I consider it more of a selection bias. The people who get elevated from minor celebrity schmoe to billionaire hate-monger have to pass through a series of filters operated by the worst people you can imagine.
If J.K.Rowling wasn’t willing to embrace being a colossal piece of shit, somebody else’s children’s book about wizards would have gotten the budget for blockbuster films. Alternatively, her editor/publisher would have ripped her off and she’d be one more “Author who got swindled by the big mean corporate raiders” sob story.
But she passed the tests. She learned who to suck up to and who to flatter and who to denegrate. So the financial kingpins gave her the limitless money credit card and invited her to the Epstein Island Party. And now all she has to do is keep being a hateful shit online to keep her pride of place, which gets easier and easier to do the longer you’ve been at it.
I guess it’s probably chicken and egg when it comes to morals and money, but they do say that power corrupts for a reason.
I consider it more of a selection bias. The people who get elevated from minor celebrity schmoe to billionaire hate-monger have to pass through a series of filters operated by the worst people you can imagine.
If J.K.Rowling wasn’t willing to embrace being a colossal piece of shit, somebody else’s children’s book about wizards would have gotten the budget for blockbuster films. Alternatively, her editor/publisher would have ripped her off and she’d be one more “Author who got swindled by the big mean corporate raiders” sob story.
But she passed the tests. She learned who to suck up to and who to flatter and who to denegrate. So the financial kingpins gave her the limitless money credit card and invited her to the Epstein Island Party. And now all she has to do is keep being a hateful shit online to keep her pride of place, which gets easier and easier to do the longer you’ve been at it.