Like bro you want a Lambo? One IDK why but two you can work hard in school, get a job in finance or big law or as a doctor, save up for a while, then buy the stupid fucking car. Your "hustle" is bullshit.
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I mean there’s a lot of “hustle” involved in “working hard in school and getting a high powered finance job” but it’s the hard kind of hustling and it’s frequently boring, it doesn’t look great on TikTok
may 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Might be fun seeing StudyCore tiktok tho. “IF YOUR POSSE isn’t HITTING THE BOOKS on FRIDAY NIGHT tell them SORRY I CAN’T HANG OUT WITH YOU, I’mma be IN THE LIBRARY HITTING THE BOOKS”
may 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 4 0 • view
I knew a guy years ago whose dream was owning a Porsche. He was a builder, retrained into rigging (working on antennas at height = higher danger & discomfort, higher pay) and after 6 years overtime got his Porsche. Pity that his family still lived in a mouldy house, but he did earn that car.
may 26, 2025, 1:17 pm • 13 0 • view
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may 26, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
People don't ever think of what they would actually do with said Lambo. They want the lambo for the sake of having the lambo. But even if they get it, then what? It wouldn't actually give them a fulfilling or happy life.
may 26, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
There are whole businesses is LA who rent out fancy cars for IG photo shoots. They don’t drive them. The rent them just to take pictures
may 26, 2025, 3:44 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm sorry this is whining bullshit. Yeah man that's how life works! You're not rich in your 20s, you work and save and you enjoy the rewards later. Whole-ass country of people who fail the marshmallow test. bsky.app/profile/laun...
may 26, 2025, 2:30 pm • 659 47 • view
Yeah, I agree. So sick of entitled crypto bros refusing to lift themselves up by their bootstraps when life has already put them on third base. If you're a man and you're poor, it's your fault. Sucks to suck.
may 26, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Exceptionally well put.
may 26, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
You cannot start out your career at the top. You must earn that, usually with hard work.
may 26, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I keep failing in this way and it's very sad. But at least I own up to it sometimes.
may 26, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I think (no data to support this, just vibes) that social media has created so much FOMO and jealousy and everyone gets their brain so steeped in it they can’t understand the logic of the career progression you just laid out.
may 26, 2025, 2:39 pm • 41 2 • view
There’s always been the people who get really lucky in life (and/or before life) but now everyone can see every day the details of the life of the .01% outliers and it’s really screwing with people
may 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m not immune to this! I deleted FB 10+ years ago because I was (and am) too insecure to not get jealous every time I opened it up. Even knowing I was seeing a curated version of someone’s life wasn’t enough to stop this (“self-knowledge avails us nothing…”)
may 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 6 0 • view
I guess it's also selection bias. "After 5 years as a junior associate, I finally got promoted!!" doesn't get the clicks (and therefore distribution) that you get with "HOW I MADE $500K IN TWO WEEKS".
may 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
This business insider story yesterday framed it as some sort of trend/crisis that a 21-year-old fresh out of school who had done a few digital marketing internships did not in fact land her dream digital marketing job and had to start in an entry-level related position.
may 26, 2025, 2:34 pm • 158 4 • view
Absolutely this. I got my "dream job" in my 20s. I had to move to Los Angeles (with help from my parents, which was a privilege). I made $25,000 a year in LA, working in entertainment, expected to look good and go out often on a barely survivable income. It was not sustainable.
may 26, 2025, 3:35 pm • 5 0 • view
people’s brains are absolutely cooked on TikToks of “my day as a digital marketing manager JUST out of college” that are actually made by some CEO’s niece.
may 26, 2025, 2:36 pm • 266 8 • view
This is an example of ‘the winner writes history.’ These influencers and hustlers are all ‘winners’ but they are a tiny segment of people and, yeah, most already were a few rungs up on the ladder. They also no longer make money on ‘investments.’ They make money on vidoes and selling ‘lessons.’
may 26, 2025, 2:45 pm • 91 4 • view
It reminds me of teaching high school in the 90s and early 00s when all of my male students with very vague success on the field/court were just waiting for their moment when they would go pro…direct from high school. No need to learn to read/write/think… just waitin’ for the call!!
may 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 28 0 • view
I see that in creative fields. “They say I should start my own business.” The one way to be successful freelancing in creative fields is to the have a spouse who makes enough to pay the bills, cover health insurance, and prop up your business. That’s the recipe for success in most fields.
