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In reply to the discussion: Beyonce just bought a mansion for $90 MILLION BUCKS [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)22. You'd rather the money go to the record label corporations? The promoters?
Instead of the creative talent? Please, tell us how you think the money she brings in should be distributed.
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Well, she's part of one of the most successful couples in entertainment. She's a good Dem.
bettyellen
Aug 2017
#1
Well on both coasts rea estate prices are ridiculous for everyone so yeah....
bettyellen
Aug 2017
#97
That's not wasting money, it's conserving it, investing it. Safer than the stock market.
brush
Aug 2017
#186
Isn't it wonderful for two beautiful talented hard working people to accomplish so much their young
RestoreAmerica2020
Aug 2017
#308
Why are you counting other folks money? She and her husband are both billionaires...
HipChick
Aug 2017
#5
Maybe because idolatry of gross materialism is what has our society in the shape it's in?
misanthrope
Aug 2017
#145
45 was born with a silver spoon...but Beyonce who works hard doesn't deserve her money...
Demsrule86
Aug 2017
#321
Cheapskate! The garage for my collection of Rolls Royces cost more than that.
Binkie The Clown
Aug 2017
#9
Then jump the fans asses for paying their salary. Tell people to stop buying......
USALiberal
Aug 2017
#28
Nope . White working class men that vote republican in huge numbers are more to blame
JI7
Aug 2017
#39
Nope. White men do not include POC with them. I take beyonce over low income trump supporters
JI7
Aug 2017
#65
Most people would not have got that many years for that. He got it for the previous case
JI7
Aug 2017
#115
I'm sad she lost the opportunity of helping people in real need with all that money. n/t
OBenario4
Aug 2017
#68
No one is forcing people to buy her music or attend her concerts. You honestly think.....
USALiberal
Aug 2017
#62
It benefits society by allowing someone to make a living from their talent. The end.
BannonsLiver
Aug 2017
#159
life is short and no matter how holy or virtuous you are, it always has the same ending
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#226
No. They are attacked for policies they support. Not for how they gave birth or where they live
JI7
Aug 2017
#113
They are attacked for the policies they support. Not on money they spend in their private life
JI7
Aug 2017
#117
there are many people who don't even have ACCESS to the internet so those who have it are
JI7
Aug 2017
#237
Would you like to compare what you make/spend versus a person living in a 3rd world country?
mythology
Aug 2017
#310
You made the claim. Why wouldn't you want to prove it? Or just admit you made it up?
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2017
#176
Nice, but you still didn't answer the question. All we're asking for is a link for a claim, made by
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2017
#188
Kudos for your clarity. Really wish we could "like", give stars (i.e., 1-5 stars) or something
ATL Ebony
Aug 2017
#252
supporting black lives matter is not a social value ? she uses her celebrity for that important
JI7
Aug 2017
#254
And Cubans are still fleeing like rats form a sinking ship every chance they get
GulfCoast66
Aug 2017
#184
Haitians, Somalians, and almost every one on the undeveloped capitalist world too.
OBenario4
Aug 2017
#192
At the time Castro came to power, every country in Latin America was another Haiti.
stevenleser
Aug 2017
#312
I'm Brazilian, daughter of Argentinians, have traveled to almost all South American countries.
OBenario4
Aug 2017
#317
Then talk to your elders. They will tell you what I have said is correct. nt
stevenleser
Aug 2017
#318
A person can want to end the capitalist system while taking great delight when someone the system
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2017
#267
I get riled up at any celebrity getting overpaid while billions go hungry n/t
OBenario4
Aug 2017
#45
Billions are not going hungry. And low income white men that vote republican are more to blame than
JI7
Aug 2017
#48
So now you don't want to blame when it comes to who is actually supporting the policy ?
JI7
Aug 2017
#77
those mansions are overpriced but even here, a neighbor died in a 45k house. sold for 200k, then fli
Sunlei
Aug 2017
#61
Hugh Hefner's Neighbor Just Bought the Playboy Mansion for More Than $100 Million
ismnotwasm
Aug 2017
#139
Perhaps when Jay & Bey come to the end of their lives, like Buffett, they'll give away 99% as well?
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2017
#250
Sad. I can't imagine being that selfish. Nobody needs that. Not dumping on her
catbyte
Aug 2017
#251
It's her money. I don't care what she buys...If she wants to buy a piece
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Aug 2017
#253
Don't care. I believe in the free market. She's obviously produced something people will pay for.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#255
Totally. Like the question here - Why do "we" give so much money to entertainers?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#260
Inequality is so crazy that even her wealth doesn't place her in the enemy camp...
Locut0s
Aug 2017
#286