Dolly is pretty okay as rich people go. Her book thing is cool.
She also needs to change “9 to 5” to “8 to 6”
The nightshift edition of 10-7
She got rich by actually writing and performing music that people love, gaining wealth by personally creating things rather than skimming surplus value off of exploited wage laborers.
(I’m sure it’s a little more complicated than that, and that she has engaged in some exploitation. But, eh, you know, No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism)
She also owns most of the horrific tourist trap that is Gatlinburg. Where the workers make jack shit on tourist crap marked up 1000%
I am glad that I started listening to Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast to learn that she isn’t some pure angel like she is always painted. She has obviously put in waaaaaaay more work to get from nothing to something compared to many rich people/celebs. But the pedestal she is always placed on really blinds people to things she doesn’t seem to care about. Sometimes people like her are actually far worse on the working class and poor because they happened to have “won” and therefore the others just need to be working harder. But they never seem to want to actually be part of breaking that cycle of abuse. She may have been one of us back in the day, but she hasn’t been one of us in a long time.
we have no choice but to stan 🥰
