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i dont get why billie ellish is such a big topic to talk about but also im old af so thats prolly why.
She is a pop star, of course, and therefore commands a sizeable fanbase and attention of the press, and anything she says will have weight.
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When I was growing up, I didn’t even have a concept of a billionaire. I remember considering that to be a millionaire you had to be able to spend a million dollars and still have a million left over. In effect, a person wasn’t a millionaire until they had reached the second million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire threw me for a loop because the top prize was only a million dollars.
When I was a young teenager I was quite pleased at saving $300 to buy a new bike because after I bought it, I still had just over a hundred dollars left. It was euphoric to have been a hundredaire for a few days.
Not sure why that popped into my head reading your comment, but there you go.
But were they eviscerated?
And did they all go to the same cocktail party afterwards?
You people bitch when they use the term “slam” but here they are trying something new and you shit on them anyway.
Turns out that its not the specific few words, but the fact that Zuck wasn’t physically dragged/slammed/destroyed/evicerated or even just separated from his hundreds of billions. She actually just said some words.
Reasonable complaint, but I’d sooner commend her actions over the condemn the author’s title.
It’s just the hyperbole. It wouldn’t matter which specific word they used if it more closely matched the level of intensity of what actually happened.
In this instance, even a cliché, overused term like ‘jabs’ would be fine.
DESTROYED, even.
The cocktail wieners tasted funny. I think it was the Brazilian rosewood toothpicks soaked in cognac, and covered in gold leaf. Billie had 16!
Billie Eilish SLAMS Mark Zuckerberg then gets SMASHED at the afterparty
I mean, I’d definitely smash.
“Who?” - 99.8% of billionaires
Is Billie Eilish giving away her money as a millionaire?
she donates and volunteers with non-profits pretty regularly
If a person has hundreds of millions of dollars of worth in their pocket, they are not donating enough
I saw a few outlets estimate Eilish is worth somewhere in the tens of millions not quite hundreds. From this Rolling Stones article, also about the speech, she recently donated 11.5 million. Apparently this type of thing isn’t out of the norm for her.
Equivalently, Zuckerberg would need to donate around 30-100 billion to match Eilish proportionally. To bring it back to earth, you or I would need to donate thousands - if not tens of thousands - to be proportionally similar. I won’t speak for you, but I’m not in the habit of donating double digit percentages of my salary.
If she has donated 11.5 million, I would assume she has more than tens of millions.
If that information is correct, great. Either way, She certainly is no Taylor Swift (in regard to the money) on any day of the week.
If she has donated 11.5 million, I would assume she has more than tens of millions
That sounds like you’re just making deliberately shitty assumptions in order to be a jackass
I assume you mean someone randomly pulling 11.5 million out of their ass? And that you’re not just trying to be a jackass because you want to support her?
Remember the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are not the problem.
A thousand million
the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion
For anyone struggling with the logic on this one, alllow me to beeak it down.
1 billion minus 1 million equals 999 million, or, for all intents and purposes…
about a billion.
On a scale from 0 to 1 billion, 1 million is one tenth of one percent of the distance up from 0. From the perspective of a billionaire, a low end millionaire is indistinguishable from a homeless person.
While it’s cathartic to hate on everyone with money when you’re struggling to pay rent and feed your family, billionaires are the problem (and taste like chicken).
They’re both part of the problem, along with their useful dipshits.
Depends on how you are defining “millionaire”. If you are going by "sum of all assets is greater than $1,000,000), then 99% of the people who you say are part of the problem, are simply people who own a detached house in the right location (context for this is that the average price for a detached house in the city of Toronto is just under $1,000,000 USD).
No, millionaires are part of the problem too. Especially celebrities.
If they are doctors, then they get a pass. That’s all.
Let’s stop defending the people ripping us off. They only have more because we’re proud to have less.
I’m going to block you now because this is not a back and forth.
Edit: The downvotes speak for themselves. Most of you are useful idiots proud to be taken for a ride, and hate anyone who calls it out.
Keep being stupid. It makes them more money.
Unless you’re talking about people with tens or hundreds of millions, millionaires are largely inconsequential. Additionally, depending on where they live, a millionaire might have less usable money than someone with hundreds of thousands.
