re: Dave Chappelle Talks Leaving His Show on Letterman

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What's weird is that people think we have zero responsibility for one another yet seem to go along with this assertion that being creatively limited was destroying Dave Chappelle as a human when there are a billion people that don't have enough to eat.

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What do poor, starving people care if Dave Chapelle cancels his show? Is he hurting them by not telling jokes on a TV that they don't even own?

Look, no one is throwing a pitty party for Chapelle. We are saying that he doesn't have to do a job he doesn't want to do just to help people close to him. These people were paid for what they did.

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He should have brokered a better deal if it was that bad.

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Why? Why can't he just quit? I am really having trouble understanding why you believe he has to keep working.

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Chappelle was not able to create his wealth alone

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The people who worked with him were paid, no?

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but he was able to strip wealth from others on his own

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Who did he strip wealth from? We're people giving Chapelle money against their will?

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Responsibility comes with that power. He was the only one that could broker the deal and the only one that could walk, tearing it all down.

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Dude...it was HIS deal to tear down. Who signed the contract? Who did the the contract obligate to perform?

Why is Chapelle responsible for some person who got a job as a result of that contract? The person was paid a salary. That's all he was owed.