failedtodelete

12164 pts ยท April 8, 2018


It's a waste of good potatoes is what it is

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

I had a housemate whose catchphrase was "burn bridge etc. etc." because he said "I'll burn that bridge when I come to it" so much

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RATM was his most successful thing, and that's gone

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and maybe never had it

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It's quite likely that the answer to the question of why he's not giving all this money away is that he's not got the money anymore

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and was spent. Indeed, a lot of celebs say "I wish I had the kind of money that this thing thinks I have".

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they don't break it down as to how they arrive at that figure, and they don't break it down as to where the figure came from

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and any reference to his net worth that I can find seems suspiciously lacking

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I'm not sure how the money breaks down for this guy, but it's quite possible that he's never going to see whatever the net worth is

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It's worth pointing out also, that net worth isn't the same thing as actual money

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I think the possibility is that the series was unstable and they needed this series to be the last one.

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It's not like he doesn't use his powers to help

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Is it so hard to imagine empathy? That someone can walk past homeless people in the street and resent that society permits that to happen?

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Or he's aware that the system disproportionately rewarded him. He did well, but he knows that that's not what happened to most people

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I'd guess because he's still trying to spread the message.

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and so he's just become the thing that he hates. He doesn't need more money, I think he'd be first to admit, so why keep doing this?

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the issue is that what he believed didn't change anything about the system he's in

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You're so obsessed with this idea that he's a hypocrite. I'd suggest that he made his name on what he believed

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Was he always a millionaire? Did he just look around him when he wasn't a millionaire and go "This is fine"? I'd suspect not.

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No. They hate what is being done to America.

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Did you see the Black Mirror episode with the excercise bikes?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Without forceful action, the machinery whirs away in the background even if people buy into the message.

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and people will keep buying into the system.

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system, and you can say whatever you want to say, and people will throw money at you for saying it, and it will probably have no impact

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If you're going to speak against the system, and people like that message that message will be commodotised, and you will turn into the

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Have you seen Black Mirror? Did you see the one with the excercise bikes? I think it's just that.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

on the transformation.

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I suspect that this is one of those transformations that is very difficult to do outside of the books, given that it requires so much focus

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