It’s why the Great Resignation has made people (particularly those in the Antiwork subreddit) say numerous variations of “I’m supposed to feel sorry for that bitch? I don’t!” about employers who are unable to keep their employees or find new ones to take their place. Getting to live vicariously through these fictional hellraisers is why we get mad when we hear about some hacker(s) who manage to infiltrate e-mails and servers for video game companies, but do nothing about hacking into Sallie Mae and wiping out everyone’s debt. And they do what they want, when they want without answering to anyone and without caring about the consequences. They care absolutely nothing about the rules, or the people who make and enforce them. They have awesome sex (the phone booth sex between Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette in True Romance comes to mind, as well as Linda Fiorentino f-cking Peter Berg up against a chain-link fence in The Last Seduction).
They look really hot, and the fact that they’re bad guys makes them even hotter. The bad guys usually have better lines than the good guys. There’s a reason why a lot of people cheer for the bad guys when they watch movies and television shows.
