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Originally Posted by john70t
I'd think that money would be gone in a month.
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This was pretty much Will Smith's experience. He was a teenager when his music career took off and he burned thru all of it. He was renting private jets to fly to Europe for shopping trips for him and his hangers-on.
He started acting after he went bankrupt, getting noticed in an indie film that led to Fresh Prince, and he took to heart the harsh lessons he learned the first time. (A lot of "friends" that disappeared when he went broke showed up again when the tv show took off - he didn't spare their feelings).
To bring this back around, he regularly advocates finance classes for rookie players on the 76ers (he's a minority owner). And acknowledges that many aren't interested.