Justin Ross Lee lives on a neighboring island in Thailand. The production flew Justin and his girlfriend over to Phuket for filming.
Justin Ross Lee wrote the book on being a first-class asshole
literally. Lee's book, "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?: Confessions of a First-Class Asshole" was published in 2016.
The term for this is creative destruction, when innovation creates a new industry at the expense of destroying an older, existing industry. To many economists, it's the way the free market delivers progress. Creative destruction was coined by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Schumpeter considered it "the essential fact about capitalism".
When Jon Ronson traveled to Florida to meet Chainsaw Al Dunlap at the CEO's mansion, the author wrote about his first impression, which was of the unusually large number of ferocious sculptures on the property. "They were everywhere: stone lions and panthers with teeth bared, eagles soaring downward, hawks with fish in their talons, on and on, across the grounds, around the lake, in the swimming pool/health club complex, in the many rooms," writes Ronson. "There were crystal lions and onyx lions and iron lions and iron panthers and paintings of lions and sculptures of human skulls".
According to Ronson's Book, The Psychopath Test, Robert Hare worked as a prison psychologist at the British Columbia Penitentiary, a maximum security facility. Ronson wrote about Hare's first day at the prison. A prison inmate was assigned to make a uniform for the psychologist. Hare gave his measurements to the inmate. Ronson wrote about Hares experience: "[The inmate] spent a long time getting everything just right: the feet, the inside leg
Even in this awful prison, here was a man who took pride in his work". "But then, when the uniform arrived, Bob found that one trouser leg rode up to his calf while the other trailed along the ground. The jacket sleeves were equally askew
The [inmate] was obviously trying to make him look like a clown."