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That's a bit of hyperbole. There are clearly those that are able to live fruitful lives after being shamed. Americans especially love a comeback story. There ar

That's a bit of hyperbole. There are clearly those that are able to live fruitful lives after being shamed. Americans especially love a comeback story. There are numerous people that have done stupid things and come back from them, a pretty public one is Robert Downey Jr.

concede_pluto 9y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.932007:_Career_comeback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.9... : > Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson [...] paid Downey's insurance bond > [...] for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior. Similar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then. He's going to carry this stigma for a looong time. If he were only a supporting actor without influential friends he wouldn't be worth the risk; he'd have been fucked.
- cannonedhamster 9y ago
  I'd hardly characterize it as a death sentence though. He's been able to work in his field and found a way to make millions by pretending in front of a camera. If he were only a supporting actor, there's a good chance no one would have noticed at all.
- nostrademons 9y ago
  I was completely unaware of Robert Downey Jr's drug-addled past - I just knew him as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. I think the public's memory may be a lot shorter than yours.
  - concede_pluto 9y ago
    The problem isn't the audience, it's every employer he'll ever have.
Overtonwindow 9y ago
RDJ is a poor example of this. Do you have someone who is not wealthy, or famous for other reasons? Justine Sacco will forever carry the burden of her awful tweet, and in the foreseeable future she's just a Google away from having to relive and be shamed all over again.

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That's a bit of hyperbole. There are clearly those that are able to live fruitful lives after being shamed. Americans especially love a comeback story. There ar

by cannonedhamster 9y ago

concede_pluto 9y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.932007:_Career_comeback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.9... : > Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson [...] paid Downey's insurance bond > [...] for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior. Similar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then. He's going to carry this stigma for a looong time. If he were only a supporting actor without influential friends he wouldn't be worth the risk; he'd have been fucked.
- cannonedhamster 9y ago
  I'd hardly characterize it as a death sentence though. He's been able to work in his field and found a way to make millions by pretending in front of a camera. If he were only a supporting actor, there's a good chance no one would have noticed at all.
- nostrademons 9y ago
  I was completely unaware of Robert Downey Jr's drug-addled past - I just knew him as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. I think the public's memory may be a lot shorter than yours.
  - concede_pluto 9y ago
    The problem isn't the audience, it's every employer he'll ever have.
Overtonwindow 9y ago
RDJ is a poor example of this. Do you have someone who is not wealthy, or famous for other reasons? Justine Sacco will forever carry the burden of her awful tweet, and in the foreseeable future she's just a Google away from having to relive and be shamed all over again.