This kind of satire is a new way to farm engagement on LinkedIn, it’s not even remotely funny after the 100th post like this, but LinkedIn is the worst of all social media so it’s kinda on brand.
Well. Maybe. Too a degree for sure. The conviction need to exists. But this is also a tribal "they vs us" where its not important what they acctualy are. Even if they exists, this misrepresents them and the scale thr issue.
How often did you insult the "just buy a home" girl and wonder how she could be so dumb and out of thougch? Well she wasnt. She don't exists. Even if nepo babies do.
I hope this post is. My cousin made a similar post on social media about owning a house. He was ranting that the current generation was lazy and didn't know how to budget. Everyone should easily be able to buy a house. The house he owned was bought with the money he made by selling his first house which was inherited. Some people are really just that dumb.
I did some maths yesterday, after hearing said that wages have gone down by a third every decade since 1970... meaning (if I did the maths correctly) in this coming decade wages are less than a tenth what they were in the 1970s.
A quick search just now suggests house prices are about 4 times more expensive in real terms over the same period.
So that's fine. We just have to pull on our bootstraps over 40 times harder for better budgeting enough to buy a house.
While this is most likely rage bait this isn't far from human self perception.
There were multiple studies on this with similar setups. Eg they'd have students play monopoly and give one of them significantly more cash to start with. Not secretly either. One would think this student would understand that this is an insane advantage but the study found that most of the participants believed that they won by playing well.
So even with the most obvious advantage humans will think that it was their own merit that lead to their success.
Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I'd also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I'd like them to be in a good position too.
But what really fucks me off is when these people who've benefitted from that then go on to act like they're self-made and didn't get the help.
Just own it. Say "yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I'm in this good position. I'm really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I've been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me."
I'd respect the hell out of that, even though there's still the degree of nepotism there.
The reason they don't admit that they got a head start is that they actually don't believe it.
The daughter of a family friend of mine grew up middle class. Her mom was a social worker, her did had an office job. She managed to marry a man who's the son that's inheriting his dad's oil business, worth tens of millions. She is now a housewife / stay at home mom. She now has a city home, a cottage (which is fully a house, just in a more rural location) and a summer home. One of her daughters competes in sailing races (and anybody who knows sailing knows just how expensive that hobby can be), the other is into horse riding.
I've asked her what it's like for her kids to grow up rich, and she doesn't get it. She doesn't think she's rich. She says that there are houses around where she lives that are even bigger than hers, and that her husband works hard. I'm sure that's true, but she's still in the top 0.1%. And this is someone who grew up middle class, and should remember what it was like.
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it's like not to be rich. As a result, they don't ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad's lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn't yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents' spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
I feel i came from a middle class but relatively well do family, dad had enough so we never had to skip meals or skip new clothes every year.
But I also got luckyt young in my age (from age 12 to 17). I regularly interacted with people who were poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated.
I saw parents giving their 1 year old some hash just to stop them from crying, I mean what chance that kid has to ever be sober.
I saw a grown man who aas extremely happy when I gave away my 3 year old t shirt that i thought i got so bored with.
I saw daily labour markets where I've seen grown man cry because they didn't get picked for that day and he doesn't know how he is going to be feeding his family tonight.
I saw how being poor was a trap, I remember I saw this day laborer buy 10ml of oil, 200g of rice, 100g of beans at exorbitant markups (50-70% compared to if he bought standard 1kg packs) . And I was like this man is stupid for not buying bulk and my dad explained, he has to go hungry for a week before he can save up enough to buy bulk and he'd much rather not go hungry.
Anyway my point being, I am always aware lucky and privileged I am. all parents should make good faith effort to show their kids how people below them in wheel of luck live, and not as a cautionary tale like an exhibit. But put them in situations where they can see the actual good people behind the poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated label. Otherwise kids only know their lifestyle and think that's normal.
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it’s like not to be rich. As a result, they don’t ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad’s lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn’t yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents’ spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
My British autism and too long time spent online among non-Brits causing me to consider it could have been meant non-sarcastically. Those people are out there.
It's satire. It's a bunch of typical LinkedIn nonsense (run every morning, read, do yoga, etc) then the bait and switch at the end is that their dad just gave them a multi-six-figure position at an investment firm he runs.
Not sure why they blacked out so much of the post, the original is funny enough.
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?
It wasn’t hustle culture. No 5:30am wakeups, cold showers, or productivity hacks.
What got me there was a relentless focus on impact. Every project I touched, every deck I built, every presentation I gave MOVED THE NEEDLE.
Always, I asked myself: what is the single most valuable contribution I can make to the company right now? And I did that. If people disagreed, I convinced them otherwise.
I kept this up for three years before the CEO (my dad) finally recognized my results and promoted me to SVP.
yes. Every now and then a boss o' mine will make me post to LinkedIn about the company I'm currently working for - so I will write a David Foster Wallace style essay (previous ones include comparing business process automation platforms to different fictional orcs, or what my old mad Scottish housemate making pasta taught me about b2b sales...) until they stop asking.
