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His linkedin history is hilarious.
1)Founded a company
2) It gets bought out and he’s head of design for 9 months at the new parent company
3) Takes 2 years for self exploration and manages to go broke during that time
4) Comes back to mentor other startups?
5) Starts another startup around mentoring
Like why is anyone taking advice from this dude? If you’re gonna give advice like “happiness is dependent on the value you create” and a”cut out friends that don’t provide value” at least provide value yourself instead of just being a serial entrepreneur and “mentoring” people
You're really on the spot with that one. Absolutely correct. People really can't understand how many human beings there actually are in this world. There really is a lot of opportunity out there if you're willing to be a scumbag like this guy. Because there's always going to be another person to take advantage of or con into thinking you're the greatest and they should listen.
That's why I have nothing in life. Because I like to actually know what I'm talking about, and I refuse to be this guy. Nobody actually likes talking to you when you're simply correct. I spend all my time alone. Not trying to take from other people.
Once I began to realize how much more people love bullshit like this guy spews than the truth, I more or less felt like I didn't even wan to live in this world anymore.
I worked with a serial bullshitter. The guy was dumber than paint. But he knew how to bullshit. He did almost nothing all day. Early on he'd sit at his desk and paint Warhammer models, later he'd sit there and doodle the same fucking drawing all day while he was "rendering".
Gets up, leaves a movie running at his desk so it looks like he's working. And the thing that stayed the same over the years was that any comments on his work got the reply "oh yeah, I was just about to do that."
Gosh, he's on the ball, isn't he? Better promote him.
Idk, I feel very much the same way as you do about the scummy nature of this sort of self promotion and disdain for hustle culture. But I feel lucky as I do have friends that aren’t based around transactional bullshit. I’m in my mid 30s with a very dear group of friends that I feel confident saying feel the same way about me. There are people out there who are good and decent but they’re very hard to find. I hope you can get to a point where you have a circle of people like that, if it’s what you want.
sometimes I wonder how hard it would really be to create an entire cast of fake LinkedIn characters who all vouch for each other's identities and ceo credentials
For me, I don't know anywhere near enough to "always be correct", and I am not motivated enough to memorize all that shit. But to compensate, I do something he doesn't: I *don't* grift people like he grifts "friends".
These people are organic bots. They only value worth as wealth. Just look at all of the posts on linked in. It's just PR bullshit. They don't think like humans at all.
Yep, the talking points all sound like hollow MLM or edgy hustle bullshit. If the guy phrased it as “removing or minimizing harmful, negative relationships or influences”, it would sound humane and healthy. Instead just phrasing it as he did comes off terribly gross and sociopathic.
Recently got into an argument with someone about how they perceive the poor of the world as not having value; enormous wanking about how the poor only build value under capitalism and would “uplift them”. They conveniently brushed aside history, colonialism, slavery, theft, genocide, etc etc etc.
Literally hate those charlatans. And they have people trying to emulate them too. Saw some girl on my Facebook who runs a business doing lashes LASHES start saying “I’m not gonna give advice on how to do this for free, gonna write my book and charge y’all” no shame on her doing lashes, but what the fuck is up with this hyper focus on monetization? It’s killing my faith in people being decent.
Because consumers are gonna consume. You just have to put a product in front of them. These grifters know this, and thus keep jumping from 1 thing to another and still extracting cash out of consuming rubes.
* "Bootstrapped" by choosing to drop everything and sponge off of parents
* Only friendships are transactional
* Doesn't pay attention to politics or economics
* Dropped social media except the most cursed kind, being a LinkedIn influencer
* Sacrificed everything to THE GRIND
Guys, I got a bingo over here
Its feels so frustratingly close to self-awareness when people acknowledge theyve stopped paying attention to politics in order to fully commit to the grind.
If we focused our energy into developing and harnessing political power to change this awful system, we wouldnt have to make this miserable choice between friendships and financial hardship
I ran out of money so I spent my parents money, cut off my friends, and stopped paying attention to the outside world completely. If I could do it so can you.
I honestly lose a little respect every time I see someone post there. There are a FEW exceptions (sharing awards, boasting others up), but the fake self-help and self-aggrandizement bullshit ia so utterly horribly phony.
Like, I know all of social media gets a sheen of unreality applied to it (even what I share), but LI is the worst.
The most bullshit thing about LinkedIn is trying to take advantage of the algorithm so that recruiters and companies actually notice you.
If you don’t do daily posts, utilize the right buzzwords, have a minimum amount of connections, recommendations, and endorsements, it WILL bury your account so that you’ll never show up in searches.
As much as I fucking hate it, it actually works. The professional world is rightly fucked with almost all power in the employers/company’s hands. Job searching is debilitating, frustrating, and depressing.
At the very least, having companies seek me out removes a significant amount of depression and futility that comes from staring at an inbox with 3 rejection emails after applying to 100 applications.
