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    9 months ago

    The thousands of people making those records sell and shows happen:

    There is no self made billionaire, a billion is an absurd amount of wealth a singular person cannot actually earn or be worth.

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      9 months ago

      “To make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” ~Carl Sagan

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      9 months ago

      People payed $2,000 a ticket to see Taylor perform… that was their decision.

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            9 months ago

            i have no idea, but it’s not Taylor swift that’s selling those tickets for that much, it’s ticketmaster/stubhub and the like. she likely gets X amount from the venue to play there and the ticket sales all go to the venue. that’s the way it worked at the 4 day music festivals I’ve worked at. we paid the performers X amount, that had ZERO to do with how much we were charging for tickets. They got no portion of our sales.

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              9 months ago

              That’s how it is. Artists from the calibre of TS get a fixed amount of money for a complete tour contract from the tour management. Regardless how many tickets are sold or whatever the tickets cost. The tour management is responsible to manage everything with the venues, the ticket sale companies, and all subcontractors like stage riggers etc.