Bob Dylan wants billionaire ‘job creators’ to start actually creating some jobs

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/bob-dylan-would-like-billionaire-job-creators-to-start-actually-creating-some-jobs/

Bob Dylan urged billionaires to start creating some of those jobs they’re always talking about.

“The government’s not going to create jobs, it doesn’t have to,” Dylan said a wide-ranging interview with AARP. “People have to create jobs, and these big billionaires are the ones who can do it. We don’t see that happening. We see crime and inner cities exploding with people who have nothing to do, turning to drink and drugs. They could all have work created for them by all these hotshot billionaires. For sure that would create lot of happiness.”

The legendary musician said he gains satisfaction from his grueling tour schedule – playing more than 100 concerts a year at age 73 – rather than reflecting on his success.


“How can a person be happy if he has misfortune?” he said. “Some wealthy billionaire who can buy 30 cars and maybe buy a sports team, is that guy happy? What then would make him happier? Does it make him happy giving his money away to foreign countries? Is there more contentment in that than in giving it here to the inner cities and creating jobs?”

Dylan admits no one can force the wealthy to give away any of their money or to create a job, saying “I’m not talking about communism,” but he urged them to use their money “in a virtuous way.”

More at link.

[Bandit]

1. I doubt very many billionaires listen to Dylan.

Too bad because he makes sense and always has..

[BeyondGeography]

2. Emotional intelligence

He could learn them a few things. Not that they'd be open to it.

Long live Bob.

[ND-Dem]

3. Maybe dylan could create some jobs. he's fairly wealthy himself.

actually, the government can create a lot of jobs bob. one of the problems with this 'recovery' is that the bottom dropped out of government jobs.

[fishwax]

4. he's pretty much always touring, and that creates jobs

[ND-Dem]

8. yeah, walmart creates jobs too.

I meant some jobs not created specifically to make more money for bob or walmart.

[daleanime]

13. No millionaire or billionaire....

is going to do that.

No profit in it.

[Raine1967]

15. see my post down thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6128850

He creates jobs all the time!

[ND-Dem]

20. yeah, at his hotel!!!! (oops. gives me a good idea of your research skills)

[Raine1967]

14. OFFS…

He creates jobs from his tour crew to every venue he plays at. HE creates jobs when he records, and in case you missed it:

He opened a hotel in Woodstock, NY. You wanna tell me again how he doesn't create jobs?

[ND-Dem]

16. Not his hotel, sorry. Don't you read what you post?

Oh mercy! it ain't me, babe! Tell me that it isn't true! I don't believe you! World gone wrong!

These may be some of the thoughts that ran through Bob Dylan's mind when he learned that the Hotel Dylan is now open for business in Woodstock, N.Y. At the very least, they're a few of the Dylan song and album titles that ran through our mind when we heard the news

Never mind that Dylan has no official or unofficial connection to the hotel (whose marketing slogan is: "Peace. Love. Stay&quot .

The hotel is named after him and is located in the rustic town where Dylan lived about for 18 months between 1967 and 1969. It has music-themed rooms, although none are named after Dylan (a move that may wisely have been undertaken to avoid potential litigation).


http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/21/bob-dylan-hotel-now-open-in-woodstock/


I repeat: maybe Dylan could use some of his wealth to create some jobs that didn't directly benefit bobbie. All the jobs you list are jobs that help him make more money than the cost of the jobs.

Dylan's never pretended to be anything other than a capitalist, so I'm not sure why he's taking this line so late in life.

[Raine1967]

18. Are you denying that he create jobs?

It sounds like you are.


This is pretty funny, I have to say:

Dylan's never pretended to be anything other than a capitalist, so I'm not sure why he's taking this line so late in life.

You are aware that many people were upset when he decided to do commercials in 2004? That was when they accused hoim of selling out --hilariously IMO — at the age of what, 63 or 64? This idea that he is a lifelong capitalist like it is a bad thing is really funny.

You know his artistic history, right?

[ND-Dem]

19. he didn't create any hotel jobs, except infofar as he patronizes them.

No, I was a politically active teen in the 60s but I know nothing of bob Dylan. lol.

He sold out long before 2004.

[joeglow3]

21. He is worth 180 fucking million dollars

He is just as much a part of the problem as he IS the 1%.

[Raine1967]

23. Ah, I get it. We are supposed to hate a guy who actually truly earned his money.

This place is nuts sometimes.

[ND-Dem]

27. who hates him? he's just another hypocrite. he has the means to 'create jobs' himself, but

I haven't noticed him creating any except those he needs to create to keep up his bottom line.

Dylan started as a user. He used the movement to make his name, then abandoned it. I can't see that he's changed his stripes much.

