Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      If I had to pin an exact date on it, it’d be when he bought the most expensive mansion in Beverly Hills (at the time, $70M was a lot for a mansion).

      Why? Because you need to deal with life changes one thing at a time. Pro-tip for the future billionaires currently scrolling this comment section: don’t move away from your friends, family, and home country immediately after getting rich – it might screw with your head a little bit. Do what the old money does: stay grounded, dress down, and pretend to be normal.

    • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah - he decided he wanted a billion dollars more than he wanted his friends. All he had to do was share.

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        1 year ago

        If you have to share your money for your friends to stick around you, they’re not really friends.

        In addition to suddenly being a billionaire, I’m sure life in the public eye didn’t help his situation at all, especially to someone who I imagine spends/spent a lot of time online reading comments from armchair psychologists speaking about him.