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In the scope of things, she is. She could certainly distribute more money to her employees and go on a massive charity spree like Mackenzie Bezos, but she did gain her wealth mostly through her own work and flying a private jet is hardly the core sin of "bad" billionaires.
When there is a large music event at a stadium or similar venue, there is hundreds of people working there for the preparations and during the event. If you claim that it was still "mostly her own work", you could make that argument for any other billionaire too. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos... They all put in a lot of work and brought the "ideas". I fail to see how a stage performer should be seen different.
Sure, but do you have any evidence she's underpaying the staff? Maybe her songwriters deserve a significant share of the money, but everyone else is just doing a job, the same job they do for other acts on other nights, so just because Swift is a big name doesn't mean they should all be rich. If she's abusing them or demanding extra work and not compensating them for it, then yeah, she's a villain, but just because her lights guy isn't getting $10M for his work isn't evidence of wrongdoing.
The other rich guys you try to compare her to did small work themselves and then just rode the work of others. Most of their wealth came about long after they were doing any work critical to the result, so they're basically just investors extracting value from others contributing more effort and talent to the success than they do. Swift on the other hand is practically the whole reason anyone is paying anything. Whether you appreciate her music or not, Swift is actually irreplaceable and the primary driver of its value.
“I defend the billionaire’s right to pay peanuts to the peasants because I see myself as a future billionaire, even though there is significantly more chance of me winning the lottery at nearly 1 in 300million than becoming a billionaire & that’s how I justify the ludicrously disproportionate distribution of the wealth generated by a Taylor Swift concert. There’s literally no benefit to me in holding this opinion, LOL”