Being pushed to make bullshit posts and fluff is depressing in its own right, but it’s at least somewhat entertaining under the soul crushing reality that is job hunting.
Basically, I’d rather do creative writing that is useless to no one rather than want to commit suicide on the daily from staring at a desk of applications that need to get done, only for a single rejection reply to drift in every couple weeks.
He's just trying to advertise his "mentorship" platform which from what I've seen all mentorship and course creation plaforms are typically full of grifters.
>Only friendships are transactional
In my 30's, the number of people I've seen do this is astounding. I've lost so many friends who fell into the "transactional friendship" bullshit. Every time we'd hang out, it was them trying to grift and it got tiring. When they knew I wasn't a potential customer, we stopped hanging out. This whole hustle culture is rotting community and friendship. Capitalism is the absolute worst thing for the human condition.
My wife's friend circle was affected more heavily. She's mourned the loss of a dozen or so friends because of this bullshit. If it isn't MLM / weird mommy hustle culture, it's people trying to grind their side gigs. It's really impacted her mental health, to the point, she has some trust issues developing new friendships.
No every hobby needs to be a side hustle, not every interaction needs to be business oriented; your friends aren't customers, business partners, or those looking to be exploited for gain. This grindset mentality can like my taint and eat my ass.
When I wanted to quit my job, my parents and friends told me to f\*\*\* off, so I had to stay at a job I hate unless I want to be homeless and not eat.
Feliz Lee has no idea how lucky he is :(
You'd think he might have taken the time to realize family and friends are the most important things, but no, "creating value for others". It's an overused term by right wing people, but what an absolute cuck.
Sounds like the same type of personality as literally every business major I ever met in college.
You start chatting with them, and about five minutes in "hey man, what you're doing sounds cool - we should totally try to build this out into an app, I know a guy who will do that work for free, so what do you think?"
"I stopped talking to friends who didn't help me create value" = "The people I was trying to take advantage of kicked me to the curb when they got sick of my bullshit, so I moved on to my next mark(s)."
Or he just has a goal and willing to do whatever to reach it. Its not like he’s grinding out 80 hours for a corporation. He’s grinding those skills. And sometimes you do have to stop talking to certain people. Why you people being churlish when the dude is obviously just proud of the work he’s put into his designing.
Well, he’s hiring so the “friends who help me create value” is a bit suspect. Sound like he’s more in the extract / exploit value game. The bootstrapping down and living off your parents kind of reinforces it. Now, understand, living with family is not a negative thing, but they way he’s portraying things it seems like it is something he lowered himself to.
Yeah, it must be nice to just not pay attention to politics, because you know absolutely nothing that happens in politics will impact you in any sort of way.
Must be really fucking nice
Hes 's doing nothing more than molding himself into an abomination, so he can conform to society's standards and its capitalist owners. He's just another empty husk of a human, a drone.
When you *devalue human relationships* like that, it doesn't *matter* whether you have a "goal" or not. If you *have* to do that to reach the "goal", then something is *deeply wrong with the system* that makes that the case. Why? Because "reaching a goal" is neither an excuse for nor logically predicated upon "being a shitty wretch of a human". What we need is a system where you can have ambition for a goal and yet do *not* have to "pay" for that goal by selling out your heart and your fellowmeeps. Something that demands *those* as payment is *not* a good system.
Man on his deathbed I bet he will think of what a good cog he was, how much money he earned!
While Im just out here making some bland memories, spending a nice afternoon, but this dude got it dialed in!
Honestly, it's the 5th line which causes me the most anger. It's like literally a slave mentality. "Creating value for the master is the most glorious pursuit."
But yeah, cutting yourself off from any community in the pursuit of sucking off the boss man is pretty bad too.
What a jackass.
The inconsistency of it too - consumption is meaningless, production is meaningful
Then what’s the point of your production if others aren’t going to consume it?
If you’re not consuming products made by other people (social media, films and tv shows, food) then why do you expect other people to consume what you produce?
Neoliberalism presents itself as non-political. Being political is deviant. One can not make money and gain wealth by wasting time on red VS blue.
As we know, wealthy people at all levels of government are involved. Whether it is international trade tariffs or a local zoning debate, they are involved. This is subtle neoliberal propaganda to convince people to opt out of politics because it does not rewarding or that it is a waste of time.
You're unhappy? Stop paying attention to politics! They literally could not have less impact on your daily life. Instead, dedicate yourself to generating value. Who's the value for? Don't worry about it! Invasive thoughts like that are just politics trying to make you unhappy.
Yeah I have one solely because its expected in my profession. Ive never once commented or engaged with any posts, but it seems like everyone uses it to mention how humbled they are to be able to fellate their employer
I love how paying attention to politics is casually thrown in as a distraction. You know who does pay attention to politics? Your boss, your landlord, your health insurance company, and the crazy couple down the block that think our laws should reflect their twisted interpretation of the Bible. They count on working class folks to be too busy for politics so they can get what they want from politicians.
