Yea if this was some up and coming comedian I’d lean into you for saying 375k is not shit, but he makes over 200k a month on Patreon alone, probably more elsewhere too. That’s like if I sold my soul for few grand.
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. He said he had been offered “a large sum of money” — $375,000 for one performance — and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to “get over it,” adding, “So what if they have slaves, they’re paying me enough to look the other way.”
This is the most fucking damning part. You’re accepting a paycheque that is so fucking small to boost an oppressive regime, for something that can barely buy a house or two in major cities? Like, if you wanted a decent house in london, 375K isn’t going to fucking cover it. Negociate properly if you’re going to sell out, at least bump it up to 8 or 9 figures. To MBS you’re literally worth the same amount of coins you’d give a homeless person.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck it man, I’m doubling down.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Historical_wort…
Depending on how it is calculated, a million US dollars in 1900 is equivalent to $37.8 million (in 2024):[18] $24.8 million using the consumer price index, $61.4 million using the gold price[19]
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean shit anymore. It means you own a house in a city and are a well paid professional.
If the fucking Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia wants me to personally whitewash his terrible regime, he better get me eight figures at least. Otherwise it’s blood soaked chump change these days.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Okay, this is going to be a completely off topic rant, but:
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean shit anymore. It means you own a house in a city and are a well paid professional.
That is an incredibly privileged thing to be able to say tbh.
It’s also why any young-ish American complaining they’re poor should shut the hell up. I’d be on track to becoming a millionaire if I was allowed to do my job in the US. But the country doesn’t want me, I’m too white to even consider an H-1B, those all go to Indian folk lol
In my country, to become a millionaire, I need to set up a business, scam people, and do tax evasion. Because the salaries in my field are at LEAST 5x lower. Remember when the big tech companies hired people out of boot camps and gave them 200k annual salaries? Those guys would’ve gotten hired at 1200-1500 a month here at the same time.
Ah, but since our salaries are lower, cost of living must be low too? Nope, actually cost of living in a nice and “cheap” American city like San Francisco is only 50% more than CoL in our capital.
I would’ve given a lot to spend my 20s being a software engineer in the US and then fuck off to a country with a nice climate, good healthcare and low cost of living before any actual need for the healthcare kicks in. Just wasn’t in the cards for me though.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is an incredibly privileged thing to be able to say tbh.
how? I’m pointing out the financial situation has gone to such shit that having a house and a profession that pays what a profession is worth would make you a millionaire.
Note that I’m not saying that all professionals are millionaires or own houses; which is the fucked up part. No one is paying what things are fucking worth.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
$24.8 million using the consumer price index, $61.4 million using the gold price
I’d say do it with housing price but I don’t think they’ve invented that number yet
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A million invested could mean about 40k a year in passive income
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What dogshit investment only pays 4%? Until the recent Fed rate change I was getting more than that on a savings account. Index funds have been consistently yielding 15-25% YOY.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would absolutely sell my soul for a few grand right now
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
USians have slaves, I don’t see anyone screaming about boosting an oppressive regime?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah, because when you build a stadium in the US, hundreds of people die 👍
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Are you making a point that slaves in USA are treated better than slaves in Saudi Arabia?
theguardian.com/…/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exp…
800.000 legal slaves in the USA make more than $11 000 000 000 (11 billion) of goods and services annually.
rainwall@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They kicked him out for that callous joke, which is a hilarious cherry on top. All the comedians, many of them “free speech warriors,” agreed not to make any jokes about Saudi arabia.