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Influencer Jack Doherty, 20, appeared to be distracted on his phone before crashing his US$200,000 car while driving and live-streaming in heavy rain in Miami.
The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians… they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.
I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.
How many kids did anything toward that goal, such as forming a band, learning how to play an instrument or sing, actually landing that first gig at a local bar or something…
… vs how many kids nowadays … have a social media account they post to religiously?
I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.
Money for nothin’. Chicks for free.
Checks for free. He’s talking about writing personal checks, like in the beforetimes, and them having no impact on his bank account later.
It’s a damning account of 80s hypermaterialism.
Yes, I know, history rhymes and Socrates was right about the youth being out of control.
That’s not what any of the lyrics sites I can find are saying.
https://genius.com/Dire-straits-money-for-nothing-lyrics
Pretty sure that line is about women throwing themselves at rock stars.
My bad, always had the other version because of the music video.
For real. Youthful day dreams are nothing new.
How many kids did anything toward that goal, such as forming a band, learning how to play an instrument or sing, actually landing that first gig at a local bar or something…
… vs how many kids nowadays … have a social media account they post to religiously?
This is really different though. In so many ways.
Looking up to rock stars was different from parasocial relationships with people you watch hundreds and hundreds of hours of.
The volume of content dictates so many differences between rock stars and influencers just on its own.