Something to Ponder...
- Thread starter Mizmo
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What gives me consternation are celebrities who are talented and threw away their lives and talent because of drugs and then they are glorified for their talent. I do it too. I listen to heavy metal and grunge etc. and at least one member of some of the bands I like is dead because of drugs. What a waste. It is a bummer to see these young people with their lives ahead and so talented die. My current favorite Nickelback have avoided this fate so far. Maybe they have seen to much of it. I doesn't mean they were bad people though, they were just people like everybody else with problems.
Yes, but think of all the "valuable" medical advice they give. Aren't we lucky to get such important advice from celebrities who are so qualified & knowledgeable? Ya know, I wasn't gonna get vaccinated, but when Dolly Parton suggested it...........WHOA!!
There are two BIG reasons to listen to her!
Iāve heard it said that America lacks but on some level deeply craves royalty, so we have elevated professional athletes and entertainers to those positions. Their extravagant lifestyle eventually runs the money train dry and aging ruins their marketability, so we see them then featured in promos for medicare or products like easy-access tubsā¦
Paco Dennis
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With all the websites that showcase amateur music, and Youtube and other social media sites things are changing and rapidly. Amateur music can be just what your looking for. A lot of music is better or as good as any industry music. For the past couple of years , being stuck inside our homes, more and more people are becoming very interested in "unknown" artists. The industry changed from the love of providing good music to a profit making monster.
Packerjohn
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Neither, I really couldn't care about those strippers and make prostitutes. However, I'm interested in the price of groceries going up, bank interest rates going up, singing with my guitar and how cold the weather is outside. If you live in the warm part of the US or down in Australia you may not know the fact that when one Canadian meets another, 9/10 people will first talk about the weather before they ever talk about anything else. Trust me, I have lived here all my life. By the way, it's -32 C outside my window right now at 11:50 am. For the American friends that's minus -24.6 F. No matter what scale you use it's pretty cold.
JaniceM
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I can only speak from my own viewpoint, I don't resent celebrities but I do agree they make too much money.. and they have too much influence with their "lifestyles," especially on kids.
It's not that they make "too much" money @JaniceM it is that we make too little. It's not that they have too much influence, it's that we have too little.
I remember when Elizabeth Taylor was the first to make a million dollars a picture; I think it was Cleopatra. They have strong unions and bargaining power and most of us have turned up our noses at workers taking more for themselves.
We could do more, we just don't.
I remember when Elizabeth Taylor was the first to make a million dollars a picture; I think it was Cleopatra. They have strong unions and bargaining power and most of us have turned up our noses at workers taking more for themselves.
We could do more, we just don't.
Irwin
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- Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Those overpaid celebrities should be taxed at a high rate and those tax revenues could pay for subsidized housing and education to help the poor. After all, a lot of poor people contribute to the salaries of these celebrity athletes, hip-hop singers, and others. Why shouldn't some of their rewards go back to those who helped make it possible?