This reads like she was living outside of her means and recently was forced to return to her financial reality, and is framing it as a choice she made lol
Mah, hailed by Forbes as a “wildly successful serial entrepreneur” who launched her first six-figure business in middle school, has built a business empire worth over $500 million. Despite these accomplishments, the 32-year-old describes herself as a “struggling entrepreneur.”
“Does my life sound like a fairy tale? When I hang out with aspiring entrepreneurs in college, they say they want my life. But my best friends who know me best almost always say they would HATE my life,” Mah wrote candidly in her post.
She revealed working a minimum of 60 hours a week and grappling with what she calls “accomplishment dysmorphia.” Mah also shared deeply personal struggles, including the pain of losing an ex-boyfriend to suicide and her ongoing battle with comparing herself to others.
gee I wonder if the boyfriend killed himself due to ending up with a relentless shark-eyed clout chaser with a soul so dark & empty a thousand universes in full bloom could never hope to fill it 🫢
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OH DEAR: https://archive.ph/263Z3
“Rich person that has everything the working class suffers to obtain, culturally appropriates the experiences of the working class to benefit themselves.”
Rich people will steal anything.
“entrepreneur playing the long game” ok fuck right off Jessica, in my country we say “stories made up in the beer garden”
Nice. I’ve been planning for an extended period of being homeless, starving, and working on my interpersonal skills by relying on strangers for basic needs.
Oh, wait, not planning, I meant bracing. Silly me.
So brave 🥹
Not a joke tho
No one should have this privilege to begin with. Society should work to create a livable experience for everyone instead of constantly making comfort and stability an exclusive club.
For much of history, comfort and stability wasn’t available to anyone, at least a large portion of society today in developed counties could claim that (anything lower middle class and up).
Things could certainly be better, I’m just pointing out that things are a lot better than many doomers claim. This lady is certainly super entitled, but the fact that the average person can afford to fly across the world is pretty awesome.
The rich are constantly clawing more of that comfort away from the “more fortunate” middle class you speak of as well as the poor just to add to a score card. Every step of improvement is against their lust for all to be their slaves in one way or another. The more complacent and content people are with their gains, the more the powerful will take. The doomers as you call them understand that all gains are tenuous. The rich are parasites.
That doesn’t match the stats I see, which is a pretty constantly increasing standard of living for the average person. Real median household income in the US had been consistently rising (here’s a bit longer term data). If the rich really are taking from everyone, surely we’d see those numbers go down, no?
Yeah, it’s not great that some people are obscenely wealthy, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are getting poorer, we’re also getting richer, just more slowly than the very rich.
It takes a simple google search to show how bad those statistics are being collected today in the US. Both Trump administrations actively attacked funding and reporting of these statistics which hastened their existing decay. The powerful have a lot to gain from stats coming off sunnier than reality. Plus it doesn’t account for cost of living expenses or how income is distributed very well at all. It’s a blunt instrument that does little to show how the bottom half of American wage workers are actually struggling. I’m glad you seem to be doing well enough to defend this system, but most of the people I know are barely getting by and have nothing for retirement. If you look at generational wealth, the majority of younger Americans have far less wealth than our parents or grandparents did at our age. Fewer own houses or have the stability of a large savings account for emergencies. The costs of essentials like food, housing/rent, insurance (health/property,etc), and just about everything has gone up at a much higher clip than wages. The trends are going downward and it is a direct result of billionaires influence through “charitable foundation” spending and dark money. Read the book “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer and “The Network State” and other plans by the ultra rich to take more money and power from the majority and government assistance. Any gains regular people have made have come from collective action and technology inevitably creating some surplus, not trickle down from the rich. With climate change causing further disasters as insurance companies raise rates and deny coverage - it will only exasperate the issues. Not to mention the inevitable climate refugees that will be created. Trends may have improved at a macro level from industrialization over the last half a millennia, but the last 50 years have not been kind to poorer Americans.
how bad those statistics are being collected today in the US
Most of that data was collected outside of Trump’s terms, either under Biden or Obama, and the trend is consistent.
it doesn’t account for cost of living expenses
It uses “real” dollars, which accounts for inflation. So yes, it does.
Income distribution is irrelevant here, I’m looking at median incomes rising over time, relative to inflation. Musk or Bezos making billions doesn’t skew these numbers since they’re not mean numbers (average).
