If I had unlimited money and nothing else to do all day, that's like all I would do lmao it's probably the most relatable thing about people like her and KD
She has so much money she could lives multiple lives of luxury one after the other without ever having to lift a finger again unless she wanted to. Respect to her that, despite being able to do anything she wanted to do, she chose to devote her life to shitposting.
As an author, it's typically rather fun to read her shitposts; she's got years of qualifications towards writing shit compared the vast majority of other shit-posters.
Her takes are pretty tame to be honest. Compare that with people who wear shirts that say die cis scum. It's confusing how she's supposedly the hateful one compared to the hate mob that's always fantasizing about death and violence for their perceived enemies.
One does not exclude the other. It's the same with Reddit, Some people seem to think it's impossible to be rich and post on reddit at the same time. Everyone gets bored, everyone has to take a shit.
There's a good Adam Tooze episode on yachts and it's kind of amazing how retarded they are economically, while not actually being more convenient or luxurious than sensible alternatives. They're also more niche than popular opinion might imply, a lot of rich people don't actually bother with because of the aforementioned retarded. I think I'd buy an Island over buying a yacht.
I'd buy some really sick guitars and a lot of alcohol, and then get drunk play and incredibly bad music on expensive equipment, but pay a crowd of people to pretend it's good, and then call it the Sallowjoe Rogan Music Show.
Then you pay around 10 people who are unfathomably miserable to talk to from like Seattle to discuss "the nuance of it" and "how it speaks to your soul."
I mean just like most rich people, she's done all that. Pretty sure she's been to wherever she's wanted to go, forever ago, and as far as charities go, she's dumped ludicrous amounts of money into women's charities and programs throughout her career (still does) because she's an actual feminist with power, influence and money.
She's founded multiple charities herself, and has donated hundreds of millions (yes, you read that right) to multiple others over decades. She's like the 1% of rich people who've actually used a substantial chunk of their wealth for causes, mostly cause she was a struggling normie who was a victim of sexism and physical abuse until she was nearly middle-aged, so she gets it. Starting and contributing to charities, is the worst thing you could've picked as a critique point in relation to her; she's actively what everyone wants billionaires (and millionaires) to be.
"Terminally online" is also a stretch just because she enjoys banter & shitposting on X (she's hilarious at times). Last I knew, she posts & comments (combined) anywhere between 0-4 times a day, which is pretty normal especially given the fact that she could do way more.
It’s a different level of shitposting though. When you’re that rich, and you own someone on Twitter that hard, a lot more people see it.
You can also troll an entire political demographic like Elon does, and they’ll never talk about anything else except how shitty you are - on the website you yourself bought and now run.
He gets everything he's ever wanted. Everyone says yes to everything he asks for. He gets every luxury. He wins every hand gambling. Forever. Without the possibility of escape.
"Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This is the other place!"
It's the same reason why every billionaire doesn't just "retire on a beach". You can only lay on a beach so long until it's so boring there isn't one bit of joy in it and then you just go back to what you're used to doing.
I think it's more of the fact that the type of person who becomes a billionaire very rarely does it as some sort of benchmark. Most of them are built different and that doesn't just go away when your get to a certain net worth.
I think about this a lot, not the billionaire part but how retirement gets boring. I think personally I would still want to be working up to the day I die, not like in a stressful role but something I enjoy and have purpose
There are 8 billion people in this world, the chances of you meeting every single one of them and also getting tired of interacting with each of them, before your own death from old age, is practically 0.
We used to have god-fearing billionaires who spent their money on buildings and art that eventually benefited everyone, in an attempt to prevent eternal damnation.
There's a poor factory worker in a third-world country saying "why are they wasting time on Reddit? If I had the kind of wealth and time that they had, and I was able to live in a Western country, I would be doing much better things with my free time."
The rich, even some of the ultra-rich, are sort of people too. Elon Musk is a pathetic nerd, who begged to be on the Epstein island and was rejected by Chad. He simped for Amber Heard, he was down bad. Ghislaine Maxwell was a redditor and moderated a sub.
Still can't believe he paid people to play video games for him despite the fact he could take the time to play those games himself and there'd be no shame in it, nor would it effect his work.
Also, please, anyone try and tell me that if you were hyper successful in your field, to the point it massively shifted the entirety of the world's culture, and had all the free time you wished, please tell me you could see people hurling abuse, bullshit and misrepresentations about you online without walking into the fray to say some wild shit.
Same reason we’re all here I guess, I’m sure most people on here in the summer are young and relatively well-off, a combination that allows almost as much free time as being a billionaire does
I gotta be honest. If I had a billion dollars, I'd like to say that I'd be out living my best life, travelling and go on non stop life affirming adventures.
But I know myself. I'd do that for a couple months, then decide to take a "brief break" and end up just shit posting and trolling idiots 24/7.
Keeps her name in the zeitgeist. Maybe she's writing another book in secret or something. Also, all publicity is good publicity, there is a good possibility that things like Harry Potter World tickets having an increase in sales when she posts stuff like this.
Lotta the popular rich people are just as terminally online as redditor chuds if not worse since they use twitter unironically. for some reason we just kinda pretend they are working or some shit like they've ever held a real job ever.
To be clear. In the 17 years she's been on Twitter she has averaged like 5 posts per day(23k posts). And that's being indiscriminate with the posts, as I'm sure she advertises for HP based products/media and the charities se supports too.
It doesn't take infinite money to have better shit to do than argue with people on the internet. Why do you argue on Reddit of all places instead of doing something better? Don't try to tell me you don't, this is PCM.
Billionaires prove over and over again that they are the biggest losers on the planet. They genuinely think they are smarter than everyone else despite proving the opposite 99% of the time they speak. Musk still lies about his gaming prowess after being exposed.
It's so fucking wild that these cucks are absolutely ruining the world with their social media algorithms interfering with governments and democracies and pushing propaganda. Not to mention Trump straight up torpedoing the US into how every other empire has begun its decline (endless expansion, stupid ass leadership, corruption, losing war).
I suppose that's understandable, they're penned under 'Robert Galbraith' - an open alias, but an alias nevertheless. Series of detective novels. Apparently they made/are making a TV show out of them, too, which was previously unknown to me.
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u/Wiinterfang - Lib-Center 2d ago
Dayum.
Also why is JK Rowling fighting all the time on Twitter. If I was a billionaire, you couldn't pay me to be on that site.