72 Comments
ideonek@piefed.social · 201 pts · 222d
It must be a satire or rage bait at the very least.
db2@lemmy.world · 190 pts · 222d
No, most nepo babies are really that out of touch with reality. Remember "if you're homeless just buy a house".
Peehole@piefed.social · 69 pts · 222d
This kind of satire is a new way to farm engagement on LinkedIn, it’s not even remotely funny after the 100th post like this, but LinkedIn is the worst of all social media so it’s kinda on brand.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 222d
Satire just doesn't exist on Lemmy, does it?
Even when it's pointed out to you, you still argue.
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 222d
Poe's law means that it's impossible to know for sure.
There's a lot of loonies on linkedin.
ideonek@piefed.social · 16 pts · 222d
Which also was a satire.
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 222d
Yeah, and? In order to satire a thing there must be the thing or it makes no sense, right?
ideonek@piefed.social · 8 pts · 222d
Well. Maybe. Too a degree for sure. The conviction need to exists. But this is also a tribal "they vs us" where its not important what they acctualy are. Even if they exists, this misrepresents them and the scale thr issue.
How often did you insult the "just buy a home" girl and wonder how she could be so dumb and out of thougch? Well she wasnt. She don't exists. Even if nepo babies do.
Also:
Slovene@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 222d
If the sea level is rising just sell your beach house.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 222d
Nonsense, just waterproof it and make it a reverse aquarium!
athatet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 222d
“To who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!”
Slovene@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 221d
Yass! That's the reply I was fishing for. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_yz42kfIMM
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 222d
"What!‽ You can't afford a holiday skiing in the Alps!! Why don't you just ask daddy for a bigger allowance?'
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 56 pts · 222d
I hope this post is. My cousin made a similar post on social media about owning a house. He was ranting that the current generation was lazy and didn't know how to budget. Everyone should easily be able to buy a house. The house he owned was bought with the money he made by selling his first house which was inherited. Some people are really just that dumb.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 222d
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 221d
I did some maths yesterday, after hearing said that wages have gone down by a third every decade since 1970... meaning (if I did the maths correctly) in this coming decade wages are less than a tenth what they were in the 1970s.
A quick search just now suggests house prices are about 4 times more expensive in real terms over the same period.
So that's fine. We just have to pull on our bootstraps over 40 times harder for better budgeting enough to buy a house.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 222d
While this is most likely rage bait this isn't far from human self perception.
There were multiple studies on this with similar setups. Eg they'd have students play monopoly and give one of them significantly more cash to start with. Not secretly either. One would think this student would understand that this is an insane advantage but the study found that most of the participants believed that they won by playing well.
So even with the most obvious advantage humans will think that it was their own merit that lead to their success.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 222d
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 222d
Well it turns out thinking isn't necessary, you can just say whatever is the first thing that seems right and move on. 'Merica.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 222d
I never thonkd
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 221d
Do not underestimate the idiocracy.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 221d
ideonek@piefed.social · 5 pts · 222d
I love this study. I quote it a lot. Do you want to be friends?
But "(my dad)" is a dead giveaway.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 222d
I remember seeing this post somewhere else and somebody there had said it was satire.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 222d
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 222d
ideonek@piefed.social · 3 pts · 222d
Fair.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 172 pts · 222d
Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I'd also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I'd like them to be in a good position too.
But what really fucks me off is when these people who've benefitted from that then go on to act like they're self-made and didn't get the help.
Just own it. Say "yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I'm in this good position. I'm really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I've been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me."
I'd respect the hell out of that, even though there's still the degree of nepotism there.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 221d
The reason they don't admit that they got a head start is that they actually don't believe it.
The daughter of a family friend of mine grew up middle class. Her mom was a social worker, her did had an office job. She managed to marry a man who's the son that's inheriting his dad's oil business, worth tens of millions. She is now a housewife / stay at home mom. She now has a city home, a cottage (which is fully a house, just in a more rural location) and a summer home. One of her daughters competes in sailing races (and anybody who knows sailing knows just how expensive that hobby can be), the other is into horse riding.
I've asked her what it's like for her kids to grow up rich, and she doesn't get it. She doesn't think she's rich. She says that there are houses around where she lives that are even bigger than hers, and that her husband works hard. I'm sure that's true, but she's still in the top 0.1%. And this is someone who grew up middle class, and should remember what it was like.
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it's like not to be rich. As a result, they don't ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad's lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn't yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents' spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 19 pts · 221d
I feel i came from a middle class but relatively well do family, dad had enough so we never had to skip meals or skip new clothes every year.
But I also got luckyt young in my age (from age 12 to 17). I regularly interacted with people who were poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated.
I saw parents giving their 1 year old some hash just to stop them from crying, I mean what chance that kid has to ever be sober.
