alt Hacker NewsEither of the mentioned was at one point of their career someone who would have been considered at least belonging to "counterculture".
Unfortunately, money and power corrupts, and lo and behold, one day you wake up to find you have become the very thing you once swore to destroy.
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RobotToaster • yesterday at 7:42 PM
Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.
47282847 • yesterday at 6:33 PM
All of the people mentioned have been in millionaire to billionaire families since birth, so based on that alone I am not sure I work with the same definition of “counterculture” as you are.
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eastbound • yesterday at 6:40 PM
Maybe wisdom gives another perspective on the ideals we had in our youth?
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Maybe, some of them were poor young iconoclasts some day. That's not when they joined the fashionable trend of Burning Man though. When they joined their trend, they were well into their power (or at least, in the case of somebody like Holmes, pretense of it). Because that's what is fashionable, of course, and they couldn't afford not to be part of "counter-culture" - it's so gauche not to be part of it!