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?

    • @chaoraceEnglish
      44•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.

      • Lemminary
        13•1 year ago

        pretend to be normal

        Me, penniless: Yep, I’m so normal *nervous laughter*

        • @chaoraceEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          Quite the rolemodel, I’d say! You make it look easy

        • @chaoraceEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          Far be it from me to demand frugality from a billionaire. It would have been wiser to waste money without simultaneously scoring an “own goal” on his mental health, though…

      • Flying Squid
        4•1 year ago

        Living, as I do, in a town where I don’t know very many people, I would move back to my hometown to be with my old friends if I got rich. I think that’s the way to do it.

    • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      8•1 year ago

      There were hints that he was already on that path and realized that if he didn’t get off when he did, he would have taken his game down too.

      • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        10•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.