Uh, no they can’t, because they don’t have any money
Ok, I’m pretty sure you’re not that naive so I shouldn’t have to write out a post explaining why you are wrong. But let me point out one thing. In addition to being able to buy hookers, drugs, and luxury items with money, you can also purchase politicians and lawyers with it, which opens up whole new opportunities that a commoner will never have.
But here’s the rub. Those with money have the ability to screw over your average school teacher and fireman. Bernie Madoff would be an easy example. How about a more indirect one. Wall street fucks up, but the entire world suffers as a result. People lose their jobs, houses, which indirectly causes marriages to fail, so on and so forth. My whole point is, the rich have the ability to do whatever they want to, get away with it the majority of the time, and be okay with it. The commoner will never have that kind of power, and they are completely powerless to do anything about it if the rich decides to fuck them over. Even if they have a revolution and overthrow the ruling class, history has shown time and time again that a new class of wealthy elite inevitably rises up and the cycle repeats itself over and over again.
Sure, there are poor people out there who are very happy, living off in the remote wilderness. There were many such tribes living in china, until china forcibly relocated them into the urban city where they now reside in miserable abject poverty, and their daughters are now whores. Doubt those daughters are too happy… And guess what? There wasn’t shit they could do about it, because they were piss poor.
Money gives you the power to stay happy, and allow you to exert greater control over external events that can take away that happiness. Its not that I’m buying into the media or corporations, its just how society works. I’m personally not a big fan of cocaine at all.
Now, I don’t think Charlie Sheen has nearly as much power as say the CEOs of the massive global corporations. But Charlie Sheen’s behavior just draws attention to the fact that rich people can do whatever the fuck they want to, and the commoner can not. There is already a giant gap between rich and poor all over the world, and a growing resentment toward the rich and powerful that in some areas is already leading to revolts. I’m saying people are pissed because
a) unrealistic Puritan values in America even though marriage is a joke and everyone is cheating on each other anyway
b) charlie is basically rubbing it into everyone’s faces that they’ll never have the kind of power the wealthy elite in america have. he’s choosing to exert his power by fucking porn stars and partying hard, whereas bill gates manifested his power by bundling the shitty IE browser directly into windows, but either way, both have tons of power. bill gates however, isn’t a celebrity, so there’s less resentment, because the majority of america is obsessed with celebrity gossip and american idol.
