Take that Liberal

> BILLIE EILISH CALLS ON BILLIONAIRES TO SUPPORT PEOPLE IN NEED: ‘NO HATE, BUT GIVE YOUR MONEY AWAY’

> The Wall Street Journal Magazine presented the musician with the Music Innovator of the Year award, where it was revealed that $11.5 million from her tour will be donated across multiple organizations

[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-charity-donation-billionaire-call-out-1235456868/](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billie-eilish-charity-donation-billionaire-call-out-1235456868/)

Ticketmaster?

Right now, I’d settle for the super rich to just not force their personal views of how the world should work on people and social classes they have no hope of understanding.

Not having more money than you could spend in 50 lifetimes = “you should work for free then”

Hey Grant, thanks for noticing. Take it up with Ticketmaster. Pretty sure there’s a whole board game dedicated to show you why they suck.

She’s not paid for attendance. She’s paid to be there.

Gee a disingenuous comment from a right wing Republican who’s either A) too stupid to understand what he’s saying, B) using it as way to spread propaganda or C) both.

But let’s take it as big fan Grant here really wants Billie to give back. This is assuming falsely that if you’re paying for a concert ticket 100% of the cost goes to the artist. Obviously it doesn’t. For a 100 dollar ticket, 30 dollars goes to the venue on average. On that same 100 dollar ticket 48 goes to the artist and promoter.

So fine Billie could cut her share and save the concert goer 48% right?

Well no.

The artist share has to cover tour expenses like production, crew, travel, and management. For a $100 ticket, analysis shows artists may net as little as $8 in profit after all costs are deducted, while the majority of the ticket price and most fees are allocated to staging, the venue, the promoter, and ticketing companies.

So big fan Grant, you want Billie to cut her tickets 8 dollars? Cool. Why don’t you tax the fucking billionaires first, make them pay their fair share and then worry about 8 dollars being paid to an artist.

Of course this ignores the fact you clearly didn’t want to have which is that even if Billie charged 800 dollars a ticket for herself it wouldn’t make what she said about billionaires wrong.

But keep licking those boots big fan Grant.

I bet Grant is a republican

She doesn’t set the price, she’s a product. It’s a bit like blaming the milk that the supermarket charge too much for it. And in any case, she’s just given away millions, something grant would never do. she’s not asking people to do anything hasn’t done herself, she literally just did it.

People of different economic standards live in different worlds to eachother, the further that disparity is the harder it is to understand the others, the problem with this is the more money you have the easier your life is and the less real life or death struggles, social rejection and hate for your personhood you’re forced to see daily, 129 dollars for a concert isn’t a crazy expense if you go to a concert or two a year, and it’s only that expensive because of how expensive it is to run a concert to begin with, especially with more famous artists, everything is higher produced, need more security, need to expect more attention on it, she’s not a hypocrite for that price.

I think it’s too expensive just like absolutely everything at the moment because of certain things happening all the time in our current political climate worldwide…. That said it’s really crazy to me that these people are defending billionaires trying to a get a crumb of their wealth at the expense of their dignity as a human being. Extremely sad and pathetic to see.

She has a crew that she’s also gotta pay.

Hey Grant, that’s a pretty silly question from someone who is supposed to be a sales expert. I’m guessing your question is more of a right-wing cynical whiney jab than an actual question. Good for you, trying to help 🤦‍♂️

Says the guy who never donated anything to anyone!!!

If all seats were free then hundreds, possibly thousands, of people involved in the supply chain of staging a concert wouldn’t get to eat.

Grant proving once again that billionaires are idiots. She didn’t suggest giving away their products for free. That Teslas, or MS office or Oracle, should be free. She said give away your excess money. Which she did and they didn’t

Grant Cardone defending the “fuck poor people” side of this.

It’s really a banger when you think about it. Like she controls the company that has the monopoly on ticketing or the other company that has the monopoly on staging. Oddly enough those two companies are seeking a merger. But yeah, please go on about how a popular artist who has to work within the system is in the wrong for the price of her tickets.

Both arguments aren’t mutually exclusive. Concert ticket prices are beyond outrageous and most artists are certainly ok with it.

Both are fair points though

129 is cheap looked into Paul McCarthy and they were 300 and up

In school I took an ethics course and without fail every moral argument we would study would lead to someone in the class making an ad hominem attack on the author rather than grappling with the argument itself. Every single time.

A free concert isn’t the same as providing housing and medical care for indigent children.