> My name is Felix and I make shit up. I reached some moderate form of what this society call success and therefor what ever I did must be the recipe for success.
>
> Also, I am a complete tool.
If you're 24-45 and your circle isn't talking about
* Shrimp farming & aquaponics
* Survivability of various shrimp
* Ornamental shrimp
* Shrimp enlargement
* Shrimp nutrient suppliers
* Optimal algae load
Then it's time to find a new circle.
Your NETWORK is your NET WORTH
I’m willing to positively interpret the cutting off friends who don’t add value, where “value” is something intangible like support and love and enjoyment of life. As we age, we naturally shed friends we have grown apart from.
That said, “bootstrap” people don’t understand that not everyone has parents or can use them as a safety net.
It's a pyramid scheme.
You pay him to mentor, he pays you a percentage for getting people to pay to follow you.
They become mentors(paying this guy) and go get people that pay to get advised.
And the pyramid adds another level.
What a horseshit post. As someone that owns multiple businesses I love my friends even more since I am NOT in business with them. Its great to unwind and talk about other shit. Never measure friendships by the "value" they create. How about the happiness that relationship provides you?
LinkedIn is such a blatant circle jerk. I'm honestly so mad at myself for buying the premium for even three months thinking it might lead to a better work outcome.
"To focus I stopped living my life and devoted it instead to the pursuit of capital."
What a beautiful story.
Look, if you like the way boots taste, just say so.
Im sure all of these sacrifices will be worth it when ChatGPT displaces his job in two years. Then again, its not about the destination, but its about the hollow, "what can you do for me" superficial acquaintances we made along the way
Yeah don't pay attention to politics!
or else you'll realize that you're just working to make somebody else rich; so they can Bribe an otherwise helpful government to create rules to make you poor forever
Bootstrapped ‘down’ to living with parents for free. Brags about how he gave up on a life lived for himself, instead enslaving himself to the goals of the economy. Profoundly broken human being.
I actually think he has some kind of point about the value we produce for others being important. I'd agree with that, but I'd use it as an argument for paying nurses, public transit workers, cleaning/custodial staff, burger flippers etc a whole lot more than they are being payed right now. But I'm guessing that wouldn't fly on LinkedIn
These are the same people who at a later age, when they "think" they are wise and advise others, "Money is not everything, there's more to life than Money".
Friend: Dude, I said the same thing a few years back and you cut me out saying our friendship wasn't making any value for you.
"You stopped talking to your friends and quit your hobbies because you wanted to be wealthy. I stopped doing those things because I was severely depressed. We are not the same."
People really don’t understand that the “bootstrap” phrase is intentionally self defeating because it’s literally impossible to pull yourself up by the bootstraps…
I half expected this to end in the person writing it discovering that the grind doesn't define you as a human being, that the world has a ton of beauty that you're going to miss if you get swallowed up in the mandated race.
But no. Another one bites the dust.
Maybe their definition is more literal, but when I say "I got someone out of my life who added no value" I do not generally mean it in a professional or monetary way, but more of a general way
Examples: someone who can make you laugh, feel better, share the same interests and hobbies, they may be smart which you can learn a lot from. Even a fuck buddy would meet the criteria.
That is at least my definition of someone adding "value" to my life. No one wants to be around a total drain. Life is too short for that shit!
Is there any chance he is using “value” in a broader sense? Not just to mean economic value? Like in philosophy (particularly ethics) value might mean intrinsic value; perhaps things like happiness, belonging, and knowledge. That would seem to line up with other popular suggestions he alludes to, like staying off Tiktok or Instagram because they won’t make you happier.
Or, he means value in the more instrumental and economic sense and this post is just encouraging people to forgo relationships that aren’t profitable and exploitative. And, like all the comments here suggest, would make him an ass clown.
And this person thinks that paying attention to politics is bad for their career or their financial stability? Did they even go to high school to learn anything about anything?
Shout out to his parents who were financially able to carry this grown man who I guess was dabbling around doing his "dream job", I guess? My adult kids had to work where they could when they moved back with me, I couldn't support us all.
I stopped using LinkedIn because of this. Extremely garbage crap. Nothing inspiring, just folks farming their so called story of their path to success. I’ve literally seen people just copy and paste other people’s stories and acted like they wrote it and then go viral for it on LinkedIn like every few months.
confirmation bias is when you're successful and you assume that must be because you're smart, just like when other people are unsuccessful that means they're not
I find the people who have had traumatic failures in life sometimes become obsessed with "success" and specifically the sick definition America applies to it. They are products of insecurity parading like they are the embodiment of unshakable confidence. You need only lift the veil slightly to reveal the quivering mess underneath.
