Bret Easton Ellis
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Yes, and I say all the time, look, what do you want?
What do you mean level playing field?
It's impossible.
Tall people have an advantage over short people.
Yeah.
Yes, whatever it is, there's never – it's never the same.
Can I get that in?
Yes, you're getting a whole bunch of people that are just dependent on you and they're angry.
Oh, dear.
And believe me, I grew up with this and –
Nobody took more from the government than my mom.
And nobody hated the government more than my mom.
It's sort of like the family members you've lent money to versus the ones you haven't.
Who resents you more?
The people that resent me the most on the planet are...
are definitely the ones I've done the most for.
So that's the micro version of it.
Now macro, you just become a huge group of people that resents the shit out of the people that are keeping them alive.
And then learn to resent those that sort of helped aid in your vacancy.
Well, I think.