We are here for promotional purposes only. Show some support. If you'd like to be an uploader for this site, don't hesitate to contact me on the email listed below in contact! I cannot stress this enough He couldn't be happy for me; instead, he could only crow about how much HE lifted in college. Of the 3 offspring, I'm the only one that didn't turn out all farked up. It wasn't easy breaking free. One brother is an accused kiddie diddler that I truly believe he is guilty of from things I know of they wouldn't let me repeat on the stand , the other is a sociopath with latent pyromania tendencies and the social skills of a pet rock.
It took me until my 40s to finally understand what actual love and caring is supposed to feel like. Been married now a bit over 4 years. Wife's family is x the family that my blood ones could ever begin to dream of being.
For several years, I lived in dread that it was all some cruel joke, that the way I grew up was "normal" and it was just a long con to pull the rug out from under me again. It is only in the past year or two I have finally learned to trust that they DO care about me. We'll never be rich, but I would rather have less and be loved than rich and miserable every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Di Atribe. I work for a city with a very high millionaire population and a handful of billionaires. I know a lot of super rich people The 2 that are cool? Public school, they worked for their first car and worked summer jobs with the rest of us. They learned how to be normal people and to respect that people did not have it as good as them. It's all about family and how they are raised. Not like i hang out with them on the daily.
I'm a poor slob like everyone else. Just to clarify. I could never tell wtf that X Files shiat on the cover was all about. Is that a shadowy arm holding a flashlight!? Lounge Lizards lounge. Money gives you choices. Murcans are taught by big business owned media that money is the answer to happiness and contentment in life. Because many of these people were born into the wealth. That's no reason to stop pushing for more equitable opportunity here at home, but particularly this week, it's worthwhile to reflect on how fortunate we are.
If you're complaining that you you'll never be able to buy a home, and instead have to live in an air conditioned apartment with reliable electricity and a fully stocked fridge, you're a millionaire complaining that you can't afford a new Leer Jet to a lot of people out there.
I dunno. I'd like to find out if any research studies done over time show this happening. Now, of course, people who out of nowhere win the lottery are not the people I consider in this group. There are countless anecdotal stories of their failures due to the rapid insertion of immense well, relatively speaking wealth.
But given what you saying, which I am not dismissing out of hand, how does this change over time? At what point does something happen in a person's psyche and that switch is thrown from "I am a kind and considerate person who happens to have a lot of money at my disposal" to "Fark you I do deserve four homes, ten cars, servants at my whim, and I need to be treated liked the privileged person I am because I worked hard for it.
That is, of course, they had those principles to begin with Yeah, we pretty much hate everyone on the show, even that insufferable naive idiot Greg, but I do find myself pulling for Siobhan at times. Her husband, though, what a mess.
Old vs New - New needs to show everyone they have money. Old just wants to be treated like everyone else. Affluent town A significant number have Jeeps and Volvos because the wealth is multi-generational and they've been raised to appreciate their position in life, not flaunt it.
The community mindset is not about showboating, although, there are people who do showboat. There are very specific affluent conclaves around the nation where it IS about showboating, and those are the ones you hear about most often. This thread is closed to new comments. Want the rest of the Farking story? Try More threads. More community. More Farking. They are consumed by business, exist on private jets or inside private cars.
But when we do see their personal lives, they seem very empty. It feels like a conference room that these people live in and sleep in. It's not appealing by any means. It's in the little things: for example, the way in which, when a hostess tries to take Shiv and Roman's phones at Kendall's ostentatious 40th birthday party, they don't even stop, they just laugh at her and say, "You're gonna have to tase us"; or the disdainful way Caroline laughs at her own husband-to-be for being a "grasping little scholarship boy" and "buying his own furniture".
Succession also never seems to see much fun in materialism — the private jets and lavish parties — because it sees wealth only as a mechanism of power. The camera on the show moves quickly, careful not to latch on to anything lest it be considered beautiful or desirable.
None of the characters seem to really want to be in the lavish apartments and villas that they find themselves in. In fact, none of the Roys actually know how to enjoy being rich, despite their hilariously vulgar attachment to their excesses when threatened with taking away Waystar's private jets, Roman earnestly exclaims "Not the PJs!
First they came for the PJs, and I said nothing…". Put simply, their lifestyle is not aspirational — it's gross. This governing principle explains the see-saw between the emotional brutality and ineptitude of Armstrong's characters as they coast through a sterile lifestyle drenched in privileges that make them untouchable. Even, notably, by Covid. While the production of the third series was delayed due to the ongoing pandemic, the contents of the series were not rewritten because, as Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv, put it, " none of the world's really wealthy people were going to be affected by the pandemic".
Among its many achievements, Succession has shown a new way forward for exploring wealth on TV; it avoids falling into the trappings of wealth porn because it is so avowedly uninterested in the glorification of excess.
The Roy's PJs and ill-fitting Gucci bomber jackets are not what makes them watchable, and while their tacky profligacy is there for our entertainment, their miseries are what keep us emotionally engaged. Above all, Succession triumphs in zeroing in on the most consequential, and toxic, privileges that wealth can afford.
It's the covering up of deadly misdemeanors. It's their ability to dehumanise anyone who is not "one of them" without a second thought as embodied in the chilling acronym used by Waystar Royco to refer to crimes involving marginalised victims like migrant and sex workers: NRPI, aka "no real person involved". It's the ability to avoid repercussions for decades of covered-up sexual assaults.
In last week's third series finale, with their dad planning to sell Waystar Royco to a new tech company, the Roy siblings panicked as they faced the possibility of being shut out of the power structure that has protected them their entire lives. We don't feel sorry for them, but we wouldn't want to be them either. As Cockrell writes:. Money is awkward to talk about. Money is wrapped up in guilt, shame, and fear.
There is a perception that money can immunise you against mental-health problems when actually, I believe that wealth can make you — and the people closest to you — much more susceptible to them. It goes without saying that people with real problems will always be more deserving of sympathy than those who fly around in private jets, reside in gaudy mansion houses, or sit atop the gilded managerial hierarchies of large corporations.
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