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Rogan would love nothing more than being less popular.

What do you imagine the benefit of being more famous to be? It is all downside once you get past being able to ask anyone to be on your show or go for dinner and most of them say yes.

I wish famous people would openly talk about what a pain in the ass and actual security risk it is to be even remotely famous.

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I think your insight isn't a bad one but -- The famous people I've interacted with would be pretty quick to agree with the downsides (they are painful and huge) .. but also very generous about admitting the upsides. Depending on the level of fame they can be enormous. The special access of famous people's lives is.. hard to understand if you don't have it (I don't have it, but I've witnessed and experienced the tiniest bits of it and holy shit). I don't think a single one of them would trade it / go back.

Would they really not give up the fame but keep the money if they could? I feel like the advantage of getting free shit doesn't really matter when you have a 9 figure net worth like Rogan.

Ahhh, maybe those are conflated so irreversibly in their head it’s hard to imagine one without the other.

Seems ideal though, anonymous wealth :)

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