Like you trust these people as far as you can throw them.

  • daannii@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Anyone who makes more than 10 million a year or more is definitely not a good person and not to be trusted.

    The cut off number could probably be lower but I feel confident in saying 10 million. So I’m going with that.

    You can’t make that much without “stealing” it from many others. Exploitation.

    (I’m not talking about a company that makes 10 million, I’m referring to an individual that does. There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      19 hours ago

      There are some exceptions for celebrities and athletes).

      No.

      Why? Why do they deserve such huge salaries? Is the work they do of that much more value than, say, a beekeeper barely scrapimg by?

      • daannii@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        16 hours ago

        Well they don’t earn that money from exploiting others but from being exploited.

        Especially athletes. They destroy their bodies and sometimes their minds too.

        As for Celebrities like actors and musicians/singers. I think there is a fair bit of exploitation of them too. Especially young women and young men.

        If a company wants to pay an actor 5 million to be in a movie, they are paying for the talent, the risk to the actor, and the advertising that comes with that actors name.

        That honestly seems fair. I just wish the amount that producers spend on male actors wasn’t so egregiously higher than female actors.

        At least these people did something real to earn that money. Showed up to sets. Long days in rough conditions. Or went on concert tours. Traveled and lived in hotels and trailers for months.

        They didn’t make it from stealing from others.

        • stringere@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          14 hours ago

          None of which qualifies as harder work than most jobs or explains how they earn many times the average person’s yearly salary for a fraction of the work.

          Does a sportsball player destroy their body any more than a tradesman? How does throwing a ball equate to mining coal?

          Actors aren’t being exploited any more than the average worker. Compared to, say, a local news reporter that is on television 5 days a week.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      Fuck it, I’ll cut it at 1mil. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter why. Even if you dug up 1mil in gold from your own property by hand, you’re a cunt for letting everyone else struggle if you sit on it and don’t so something.