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[–] 139 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.

People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?

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  • [–] 97 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I will allow someone to buy me, but like software you won't "own" me. You will just be liscencing me and, at any time, I may revoke your access to myself.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well no, she can't buy Kanye. He's not a Supreme Court Justice.

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    Since we're already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don't think there's any reason he couldn't be a supreme court justice.

    Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.

    "But Elmo wants to know why policemen don't have an obligation to intervene to protect the public."

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (33 children)

    What's really important is that it's impossible not to be a bad person and a billionaire. I like her music but being a billionaire means that she is an enemy of society. Period

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Actually slavery is still legal in the United States as a form of legal punishment when legally convicted so she just needs to wait for a jury of his peers to convict him and a judge to Sentence him then she would probably need to pay the state

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So your saying all Tay Tay has to do is get into the private prison game and then she can own people?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @TSwiftFTC? Is this a two-topic account about Taylor Swift and the Federal Trade Commission? 🤔

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    She COULD purchase Jay-Z, though.

    He said "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Tbf, Texas was notoriously slow on this

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I couldn't name nor recognize a single song from either of them. Shit, I need to improve my mainstream media knowledge.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The need coming from the swifties here real.

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