204. When Bad Things Happen To The Rich

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L.A. Not So Confidential

True Crime, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week we explore the current AND historical animosity that arises between economic classes in times of financial crisis. If there were ever a time for “eat the rich” content to go viral, it’s now. Prices are up, wages are down, and Millennials and Gen Z are working harder than ever—for way less. Despite being the most educated generation, they’re drowning in debt while CEO pay has exploded—now 399 times what the average worker makes. Meanwhile, the middle class is shrinking and billionaires are multiplying like rabbits. So yeah, people are angry—and it’s not hard to see why. Looping in elements from our Attachment Theory AND Affluenza episodes, we'll discuss a few of the incidents currently in the national conversation.

We cover the incidents, and post incident reactions, of the OceanGate disaster and the United healthcare CEO murder.

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:01.0	Hi. Hi, I'm Dr. Scott.
0:25.8	And I'm Dr. Shiloh.
0:27.5	And this is LA Not So Confidential, the Forensic Psychology and True Crime podcast.
0:32.6	In each episode, we explore the intersection of psychology, the criminal justice system, and entertainment.
0:38.5	And today, our episode is on the forensic psych topic of when bad things happen to wealthy people.
0:49.8	Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Happy April to our listeners. How you doing, Dr. Scott?
0:57.2	So far, so good. We are organizing and kind of moving into this new schedule that we've been doing since the beginning of the year. It's kind of working for us.
1:06.2	I feel like I've had more time to catch up in life than I have in a very long time, which is kind of a good thing. There's a lot of stuff that's been on the back burner that I'm getting to finalize, which is good. Yeah. I also feel like I'm in this lull at work. Usually I have, you know, sort of like presentations or trainings that are on my schedule and calendar that I'm constantly trying to prep for.
1:28.0	And I kind of feel like I'm in a lull, which I'm enjoying, like making myself enjoy because
1:35.1	usually it's like flying by the seat of my pants.
1:36.9	But I think this is contributing to it, like a little more time baked in for us and just
1:41.0	our regular lives.
1:42.4	But there are moments of I should be doing something.
1:45.0	What am I forgetting?
1:46.0	Yeah, I think it's a lesson for everybody, too.
1:48.6	As I have shared in the last couple of episodes, I have transitioned to another position.
1:54.5	I'm no longer in the co-responder slash law enforcement position that I was for the past
2:00.3	seven and a half years. I've gone into something
2:02.0	that actually is a little bit more forensically oriented. And it's been a fantastic opportunity for
2:08.7	me to turn on another part of my brain that's been like that's been in idle mode for a few years.
2:13.9	So that's really great. But as I have told Dr. Shiloh several times, it's been really
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