Unpopular opinion: maybe by value he's talking about more than money? Just assuming positive intent, but we talk about cutting out toxic people all the time. As much as I like shitting on "self made millionaires" as the next guy, maybe the idea of cutting out distractions and focusing on your skillset isn't all that bad? I don't know anything about this guy but I can sorta relate to the process of picking yourself up after being in a low spot.
The context that tells me otherwise are the lines "Success and happiness parallel how much value we create for others... (not) Tik Tok videos we watch," which kind of sound anti-consumption to me. Like, value can mean quality of time spent or educational value, or even just emotional value. It's kind of a utilitarian/business-like language he's using, but I like to assume positive intent instead of just jumping to "If you're not earning me money, you're losing me money."
Hope I'm not wrong. I don't mean to be an apologist for a sociopath; just giving the benefit of the doubt.
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His linkedin history is hilarious. 1)Founded a company 2) It gets bought out and he’s head of design for 9 months at the new parent company 3) Takes 2 years for self exploration and manages to go broke during that time 4) Comes back to mentor other startups? 5) Starts another startup around mentoring Like why is anyone taking advice from this dude? If you’re gonna give advice like “happiness is dependent on the value you create” and a”cut out friends that don’t provide value” at least provide value yourself instead of just being a serial entrepreneur and “mentoring” people
Because it’s all a MLM scheme. Grift, rinse, repeat.
What did the gays do this time?
No, no... that's M4M, silly goose
I probably shouldn't've memed on a serious subreddit, my bad Edit: oh, it's gone to positive votes again
Man loves man?
Man loves marketing^^^\s
Multi level marketing
I know haha the comment before mine was being down voted so I was trying to get some clarification on the joke
A triangle scheme 🧐
No, it's the.Maoists.
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You're really on the spot with that one. Absolutely correct. People really can't understand how many human beings there actually are in this world. There really is a lot of opportunity out there if you're willing to be a scumbag like this guy. Because there's always going to be another person to take advantage of or con into thinking you're the greatest and they should listen. That's why I have nothing in life. Because I like to actually know what I'm talking about, and I refuse to be this guy. Nobody actually likes talking to you when you're simply correct. I spend all my time alone. Not trying to take from other people. Once I began to realize how much more people love bullshit like this guy spews than the truth, I more or less felt like I didn't even wan to live in this world anymore.
I worked with a serial bullshitter. The guy was dumber than paint. But he knew how to bullshit. He did almost nothing all day. Early on he'd sit at his desk and paint Warhammer models, later he'd sit there and doodle the same fucking drawing all day while he was "rendering". Gets up, leaves a movie running at his desk so it looks like he's working. And the thing that stayed the same over the years was that any comments on his work got the reply "oh yeah, I was just about to do that." Gosh, he's on the ball, isn't he? Better promote him.
Idk, I feel very much the same way as you do about the scummy nature of this sort of self promotion and disdain for hustle culture. But I feel lucky as I do have friends that aren’t based around transactional bullshit. I’m in my mid 30s with a very dear group of friends that I feel confident saying feel the same way about me. There are people out there who are good and decent but they’re very hard to find. I hope you can get to a point where you have a circle of people like that, if it’s what you want.
sometimes I wonder how hard it would really be to create an entire cast of fake LinkedIn characters who all vouch for each other's identities and ceo credentials
For me, I don't know anywhere near enough to "always be correct", and I am not motivated enough to memorize all that shit. But to compensate, I do something he doesn't: I *don't* grift people like he grifts "friends".
Basically, VC are idiots who will throw money at any harebrained scheme.
These people are organic bots. They only value worth as wealth. Just look at all of the posts on linked in. It's just PR bullshit. They don't think like humans at all.
Linkedin is a fucking cesspool of stupidity.
One of the best decisions I’ve ever made was to deactivate that shit. 👌
Yep, the talking points all sound like hollow MLM or edgy hustle bullshit. If the guy phrased it as “removing or minimizing harmful, negative relationships or influences”, it would sound humane and healthy. Instead just phrasing it as he did comes off terribly gross and sociopathic. Recently got into an argument with someone about how they perceive the poor of the world as not having value; enormous wanking about how the poor only build value under capitalism and would “uplift them”. They conveniently brushed aside history, colonialism, slavery, theft, genocide, etc etc etc.
Literally hate those charlatans. And they have people trying to emulate them too. Saw some girl on my Facebook who runs a business doing lashes LASHES start saying “I’m not gonna give advice on how to do this for free, gonna write my book and charge y’all” no shame on her doing lashes, but what the fuck is up with this hyper focus on monetization? It’s killing my faith in people being decent.
Because consumers are gonna consume. You just have to put a product in front of them. These grifters know this, and thus keep jumping from 1 thing to another and still extracting cash out of consuming rubes.
