This!

While I did misunderstood the goal of your comment, sry for that, it still holds some truth and might be applied concept wise to what you meant.

Refusing to pay taxes is, as much as refusing to vote politically, a refuse to participate. Why should someone get a say in something that they refuse to be a part of?

We are on the same side, even if it’s not directly obvious. You showed that with you second point. By voting with you wallet for corporations that fulfill your values, you choose to give them more power over other corporations that don’t.

The same concept applies to voting politically. You give your vote to a party that fulfills your values over a party that doesn’t.

I the real world not paying taxes is not an option, as much as it’s not an option to not spend any money on any corporation, if your part of the society. We are able to choose in a given context, that for sure has its limitations.

Let’s say your not happy with the possible options that you can vote for, be it a financial or a political vote, you are free to fill the niche you think is missing. Start being active politically or economically and if there are more people that think like you and act according to this, things can change.

But if nobody does this, things will definitely move in the direction of the values from people that do the things above.

There is the famous phrase. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Great example how to not solve anything.

Stay delusional my friend

For whoever thinks not voting will be any form of good decision. Ask yourself this question.

How can someone distinguish a not vote because your fine with how things are from a not vote out of protest?

Thank you! It’s so refreshing to see someone actually taking action and doing something.

That constant stream of fingerpointing with the expectation that others need to do it, is just the prime form of entitlement.

I hope people follow your role model and start really doing something!

The 120k went into the label, he pumped another million into her directly just for the first album.

btw I tried to find a trustfull source for the claim that it was only 120k. There are different numbers thrown around, while the 120k is the lowest. The source of that number is Wikipedia and the 2 linked “resources” for that don’t mention it. One of the 2 resources is even an article that is not about Tailor Swift but rather one about some Tobey Keith instead.

I don’t think it was disclosed. I couldn’t find any proof about the amount.

She was 14 when “signing” the record label contract.

This is basically the moment where they used that load of money.And everyone who is thinking that she is a self-made anything is blind by choice.

Parents throwing Kids at that age into international careers make me at least sceptical about their motivation. That it seems to have worked out this time, doesn’t change that at all.

You’re right. Ups :P

Besides the insanely huge help she had on the beginning, the bigger part was for sure the knowledge transfer in terms of how to run a monetary wise successfull business.

And yes she is talented, I’m not saying she isn’t. But the advantage she had, due to this, speak for itself.

Never said ultra rich and by any means someone who is able to take over a million out of their pocket to Kickstart anything is rich.

The reason is that her dad is quite rich and was a stock broker.

He invested heavily in the label that had his daughter under contract, being able to dictate what the label was focusing on and on top he has thrown another Million on her, to start the journey.

So to sum it up a huge tone of money, contacts and knowledge about how to run a business by her father.

As long as humans are involved and we are looking at a long enough timeframe, the answer is probably always yes.

I was about to recommend the underdog youtube channel too.

IMO he does a really great job at teaching!

And the worst, is all the other decisions in Germany lately. They stopped nuclear completely and replaced it by coal. Right now they are tearing down wind turbines, to mine for coal in that spot etc.

So all the arguments talking about “nUcLeAr iS eXpEnSiVe” are missing the point in Germany by a magnitude that is hard to grasp…