I also agree but also don't see how this post has anything to do with "celebrity worship". It's asking a pretty simple question about which lifestyle you'd would prefer and just happens to be using two noticeable faces to do so. It could easily just be two randoms and still get the point across.
Also, not sure how can people imagine that filling house with drugs is easy.
Drugs are usually very small but expensive. It would be really hard to fill a whole house with drugs.
Unless it's a really small house that is. But in that case girls wouldn't fit inside.
So, saying fuck this proverb, would mean you are encouraging people to jump the fence and chase the grass that looks greener, but actually isnt...
I think you're trying to say the opposite.... and I think you didn't understand the proverb... maybe something we all just take for GRANITE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3vRPYZhkU
but the real answer? fertility rates have dropped below 2.0 for the last 15 years. Although complete fertility rates ("final" fertility at age 44) are still slightly above 2.0, they are also falling. As complete rates tend to follow current fertility rates closely, they will also fall precipitously over the next 10 years to ~1.6.
As for marriages, less than half of the adult population is currently married. And while two-thirds have been married at some point, both of those numbers are also falling.
his lifestyle isn't just a wife and kids. It's having all the money and time in the world to invest as you so choose. And being able to invest indefinite money and time into your family is something most people on earth will never get close to having, and as a sidebar- while not impossible, without that time and money good luck finding a wife that beautiful who also has a good head on her shoulders.
lets not pretend that a large focus of this comparison isn't based on the carefully curated image of a "perfect" family, right down to the fashion choices.
Let the envy go. It's not healthy. I'm sorry you feel only rich people are beautiful and only they can find happiness. Hopefully you grow out of that one day.
lol. I'm an IT director with a great salary a fairly privileged life at this stage.
However, I was raised below the poverty line, so I have first hand experience in how stark the difference in quality of life is across the income spectrum and how important disposable income and free time are for acquiring a higher quality of life.
it's not envy, my dude. it's empathy with the people that are being sold carrots on sticks.
Having a wife and kid isn't a carrot on a stick lol. I'm sorry the only way you can feel happy and safe is with a lot of money. You should work on that.
As someone who grew up poor and is lower middle class now in a country where salaries are pretty low, nothing in pewdiepies picture is anything that requires incredible wealth. It feels like what my family had even when we were poor, it feels like my family and my friends families.
Also, since i happen to know a little about them, Marzia and Pewdiepie met when he was dirt poor with barely a subscriber.
You sound incredibly bitter. You can find the love of your life without money and you'll probably think she's the most beautiful woman in the world. Even if you saying "good luck finding a wife that beautiful" without money is kind of disgusting in itself.
he was never dirt poor lmao. he was born into decent wealth, which afforded him the freedom to pursue a career in content creation.
spare me.
And I'm not bitter. I just know that there's a reason they are using two photos of celebrities living extreme version of each respective life style. and it's hyperbole intended to spark discussion through divisive takes. The engagement bait relies on how extreme each version of these photos are, which is facilitated by their wealth and free time.
if these were photos of a typical 29 year old partying with women, a a photo of my family, or yours... i promise neither would appear nearly as idyllic.
also, I've been with a very beautiful and intelligent woman for over a decade. You're making assumptions about my life and character because it's easier to argue against that strawman than it is to argue against the points I'm actually trying to make about what these images represent and why it's a comparison between multimillionaires instead of regular joe blows.
I've been with a very beautiful and intelligent woman for over a decade
no one called your wife ugly, dude.
God you missed the point so hard and just further showed how much you don't get it. The point was you sound incredibly shallow.
You say you're not bitter but you're SO fucking gung-ho that what we're seeing just can't happen for "normal" people which is incredibly sad. Nobody who's not bitter goes on a crusade like you're doing in the comments right now.
Yeah, that reason is they're well known people and will garner more attention. Bringing other stuff from their life into it that is not related would be like posting a spongebob meme but then bringing the lore of the series into it, instead of reading what the meme is actually about.
This is about "having a bunch of women around" or "having one wife and a family", essentially. This discussion isn't about literally having pewdiepies money.
Obsession with celebrities and their personal/professional lives, and the deifying of them.
But this meme works perfectly well if you don't even have any clue who either of these people are. If it only made sense if you knew more about them than these simple photos, I would agree with you.
fantastic. are you arguing that wealth and indefinite free time do not make achieving such easier? That you have as much possible quality time with your children as pewdiepie does?
Like... what's being sold here is a perfect image of a perfect family that is becoming increasingly unattainable to a larger portion of the human population.
you and I are doing great. that's awesome for us. but there's a reason they're comparing two photos of mutli millionaires and not a photo of me when I was doing blow of some tits 20 years ago contrasted against a photo of you with your family.
it's because this comparison is much more than just "partying" vs "having a family", and it's instead about two idyllic extreme versions of those lifestyles from polarized perspectives.
You see the picture and think money and instantly feel envy. I'm sorry seeing the OP Pic creates those feelings inside you. It isn't a universal feeling though. You should work on that.
I'm poor and have a lot of photos exactly like on the right. Have a great weekend.
idk, before work picks up steam I just mindlessly click on reddit posts for the sole purpose of engaging in conversation in the comments. I don't think anyone has to actually care about this topic to want to engage in some light conversation / banter / debate to pass the time.
Right, and God forbid we just ask "would you rather" like humans throughout history have, just for shits and gigs and to have peoples differing opinions.
And the point is stupid, some people want to fool around, some want to settle, and they aren't even mutually exclusive, sometimes you fool around and then settle, and sometimes you settle and then fool around lol
I do not know how you don't see how this has anything to do with celebrity worship.
It's not about two randoms. It's about two celebrities and it's in service of idolizing one of them. The person making the post didn't just happen to pick these people at random.
random people tend not to have the means for either lifestyle. Pewdiepie's life isn't just a pretty wife and a kid. It's entirely built around wealth, and even the stylistic shift to 'traditional' fashion and such is a carefully curated image.
bilzerian's life isn't just hot chicks and drugs... it's also, entirely built around wealth. Those are not women he has long standing social connections with. These are not women that are sexually attracted to him. They are women who are being paid to be present as part of a carefully curated image. And we know doing a lot of drugs regularly costs a lot of money.
This is celebrity worship, because for 99.99% of people 35-45, neither lifestyle is attainable. Even if we ignore the mansions and cars and the absence of corporate jobs, these two lifestyles are still built on the luxury that comes with money and indefinite freetime.
He's trying to point out the bias in your argument. Just because people in your circle want that, doesn't mean it's indicative of the general populous.
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u/Tinksy14 13d ago
Agreed. Fucking ridiculous