[panader0]

33. "just another hypocrite"?

You wouldn't make a pimple on Dylan's ass.

[ND-Dem]

35. dylan wrote some songs. they were good songs. but politically, he used the movement and

left the movement when he'd gotten what he wanted out of it: fame.

it's pretty well-known to those who were paying attention.

Joan Baez, his occasional singing partner and girlfriend during that period, noted in "No Direction Home," Martin Scorcese’s 2005 documentary on Dylan’s early career, the folk legend was far less political -- and perhaps sincere -- than his songs sometimes suggested:

“Thirty-some years, whenever I go to a march or a sit-in, or a lie-in or a be-in or a jail-in people’d say ‘Is Bob coming?’ I’d say, ‘He never comes, you moron.’ You know, ‘When are you going to get it? Never did, probably never will.’

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-02-03/bob-dylan-didn-t-sell-out-to-sell-chryslers


So today, 50 years later, he wants to tell corporate America to create jobs? meaningless, a fart in the void.

[joeglow3]

28. So people who sing songs deserve 180 fucking million dollars.

[Raine1967]

30. how long has he been in the business? This is a ridiculous debate. I think I understand

you don't like people with money.

Me? I happen to appreciate people who are talented and earn money by being creative in the arts. He is a musician and a poet. he's not a Bankster. He didn't make his many taking away from others.

He is allowed to have an opinion.

[joeglow3]

34. It is just odd how it is always those RICHER than the person making the claim

He is a 1%'er who is trying to divert attention to the 0.1%'er.

[Raine1967]

37. I think this is an interesting point. However

you are a 99%'er doing the very same same thing you accuse Dylan of. Do you not see that?

[joeglow3]

39. Actually, my positions on taxes usually sweep me up

[ND-Dem]

22. He creates jobs, sure. all of them are jobs that help him get richer. Nothing different about

Bob and any other capitalist. So if he wants to call out the 'job creators' maybe he should put his money where his mouth is. I'm sure the 'job creators' hire people to drive their vehicles and wash their clothes too.

[Raine1967]

24. Good night. eom

[oberliner]

5. It was a really good interview

And he doesn't give many.

[underpants]

32. On your suggestion I bookmarked it

[Kablooie]

6. They already do. Cooks, gardeners, maids, chauffeurs. Lots of jobs.

[closeupready]

7. Too late. Their failure to hire/create better jobs has impeached the BS notion

that there is any legitimacy to trickle down theory in devising national fiscal/labor policies. It's just a matter of time before our fiscal policies become much more dramatically left and 'soak the rich'. In fact, it could be argued that the blazingly fast rise in popularity of Elizabeth Warren marks the beginning of the end.

[geardaddy]

9. Let's hope so. n/t

[dumbcat]

10. They already are creating lots of jobs

just not here.

[geardaddy]

11. True.

[ND-Dem]

36. oh, i dunno. in my local economy still demand for prison guards, police, and social workers.

also drug treatment specialists.

the economy of the future; 1/2 the working class gets paid to pacify the unemployed or unemployable half.

[hunter]

12. They won't. There are only two ways to fix this: Steeply progressive taxation...

... or economic collapse and revolution.

FDR kept the heads of the oligarchs out of the guillotines, and kept their estates from being burned.

I don't think appealing to the good graces of the oligarchs will be effective. Many, maybe most of them, are sociopaths. That's how they got to be oligarchs.

But democratic leaders can restructure our tax system to make it just, and aggressive democratic forces can rob the oligarchs of their comfortable sleep. Let them look out the windows of their luxury hotel rooms and limousines and be fearful of all the ordinary people bearing witness to their grotesque crimes.

[ms liberty]

29. this. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Billionaires don't create jobs....

If they did, they'd only be millionaires.

[treestar]

25. They should start up a fishing boat

outside of Delacroix.

[obxhead]

26. The top 100 families CAN be forced to give up their money.

It would just take a strong progressive government.

[ChosenUnWisely]

31. Sorry to break it to ya Bob most of the billionaires and millionaires are just plain

old fashioned selfish pricks and they just don't give a shit.

[tenderfoot]

38. Some of the comments are hilarious. DUers think Dylan should do the same because he's wealthy...

I need to know when Bob Dylan or others that feel same way - and are as wealthy - have ever complained about having to pay higher taxes or off-shored their money?

I need to know why he should have to be the "job creator".

Those that think he should, aren't democrats, progressive, liberal or even moderately conservative... and you're not fooling anyone.

Carry on.

[geardaddy]

40. +1

[Sunlei]

41. build 500 public hospitals. finance education for 10,000 new Doctors. A great start!

train local people to work in those hospitals.

Name all the hospitals after you.