While there is hundreds of UAVs being shot down daily according to these graphics, the number of aircraft and helicopters is barely increasing over the past two months.

6 Aircraft and 3 Helicopters since 25.06.2025 but more than 11,000 UAVs.

Does this indicate a shift in the material used by Russia, are they running low on the manned vehicles, is Ukranian air defense now reliable to deter them, or is the air defense exhausted and cannot shoot them down regularly anymore?

Again, where is the difference to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos?

Actually talking about personal brand, we need to add Elon Musk to the mix. We see that Tesla is strongly dependent on the brand of Musk, while not providing anything unique in their products. Thereby by your logic Musk deserves all his billions and the workers at Tesla got compensated the same way that the people at Swifts brand got compensated.

You retain the logic that the capital owner is right to be the billionaire, because he or she generates the billions off what they own with minimal work put in, while the workers are compensated much less for what they work.

You cannot criticize the US oligarchy without including people like Taylor Swift. It is the same oligarchs working in the same way, favored by the same system and exploiting workers in the same way.

Swift on the other hand is practically the whole reason anyone is paying anything. Whether you appreciate her music or not, Swift is actually irreplaceable and the primary driver of its value.

Because she owns the IP and is the brand. This isn’t different from Bill Gates owning the IP to DOS/Windows in the beginning and Steve Jobs being the face of the brand of Apple. And your argument also fails to address the opposite direction. Without security guards, waiters, stage riggers, stage technicians, event organizers and many more workers, none of her shows would work and people would never have started to want to pay in the first place.

The core principles of people becoming billionaires is that they own something that other people don’t own and the billionaires can extract rent from. Swift is just the brand. She doesn’t produce the music. She doesn’t organize the events. She doesn’t do anything except for singing somewhat well and looking pretty in public. The idea that his should make her a billionaire, while the security guards at her venues can’t afford to buy a house for their family from their salary is part of the ideological problem. There is no good billionaires. “Stars” are the same capitalists engaging in the same exploitation. And unlike people like Ed Sheeran who started as street musicians, or heck even Justin Bieber who started with youtube videios, Swift got the golden ticket as her father broke her into the industry thanks to his existing wealth and connections.

Imagine the worlds strongest military nation, with a budget larger than the next 5 countries, with bases around the globe, the largest economy in the world, spanning over a continent with access to two oceans, hundreds of millions of people…

Is pathetically enslaved to a small state of a few million violent extremists who humiliate the US in every possible way at every possible turn. And the US willfully lets itself be humiliated in the face of the world over and over and over again. No matter the administration in the US or in Israel, no matter the claims of “MAGA”. When the Israelis government unzips its pants and starts peeing, the US government is rushing on its knees to let the pee go in their face.

but she did gain her wealth mostly through her own work

When there is a large music event at a stadium or similar venue, there is hundreds of people working there for the preparations and during the event. If you claim that it was still “mostly her own work”, you could make that argument for any other billionaire too. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos… They all put in a lot of work and brought the “ideas”. I fail to see how a stage performer should be seen different.

They advertise prescription medication on TV in the US.

Over the counter cold medicine, aspirin and the like is advertised in many countries on the TV.

Taylor Swift obviously can’t do any wrong and she single-handedly saved the election by endorsing Harris. Because Taylor Swift is one of the good billionaires.