• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I still wouldn’t get it. He has a regular high income, great wife and family - and an estimated net wealth of $30mil.

    Couldn’t justify this gig unless it was literally billions that he immediately donated to worthy causes.

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      2 months ago

      That’s what I don’t understand about people like this.

      Why go through all this effort, all the stress, hearing everything people say about you being a sellout rat, for what? Is he sitting there going “I can afford a $300,000 car, but if I’m not able to get a $1 million dollar supercar I just don’t know how I’m going to cope”.

      I swear it’s a mental illness, like gambling addiction. Just an obsession with wanting a number to go up more and more.