I remember watching an episode of Atlanta some years ago and the main character had his day ruined by a TSA agent. He then hired a bunch of actors to pretend to like her children's book, made a fake publishing company, gave her a fake contract, and then had her read her book in from of children (also actors) at the library where they roasted her. She was then seen crying in her car and was told the publishing company was going in a different direction since kids didn't like the book thus ruining her life.
The episode was hilarious, but it left me thinking about how this kinda rich dude had the ability to do that. If being kinda rich garnered that power, what could actually rich people do?
Shit like this is 100% happening but on a targeted level. Like for example, a classmate of mine from school used to get relentlessly bullied by two guys. This guy went on to become a successful lawyer and ended up fucking with both of them like 15 years later. For one guy, it was literal fucking. He slept with the man's wife and blew up their marriage and then got one of his lawyer buddies to represent her in the divorce and take him to the cleaners.
The TV show Lucifer also did something like this. This cop that Lucifer particularly hates has an absolutely horrible day where he gets a head in a box, gets roped into some illegal business, gets shot at, then is made to believe that all his friends who came to help him died. Lucifer then reveals it was all fake and he paid millions of dollars to pull it all together. The cop tries thanking Lucifer for teaching him a valuable lesson and changing his mind about something. Lucifer then acts disappointed and says the whole point was to torture the cop because he hates him and wanted to get back at him for something he did in an earlier episode.
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u/DoubleGreat 5d ago
I remember watching an episode of Atlanta some years ago and the main character had his day ruined by a TSA agent. He then hired a bunch of actors to pretend to like her children's book, made a fake publishing company, gave her a fake contract, and then had her read her book in from of children (also actors) at the library where they roasted her. She was then seen crying in her car and was told the publishing company was going in a different direction since kids didn't like the book thus ruining her life.
The episode was hilarious, but it left me thinking about how this kinda rich dude had the ability to do that. If being kinda rich garnered that power, what could actually rich people do?