If you watch a lot of movies, or series, it could be hampering your chances of success.
Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy watching (some of) them.
But there’s a big issue with Hollywood’s narrative, especially if you’re an entrepreneur:
They love to portray all business people as villains!
There are the obvious examples like Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street”, but the first movie that comes to mind for me is “Spider-Man”, with industrialist Norman Osborne (The Green Goblin) as the big bad.
And it can be seen in many projects being released nowadays.
They usually feature a greedy developer wanting to take over a small town to turn it into a toxic waste dump, or something nefarious like that.
In “Thou Shalt Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, Rabbi Daniel Lapin has a chapter devoted to how Hollywood regularly villainizes people in business, and he shares that before 1965 the entertainment industry portrayed them as good guys twice as often as bad guys. But the ratio was reversed in the 1970’s, when it was two business villains for every good guy.
I’m guessing that the ratio is even higher in 2025.
Here’s the problem:
If you think wealthy people are evil, or you tweet “Eat The Rich!!!” every day, you’re subconsciously sabotaging your odds of success since you don’t want to be grouped in with those “greedy buggers.”
If you always paint wealth in a negative light, you’ll struggle financially.
Years ago I saw a Facebook post that stuck with me:
“You’re struggling because you’re a socialist in a capitalist system”
Food for thought …
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