that is indeed more or less the story as it was told here, Statler & Waldorf-style, laughing at and ridiculing the dumb billionaire for making every possible de

that is indeed more or less the story as it was told here, Statler & Waldorf-style, laughing at and ridiculing the dumb billionaire for making every possible decision as completely and utterly incorrectly as possible, every step of the way… but built into that story is a lot of assumptions about motivations and expectations that we simply are not privy to no matter how much we pretend otherwise. also the story changed halfway through from "there's no way he's ever going to be able to buy it" to "ahahaha now he's so fucked he HAS to buy it!". all of this was very emotion-driven and sensationalized, in ways that many people, myself included, assessed as being less and less reality-based as time went on, in ways that curiously mirrored other formally similar incidents from previous years. again, taking a step back and reflecting on things can lead to the discovery of such patterns repeated across recent history, which leads to key insights about how and why these overemotional public melodramas play out the way they do.