may 26, 2025, 4:24 pm • 20 1 • view
My favorite was an article about Chelsea Clinton where Chelsea extolled the virtue of all her hard work landing were the top gig at the Clinton Global Initiative.
may 27, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
The thing is that we know she was a Clinton. The problem with so many influencers and 'successful' people is that they claim they did all this hard work to rise from nothing and never acknowledge they had a leg up. No talk of rich parents or spouses. No mention of lucky breaks either.
may 27, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Chelsea didn’t talk about family connections getting her into the best schools, or allowing her to start with high level jobs right out of school or the fact she was even a Clinton. She did talk a lot about hard work though.
may 27, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not saying she didn't have a leg up. I'm okay with her talking about hard work. I'm saying she couldn't hide her connections. Rando influencers aren't as well-known. They get away with obscuring their funding. Then their followers wonder why they aren't getting the same results.
may 27, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
When I was a kid, every legit business man I ever talked to told me anyone selling a “plan to get rich” is a con man. If you have a plan to get rich you keep it quiet, find investors who don’t ask too many questions, and you get a lawyer.
may 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yea, and this is also the same phenomenon that leads to fetishization of the Roman Empire in a cohort of young men who also are in this hustle culture. There’s few records of what daily life was like if you were the 99% who weren’t a senator. Everything seems like it was peak civilization!
may 26, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a big fan of UK archeology. There’s a lot misunderstood about the Roman Empire. While there were some hostile takeovers, Romans preferred to integrate locals into the Roman bureaucracy and culture. Heck, bureaucracy is probably the main reason we know as much about Romans as we do.
may 26, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Among them are probably some "winners", but lots of them are just "faking it to make it" and pretending.
may 26, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a bizarre article. Each of the three people is in a totally different situation, only two of whom are arguably related to broader trends, and both seem particularly picky about where they want to work.
may 26, 2025, 3:00 pm • 10 0 • view
I had a grad degree, worked any temp job to pay bills and it took two years to get a real job. Said job was not in my field. 30 years later though, I’ve had a great career and have a good net worth. My net worth at 25 was whatever my car was worth.
may 26, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
The manosphere is where most get this attitude from
may 26, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Of course, we would have done better if the previous generations weren't ripping us off and exploiting us!
may 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, my B.S. isn't going to pay anything ever so there's that!
may 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
At best, this dude is attempting to complain about the actual cost of living not aligning with the compensation for entry positions but they haven't quite connected those dots, but still. WTF man, this is how it's always been.
may 26, 2025, 4:36 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s not whiny, I went to the trade school and work a trade, it’s not the steady pay and steady work it’s marketed as. It’s not great not knowing how much a paycheck is going to be week to week, or whether you’re gonna be laid off month to month. They don’t teach the business in school.
may 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
What I’m saying is a lot of trades aren’t “you show up to a place for 40 hours a week” it’s you go to a place for however long there is work and we hope we have more for you on the next job. It’s erratic and not comparable to entry level position at XYZ corp.
may 26, 2025, 9:23 pm • 3 0 • view
And then there’s the mechanics trades where you’re paid flat rate. When you’re first starting, it’s damn near impossible to make time. Getting paid 1.5 hrs for a job that took you 3 hrs is demoralizing and not at all like a salaried or normal hourly position
may 26, 2025, 9:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Influencers contribute zilch to productivity and GDP.
may 26, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Ten years in and I'm still only make a few over min wage.
may 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the bigger thing we should be talking about is that the idea that you can put in the time and build a career is basically not a thing for too many now, and meanwhile they can't afford to pay the rent and eat. They're trying to hustle because the old way seems like no chance of success.
may 26, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
You see why so many want the factory jobs back? The "return" was not only immediate, but younger workers could work longer hours and make more money.
may 26, 2025, 4:02 pm • 4 1 • view
"younger workers could work longer hours and make more money" Do you truly believe that workers in these theoretical US factories would be allowed to unionize? Do you truly believe conditions in these factories will be good without unions? US capitalism offshored manufacturing partly to bust unions
may 26, 2025, 6:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Most of those kind of jobs that pay well in the trades require a long period (3+ years) of doing very hard work for much less pay in order to get them. During that period most people change jobs or are laid off/fired so most of the people working hard in that early period do not get the money.
may 26, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view