Poor Little Me syndrome

Is all the publicity given to Brooklyn Bridge’s mega-whinge about his controlling parents part of a sinister government plot? Is Smarmer’s Army trying to persuade the nation that being rich and having enterprising and talented parents is a bad idea?
    “Give all your cash to us so that we can waste it,” has to be the hidden agenda behind the warning that wealth turns people into ham actors with a scripted life, which drops to bitz if someone else goes off-script.