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Nojay UK4/11/2016 5:50:53 am PDT

re: #32 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There’s a problem I could live with.

Steven eventually died in a car accident under the influence of drink and drugs. He was rather aimless, the money from the trust-fund insulating him from real life in some ways but it wasn’t enough to permit him the hedonistic lifestyle he felt was his due.

The problems of the rich aren’t the same as the problems of poor people, but they are problems. You don’t have paparazzi crawling through your garden trying to take candid pictures of you, your family, your kids, your pets. You don’t have to worry about crazed stalkers obsessed with the characters you play in movies or worry about kidnap and extortion. You don’t have to maintain a private security force for every trip outside your heavily-guarded compound, wear kevlar in public, spend your life maintaining the family fortune for your successors and wading through bullshit that others don’t have to.