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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I will agree I don't think she's spending all her time scheming on how to extract more and more wealth (her "stakeholders" likely are though)...there will be a natural point in "success" where it just keeps coming in by virtue of mass recognition, fandom, popularity, I don't think that makes someone evil.

I'm not even a fan, she could probably be doing much better, but I think we need to make sure we direct our ire where it's due, rather than being middle school kids who hate people just because they "got popular."

There's an entire class of folks who make their wealth directly off the backs of our misery, but I'm hesitant to demonize people just because they got popular or won the zipcode lottery.

Like I'd much rather depose our bosses than some random YouTuber that the algorithm blew up lol.

But that's what scares me, the people are quickly reaching a point of becoming an indiscriminate mob. A direct consequence of the actions of the evil rich, surely, but mobs seem to direct their fury in a way where rhyme overrides reason.

The "elite" can stop this turn of events by changing course and humbling themselves, but that seems unlikely...