• @finkrat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He could sell all his assets, purchase a middle class house in cash, and probably retire and have absolutely nothing to do if he wanted to and be set for life

    This guy can go fuck himself

  • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    872 months ago

    Real “Marie Antoinette having an entire fake rustic village built to pretend to be a peasant for a day” energy.

    • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      292 months ago

      Honestly less relatable even than that. At least Marie Antoinette had very little contact to the outside world, so her sheltered life makes sense. Mr. Beast has no such excuse.

  • @wisely@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Life is much simpler being a regular middle class kid living with your parents than an adult millionaire everyone knows and expects money from. He never knew what actually being broke and responsible for yourself or a family as an adult was.

    • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      Exactly this. When he was 'broke ’ he was just a kid and couldn’t by a Lambo because he was bored. Now he has an amount of money that requires responsibility, so much so that professionals are required to handle it. Sooo stressful.

      He doesn’t know what Broke is. Honestly, most people that say they are don’t.

      I doubt he’s ever had to pass on brunch so he wouldn’t have to worry about his check to the gas company bouncing.

      Never had to pawn his stereo to cover rent so his girlfriend wouldn’t finally kick him out.

      Never had to calculate whether the bus fare to and from the plasma clinic was actually worth the trip for a donation.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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        22 months ago

        I consider not having “going to bed on an empty stomach” for dinner as a success

    • @MonkRome@lemmy.world
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      Even if it’s not about other people expecting money, people adjust their lifestyle to their money, even when it causes them to be 10 times as busy as a result. Suddenly you’re managing your house cleaner, your cook, you have contractors at your house every week, you decide you need more things, that all need maintenance, you’re constantly managing people. One day you look at that and think, why do I always have so much on my plate when I’m so rich.

      If people simplified their lives at the same time they became rich, they would be much happier, imo.

  • BillWigly
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    492 months ago

    if it’s so much easier then just give away every penny why dontcha? oh he only ‘gives’ for content

  • Th4tGuyII
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    Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it’s still such a backhanded remark to make - I’d rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.

    • @Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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      172 months ago

      What he means is it would be a lot easier for him to have adult conversations with underage children on the internet if everyone wasn’t always watching him. How’s he going to buy and hang cartoon CP on the walls if he’s poor though?

    • @TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
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      102 months ago

      The thing is, in this age, fame is a choice (to those it is given to). He has enough money to retire into obscurity, living a simple life of comfort. He chooses not not to.

    • @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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      72 months ago

      Where I’m from, if you’re evicted at any time during the 9-10 months of winter you’ll probably die unless you find another place in time which can be incredibly difficult and risky depending on why you were evicted.

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      32 months ago

      Learning about idol scenes and how hardcore it is to be an idol makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I somehow find Mr Beast to be a fish worth this ocean. He’s somehow uniquely compatible with what youtube wants now, and I doubt it’s stirs him wrong. In my mind, he echoes what other creators feel about all that bs.

  • @MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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    232 months ago

    Well you know what they say: mo money, mo problems.

    Which can be extrapolated to no money, no problems. Right?

    Right???

    • Natanox
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      12 months ago

      No money --> No ability to buy food --> Staying slim

      Yeah, makes sense to me.

  • @FMT99@lemmy.world
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    192 months ago

    This is why he keeps running his crypto scams. He’s hoping that will lose him money so he can be poor again.

  • @RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    102 months ago

    This feels like its taken out of context

    But he also said dumb things like the youtube algorithm being perfect so maybe its not taken out of context