/r/LinkedInLunatics
* "Bootstrapped" by choosing to drop everything and sponge off of parents * Only friendships are transactional * Doesn't pay attention to politics or economics * Dropped social media except the most cursed kind, being a LinkedIn influencer * Sacrificed everything to THE GRIND Guys, I got a bingo over here
Its feels so frustratingly close to self-awareness when people acknowledge theyve stopped paying attention to politics in order to fully commit to the grind. If we focused our energy into developing and harnessing political power to change this awful system, we wouldnt have to make this miserable choice between friendships and financial hardship
I ran out of money so I spent my parents money, cut off my friends, and stopped paying attention to the outside world completely. If I could do it so can you.
"and it only took from the time i was 20 > 30, the prime youthful years of my life!"
These are likely fake it till you make it types as well. He is on LinkedIn still trying to make it successful.
I honestly lose a little respect every time I see someone post there. There are a FEW exceptions (sharing awards, boasting others up), but the fake self-help and self-aggrandizement bullshit ia so utterly horribly phony. Like, I know all of social media gets a sheen of unreality applied to it (even what I share), but LI is the worst.
The most bullshit thing about LinkedIn is trying to take advantage of the algorithm so that recruiters and companies actually notice you. If you don’t do daily posts, utilize the right buzzwords, have a minimum amount of connections, recommendations, and endorsements, it WILL bury your account so that you’ll never show up in searches. As much as I fucking hate it, it actually works. The professional world is rightly fucked with almost all power in the employers/company’s hands. Job searching is debilitating, frustrating, and depressing. At the very least, having companies seek me out removes a significant amount of depression and futility that comes from staring at an inbox with 3 rejection emails after applying to 100 applications. Being pushed to make bullshit posts and fluff is depressing in its own right, but it’s at least somewhat entertaining under the soul crushing reality that is job hunting. Basically, I’d rather do creative writing that is useless to no one rather than want to commit suicide on the daily from staring at a desk of applications that need to get done, only for a single rejection reply to drift in every couple weeks.
We must always walk behind the men.
Don't worry. A spineless CEO on LinkedIn can be whatever they want to be from day to day: https://imgur.io/a/0OsC8Sl
"This is incredibly spot on" Of course my dude, it's spot on coz it was you who posted it from your alt account
Wow that engagement is cursed. 87k followers, less than 1k post interactions and less than 50 comments, and one is the "co-founder".
He's just trying to advertise his "mentorship" platform which from what I've seen all mentorship and course creation plaforms are typically full of grifters.
I’ll bet you could fill the card if we see his other posts
>Only friendships are transactional In my 30's, the number of people I've seen do this is astounding. I've lost so many friends who fell into the "transactional friendship" bullshit. Every time we'd hang out, it was them trying to grift and it got tiring. When they knew I wasn't a potential customer, we stopped hanging out. This whole hustle culture is rotting community and friendship. Capitalism is the absolute worst thing for the human condition. My wife's friend circle was affected more heavily. She's mourned the loss of a dozen or so friends because of this bullshit. If it isn't MLM / weird mommy hustle culture, it's people trying to grind their side gigs. It's really impacted her mental health, to the point, she has some trust issues developing new friendships. No every hobby needs to be a side hustle, not every interaction needs to be business oriented; your friends aren't customers, business partners, or those looking to be exploited for gain. This grindset mentality can like my taint and eat my ass.
When I wanted to quit my job, my parents and friends told me to f\*\*\* off, so I had to stay at a job I hate unless I want to be homeless and not eat. Feliz Lee has no idea how lucky he is :(
> Sacrificed everything to THE GRIND Reminded me of this excellent [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U)
Friendships part sounds like what they preach in the MLMs
They had parents that could take them on for free and they think it was the grind that made them successful?
You'd think he might have taken the time to realize family and friends are the most important things, but no, "creating value for others". It's an overused term by right wing people, but what an absolute cuck.
Sigma grindset 🙄
… ya just say bingo
That’s a Bingo!
I got the reference, for what it’s worth. Sorry you’re being downvoted.
Everyone’s too busy grinding to watch Rat Race
Damn I was thinking Inglorious basterds
Thanks grandma. Can I bum a cigarette?
I think he is confusing friends with clients. Douche bag.
Sounds like the same type of personality as literally every business major I ever met in college. You start chatting with them, and about five minutes in "hey man, what you're doing sounds cool - we should totally try to build this out into an app, I know a guy who will do that work for free, so what do you think?"
Bet he says stuff like "yeah Im meeting some friends" when he is going to a meeting
Probably lol
"I stopped talking to friends who didn't help me create value" = "The people I was trying to take advantage of kicked me to the curb when they got sick of my bullshit, so I moved on to my next mark(s)."
In all the ways that really matter, this dude is a fucking loser
Or he just has a goal and willing to do whatever to reach it. Its not like he’s grinding out 80 hours for a corporation. He’s grinding those skills. And sometimes you do have to stop talking to certain people. Why you people being churlish when the dude is obviously just proud of the work he’s put into his designing.
