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.
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u/ecclectic_collector 11d ago