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• ideonek@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It have to be a satire or rage bait at the very least.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, most nepo babies are really that out of touch with reality. Remember “if you’re homeless just buy a house”.

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    • Peehole@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Satire just doesn’t exist on Lemmy, does it?

      Even when it’s pointed out to you, you still argue.

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    • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which also was a satire.

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    • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the sea level is rising just sell your beach house.

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    • D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      "What!‽ You can’t afford a holiday skiing in the Alps!! Why don’t you just ask daddy for a bigger allowance?’

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah come on, how dumb can a person be? Even if it was purely american and they picked the dumbest of the dumb, this’d be too dumb.

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    • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love this study. I quote it a lot. Do you want to be friends?

      But “(my dad)” is a dead giveaway.

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  • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember seeing this post somewhere else and somebody there had said it was satire.

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  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This happens all the time though.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • ideonek@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ADHD can be perfectly healthy.

      It just takes some skill to ride that wild bull.

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  • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly you don’t need your family to be rich. A family well-off enough to give you:

    • Good financial education
    • Doesn’t kick you out at 18 or require rent
    • Pays your tuition (maybe not in the US)
    • Supporting in your endeavors
    • Family loans (not having to pay interest is massive)

    Makes a HUGE difference.

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    • Surp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sorry but that is called rich these days.

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• postnataldrip@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Inspirational

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never underestimate how tough it is to have such pressure to be the child of a multi-millionaire and their limited life options.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Marlene Engelhorn was one of the brave ones who could say no to the pressure and broke the abusive generational cycle of being rich.

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  • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Poe’s Law prevents me fathoming if that’s said in earnest.

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    • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, it’s my British sarcasm mocking the post

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• raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  no shortcuts

  Yeah because they spawns 1m from the finish line.

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• BurnedDonutHole@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What I would never understand is how these nepotism babies thinking they achieved something by themselves.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is their main tactic.

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cannot be found

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    • breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that link don’t work

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• NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the un-edited version? I want to see how they try to describe how ‘"hard they worked”

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  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s satire. It’s a bunch of typical LinkedIn nonsense 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.

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    • Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It has been posted elsewhere recently unredacted and 90% of the comments could not understand that it was satire.

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  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here's the original

    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.

    There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If people disagreed, I convinced them otherwise.

      Because being wrong didn’t matter. Daddy had their back.

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    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jesus. It’s almost exactly as I imagined it.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ahh, nepotism 

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  • lostoncalantha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey there are no shortcuts buddy.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Spoken like a true nepo

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is linkedin a shitposting site for people in it?

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ecvanalog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should collect them all and get an illustrator. Make a little 50 page ebook. I’d buy it.

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stupid. Just have rich parents.

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  • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A few steps to success.

    • work hard every day
    • skip the avocado toast
    • take a small loan of 3 million dollars from your parents
    • sell your company before it is nothing worth anymore if you fucked up.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure everyone who actually posts to linkedin is a cronyboy or nepobaby

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gotta admire the cojones of those bootstraps.

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Feckin genius over here

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• radio@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nepo babies when they take the bus: THERE IS NO BUS.

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  • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nepo baby’s: There is no spoon

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• rockettaco37@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuckin’ capitalism, eh?

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Weird. How did you get that shortcut? Bizarre.

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• treptilien@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He’s so inspiring (his dad)

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• scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relevant youtu.be/-8yn89EDKm4

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