Let's see:
25-30 dancers
Costumes
Costume designers
Makeup artists
Choreographers
Songwriters
Recording studio to record the song beforehand
The set
Set builders
Lighting specialists
Stevie Wonder
Paying MTV enough to have this song instead of anything anyone at all was ever interested in

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of things, but that shit adds up.

Also, jump-cut from a dancer fucking up at the one-minute mark. As if that guy needed another reason to not put this disaster on his resumé.

Don't forget the Scientology personality test booth, that's a requirement.

Can white guilt be a tag?

Even with all of those things, I suspect some significant embezzlement. There has to be.

I was babbling about this in another thread, but production costs vary widely. In most situations (especially before the recession) they are highly inflated.