I could probably dig up some stats that break it down by income percentile, but I’m worried you’ll just reject it because it doesn’t fit your worldview. If you provide some evidence to back up your claims (not just income gap, that’s well known, but that people are becoming worse off), I’ll go dig through the data and see what I can find. But “things are actually getting better” don’t make headlines, so there’s a lot of rage bait to dig through.
most of the people I know are barely getting by and have nothing for retirement
Anecdotes aren’t statistics.
If you go back 50 years, people still didn’t save enough for retirement. Pensions largely filled in the gap there, but a lot of people still fell through the cracks. That’s largely not an income problem and more a priorities problem. Show me someone who doesn’t have enough for retirement and I can show you someone with a similar income who did. Even people with huge incomes often live paycheck to paycheck.
Obviously individual circumstances differ, but individual circumstances don’t define trends.
the majority of younger Americans have far less wealth than our parents or grandparents did at our age
Do you have sources to back any of this up?
Dark Money
That certainly happens, but stories like this are mostly rage bait.
Do you think companies suddenly got greedy recently? They’ve always been greedy, and have been screwing people over since time immemorial.
The reason things get more expensive isn’t because some capitalist decided to suddenly become more greedy, it’s because of supply and demand.
Things shot up in price during COVID for a number of reasons:
- less supply due to supply chain disruption
- more cash due to stimulus payments and less work expenses
- more time at home, so people invested more in things to do at home
Yet people blame “those greedy capitalists” when really it’s consumer behavior largely driving up prices.
When the cause of higher prices is resolved, prices tend to return to normal. For example:
- eggs were $5+/dozen at the start of the year and hard to find due to supply shortage from a bird flu epidemic, now they’re around $2.50 (both at my local Costco); that’s about where they were a year ago
- houses in my area are dropping in price and staying on the market longer since construction is catching up
- used cars were frequently more expensive than new back in 2022 or so, and now both new and used are largely in line with inflation adjusted 2019 figures (e.g. base model 2026 Prius is ~$30k, vs $25k MSRP for 2019, or ~$31k after inflation)
technology inevitably creating some surplus, not trickle down from the rich
I don’t know what you mean by “trickle down from the rich,” but things like technological change is funded by the rich. Reagan was certainly an idiot here, my point is merely that things get better partially because of investments by the rich. That generally doesn’t mean you make more money, but that you get more for your money (e.g. everyone seems to have smartphones now vs almost nobody 20 years ago).
climate change
This doesn’t seem related, not sure why you bring it up. If anything, it’ll create jobs since we’ll need people to build dikes, rebuild coastal homes, etc, at the cost of reduced GDP since it’s not actually productive work.
the last 50 years have not been kind to poorer Americans.
Afaik, no time is kind to poorer people. But I firmly believe poorer people are better off today than they were 50 years ago.
Wage stagnation is completely fucked, though, and housing and rent prices are shooting up at absurd rates all over the place. Every year comes a shitty raise that can’t keep up and companies pat themselves on the back for being so generous while their employees are effectively poorer than they were the year previous.
None of that talks about the fact that we can take care of everyone but the rich are hell-bent on taking as much as they can regardless of what it does to others. The true reason the US is the worst country on earth, in my opinion, is because there’s no reason why they need to be such a flaming dumpster fire full of dogshit but they are anyway just so a handful of the worst people in history can make little bit more money.
housing and rent prices are shooting up at absurd rates
They’re actually stabilizing and coming down a little in some areas, so I think we’re likely to see a bit of a correction now that construction seems to be catching up with demand.
But housing is also a major factor in inflation, which is why I linked inflation-adjusted figures. That data shows that wages are rising slowly relative to the prices of things. Some things will increase in price faster than others, so housing has been outpacing other things people spend money on. All that comes out in the wash in the averages.
we can take care of everyone
Right, and I agree with you.
My point is that despite all that, the average person is better off each year than they were the previous. There are obviously ups and downs, and each person is affected differently, but the median person generally does better each year. It’s easy to lose sight of that when we see prices going up w/ inflation, but it tends to work out.
It’s also easy to become complacent looking at small increments of gain while the wealthy consolidate power over international governments. The Trump administrations alone is a drastic ramping up of corruption and infliction of pain for regular people. The “big beautiful bill” is going to hurt a lot of people in a lot of ways. Many western nations like the UK and Australia are following suit on some levels. The rich have gained astronomically more wealth and power than the majority at levels higher than the gilded age. With AI and robots making such advances and that technology being firmly in their control, it’s more important than ever for people to stand in solidarity and push harder for a more equitable society. There’s a reason social media has been so weaponized with propaganda to divide us. Things are at a huge inflection point in history. The next couple decades are going to be very challenging for the majority of people.
