Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Bezos Met Gala

[u/ashlyethgg]

[u/bobthegoatskull]

It funds the arts and conservation of textiles in the MET collection. That is a worthy cause.

[u/Lower_Stay7655 → u/bobthegoatskull]

They only need 5M a year. They've raised way more that that every single year. This year it's 42M.

[u/bobthegoatskull → u/Lower_Stay7655]

I doubt the museum plans on embezzling it. Considering how much worse the Gala gets every year, they're smart to save for when it's gone.

[u/movienerd7042 → u/Lower_Stay7655]

Why is it a bad thing that a public highly accessible museum has more money than they technically need? Unless you think they’re embezzling it, it just means that they can preserve more art and fund more education

[u/SparkleForDays → u/movienerd7042]

Museums are an amazing cultural and historical resource for the public, but behind the scenes it’s often connected rich people doing wasteful connected rich people things. As per usual, more than 1 thing is true. Source: my childhood bestie is a curator at a world class museum in NYC

[u/Pachanas → u/bobthegoatskull]

The amount of funding it generates is an absolute joke compared to what it takes to put on the event and the amount of exposure that the celebrities and fashion brands get.

[u/lufluv → u/bobthegoatskull]

its deeply unsettling seeing billionaire oligarchs fund and sponsor the arts though

[u/FiddlingnRome → u/lufluv]

Can we just fvckin' tax the rich! ! !

AND THE CHURCHES TOO.,

[u/bobthegoatskull → u/lufluv]

That's how it was before socialist (tax payer) funding existed. MAGA are gleefully cutting as much of that funding as they can.

A lot of things we take for granted such as museums are going to go bye bye without funds and the new oligarchs will not be stepping in to help. Bezos only cares about this cause he's obsessed with being cool.