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.
So, I don't know if it's comparable but I live a pretty hedonistic lifestyle so I'm gonna weigh in on this aspect.
Last week I had a 4some with 3 girls. I just had like 5 people over at my place doing coke last night. I ended up having a 3some with two girls (2 of the same girls from the 4some last week). I routinely fuck escorts, go to strip clubs, fuck strippers, buy sugar babies, go to parties and do drugs and have sex. I've been to swingers clubs and swinger parties. I'm friends with a porn producer. I party with pornstars.
And a large reason I'm able to do all this hedonistic stuff is because I make good money.
Some of my guy friends always joke with me that whenever they hang out with me I'm always texting some girl, cause I usually am.
Here's the thing though, I honestly wish I could just have 1 girl in a monogamous relationship and not do all the stuff I'm doing but I can't. There just isn't a woman out there for me. I've hunted for a woman for well over a decade and haven't found one. I'm always looking of course and still haven't found anything. I can hook up with women because of the hedonism I chase and that's nice, I guess but it can never turn into anything more than that.
I wonder how many rich people that seem to be doing the hedonism thing are the same way as me? People with money can throw it around to try to get what they want in life but it doesn't mean they're actually getting what they want. There really is no fundamental difference between me and some poor guy who spends all his time playing video games and hasn't had sex or a girlfriend for a decade. I have money so I chase hedonistic pursuits and end up having 4somes but I'm really just as lonely and unfulfilled as the guy playing video games all day but I can throw money around to try to find the sort of fulfilment I'm looking for which ends up manifesting as hedonistic pursuits. I could stop pursuing them and then play video games all day but that's also just as unfulfilling to me and I've got money to blow so I just keep doing more and more things with my money to try to find what I want but I never find it no matter what I do; however, completely stopping trying to find it seems like the wrong idea because I still have this entirely misguided hope that maybe I'll eventually find what I'm looking for.