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Re:I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:32AM (#17372423)
> It’s like these stars are not fully functioning human beings

Or that the personalities that (a) go into low-probability high-payoff careers like entertainment and (b) do well in entertainment (through further selection or the perso al transformations necessary to succeed in Hollywood or the NFL) are also bad at saying no to competitive luxuries and short-term impulses.

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Re:I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money by jpindar on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:21AM (#17374147)
And many of them work with people who make even more money than they do, which can distort their idea of what lifestyle they can afford.
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Re:I Stop Celebrities from Blowing Their Money by cpitman on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:12PM (#17375622)
I see this very much. Friends that are surrounded by dual income couples that are lawyers/doctors/etc get convinced that 300k+ household incomes are "not that much". This while being 97+% percentile for household incomes in the US.
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