That is an expensive watch
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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In 2022 jay z compared being called a capitalist to being called racial slurs…. That should tell you how disconnected they are from common people
There is enough for everyone to be able to thrive. People are just too fucking greedy.
SCREAM IT LOUDER BECAUSE NOBODY IS HEARING/SEEING this shit. I’m so tired of these loyalists to capitalists
Every girl I’ve ever dated is obsessed with Beyoncé and obsessed with hating on Hov. They always get mad when I say idgaf bout her or that nigga😭
Your average American will NOT earn $2.2 Million in their LIFETIME!
Yes, Hello, Luigi.
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Slave-adjacent wages is a helluva legacy that Beyoncé (and Jay Z by association) are building and seem cool with even though they like many 1%ers will never live long enough to enjoy / spend the money they got that kung fu grip on. Sad legacy.
For Jay Z and Beyoncé who have both referenced slavery in different ways—it’s a weird flex to pay under 25 cents per hour to Ivy Park workers in a developing nation in 2024.
It’s baffling me that a watch could possibly cost that much money. Who made that watch? They must have had near 100% profit, as there’s no way the materials or labor cost anywhere near that. Are they still sitting on that money? Or did they spend it? If so, on what? What if they spent all the money on some other small thing, like a $2 mil pair of sneakers or something. What if it’s just two million dollars passing from one insanely rich person to another over and over again, buying bullshit commodities, never coming back into the general populace? Does that mean that those specific $2 mil are worth less than any other $2 mil on earth?
The ultra-wealthy shouldn’t be idolized. But Western citizens, specifically Americans, don’t want to talk about our consumerist culture and disproportionate use of global resources relies on exploitation of developing nations.
Someone I know worked at a major stadium handling the traffic during a Beyoncé concert and said the office they worked in was apparently along the way from her dressing room to the stage and before she walked by someone from her team came to the room to tell everyone working that as she walked by she didn’t want any of them to look at her. He said the room also had a widow to the hallway and the team made them close the blinds so they couldnt see her walk by.
Him relaying that story always stuck with me and affected the way I saw her. It’s not a unique thing for just her, we’ve all heard stories about celebrities’ demands but that one just annoyed me so much and I wasn’t even there. I asked the coworker what they did and they stated, I stood by the door and looked at her as she walked by, I don’t work for her, she doesn’t pay my salary and she doesn’t get to tell me what to do.
This goes for all billionaires
The comment about how much the workers make is frustrating me because I promise on my soul it’s not okay that they are not being justly paid but that was literally out of Beyoncé’s control. There are other things we can shame them for but Adidas already had and still has factories in that country not paying people shit 😭 if you own a adidas jacket, the same person worked on ivy park and got paid the same wage for both. if I were to model for an adidas ad, I have zero control over who makes the pieces I’m modeling and how much they get paid. That’s not how brand deals work y’all, she didn’t own Ivy Park until this year. She’s never released a collection by herself or sourced seamstresses to make Ivy Park. Adidas was supposed to be paying them people.
If anything, this conversation is more so “Why are all the laborers for American companies in different countries?” not “Why Beyoncé wasn’t paying them people?!” They were never on Beyoncé’s payroll.
EDIT: I want to be very clear when I say that I am not justifying them getting paid pennies. I am saying that for this one thing, our anger is misplaced. This should’ve opened up another conversation. Like if we want to get to the root of the problem it had nothing to do with Beyoncé.
As a thousandaire, I don’t care about MFers either. It’s the American way baby…
This is why i say stop celebrity worship, they’re just people that we made famous, we can take it all away fr as fans yeah i might like some of their songs but they ain’t nobody to me
Shouldn’t be idolizing *anyone.*
Yall think they opened a sweatshop while they using the same sweatshop that make your clothes.
#44 rupees is just over 50 cents
Yeah, they’re not good ppl, but getting large amounts of money often changes people who aren’t of strong character
Why would a non-musician/entertainer even think about idolizing them in the first place? I could see if you’re in that business, you could look up to them as leaders in the field, but to me, they’re basically nobodies…who just happen to be very wealthy. They’re still probably uneducated, shallow, probably mostly useless people—i.e., far from someone I would idolize. I guess I can sort of appreciate success regardless of field/profession, but that kind of breaks down for me when it comes to very superficial industries/professions where apparently it’s all about image, and I can’t gauge if there’s any talent there. I can give them the benefit of the doubt and say there must be, but it’s not my area, so can’t say for sure.
This mindset applies to like 95% of life. Stop spending your money on brands and bulllshit, even sports teams. Spend money on quality food and a place you can feel comfortable
We? I don’t give a shit about them. This is a you problem
Begun, the Class War have
44 rupees an hour is around $0.50
Average worker in India makes $150-$200 a month
Good engineers make around $1200-$1500 a month
Teachers make half that
This is true.
I hear you, and I agree. But Blu’s dress was very cute tho.
Doesn’t he own elephant skin sneakers?
People need to stop idolizing all celebrities in general.
Tf does one have to do with the other lmao
Dude it literally says in the Bible
Don’t follow fake idols and don’t worship shiny things but that’s that’s the basics right there
Why people on twitter pocket watching the celebrities anyway if black twitter’s does are bout them celebrities why follow or watch anything that does ???
That’s such a dumb comparison; those have little to do with each other.
At some point, people are just paying outrageous prices for things that cost far less to produce just because the point is to spend more of excess money they have that they will never spend in their lifetimes. What does a $2M watch do that a $100K watch doesn’t? There is no way to justify this level of excess, IMO.
Just so everybody knows, according to a currency exchange thing on Google, that’s like 15 cents an hour when adjusted to use. Unless I’m confusing something.
imagine if instead of buying that watch he paid kids to go to school