I used to like watching those fluffy biography shows where they talked about people who hit it big and got rich and famous. Sometimes it was overnight. Sometime

I used to like watching those fluffy biography shows where they talked about people who hit it big and got rich and famous. Sometimes it was overnight. Sometimes it took them years. Most of the people had already died. Some were still alive. The ones that were still alive, you could tell that they tried to "fluff it up a bit" -- not get too critical. But in almost every instance? If you hit it rich (famous makes it even worse), you might as well become a drug addict or shoot yourself. It tends to destroy lives. There's nothing happy about it. On reddit awhile back there was an "AskReddit" about what to do if you won a bunch of money in the lottery. The best advice was sobering: it is a minefield of self-deception and manipulation. What's so weird to me is the huge chasm between the reality of getting rich quick and the way the general public views it. We've glamorized it way too much.