like i said, she’s far from the worst. but she is also possibly the most powerful and influential artist today. she could use the comforts and privileges she’s leveraged herself into to reshape the industry in some substantial ways. her concerts are commanding record setting ticket places. she could be challenging ticketmaster/livenation in ways that no other artist can. she could be rewriting how a topring artist of her stature gets from venue to venue. she could challenging the trust based relationship of the distributors to open up doors for young artists.

paying her workers what they are worth is more than many billionaires do, but it’s still the minimum, not the limit of her power