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Mr. Beast sucks but also apparently lives in a hell of his own making
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Since I was a literal child the argument of "oh being rich and famous isn't all its cracked up to be because even though you have the money to do literally whatever you want for the rest of your life people might take pictures of you when you're in public" didn't pass the sniff test
I agree with both of you I guess? I have millionaire relatives and they don’t seem much happier to me than people who basically have their needs met and don’t need to worry too much about destitution. Like once you have a house, a decent job, a family (assuming you want one), some hobbies, maybe the time and resources to travel occasionally, and relative stability, it’s difficult for life to get much better than that IMO. Some of these relatives also struggle with depression and can be unpleasant to be around. I haven’t seen any of them since the pandemic started.
None of the billionaire ghouls seem like happy or well adjusted people. Elon Musk strikes me as incredibly miserable. Exploiting people in order to run up an imaginary score has to be mentally corrosive no matter how much of a sociopath you are.
Idk a lot of people crack under the pressure of fame. You get doxers, swatted, people harassing your friends and family, constant scrutiny, and people you can never trust because everyone wants to take advantage.
I know that I couldn’t handle being a celebrity and would probably turn to hard drugs to cope from the pressure like so many of them do.
I have someone in my family who is considered something of a celebrity and I’ve had people show up to my home trying to break in or calling me late at night to get information on her. Have also had members of the press show up to my workplace and begin pestering me with questions. I’m only a relative so I can only imagine how much worse it is when you’re the actual target.
Damn that must such being related to Amber
Amber.
I grew up very wealthy in a small American town. When I was in elementary school I was bullied. My parents told me my bullies’ parents were jealous of our family and their kids were taking it out on me. As you can imagine, this rationale helped me greatly and didn’t at all contribute to me acting like a stuck up little rich kid ripe for bullying.
It's absolutely propaganda/cope.
This might be the only case that its truth. Ive seen videos of his office and the dude is obviously obsessed with billionaire cultism, i remember him having portraits of Steve jobs and Musk lmao. So i think this is a guy that completely ate the billionaire narrative and completely shapes his life to be that ideal.
Hot take: I suspect more often than not that's an Op. Well not a literal Op I guess, more like kayfabe. Billionaires actually fucking love their lives, they're drinking wine on yachts, doing drugs you haven't even heard of, going to orgies (consensual or otherwise). But they have to make it seem like they deserve this lifestyle so they tell everyone that actually they hustle 24/7 to manage these massive economic powerhouses that if collapsed would leave the world in shambles, so they act like it sucks, and really they'd probably be happier if they just lived the simple life of a tax accountant of whatever, all the cocaine orgies are just a salve for the misery of their responsibilities!
Honestly I think the left should drop this whole "oppressive systems hurt the oppressors too" line. Yeah it's true sometimes but I think the people on top are overall having a way better time than everyone else, acting like they're actually all super depressed just humanizes them and makes the poor think they don't have it so bad, making it less likely they'll get the guillotines out.
Either way their problems are fake rich people shit, mine are real