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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to take my elementary daughter to the Taylor swift concert. The absolute cheapest tickets are $1500-1800. These would be around $2k each after fees. These are for very bad tickets. Better tickets are more like $3-5000 PER ticket.

I’m just wondering who pays this much for these tickets. I’m guessing a lot of moms are taking their children? We can afford it but it seems excessive.[/quote]

Well those are last minute tickets, they’re $$$$$[/quote]

They were posted at these prices 24 hours after ticket sales. They were never lower. [/quote]

Yeah, Taylor swift crashed Ticketmaster. Is she really this popular???[/quote]

Clearly, umm, yes.  She is.[/quote]

+1. She is a 34 year old [b]self-made [/b]billionaire. [/quote]

Since when are rich, trust fund kids self-made? Yes, she is successful but she is no more self made than the Kardashians. [/quote]

What? No. She is not a rich trust fund kid. Why are you even on this thread? And sorry, the Kardashians ARE self-made. I happen to think their profession is as stupid as they come. But I can't help it if idiots watch their dumb show and buy their product placements. [/quote]

Dude, her father is a millionaire wealth investment manager. He is the principal founding member of the Swift Group and has done incredibly well for himself. Taylor, with the aid of her millionaire father, was able to tour and secure contracts as a young child, who supported and bolstered her career. She was not and has never been a struggling artist. On the contrary, she is a rich kid, with rich parents, who is able to take risks and be an artists precisely becuase she has so much money to fall back on.

Swift, Kardashians, and Donald J have all done well for themselves - but the loans from parents equaling over $1M is easily what sets them apart from other budding entrepreneurs.

But sure, self-made.[/quote]

This is not true.  Her father was a wealth manager. At times he did well. She grew up MC and then UMC.  Her father was not rich if by rich you mean 10 million worth. In fact he was close to broke when she started.  That is why he had the time to manage her.  She did not grow up rich.  And there was nothing to fall back on.  [/quote]

NP but no, this is not accurate. The family moved to Nashville to support her career. There was some financial risk in this and it's true her dad wasn't some billionaire hedge funder. But they were firmly upper middle class and had the funds to make that move and to invest in things like private guitar and piano teachers, studio time, and the expense of cutting her demo. But Taylor never struggled. They never went without a comfortable home and food on the table every night, and she has two college educated parents who had genuine financial security. They absolutely had stuff to fall back on if Taylor didn't work out. They were not living out of their car praying Taylor would make it and save them.

None of this is a knock on Taylor. It is simply the truth. She is not some rags to riches story. She was an UMC kid who got a ton of investment and support from her parents at a very young age and it panned out. This is the story of the vast majority of people under 30 who really hit it big -- musicians, actors, athletes. Most of them have extremely supportive families who have the money to pay for coaches and classes and travel to support their kids' dreams. There are also tons of families just like Taylors whose kids don't hit it big and they are fine. They spend thousands on trying to make their kids successful at music or ice skating or skiing or dancing or whatever, and it doesn't pan out, and instead those kids go to college and the parents stay in their UMC jobs and life goes on and nothing bad happens to them. It's not a totally risk free investment but it's also not some desperate story of scraping together pennies by busking and playing seedy nightclubs to get enough studio time to cut a demo. It's actually a pretty comfortable path to success.[/quote]

You don't have to be "rags to riches" to be self-made. Bezos and Gates had nice upbringings too. But they didn't inherit their wealth, they made it and so did Taylor. [/quote]

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