• Twitches@lemm.ee
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    Her and Oprah man. I liked it when we were ignorant and just thought they were neat people.

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    She’s forgotten her roots. Back in the 90s she had to hold down all kinds of jobs to get by like psychic, showgirl-nun, and dinosaur cop.

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    Look, technically she is right. She still has a boss, she still has to turn up somewhere at a certain time and do a certain thing in order to get paid. But lets not pretend that she still NEEDS to be a “working person”.

    Once you have enough money for working for the rest of your life to be optional (even if you had to take a significant reduction in lifestyle) you are now a different class of “worker” and that is a HUGE difference in stress and demand on your life.

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      Agreed. She has no frame of reference for what the overwhelming majority of the population calls work.

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    Celebrities are out of touch. No matter if they were nepo babies or genuinely started off like the rest of us. After a few years in that world, they are convinced that the work they do merits millions of dollars. There is no way for that money to not warp the brain.

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      Spend most of your waking hours acting as a different person for insane amounts of money and the adoration of millions of people you’ve never met. -Yeah, I’m sure that never causes problems.

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    Technically she does still work, although she certainly doesn’t need to survive. Her needs are well and truly met a million times over.

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      Exactly technically she is right. She still has a boss, she still has to turn up somewhere at a certain time and do a certain thing in order to get paid. But lets not pretend that she still NEEDS to be a “working person”.

      Once you have enough money for working for the rest of your life to be optional (even if you had to take a significant reduction in lifestyle) you are now a different class of “worker” and that is a HUGE difference in stress and demand on your life.