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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s a plagiarist industry plant who operates like private equity parasite bleeding her fans dry.[/quote]

If only you had an option to not buy her album.[/quote]

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These dopes are so entertaining.  As if anyone is being forced to buy, well, anything.  [/quote]

It’s such a good point. I find it really hard not to purchasing things from billionaire Jeff Bezos. Washington Post is my local paper and I like to support the press but subscribing to the post means I’m supporting him since he owns it.

I truly admire people who have given up Amazon prime - the problem is Amazon has single-handedly put so many other businesses out of business that sometimes it really makes economic sense to shop at Amazon.

Bezos is someone who has made his billions by insidiously in some ways creeping into my life without asking. Where is Taylor puts out art and it is 100% optional if you want to buy or not. Even if you just want to listen to her music and watch her documentaries, you can basically do that for free if you’re subscribing to other services. So it’s possible to own and enjoy her entire album collection and not pay a cent to her. Or even more obvious, not download or listen to a thing if she’s not your cup of tea.

That’s why I get really annoyed at the comparisons with other billionaires. [/quote]

You are comparing a service (amazon which serves as a “marketplace/warehouse and delivery service” with someone who is creating a product.Taylor makes a product, and sells her lifestyle/social relationships. She isn’t a service. SHe is selling goods.

As an artist/product maker, Taylor can choose how to package her goods. Some artists choose to attempt to go against using mass marketing techniques (ex. releasing only one album, or going against Ticketmaster) and create music and sell it or let the label market it.

Some artists choose to use mass marketing techniques (like scarcity and selling “out of a product in 45 minutes- get it NOW!) or limited releases to make more money.  Some start marketing clothes and wearing them while getting “seen” wearing those same clothes in public.

Some artists use blogs or ticket give always to generate interest.

But a service (cable TV, amazon, etc) they don’t MAKE things, they deliver things (cable, books etc).  Jeff Bezos isn’t creating anything and there is a distinct difference in Bezos and Taylor’s businesses.  Both can use their knowledge of people and marketing to make money by using unfair practices. Those practices can be different, but that doesn’t make those practices more or less predatory.  In some countries, the way Taylor sells tickets and uses scarcity to make money is against the law.  Not here, but I think Australia was one. [/quote]

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