Why are people constantly whining about how "hard" it is to be a celebrity or royalty?

Question

Here's a thought: At least you get the choice. A king who doesn't want to be king can surely relinquish his crown, but a peasant who doesn't want to be a peasant has a much harder time of changing his stars.

If celebrities were really bothered by their complete lack of a private life, all they have to do is get the hell out of the limelight. Common people don't have the choice to have such a luxurious life, they don't even get to decide whether that is what they'd like or not.

Well sure. It could be hard... Take for instance: If David Schwimmer didn't want to be a celebrity anymore, and he gave up all his money, and stopped acting, etc. He would have a hard time getting people to treat him like a common man.

However, after around 10-15 years of not being in the media in any way, people who see him at the grocery store would stop caring about his former "celeb" status, I would think. I mean, he's just a person now.

However, a young actor who toils in obscurity for 15 years could go all of that time without getting an ounce of recognition for it. He'd never be a celebrity, regardless of how much he wanted it. In my opinion, being a celebrity is based on luck. Almost as much as being royalty is.

And the royalty is my main case in point here. To be royalty, you just have to be born to the right parents, basically. And you can stop living in luxury anytime you please, just give up the crown to the next guy and eventually no one will care.

Answer 1

Amen!

Answer 2

Always see it on t.v.
Or read it in the magazines
Celebrities who want sympathy
All they do is piss and moan
Inside the rolling stone
Talkin' about how hard life can be

I'd like to see them spend a week
Livin' life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walkin' in someone else's shoes
I think they'd stumble and they'd fall
They would fall... (fall)

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'...
If money is such a problem
Well they've got mansions
Think we should rob them

Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
And there's no such thing as 25 to life
As long as you've got the cash, to pay for Cochran
And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack
McDonalds wouldn't even wanna take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C.

I'd like to see them spend a week
Livin' life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walking in someone else's shoes
I think they'd stumble and they'd fall
they would fall

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'...
If money is such a problem
Well they've got mansions
Think we should rob them

(Fall)

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'...
If money is such a problem
They've got so many problems
Think I could solve them

Lifestyles of the rich and famous
We'll take your clothes, cash, cars and homes just stop complainin'

Lifestyles of the rich and famous...
Lifestyles of the rich and famous...
Lifestyles of the rich and famous

Answer 3

Here's another thought: maybe getting out of the limelight is just as hard.

People who are in the situations they are now made choices that got them there eventually (unless, of course, they were victims of circumstance), and those who are unhappy didn't take consequence in mind.

I'm not trying to start something, I can see where you're coming from, but only to an extent. I believe that the way you perceive "whiny celebrities/royalty" can only apply to certain people, in the same way I think may only apply to certain people.