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Looking into the lives of the rich and the spoil has always been popular – and these days, the worst they operate, the more we love.
We are a nation of cruises, and our repair with the lives of others – fictional and not – often directed up, to people dripping with wealth, privilege and botox. The best part? Those who most often act with the smallest: that is, the smallest self-awareness, decoration and general connection with reality.
Of unwritten reality shows as the Real housewives franchise and The kardashians to irresistible plays like the current AppletV+ Your friends and neighborsstarring Jon Hamm as a hedgehog fund manager that steals from his wealthy friends, and the hbo feeling The white lotusFocusing on the wealthiest people ever -glem, we are completely obsessed with poorly behaved rich people.
That’s not new: “When a recession was in the early 80s, shows are like Dallas and Lineage proved extremely popular, ”broadcast a historian Finola Doyle have said Metro. “They were luxurious and open. To Gors People, Here comes Boo Boo Honey and Duck dynastythree reality shows Hollywood reporter Known as part of Cable TV’s main “blue collar boom” back in 2013.
So, what’s going on now? Clinical psychologist Bishop Sarah recount Enchantment. Meaning, many of us in ordinary towns with ordinary jobs and ordinary hair that just a kind of hanging down instead of bulky swishing can never own a mansion in the Hamptons or Sashay to a lovely beach destination in Sicily, but at least we’re not so boring.
When the people on rich behaving poorly show screaming, crying, brawl or tossing because they did not have the largest room on holiday, it is a welcome reminder that money can buy all the handbags, but not all the happiness.
Watching housewives ruin their money and make terrible choices give us the thrill of feeling morally better for us, even for just a minute, for people who are technically all. When they are mess, it’s a delicious kind of justice – a tastier way than a chaviar (at least, we imagine). Whether it’s a passive-affinal lunch parties or melting in a mansion, we are hooked on all the compelling chaos and, sometimes, cruelty behind the blow-dryness and those perfect infinity kitchen islands.
And yet, despite the lives of these people often more of a catastrophic zone than ours, we still want to be a little more like them too. As Zoe Williams of The guardian he said of White lotus Season 3 compared to his first, “He feels more like the wealth porn of the early 21st century.” We are disillusioned with wealth but are still fascinated by the fantasy.
The stats do not lie: style videos tagged “Rich Mom Energy” have had over 100 million scenes and count on Tiktok and many clothing retailers make the most of their products on Google for “rich mother fashion” search terms. And that makes perfect sense. Perhaps still, deep down, we think if we could only access everything these people have that can be watched and chronically extra, we would be better off.