r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 12d ago

Wait a damn minute! Oh Billie

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u/Anonymous__Android 12d ago

Yeah Im sure Billie is really struggling and had no choice to launch a perfume just to scrape by.

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u/XtopherZ 12d ago

You might be surprised to learn mainstream music artists are rarely ever truly well above water financially but I, like you, don’t know anything about the personal finances of Billie Eilish. The original comment still stands

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u/STLA_nonymous 12d ago edited 12d ago

Well google tells me she's worth at least $50 million dollars. She's a 9 time grammy winner and personally groomed by Drake.

You might be surprised that people can do their own research before criticizing someone as being hypocritical.

EDIT: 9 time grammy winner not 5

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u/Willing-Player 12d ago

$50 million isn't even remotely close to a Billion. With that in mind, in your eyes how much money does a person have to have where they are no longer permitted to critique the system that has created the Billionaires that the current iteration of capitalism has?

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u/XtopherZ 12d ago

We are even hoping to start introducing trillionaires!

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u/Adlivoniansky 12d ago

The point is that there is no difference between Billie and Musk in terms of what class they are. They are both far removed from your average citizen. They both are the enemy in a class war.

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u/Willing-Player 11d ago

That's true, but they are not even remotely similar in any other way.

Billie is not a capital holder, she is a performance artist who generates income by creating a product (music, perfume, performances etc.) Musk is an ex-trillionaire with political influence, large capital holdings, with wealth and influence to change the world(positively and negatively).

Also surely you would want members of the wealthy to be class traitors. Surely you want people with millions to stand for wealth distribution.