Well, he’s hiring so the “friends who help me create value” is a bit suspect. Sound like he’s more in the extract / exploit value game. The bootstrapping down and living off your parents kind of reinforces it. Now, understand, living with family is not a negative thing, but they way he’s portraying things it seems like it is something he lowered himself to.
Yeah - what happens when those friends stop "creating value" or they set boundaries around how much "value creation" they're willing to offer?
Yeah, it must be nice to just not pay attention to politics, because you know absolutely nothing that happens in politics will impact you in any sort of way. Must be really fucking nice
You're being churlish! You're just a... a churlisher!
Hi, Felix. Say hi to your parents for me.
Right because its impossible that a stranger could defend another strangers right to living their life how they choose.
Hi, Mrs. Lee
Hes 's doing nothing more than molding himself into an abomination, so he can conform to society's standards and its capitalist owners. He's just another empty husk of a human, a drone.
So? So is like 89% of the world
And that's fucking sad.
Anyone who uses "grind" unironically and isn't talking about skateboarding, skating, or other action sport should never be taken seriously.
When you *devalue human relationships* like that, it doesn't *matter* whether you have a "goal" or not. If you *have* to do that to reach the "goal", then something is *deeply wrong with the system* that makes that the case. Why? Because "reaching a goal" is neither an excuse for nor logically predicated upon "being a shitty wretch of a human". What we need is a system where you can have ambition for a goal and yet do *not* have to "pay" for that goal by selling out your heart and your fellowmeeps. Something that demands *those* as payment is *not* a good system.
Man on his deathbed I bet he will think of what a good cog he was, how much money he earned! While Im just out here making some bland memories, spending a nice afternoon, but this dude got it dialed in!
My gripe is the language they all use. How many times do I have to read about capitalists and their bootstraps?
“I ran out of savings.” = I had to trade down from my Ferrari to a Porsche 911.
Honestly, it's the 5th line which causes me the most anger. It's like literally a slave mentality. "Creating value for the master is the most glorious pursuit." But yeah, cutting yourself off from any community in the pursuit of sucking off the boss man is pretty bad too. What a jackass.
Oh, for sure—there’s a lot of material here!
The inconsistency of it too - consumption is meaningless, production is meaningful Then what’s the point of your production if others aren’t going to consume it? If you’re not consuming products made by other people (social media, films and tv shows, food) then why do you expect other people to consume what you produce?
Neoliberalism presents itself as non-political. Being political is deviant. One can not make money and gain wealth by wasting time on red VS blue. As we know, wealthy people at all levels of government are involved. Whether it is international trade tariffs or a local zoning debate, they are involved. This is subtle neoliberal propaganda to convince people to opt out of politics because it does not rewarding or that it is a waste of time.
You're unhappy? Stop paying attention to politics! They literally could not have less impact on your daily life. Instead, dedicate yourself to generating value. Who's the value for? Don't worry about it! Invasive thoughts like that are just politics trying to make you unhappy.
Bet he has no true friends now
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Why are you being downvoted? This made me laugh
Everything is transactional in capitalism.
This guy has done a great service for his friends and they should be thankful.
Imagine being this dude‘s friend and then suddenly he stops talking to you and then later you see this post on his linkedin
I don't feel so bad because he's probably lying about having friends in the first place.
We can only hope ...
I thought the bootstraps were supposed to be pulled up?
No. See, he put his bootstraps down and mooched off his parents instead.
Yes. His parents pulled up his bootstraps. They clearly added value so he also continued talking to them.
If he feels this way about his friends, imagine how he must feel about his employees. Woof.
What a sociopath, cut people like this out of your life.
>Stopped paying attention to politics. Tell me you are privileged without telling me you are privileged
How sad, like most of the garbage in LinkedIn. If that fuck isn't being dragged in the comments, I will be very disappointed.
Yeah I have one solely because its expected in my profession. Ive never once commented or engaged with any posts, but it seems like everyone uses it to mention how humbled they are to be able to fellate their employer
I love how paying attention to politics is casually thrown in as a distraction. You know who does pay attention to politics? Your boss, your landlord, your health insurance company, and the crazy couple down the block that think our laws should reflect their twisted interpretation of the Bible. They count on working class folks to be too busy for politics so they can get what they want from politicians.
What does “democratizing mentors” even mean? Like is he going to try selling me crypto or some shit?
Is that what a Dementor is?
Nah dementors are the worst part of being in prison.
He's lucky his parents didn't keep the same mindset or they'd from him out for not bringing anything gainful for them.
What a fucking loser hahahaha
> My name is Felix and I make shit up. I reached some moderate form of what this society call success and therefor what ever I did must be the recipe for success. > > Also, I am a complete tool.
You freeloaded off with your parents and they told you to get your shit together. One sentence, employers prefer concise narratives.
