I can never really understand how somebody with so much opportunity can waste their life like that. Even if he was a loser, his father would have given him an easy store or two to maintain and he could have had a fairly easy life.
I grew up with 2 guys and there parents were loaded. Mega bucks. They called the parents by the 1st names.
Gave these guys everything. One totaled a 68 corvette, bought him another one a 69 totaled it.
Long story short both OD’d.
Same ole story
A large part of the problem is that instead of teaching coping skills, our society makes excuses for those who have problems and feeds them with drugs or leaves them out of meaningful, productive dialog with society.
That's because you (and I) never had that much opportunity. And who knows how toxic the family environment was with a wildly successful father.
For some reason there's a quote from the philosopher Kierkegaard that sticks in my memory, which goes something like,
"Boredom is having too many choices."
Want to read a real sad story search Leo Goodwin III.
His grandfather started GEICO.
He overdosed in Lauderdale.
Yeas before that he too totaled a Ferrari and killed a high schooler in a drug induced MV crash.
I met him putting in a few phone lines in the mansion on the intercostal.
The place had a pool that was inside the home and extended outside the home.
Got invited to a few parties on the property. Live bands dancers, booze and drugs.
Never once ran into an adult.
I was 25 or so had a good time
Hers a bit of that history:
Most offspring of those incredibly successful rich people usually end up dead,in jail or straddling in between. Money is a curse if it takes hold of the core of a person.
Same with celebrities. Full life and filthy rich and they turn to drugs. Makes no sense.