The main reason I'm posting this is because I actually learned that there is a name for the phenomenon of people getting used to something, and having to do more and more extreme variants of the same thing in order to get the same reaction they used to get out of the less extreme variant: hedonic adaptation.
It comes to mind because it just seems that a lot of people in Hollywood fall victim to this, and a lot of the rich as a whole as well, or that the wealthy simply see the common person as lesser, hence the 'own nothing and be happy' group, but to bring this back to Diddy, all the crazy sex parties, all the drugs, the power tripping, abuse, etc just makes it clear that something in Hollywood just makes the majority of people who live in it do insane shit, and the exceptions are for whatever reason I don't know.
I don't hate the rich, I hate rich people who are active detriments to society, ala the 'own nothing and be happy' group, or people like John Fisher, owner of the Oakland Athletics, who has failed in every endeavor he has taken in his entire life and the only reason he can exist the way he does is because his parents founded GAP and Old Navy, as examples.
Are leftists right about rich people as a whole? Not at all. I do however understand them from the perspective of 'the vast majority of wealthy individuals are completely out of touch with the common person and have no idea how they behave'. It seems like as an overall group, only athletes have any idea how the average person lives because without sports, they'd be the average person and many athletes are self-aware about that.
And then, in a horrifying catch 22, a lot of athletes still lose their minds because they're not accustomed to being rich and famous. Or, if not their minds, at least their money.
Yep. And yet people wanna complain about how much money athletes make when you have to remember that the owners need to have enough money to pay these athletes in the first place. The guys who are barely in the league and aren’t that good relative to their peers are way close to me and you than they are to the owners, and yet many people refuse to see it.
Tickets aren’t going to magically decrease in price just because athletes get paid less
Athletes are the perfect representation of iq in action. Smart athletes invest and specialize their knowledge for a career beyond athletics, dumb athletes get roped into losing every penny thrown at them.
I think the psyops and handlers help with mind losing, haha
But is this not mostly due to not having sense when it comes to spending money? (the losing money part) which is due to not having that responsibility and how money works from a young age?
They get conned and robbed.
Usually they are robbed by the vampires in the management classes.
They also tend to lose that money very quickly because they don't know how to live in upper-class circles, and don't know the mechanisms of investment. Or they just engage in criminal corruption, because that's basically how they know how to make money.
That being said, I touchingly support having at least some "new money" constantly being injected to into the aristocracy to threaten it. Even if new money is shitty in new ways that old money was not.