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Either of the mentioned was at one point of their career someone who would have been considered at least belonging to "counterculture". Unfortunately, money an
by mschuster91 6mo ago
Either of the mentioned was at one point of their career someone who would have been considered at least belonging to "counterculture".
Unfortunately, money and power corrupts, and lo and behold, one day you wake up to find you have become the very thing you once swore to destroy.
- 47282847 6mo agoAll of the people mentioned have been in millionaire to billionaire families since birth, so based on that alone I am not sure I work with the same definition of “counterculture” as you are.
- tt24 6mo agoMillionaire is not some ultra privileged status in the United States, an upper middle class family with a paid off house in a somewhat decent area will have a net worth in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars.
- 47282847 6mo agoNumber of millionaires in the US: 23,831,00. Yet again, different idea of “privilege”, I guess? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_millionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
- tt24 6mo agoNot sure how this relates to my comment
- 47282847 6mo agoBeing part of the upper <10% in your own country is “privilege“ for me. Being part of the upper <2% worldwide is “privilege” for me. Not seeing that as “privileged” is a sign of privilege for me. Not understanding what I referred to is privilege for me. And not “counter-culture”.
- eastbound 6mo agoMaybe wisdom gives another perspective on the ideals we had in our youth?
- RobotToaster 6mo agoPower doesn't corrupt, it reveals.
- smsm42 6mo agoMaybe, some of them were poor young iconoclasts some day. That's not when they joined the fashionable trend of Burning Man though. When they joined their trend, they were well into their power (or at least, in the case of somebody like Holmes, pretense of it). Because that's what is fashionable, of course, and they couldn't afford not to be part of "counter-culture" - it's so gauche not to be part of it!