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Charging them the most they’re willing to pay while giving them the least they’re willing to accept. She could do her performances on an average salary, but why would she do that if useful idiots are proud to pay her more? She wouldn’t be able to get ahead of people like you if she did that, and of course you’re here defending her.
You wouldn’t understand this though because then you’d have to admit how you get ripped off on the regular.
Keep consuming.
You appear to be quite irritated at people asking you questions about your opinions.
From the Rolling Stones article about this same speech, it appears Eilish donated an eight figure sum of money recently. This is remarkable given multiple outlets seem to estimate her net worth also being an eight figure sum.
We lowly ‘consumers’ on the other hand tend only to have a five or six figure net worth, ignoring the home some of us are fortunate enough to own. None of us are donating 10-20% of our net worth periodically (except the Mormons). It seems a bit out of touch to rail against someone that appears this philanthropic when there are thousands of billionaires the same energy could be pitted against instead.
The goal posts have moved. Millionaires used to be considered part of the villainized rich group.
These days it’s not been out of reach for people to become millionaires themselves. Espcially in online spaces with a lot of tech sector workers. Many of them are millionaires. So the goal post had to move.
More broadly speaking we live in a time of great inequality. The people who’ve been doing well are doing very well. Combine that with generations of people having higher education and higher paying careers. There’s a lot more millionaires these days too as well as billionaires. A lot of them post online and get super offended you’re calling them out.
As for those who are defending all that. I got no clue. Why defend them. Yikes.
Wait, so some plumber who bought a house back in the 80s is “ripping us off”?
To be the equivalent of someone making $10k giving $100 to charity, a millionaire would have to give $10k.
A billionaire would have to give 10 million dollars.
While your broad point isn’t wrong, it’s good to separate wealth and income.
Yes. She donated $11.5 million to charity and has a net worth of around $50 million. That’s around 20%. If Zuckerburg did even 10%, it would be around 2,000 times more.
She…has a net worth of around $50 million.
That’s about 260x the median net worth in the US.
Yes, and? Have you donated 20% of your net worth to charity?
20% of nothin’ is nothin’.
“drags”
This is why AI is so successful in replacing bloggers but will never even come close to replacing real journalists.
Almost as bad as ‘slams’.
“real journalists”
I think those have been extinct for well over a decade now.
All I’ve seen are smug douchebags jerking themselves off for “saving democracy” by posting mugshots and peddling billionaire propaganda.
It’s not like the media has been utterly complicit in boosting trump to where he is now.
That’s a US amurican centered view. Real journalism hasn’t died, even in the US, i. e. Jason Schrier, reports important events in the industry like the Rockstar anti union events. Reuters, DW, ICJ, et al continue to do good work. It’s not their fault our governments ignore the reporting and let everyone walk scot free after panama papers, et al.
For each real journalist you name I can name two dozen shitheads. The state of journalism is fucked
Real journalists? You mean the same people who write “according to a report from xyz organisation”. Which report you lazy fucks? I’m looking for the source, not your layman’s interpretation.
Journalists (on average) are atrocious at citing their sources, or are being asked to be atrocious, and it has driven me crazy when searching online many times.
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Real issue is not just owning billions, there is also what you have to do to hold on to that kind of money: suck up to dictators so they let you monopolize tech and crush small competitors.
“Especially in our country”? Fuck outta here.
More like ‘gently chides’. Weak.
According to People, Zuckerberg did not clap after Eilish’s statement — at least according to an eyewitness who was present at the event and spoke with the publication.
Good fuck 'em.
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Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.
This is just…so weak. I really would have appreciated a “fuck you” and a vague threat of violence, but alas.
love you all
Man, dragging just isn’t what it used to I guess
The ghost of Gaddafi is like, “yo WTF, this is what getting dragged is now??”
Jesus, by the headline I expected her to say something along the line of “your money is earned through exploitation of society’s most vulnerable people, you wastes of air”. Not, “why don’t you give some of it away kthxbye <3”
“Wow she’s so articulate.”
Blasted! Skewered, even.
s l a m m e d
Playing both sides so she always comes out on top.
Love you all, no hate tho ❤️
Damn what a baddie
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She did reference them as “shorties” though. Which, however often benign it is now, has a condescending tone. I liked that part.
Ah yes she hit him with the power of talking. There is a chance he won’t recover from this for the next 5 seconds.