I saw a grown man who aas extremely happy when I gave away my 3 year old t shirt that i thought i got so bored with.
I saw daily labour markets where I've seen grown man cry because they didn't get picked for that day and he doesn't know how he is going to be feeding his family tonight.
I saw how being poor was a trap, I remember I saw this day laborer buy 10ml of oil, 200g of rice, 100g of beans at exorbitant markups (50-70% compared to if he bought standard 1kg packs) . And I was like this man is stupid for not buying bulk and my dad explained, he has to go hungry for a week before he can save up enough to buy bulk and he'd much rather not go hungry.
Anyway my point being, I am always aware lucky and privileged I am. all parents should make good faith effort to show their kids how people below them in wheel of luck live, and not as a cautionary tale like an exhibit. But put them in situations where they can see the actual good people behind the poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated label. Otherwise kids only know their lifestyle and think that's normal.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 30 pts · 222d
My family ran a business...into the ground, because my father could not sit still, and went off to do whatever work.
Claims he is perfectly healthy, is outraged when I mention ADHD.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 221d
ADHD can be perfectly healthy.
It just takes some skill to ride that wild bull.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 221d
Honestly you don’t need your family to be rich. A family well-off enough to give you:
Makes a HUGE difference.
Surp@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 221d
I'm sorry but that is called rich these days.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 221d
Yep. Like merc@sh.itjust.works said at the end of their reply:
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 220d
That's...
That's literally middle class...
Surp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 220d
What middle class
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 219d
Okay, fair.
postnataldrip@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 222d
Inspirational
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 63 pts · 222d
Never underestimate how tough it is to have such pressure to be the child of a multi-millionaire and their limited life options.
halvar@lemy.lol · 27 pts · 222d
Marlene Engelhorn was one of the brave ones who could say no to the pressure and broke the abusive generational cycle of being rich.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 221d
Poe's Law prevents me fathoming if that's said in earnest.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 221d
Ah, it's my British sarcasm mocking the post
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 221d
👍
My British autism and too long time spent online among non-Brits causing me to consider it could have been meant non-sarcastically. Those people are out there.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 40 pts · 221d
Yeah because they spawns 1m from the finish line.
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 38 pts · 222d
What I would never understand is how these nepotism babies thinking they achieved something by themselves.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 222d
This is their main tactic.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 221d
breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 220d
edgarde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 220d
https://media1.tenor.com/m/IgKH0db99HAAAAAC/amy-poehler-leslie-knope.gif This wasn't really worth decoding.
breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 210d
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 35 pts · 222d
What's the un-edited version? I want to see how they try to describe how '"hard they worked"
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 222d
It's satire. It's a bunch of typical LinkedIn nonsense (run every morning, read, do yoga, etc) then the bait and switch at the end is that their dad just gave them a multi-six-figure position at an investment firm he runs.
Not sure why they blacked out so much of the post, the original is funny enough.
Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 222d
It has been posted elsewhere recently unredacted and 90% of the comments could not understand that it was satire.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 7 pts · 221d
Here's the original
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 221d
Because being wrong didn't matter. Daddy had their back.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 221d
Jesus. It's almost exactly as I imagined it.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 222d
Ahh, nepotism
lostoncalantha@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 222d
Hey there are no shortcuts buddy.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 222d
Spoken like a true nepo
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
I was the fastest sperm and came from the best testicle, I should be rewarded accordingly.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 221d
Oh, you too?
We should create a group for our special class.
gegil@sopuli.xyz · 31 pts · 222d
Is linkedin a shitposting site for people in it?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 222d
yes. Every now and then a boss o' mine will make me post to LinkedIn about the company I'm currently working for - so I will write a David Foster Wallace style essay (previous ones include comparing business process automation platforms to different fictional orcs, or what my old mad Scottish housemate making pasta taught me about b2b sales...) until they stop asking.
ecvanalog@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 222d
You should collect them all and get an illustrator. Make a little 50 page ebook. I’d buy it.
polariscap@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 221d
I would too 😆
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 222d
Stupid. Just have rich parents.
Johanno@feddit.org · 12 pts · 222d
A few steps to success.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 222d
I'm pretty sure everyone who actually posts to linkedin is a cronyboy or nepobaby
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 22 pts · 221d
Gotta admire the cojones of those bootstraps.
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 222d
Feckin genius over here
twinnie@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 222d
It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 222d
Yeah this reads like a joke post to me, mostly because of the "(my dad)" bit where he'd be hiding that fact if he was being serious.
radio@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 222d
Nepo babies when they take the bus: THERE IS NO BUS.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 222d
Nepo baby’s: There is no spoon
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 222d
Weird. How did you get that shortcut? Bizarre.
rockettaco37@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 222d
Fuckin' capitalism, eh?
treptilien@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
He's so inspiring (his dad)
scala@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 222d
Relevant https://youtu.be/-8yn89EDKm4