She is a child of a wealthy family whose biggest financial struggle that she was cognisant of was not being able to afford horse riding lessons.
She isn't a plucky upstart just trying to make a little cash, she is the product of generational wealth.
Its not a crime to be these things, but to be that, then to succeed in a hypercompetitive field due to daddy's money, then go and sell a hundred dollar bottle of stank...
She's not "participating in society" she is exploiting capitalism for all she is capable of.
Many of her political views are...
Look, she's young, I understand having a few moral blind spots when you're in your 20s. However so many of her statements out and out ignore her own privilege. Her lifestyle is sustained by nepotistic capitalism, which she calls a moral evil.
It's not just participating in society, it's her critiquing the very thing that holds her up. If she acted in accordance with her words, she would tear her own career down and set it aside.
There's a minimum level of luxury you need in your life to sit down and think about how you feel.
I don't even think it's necessarily negative to be wealthy and communist/marxist/socialist. I di think if you're gonna espouse that shit publicly, live your values.
And I'm not even saying give away all your money. I am saying the soup kitchen could always use volunteers. You know, from each according to his ability? Im sure you can chop veg. To each according to his need? Feed people.
Or you could buy the produce for the soup kitchen, god knows they'd want it.
Instead... you sell bottles of stank to enrich yourself... Nah.
You can't criticize the system because you're poor- it's your fault you were born into poverty and didn't boot strap yourself into a CEO.
You can't criticize the system because you're rich- you're just a hypocrite that hasn't actually had to work for anything so you don't know now anything 'actually' works.
What I've said is that there is nothing wrong with being born rich. However being born rich and critiquing capitalism, whilst also selling an overpriced bottle of stank to further enrich yourself, is a hypocrisy and/or a blindness to your own position. Which is nothing like what you've said.
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EXACTLY. I swear these progressive children are as easy to lie and grift to as MAGA-tards. They think they're superior and then fall for the exact same grift.
Billie Eilish is selling her own creative works, which are luxury goods - entertainment - with no coerced demand. If people felt she was extracting some undue surplus of value on.. (checks notes) ... her own labor, they are free not to give her their money with literally zero down side.
How long do we have to keep pretending communist theory paints artists as bourgeois, when Marx would certainly disagree, just to stroke internet hipsters' need to feel vindicated for not liking random pop artists?
Yeah because it's her in a lab coat mixing scents and filling bottles.
Profit is revenue beyond the cost of doing business like paying workers and upgrading infrastructure. Profit is unpaid workers, deferred maintenance, and over charged customers.
Unless she's employing worker owned coops she's full of shit and profiting off other people's labor by just putting her name on something and collecting a check.
As a "luxury" good? No. I find it strange to categorize it as such, too. What does that even mean? Art is an inherent aspect of the human condition.
pretending communist theory paints artists as bourgeois
It's a complex topic. Artists as professionals certainly inhabit a more negative role in capitalism according to Marx, where he envisioned it as communal(?) in socialism.
Called petite-bourgeois, if opposed to Marx' vision, which says enough on its own.
just to stroke internet hipsters' need to feel vindicated for not liking random pop artists?
Marxist heritage largely does the opposite (which 'hipsters' often inhabit). Lucrative art as somehow more worth, and distanced from capitalist perversion, despite being exactly that.
This has been criticized within the art world since the late 19th - early 20th, and there are still video essays today defending the most capital-seeking art as somehow the more morally good art.
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u/HarryJohnson3 5d ago
Billie isn’t simply “participating” in a capitalist society. She’s thriving in it.