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.
I think that’s what a lot of people here understand but also aren’t willing to say out loud because it feels leftist kinda even though it isn’t.
Being wealthy is a lot more about who you networked with and the connections you can make, as even though you make those connections because of the success of your business as an example, growing said business into for example, a chain of restaurants is way easier when you know people in the industry who can help.
Again, this doesn’t apply to small business owners, but for people like Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and founder of Quicken Loans, Hal Steinbrenner, son of George Steinbrenner and more, they’re definitely riding their coattails on the people that came before them, albeit Dan Gilbert less so.
Yeah, as happily as I will shit on the average lefty lib shit for being retarded, I'm generally done with the established left/right false dichotomy. My only dichotomy is people who need to get fucked and people who don't.
So I'm not rooting for the second coming of Regan or some shit, I'm rooting for the return of the goddamn founding fathers and the society of honorable brotherhood, personal judgement and frontier justice that fostered them.
Just because the established lefties are accidentally mostly right about the current rich being scum, doesn't mean we have to pretend to not notice for fear of validating their other stupid ideas like all poor foreigners being noble saints or their stupid solutions like the poors should eat the rich. It's not rich Vs poors, it's honorable Vs dishonorable.
And it's far smarter for the honorable people to first start openly recognising each other and stonewalling out the dishonorable ones with equal or lesser power than it is for them to immediately throw themselves pointlessly at far more powerful people and let another generation of their dishonorable peers climb over them as they waste their efforts. The one advantage honorable group have over the dishonorable is the more powerful honorable will protect the less powerful, but the more powerful dishonorable people don't give a fuck about the less powerful ones, so they're easy pickings. Keep doing that long enough and entropy will do it's work and honorable behaviour will slowly start seeping up the hierarchy.
How does one find honorable people in the soviet union? haha
Leftists hate 'the rich' (who don't agree with them and bankroll antifa, etc) because they have money and think being rich is innately evil.
We hate people for being cunts, regardless of if they're rich or not.