Comment by walthamstow
5 days ago
In my opinion, giving away large sums of money, loudly and publicly, is very much flaunting wealth. It’s good too, it’s great, but it’s also flaunting wealth.
5 days ago
In my opinion, giving away large sums of money, loudly and publicly, is very much flaunting wealth. It’s good too, it’s great, but it’s also flaunting wealth.
I guess what I mean is for a typical "influencer", you want to be that person to both be famous and also be rich and have cool stuff like they have.
But if you want to grow up to be MrBeast, you want to just be famous. Maybe you want to be MrBeast-famous and also buy cool yachts and lambos and private islands for yourself, but that's not the "lifestyle" that he's selling. The lifestyle he's selling is "be famous but still hang out with your loser friends but get to give away and/or destroy awesome things".
This is maybe not the thing we should aspire to, but for kids I think it's fine to imagine that for yourself the way that you imagine being an NFL quarterback or something. Not every kid imagines growing up and being a moderately successful CPA.