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The entertainment industry does do that a little, especially to people who had say socially meagre younger years - they get to a position of fame, money and a lot of people following their every whim and before you know it, they're living some dark teenage fantasy in an adult body, fueled with money and access.
The industry also attracts people that want to be nefarious. It's why all these fuckers are now going down - they got in to it as the fat/ugly/odd kid in school but being a writer or producer or director lets you be around fame hungry starlets. It's also full of facilitators and subservients, and there's standards that just aren't tolerated in any other industry. Startup culture has it own set of workplace problems but it feels like a holiday compared to the entertainment industry.
Seriously, when I first got in to hollywood, I have never worked as hard, for so little, but yet have this insidious mantra floating around you "there's a thousand people who would kill to have your job". That mantra typically isn't incorrect, because A) people don't actually know what they were getting themselves in to, B) a lot of people take it for years as that's how you pay your dues etc. and C) once you're in it, you're afraid to be out.
The Kevin Spacey film, Swimming with Sharks is so fucking on point, it hurts. I watched it long before ever getting in the industry and then one of the scenes actually played out in real life 10 years later. I thought it was candid camera or something, but no, that shit actually happens.
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