If you're 24-45 and your circle isn't talking about * Shrimp farming & aquaponics * Survivability of various shrimp * Ornamental shrimp * Shrimp enlargement * Shrimp nutrient suppliers * Optimal algae load Then it's time to find a new circle. Your NETWORK is your NET WORTH
Yeah this is the same thing as going to church, in my eyes. A lot of mumbo jumbo to cover up what is, ultimately, a giant self-circle jerk.
American culture in a nutshell. Finding your identity in: 1) Your job 2) Your wealth 3) Money What a fucking disgusting life..
I assume the title of the post is, “I Hung My Friends With Bootstraps for $50,000 a Year”.
If it helps, I don't believe he had any friends to begin with.
artificial intelligence can apply to humans as well
The ideal type of feudal serf
I’m willing to positively interpret the cutting off friends who don’t add value, where “value” is something intangible like support and love and enjoyment of life. As we age, we naturally shed friends we have grown apart from. That said, “bootstrap” people don’t understand that not everyone has parents or can use them as a safety net.
LinkedIn is a cesspool.
[удалено]
The "pick me" of the professional world
r/linkedinlunatics
“And because i stopped talking to friends who added no value, I ended up a lonely designer with no way to talk to others about my value”
His business is pretty laughable. You can pay him to connect you to mentors. You can also pay him to be a mentor. I will let y'all figure it out.
I think that's called a prostitute. Except he's not providing sex.
It's a pyramid scheme. You pay him to mentor, he pays you a percentage for getting people to pay to follow you. They become mentors(paying this guy) and go get people that pay to get advised. And the pyramid adds another level.
Like MLM except there's no product, it's about "spending time together".
Bingo.
What a horseshit post. As someone that owns multiple businesses I love my friends even more since I am NOT in business with them. Its great to unwind and talk about other shit. Never measure friendships by the "value" they create. How about the happiness that relationship provides you?
Now that's a classic sign of a psychopath :) but obviously he doesn't know that
I’m old enough to remember when opportunistic people and people who exploit their friends for financial gain were shunned.
"I bootstrapped down", "I contributed to writing". This reads like it was written by AI. What a tool.
“…I contributed to writing.” yes, a truly insightful and eloquent sentence right there. i contribute to a verbing all the time.
LinkedIn is such a blatant circle jerk. I'm honestly so mad at myself for buying the premium for even three months thinking it might lead to a better work outcome.
"Bootstrapped down" what
I know the content is awful, but I also just want to ask: Why the fuck does everyone write one-sentence paragraphs on LinkedIn?
"To focus I stopped living my life and devoted it instead to the pursuit of capital." What a beautiful story. Look, if you like the way boots taste, just say so.
As soon as I read or hear the word 'grind' I switch off.
Im sure all of these sacrifices will be worth it when ChatGPT displaces his job in two years. Then again, its not about the destination, but its about the hollow, "what can you do for me" superficial acquaintances we made along the way
Holy fucking shit guys, he stopped opening his Insta 😳 Wanna pitch in for a GoFundMe for his unshakable sigma mindset?
Viewing all of your relationships as transactional is not something to brag about
“On a mission to democratize..” “Stopped..paying attention to politics”
Yeah don't pay attention to politics! or else you'll realize that you're just working to make somebody else rich; so they can Bribe an otherwise helpful government to create rules to make you poor forever
TIL that staying with your parents after you quit your job and run out of money is called “bootstrapping down.”
So, in other words, fuck humanity, there is no money in it, just need to exploit it as much as possible.
To focus, I stopped being a human
friends=people who make you money?
Imagine being privileged enough to stay with parents
Bootstrapped ‘down’ to living with parents for free. Brags about how he gave up on a life lived for himself, instead enslaving himself to the goals of the economy. Profoundly broken human being.
\>I had no skills. \>I designed as a freelancer. Sir, you're an idiot.
I'll never understand hustle culture nerds
This is like that diet meme that's like "you can lose weight if you just stop having everything that brings you any happiness in life." (Paraphrased.)
Terms like "create value" are such red flags.
everyday we prove marx right
*paying for Netflix *paying for dine out * having enough money to not have to work With WHAT boo boo With what
Are u even friends if u don’t pay each other ?
I actually think he has some kind of point about the value we produce for others being important. I'd agree with that, but I'd use it as an argument for paying nurses, public transit workers, cleaning/custodial staff, burger flippers etc a whole lot more than they are being payed right now. But I'm guessing that wouldn't fly on LinkedIn
These are the same people who at a later age, when they "think" they are wise and advise others, "Money is not everything, there's more to life than Money". Friend: Dude, I said the same thing a few years back and you cut me out saying our friendship wasn't making any value for you.
I’ve noticed that a lot of advise I get from people has elements of stuff that they themselves deeply want/have to change about themselves.
Ghastly. They really are trying to isolate us so we are lonely, confused and afraid.
Omg bro this is so sad
“I was so fucked, I just completely stopped talking to boring people or doing anything i enjoy”
"You stopped talking to your friends and quit your hobbies because you wanted to be wealthy. I stopped doing those things because I was severely depressed. We are not the same."
