“I like pretending to be poor just like the little people I step on to attain my wealth. It’s a great change of pace!”
“whisper networks of power players” doesn’t set any alarm bells off for you? When you see something like that happening, you don’t think, even for one second, “everyone in this room should become a fine pink mist very quickly.” You don’t think that?? You just go along with it and try to get some power for yourself?
PATHETIC
“Everybody hates a tourist”
What I rally appreciate is her humility.
“I want to live like common people. I want to do whatever common people do.”
Who the fuck flies economy for fun
The majority of air travellers I suppose.
I’m just pretending to be poor and didn’t lose it all on Tesla futures.
Damn imagine flying economy. With the peasants /s
Probably flew premium economy. Or at the very least, still got priority boarding with mileage status.
Nhaa, I’m betting she lost all her money on stupid decisions, and need an excuse if anyone were to see her in some place for poor people.
It’s nice to take a break from the whisper networks of power players
Entrepreneur, your parents are rich, got it. Linkedin influencers, is there a more useless idiot?
Economy for fun. Mmmm, kinky. Make sure you have a safe word.
I just checked LinkedIn. She’s a real person and this is a real post and there are 83 other real comments from her contacts agreeing with her and praising her. WTF.
Linkedin is the absolutely worst shithole socialmedia that has ever been created. 4chan is more down to earth. The idea in the beginning was great. Make it easier for people to create a network in order to get hired. Unfortunately that just leads to the nastiest of asskissing of capitalism in order to get seen.
It’s so confused. “Subway instead of drive” sure, because it’s faster and easier. “Flying like a sardine instead of a human” what are you trying to prove?
Well, she seems to want to understand regular people, which is good. But there can’t be a worse display of that then thinking flying economy is fun, goddamn.
I’m a 1,90m dude, not particularly slender, bigger than 95% of humans out there. I fly economy most of the time (every time I have to pay for it myself). Sure you don’t get a suite, but what sardines are you talking about? It’s really not that bad. Get some videos on your phone, noise canceling headphones, and it’s just fine. It’s really not worse than my own car, space wise.
Sure you don’t get a suite, but what sardines are you talking about? It’s really not that bad.
Get on board a train. Ride that to the airport. Exit the train and board a plane. Tell me you haven’t noticed a difference.
It’s downright claustrophobic on modern airlines
Flying at peak time with airport security sucks already. Then the small seat just makes it worse. Admittedly, it does suck a little less now that seats have screens.
Same energy:
What really matters is actually feeling that superiority when you get on a subway with the peasants.
This post was a bit of a roller coaster, and I’m still trying to decide what I think about the full linkedin text.
what really matters
If they really matter, why don’t you make decisions that prioritize that stuff over your career and hollow social status?
Words vs actions. Tale as old as time.
But then for some reason I clicked on the LinkedIn link others shared. Most of the way down the post I saw these paragraphs that make me think there may be hope for her yet:
I’ve sold off so many things I didn’t need—including a sports car that, truthfully, just made it harder for people to connect with me. And harder for me to connect with myself.
I made a conscious decision: I want to live a life centered around the fundamentals. Real relationships. Honest work. Good food. Movement. Curiosity. Quiet. Integrity.
It’s a journey I’m still on, and I’m far from perfect. But I can feel the shift. And I think others can too.
I am way down this road myself. But I haven’t sold off any sports cars. In fact, I think I might acquire one. For good reasons of course, including connecting better with myself any my family. I like driving and my son likes windows-down joyrides. Might have to replace the Mazda3 with an MX-5!
Oh really? If you’re really so down to earth, eat this hot pocket.
They got rid of the motherfucking crisping sleeves! I’m pissed.
This would be a lot more meaningful if she did that old trope and straight-up switched places with someone for the day. Eat what they would’ve eaten, travel how and where they would have traveled, stay where they would have stayed, and have the same amount of daily spending money they would normally have had (and if that number’s zero, welp, guess it’s good she’s such a hard worker. I’m sure she she’ll be fine.)
Dear Ms. Mah,
It’s nice to want to understand what it’s like to be a poor person, but you know what would actually help poor people? Sharing a bit of that excess you clearly enjoy. Come back and brag after you do a bit of that, then maybe we could talk.Sincerely,
Economy-flying, home-cooking, subway riders.
