The Empathy Train Doesn’t Stop Here
Celebrity interviews give us a glimpse into the glamourous lives of the rich and famous who feel far from our reach in movies and music videos. It gives us a moment to see them less as caricatures and more like the humans they are who are juggling jobs and families while suffering embarrassing moments like the rest of us, but not everyone wants to hear about it.
Making bank isn’t as easy as the Instagram NFT bros and career coaches Instagram tell you it is, so we empathize with the financially stressed, but the empathy well runs dry for millionaires. Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney recently learned this the hard way when she received backlash for complaining that she had to shoot commercials on top of acting to cover the cost of her Hollywood lifestyle.