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Illness as Social Currency: Salma Blair, Michael J. Fox, Charlie Sheen's AIDS
from Rich Cunt with Hailey Sacks · #119
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2 minThe group riffs on how the wealthy view disease as a weakness unless it can be monetized for sympathy, joking about celebrities using illness (MS, Parkinson's, HIV) as a career or social move, with Charlie Sheen's HIV disclosure as the prime example.
- 13:40Real estate is the obvious way to make wealth, though it can be a productive family enterprise.
- 13:58Tim describes a sector of new girl boss creative brands making successful businesses.
- 14:11Discussion of Dani Beckerman's viral cake-in-a-jar Instagram business model.
- 14:23Tim just wants cake, getting distracted by the jar gimmick itself.
- 14:35Asian viral dessert trends are theatrical and overrated, none of them actually good.
- 14:51Nobody in these business circles ever talks about the Flint water crisis or similar real problems.
Dani Beckerman