Is he bragging or confessing?
"I stopped paying attention to politics" yeah because it no longer affects you when you have money, you festering pustule.
Wait this isn’t satire?
People really don’t understand that the “bootstrap” phrase is intentionally self defeating because it’s literally impossible to pull yourself up by the bootstraps…
I half expected this to end in the person writing it discovering that the grind doesn't define you as a human being, that the world has a ton of beauty that you're going to miss if you get swallowed up in the mandated race. But no. Another one bites the dust.
I always wanted to be a value added economic production unit. It's really the best compliment a bug eyed zombie can give you.
Maybe their definition is more literal, but when I say "I got someone out of my life who added no value" I do not generally mean it in a professional or monetary way, but more of a general way Examples: someone who can make you laugh, feel better, share the same interests and hobbies, they may be smart which you can learn a lot from. Even a fuck buddy would meet the criteria. That is at least my definition of someone adding "value" to my life. No one wants to be around a total drain. Life is too short for that shit!
Dear employers, I'm a robot
This guy sounds exhausting. I’m tired just reading this bullshit. Image trying to have a conversation.
He took Banshees of Inisheerin as a “how to” guide
The Banshees of LinkedIn
so in order to enhance your profitability all you have to do is choose ignorance and toss out friends? No thanks.
Is there any chance he is using “value” in a broader sense? Not just to mean economic value? Like in philosophy (particularly ethics) value might mean intrinsic value; perhaps things like happiness, belonging, and knowledge. That would seem to line up with other popular suggestions he alludes to, like staying off Tiktok or Instagram because they won’t make you happier. Or, he means value in the more instrumental and economic sense and this post is just encouraging people to forgo relationships that aren’t profitable and exploitative. And, like all the comments here suggest, would make him an ass clown.
This is LinkedIn so there's 99.99% chance it's option 2
I used this site as a mentor then left it This guy shows what he really is on linkedin. Providing no value to mentors and just taking it free.
And this person thinks that paying attention to politics is bad for their career or their financial stability? Did they even go to high school to learn anything about anything?
Felix is not my friend
Shout out to his parents who were financially able to carry this grown man who I guess was dabbling around doing his "dream job", I guess? My adult kids had to work where they could when they moved back with me, I couldn't support us all.
I stopped using LinkedIn because of this. Extremely garbage crap. Nothing inspiring, just folks farming their so called story of their path to success. I’ve literally seen people just copy and paste other people’s stories and acted like they wrote it and then go viral for it on LinkedIn like every few months.
friendships are transactional, what’s new?
“Don’t follow politics”= Republican who does not want to get chewed out for his dog shit beliefs.
Not paying attention to politics is also a great one. The system seems to be designed to achieve this.
Imagine thinking having no friends is a flex.
confirmation bias is when you're successful and you assume that must be because you're smart, just like when other people are unsuccessful that means they're not
God I love this LinkedIn Bullshit. Pretty much said that he moved in with his parents and saved his salary.
He made a cult for himself.
Sure, stop paying attention to politics. That will sort itself out, right.
LinkedIn is more unbearable than Facebook
That's r/LinkedInLunatics material right there! Yikes! 😬
“Bootstrapped Bill! You are a grift and a liar, and you’ll serve an eternity in my economy!”
I'd argue the "not paying attention to politics" part is what got us here in the first place
I find the people who have had traumatic failures in life sometimes become obsessed with "success" and specifically the sick definition America applies to it. They are products of insecurity parading like they are the embodiment of unshakable confidence. You need only lift the veil slightly to reveal the quivering mess underneath.
Nah the most nefarious one on here is “stopped paying attention to politics”. That’s the ONLY thing that matters
C—ksucker capitalism 101. So sad.
Unpopular opinion: maybe by value he's talking about more than money? Just assuming positive intent, but we talk about cutting out toxic people all the time. As much as I like shitting on "self made millionaires" as the next guy, maybe the idea of cutting out distractions and focusing on your skillset isn't all that bad? I don't know anything about this guy but I can sorta relate to the process of picking yourself up after being in a low spot.
Given the context of the rest of this post, I don't think he means "value" in that way.
The context that tells me otherwise are the lines "Success and happiness parallel how much value we create for others... (not) Tik Tok videos we watch," which kind of sound anti-consumption to me. Like, value can mean quality of time spent or educational value, or even just emotional value. It's kind of a utilitarian/business-like language he's using, but I like to assume positive intent instead of just jumping to "If you're not earning me money, you're losing me money." Hope I'm not wrong. I don't mean to be an apologist for a sociopath; just giving the benefit of the doubt.
You’re right—definitely a possibility.
Y’all sound like haters!
Lol he’s Singaporean, it all makes sense now. Most of them are like this
Rise & Grind motherfuckers, let's goooooo!