If that were true we wouldn't know about it. You're right: publicity stunt
Meanwhile, in other countries, two year olds don’t need the permission of billionaires to survive.
singer quietly donated the sum to the two-year-old girl...
Yeah quietly enough so articles are written about it
I know, although tbf she kept quiet when she reached out to the families of the little girls murdered in Merseyside
You know about it, so it wasn't quiet.
It really was and it was released by a families social media not her.
And that's how you achieve a proper PR stunt.
It wouldn't look good otherwise and her PR people know this, a billionaire obviously employs the best.
The donation could have been made completely anonymously. But it clearly wasn't. Why?
How would anyone ever find out an anonymous donation?
I see it differently for several reasons, but understand where you're coming from.
If she's go great, where are the scholarships, hospitals, schools, grants, etc that can help the masses? She could fund so much! Start resources for underserved students and communities. We have a social obligation to our fellow humans. Why? Because we decided to form and live in societies. We wouldn't live together if we all believed it was every man for himself. If I pay so many taxes that I need to live paycheck to paycheck, then people making more need to pay more taxes. Don't tell me they earned it and deserve the billions. You have no idea how much value I create for my employer. I deserve to have basic necessities met without going into debt.
She's a billionaire, so for comparison, this is akin to someone who's net worth is 100k, donating 10 Eur. Hardly something worth writing puff articles about.
She's worth 1.6 billion so its actually less
Still don't care that a billionaire is doing "charitable works". It's wrong that anyone has to depend on the graces of the wealthy to notice a go fund me to afford healthcare.
She could do so much good but instead she does this for the glam and fame. I don't care what anyone says, all billionaires are bad. There's no good billionaire.
Imagine what she could do for cancer with the rest of that billion.
Donating that same money to cancer research will save dozens if not hundreds of less photogenic lives, young and old.
Considering the health care costs in USA, how many months does 100,000 buy if you’re not 100% covered by insurance?
Like 3 days worth of cancer treatment.
Here's an example. One of the pills my wife took for several years to treat her breast cancer cost $16330.08 per month. Another was $15280 per month. So $100k would've lasted her about 6 months (she took one drug, then switched to the other). This of course doesn't include the chemo given by injection, the medications she took to combat all the side effects from that, the radiation therapy, mastectomy, reconstructive surgery...
But if you'll let me opine for a minute here, $100k from Taylor Swift is an insult. Just as a goof, let's reframe this from Taylor's perspective. She flies around in a Dassault Falcon 7X. This plane has a fuel capacity of about 32,000lbs, which at 6.75lb/gal and a nationwide-average Jet-A price of $6.28/gal today, costs about $29770 to fill. So it's about 3 1/3 tanks of gas for her plane. Apparently a child's life is worth about as much to her as not having to fly commercial a couple times.
But it's even more ridiculous than that, because Taylor Swift is worth $1.6 billion. $100k is a smaller chunk of her net worth than a single fucking Big Mac is to the average American. Don't go to McDonald's. Eat the rich instead.
When is she going to deny being a white supremacist rather than suing the people reporting her ties to them?
Also this is like 20 bucks to her.
Her net worth acorting to Forbes is $1.6B
Acorting to the article she donates $100k. Meaning 0.0000625% of her new worth.
The typical American household according to this article is $193,000
So donation of the same proportion would be $12.0625. This is just laughable. I have tipped higher amount.
Stop tipping. The whole idea is asinine.
You know this is 100% a way to distract from the lightning bolt necklace debacle.
wow - how is this even a debate - she straight up released an SS necklace and there are people genuinely going "hmm idk about this"??
Yeah and they pulled it from her merch store with no explanation whatsoever.
I hope the child makes it. Besides that I wonder if 2 million actually help. Is this kind of cancer "solved" but treatment "just" expensive? If that's the case it's a shame it's so expensive. If it's not solved, can 2 million solve it?
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