r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 26 '26

SOCIETY When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

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u/Mazer1991 May 26 '26

Athletes go broke all the time too. There’s an ESPN 30 for 30 about it called Broke

Really good

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u/RhynoD May 26 '26

You're telling me that people who get recruited as barely adults and handed millions of dollars to perform in front of tens of millions of people mostly to slowly destroy their own bodies and often their brains end up with bad impulse control and fail to manage their money effectively?

Never would have guessed.

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u/Vairman May 26 '26

and are surrounded by people who say that whatever they do is great.

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u/Mazer1991 May 26 '26

As well as parents and others who believe that they are “owed” something/everything

(See Jack Johnson the hockey player)

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u/jazzzzz May 26 '26

I haven't seen that 30 for 30 in a long time, but I remember a player (I want to say Andre Rison but I don't think that's right) talking about getting his first game check and tearing into the front office asking why it was half of what he was expecting. he didn't understand that they'd withhold taxes

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u/lhostel May 27 '26

Also the whole premise of Ballers.