I’ve been watching Yellowstone. I have never been divorced so never dealt with child support(absolutely necessary). But, I am floored by someone asking $175,057 a month plus a $40,000 a month rental. Do kids, even with affluent parents, need this? I am clearly missing something so feel free to enlighten me.
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The fact that the earth is on fire pretty much permanently and yet there is no real talk - much less action - on how to try and mitigate it.
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The way women are abused in fundamentalist Muslim countries. I can’t believe there is not more uproar. Would it be different if it were men being mistreated this way?
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I will try to answer your question.
I’m sure the Costners were spending a lot of money during their marriage - on housing, on their children, on their lifestyle. Usually support is set up to make sure that children still get the lifestyle they had before the marriage ended.
While it is a lot of money - I’m sure their lifestyle cost a lot of money. Housing is expensive and they live in a VHCOL area. The housing they are accustomed to is probably much different than what the average earner is accustomed to.
As for the monthly support costs - I can easily imagine that nannies, housekeepers, private lessons, security due to the high profile this is engendering, and all the other accoutrements of the lifestyle the Costners had costs a lot of money.
I guess I look at it as - wealthy people often spend eye watering amounts of money compared to the average person. When these kinds of legal disputes enter the public eye, a lot of people will judge the situation and think it is outrageous. I guess I wonder - are you outraged thinking about all the other wealthy people spending that kind on money on the regular that you don’t hear about? 
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The burning man festival in the Nevada desert is flooded ( the Nevada desert isn’t supposed to flood !) and a person has died! Horribly crazy.
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Outraged may not be the right word. But talking about your teenage kids needing to put their toes in the ocean, seems overdramatic to me. And not sure what it teaches their kids. Some of this sounds tone deaf when there are many families and children just struggling to make ends meet. But, yes, I understand that very affluent people, celebrities have expenses that most will never have. I’m sure all the details will keep coming out. And it’s too bad that their 3 kids will be dealing with all this contentious stuff being public.
It is too bad that three children have to deal with all this stuff being public. I try to respect that by not paying attention to these kinds of reports. Or worrying about how tone deaf someone going through a divorce may seem when they speak of their children’s needs - no matter how overdramatic they may seem to others. Not my business, nor my concern. IMO, none of this is really necessary to be out in public, nor should it be fodder.
I understand your point but all of this is already out there. So, maybe others will continue to add more examples of stories in the news.
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My state representative has been openly advocating violence. This isn’t a political statement on my part … I don’t care which side of the aisle you’re on, this is crazy to me.
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A reminder that this is not a political discussion thread. If someone wants to make a thread in the Politics Forum, be my guest.
Simply writing “this is not a political post” does not make it not a political post.
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Not the biggest travesty in the world today, but it did strike me funny that the Burning Man issues were from floods (not fire or heatstroke).
“Thousands of people were stranded for days at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert because of heavy rain — and were at one point told to conserve food and water. But on Monday, they finally began to pack up and leave.”
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The President being briefed on Burning Man…seems…stupid.
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It sounds stupid until one realizes the number of attendees stranded in the mud is bigger than the population of my not so small by our local standards town! It is mind boggling how all of them were able to get there. 
and only one measly road to get our.
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And apparently there were a lot of extra, unsold tickets !
It still doesn’t deserve a briefing. It isn’t a disaster. Houses were not lost. Businesses were not destroyed. School wasn’t canceled. The mail didn’t stop. It’s glamping with mud.
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This is crazy. The young man that died was a student in a class of a teacher I know. She said he was a very nice, polite and quiet person.
I thought it was crazy that Burning Man got so much attention - a bunch of rich people cosplaying at being poor was one spot on take of the entire thing. On social media, there was very little sympathy.
Crazy to me right now - the escaped murderer who has been giving 250 officers the slip for over a week in Chester County PA.
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That escaped inmate may die in this heat unless he finds a lot of potable water.
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That inmate would have won a million bucks on ANW! Insane crabwalk.
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I had the same thought when I saw him climbing the wall.
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