If you are unfamiliar with the HBO show Succession, which ends in about two weeks, it’s one of the better shows of the last few years. It’s essentially about the Murdoch family, here called the “Roy” family, and them fighting over what will happen when “Logan” (i.e. “Rupert”) dies. There’s another family in some of the seasons that gets less attention, the Pierces, who I believe are based on the Bancrofts, which is who the Murdochs bought the Wall Street Journal from. It’s all very ostentatious and people fly around to fourth homes on private jets as easy as some regular people might go to the supermarket. Obviously it’s HBO and well-written and it brings up a lot about class and money and trying to please your father and psychology and family dynamics.
Because it’s ending in a few weeks after 4–5 seasons, people are writing a lot of hot takes about it. Here’s a pretty good one.
Within that article, you have this section:
That quote definitely brings up a lot. You don’t need to even understand the show and all the characters to have views and opinions on that quote. It’s actually somewhat of a turning point for modern America: we claim to like “strivers,” i.e. hustlers and hard workers, but oftentimes it can definitely feel like we only like the rich, and rich families, and we’re intrigued by them and want to know more about them, and we’re actually often openly hostile to people on the come-up — unless, of course, they come from one of those rich families.
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