Today we are going to recover the good vibes that have been lost for a long time, since it is already known that when politics enters through the door, amoggg jumps through the digital window. Taylor Swift has decided to distribute a bonus of 55 million dollars (50 million euros) among her tour staff. A gesture of generosity that honors her. We are looking for negative comments on the networks and we hardly found them, so yes, there is hope, you just have to spread the dough and Twitter becomes a raft of oil…
Well no. Envy is a very ugly but very widespread thing, a bit of scrolling and the party pooper on duty appears, doing the numbers: the singer is going to pocket more than 1,000 million dollars from the sale of tickets on her world tour, so the 55 that he will distribute among assistants, cooks, security personnel, dancers, engineers, truckers (it is already known that these will cost 100,000 dollars each)… they are, well, 55 million, nothing.
We don’t know if it’s irony or admiration for @MegaStarFM’s tweet: “Taylor Swift throws the house out by giving more than 50 million in extra pay to her tour workers.” Man, as much as that, the house through the window, which is 1,000 million. Surely some tweeter has calculated the percentage, but we are too lazy to look for it.
Whether X or Y, what we call Twitter is hopeless. @rafaluena recalls that according to article 14 bis of the (Argentine) Constitution, “Work in its various forms will enjoy the protection of the laws (…) participation in the profits of companies.” Well yes, but let’s see how many Superstars apply it, eh, eh. And to top it all off we have @6aleeex: “Taylor Swift is taking a 20 minute flight on her $50 million jet just to see a family member.” Come on, she has distributed what she spends on going to have a coffee with her uncle or cousin: nothing bonus, tip and that’s it.
At the opposite end of the ring, the video of the son of a tour staff member, an immigrant, has gone viral, assuring that thanks to the singer’s extra money he will be able to pay for his studies at an American university. We are not going to put edges like the bad tweeters that we criticize, but that should be the function of the State, we hope that the star pays the corresponding taxes.
He will already recover it by raising (more) the price of tickets for his future tours. In other words, the bonus is paid by you.
