Comments on: Born Into Fame http://www.buzzsawmag.org/2009/09/27/born-into-fame/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nina http://www.buzzsawmag.org/2009/09/27/born-into-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-12757 Nina Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:43:05 +0000 http://host3.copresshosting.com/~buzzsaw/?p=734#comment-12757 I find it mind boggling that you write about celebrities and their children as though they are at-risk youth. I do not like celebrities. I don't respect anyone who hordes wealth at a time when people can't even afford health-care. No matter how much money they donate, they are still part of the problem. The rich exist because the poor exist. This arrangement is not natural or necessary, we allow it to be so by ignoring the blatant injustice of someone getting paid millions to make a movie. Not only do they make more money than one young celeb said "he knows what to do with", their lifestyles are more often than not extravagant, wasteful, and showy. What constitutes a childhood? Do children who go to work with their parents, or work themselves get to have a childhood. Do children in abusive households with parents stressed to the max over bills and work--day lives have a childhood? There are many children more at-risk than these children. You should watch the movie about Rich kids that a young heir made, and trust me these kids have time to have a childhood and a secure future of wealth. Poor them. Celebrities, actors and actresses have problems, right, everyone does, but to suggest that their problems are anywhere near as complicated and vexing as everyday people is stretching the word to meaninglessness. Celebrities have jobs that are fun, rewarding, they have the respect and love of the world, and each other. They get to wear, eat and do the best things in life. While a working class person who has a health problem, often has to work while sick just to cover the cost of their care. Only in a world this sick would we dedicate anytime to pitying the rich. It just isn't right. I find it mind boggling that you write about celebrities and their children as though they are at-risk youth. I do not like celebrities. I don’t respect anyone who hordes wealth at a time when people can’t even afford health-care. No matter how much money they donate, they are still part of the problem. The rich exist because the poor exist. This arrangement is not natural or necessary, we allow it to be so by ignoring the blatant injustice of someone getting paid millions to make a movie. Not only do they make more money than one young celeb said “he knows what to do with”, their lifestyles are more often than not extravagant, wasteful, and showy. What constitutes a childhood? Do children who go to work with their parents, or work themselves get to have a childhood. Do children in abusive households with parents stressed to the max over bills and work–day lives have a childhood? There are many children more at-risk than these children. You should watch the movie about Rich kids that a young heir made, and trust me these kids have time to have a childhood and a secure future of wealth. Poor them.

Celebrities, actors and actresses have problems, right, everyone does, but to suggest that their problems are anywhere near as complicated and vexing as everyday people is stretching the word to meaninglessness. Celebrities have jobs that are fun, rewarding, they have the respect and love of the world, and each other. They get to wear, eat and do the best things in life. While a working class person who has a health problem, often has to work while sick just to cover the cost of their care. Only in a world this sick would we dedicate anytime to pitying the rich. It just isn’t right.

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