Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
      441·
      8 months ago

      Kim Kardashian is only rich because she sucked a dudes dick and made a sex tape of it, pretty much with the hopes it would be leaked and make her famous.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          She had a fairly popular reality tv show at the time and was already pretty well established as an it girl and model. Im hard pressed to say she was fairly anonymous. That’s what made the sex tape such a big deal was because it was of someone famous.

          Don’t get me wrong, I buy your story that kim saw the value of the leaked tape. Just having lived through that as a horny young man, I’m not sure I agree with the characterization that she was fairly anonymous.

      • whereisk@lemmy.world
        161·
        8 months ago

        To be fair, plenty of sex tapes have leaked or “leaked” with a lot of noise over the years, very few people have translated them to massive wealth (games, reality shows, modelling, branding, appearances etc). Whoever is managing them (their mum perhaps?) is very smart in at least that they know how to leverage opportunity, and they’re smart enough to listen to that person.

      • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        9·
        8 months ago

        She’s famous because her parents were famous, and her family made a pointed campaign to continue making money off of reality tv and being proto-influencers.

        Like it or not, a lot of people genuinely enjoy reality TV as entertainment and having characters to watch and gossip about. Kim K is in the entertainment industry.

    • Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      26·
      8 months ago

      Same ship, different service. The safety net affords me the ability to find what I really want to do without tying my life to a single job or place.

      I also think that it can be brought to other citizens through other community activities. Why don’t we offer similar incentives to teachers? 10yr of teaching in exchange for UBI. Or doctors. Or rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure.

      I’m guessing that your VA/service income doesn’t just go straight to savings either. A lot of it goes right back into the economy through purchasing and associated taxes paid on those things. At least mine does.

      The US military is the largest socialist organization in the world and I wish they would extend that to the rest of its citizens without the downside of PTSD, death, and a lifetime of physical and mental ailments.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      31·
      8 months ago

      But but but HaRd WoRk DoEs NoT EqUaL VaLuAbLe wOrK!!!

      -Bootlickers