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It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
The last post is everything.
Also wanna say that John Boyega specifically does a lot of proper grassroots good work and actively puts himself in a position where he knows the racists will keep on coming for him, to actively and materially help marginalised communities.
The fact a black man is never able to say a single word without being criticised is not being missed btw.
ohoho this things looks interesting i will go and have a look! *sniffsnifsniff* *gets flashbanged*
You are not getting paid Kenough"
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) sticker spotted in Devonshire, UK
This lady was the main act in a funny online "scandal" some weeks ago (?) bc she is some famous bigshot in the tradwife online community and it got 'leaked' that she is married to a pretty high up millonaire guy, and thats why she can live by making videos of her making all kinds of foods from scratch in vintage and original expensive ass old kitchen.
But well, nothing more trad than the rich wife of a rich guy being able to be a stay at home mom and to larp as a farmer. Even old time royalty liked to do that from time to time.
I had to do a double take because I recognize that stove! That’s the stove from the fucking book. This romance novel I read (Scrap Metal by Harper Fox) kept talking about something called an “aga” and I went “what the hell is an aga?” and then got trapped all day reading about the history of the AGA cooker on Wikipedia, and let me tell you-
They’re designed to be on 24/7, they do not turn off. They use almost forty times the energy of a normal stove. The smallest AGA cooker will burn the same amount of gas in one week as a standard oven will use in nine months. So not only do they cost a million dollars they’re unimaginably wasteful.
the woman in the image is Hannah Neeleman/@ballerinafarm, her husband is Daniel Neeleman, son of JetBlue founder David Neeleman (commonly estimated net worth of $400 million), and I have to recommend the essays #TradWife Life as Self-Annihilation and Pretty White Moms in Their Pretty White Houses, both by writer/cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, about the Neelemans and the politics and philosophy of Trad Wives and Momfluencers
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