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⌈ Secret Post #6322 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Taylor was signed to RCA Records at 13 years old with an artist development deal.

Sony/ATV Publishing House hired her as their youngest-ever songwriter at 14.

In 2005 she was scouted by Scott Borschetta who was planning to start his own record label, and when he did, she was one of the first artists he signed. Taylor's father purchased a 3% stake in the company shortly thereafter. Wiki estimates Scott Swift's investment was approximately $120K, though I've seen estimates as high as $500K.

In 2018, Variety reported that Swift's catalog constituted around 80 percent of Big Machine's revenue.

When Borschetta sold Big Machine, Scott Swift's share of the buyout was approximately $15M.

But she’s just the white daughter of millionaires who paid out the ass to make her into a billionaire. That’s not really anything special.

So by your logic, it sounds like everyone whose well-off parents pay for their post secondary education also deserve to have their years of hard work, skill, and determination dismissed out of hand.

My parents are working poor and I've never received any financial support from them because there was never any to give, but I would never dismiss someone else's skill and hard-earned achievements simply because they had the good fortune to have fewer barriers in their way than I did.

[(Anonymous)]

Since money can sometimes buy success, people think that the presence of money always indicates that the success was bought.

[(Anonymous)]

In this case, her success was bought. Her parents paid for literally every “opportunity” she ever had. They also profited from it directly and indirectly and she did separately from them. She’s a good pop singer! But the point was that she and her fans are oblivious to her insane privilege.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

No one's "dismissing" her abilities or work. However, having parents with the kind of wealth to pour hundreds of thousands into getting you set up for success is a MASSIVELY privileged position that the vast majority of people do not have. And pretending that wealth and privilege aren't a big part of who gets to succeed in life and who does not (yes, including expensive college education that doesn't leave one with crushing debt) is a denial of reality. Being subsidized by the bank of mom and dad doesn't negate the achievements of anyone. However, it absolutely matters. A lot.

Re: nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't think they're saying that it doesn't matter. I think they're just saying that the talent, a "something special," is still there.

Re: nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

And pretending that wealth and privilege aren't a big part of who gets to succeed in life and who does not

Ehhhhh. I know plenty of people whose parents paid for them to go to college and they just partied their time away and never put much effort in and now that they've graduated, they can't land a decent job because they pretty much squandered the opportunity they were given.

Meanwhile I know a lot of other people who came from lower-class backgrounds and didn't have the privilege of money but who worked hard in college or trade school and are doing very well for themselves now.

[(Anonymous)]

You…you really don’t think she’s privileged? Cause that’s the whole point of the comment yrt. She’s privileged and pretends she isn’t and her fans scream about how heroic she is for standing up to her enemies (where actually her parents business partners that they profited from).