The Kardashian Secret

Examining the sex tape to billionaire pipeline...

Anyone awake in the United States today can see our cultural fixation on billionaires. By virtue of their business success, we endow them with superhuman powers to know the answers to every problem on Earth.

Enter Kardashian

There is so much to examine with the Kardashian phenomenon, we will only consider their role as billionaire class members.

A sex tape of Kim Kardashian put her on the media map, which she turned into a multi-million dollar empire. That’s some accomplishment. Most people would just be ashamed. And it didn’t stop there. The whole family started companies after a reality tv series featured them in their natural habitats.

“How did they do it?” people may ask. By copying other people’s ideas for products, licensing them, and selling them. The Daily Beast wrote about it:

Kylie and Khloé’s ripped-off designs hit a nerve because they play into one of the more problematic aspects of the Kardashian brand: the fact that they are so consistently lauded for creating trend…