The Trump administrations alone is a drastic ramping up of corruption
Agreed, and if opinion polls are to be believed, people are noticing.
The “big beautiful bill” is going to hurt a lot of people in a lot of ways.
I obviously haven’t read through the whole thing, but it’s honestly a lot more tame than I expected. It’s still horrible, but I’m much more worried about what Trump is doing outside of legislation, like messing with tariffs and deporting people.
With AI and robots making such advances and that technology being firmly in their control, it’s more important than ever for people to stand in solidarity and push harder for a more equitable society.
I don’t see what AI and robots have to with anything. Are you worried they’re going to take everyone’s jobs?
This sounds like the same FUD every time there’s a big tech change. People were worried the cotton gin would, automobile, and computers would kill jobs, yet here we are with relatively stable employment figures. Yes, it’ll cause change, but at the end of the day, businesses need consumers, so it’s in their interest to keep money circulating.
I agree we need to make changes, but that’s completely separate from recent innovations. I think we need something like UBI (my preference is to replace Social Security with a negative income tax), not because I’m worried about mass unemployment, but so we can increase innovation. Many people don’t pursue their ideas because they’re worried about putting food on the table.
Things are always at an inflection point. I’m more worried about the protectionist BS countries are doing today than anything involving AI.
How to turn your financial rough spot into pretentious self-marketing 101
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft brown eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that LinkedIn clout chasers were no longer even remotely human.
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“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!”
sometimes i like to strap 4 prosthetic legs to my hips and carry around pine needles in a pair of tweezers, after which i pour molten aluminum into an ant nest
BURN CORPO SHIT
Crazy, when I want to be grounded I just connect myself to the ground pin on my socket.
No… I am not joking sadly https://groundingofficial.com/
i’m in a community for minimalist shoes/barefooting and this shit is the bane of our existence, every now and then someone joins and starts talking about grounding and it’s miserable how few people are willing to firmly call it out as batshit nonsense
people seemingly can’t do something unusual without a magical justification, “it feels nice” or “it’s what we’re evolved for” isn’t enough, it’s gotta be all spiritual and pseudoscientific apparently.
I especially like that they claim electronics burst into flames if they’re not grounded, because the electrons have nowhere to go.
Which, let’s ignore the complete misunderstanding of how electricity works for a moment, but if they truly believe the ground pin does something functionally, how do they ignore all the shit that only has a two prong plug?
If grounding doesn’t satisfy you, you may wanna try sounding.
Why not both? Take a long double sided pin, one end goes in the ground socket, the other…
LMAO WTF is this?? xD. This website screams “healthcare scam”, the spin to win wheel pop-up is the cherry on top.
I hope no one actually falls for this (please let me have this fantasy thx)
I have friends who sleep on a pile of wires…
“It’s no wonder [bad things] rates are on the rise! It must be because of not being barefoot on the grass!”
Yea, not uhhhh all this fucking horseshit.
That’s hilarious. If you actually bought into this BS, you could just walk outside barefoot, it’s free and literally everyone has access.
best part? that has actual physical benefits and (after getting used to it obviously) it feels fucking lovely to walk through nature.
nothing beats soft moss or a lush lawn, my god
This is in addition. Like if you are at home or a hotel and want to be “grounded”
Also, they have grounding shoes! Which are shows with a few small metal rods going through the bottom, so that when you wear them you are still electrically connected to the ground (which means they assume you don’t wear socks???)
LMAO WTF is this?? xD. This website screams “healthcare scam”, the spin to win wheel pop-up is the cherry on top.
I hope no one actually falls for this (please let me have this fantasy thx)
“I want to live like common people. I want to do whatever common people do.”
“Garcon? I’d like one of your… Big Mac burger meals, medium rare please. If you have truffles, please include them on the side. Also my chosen table by the window seems to be occupied. Please chase them away. Thank you.”
What the fuck is a Gar-con
Garçon, si t’enlève la cédille ça fait garcon, et gare au con ma fille, gare au con!
Yall too fancy. Where I’m from we sit on old wire spools and drink out of rinsed out bleach bottles.
@weariedfae @The_Picard_Maneuver
And in an instance, my brain was turned in to Pulp
“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
a lunatic? completely. but this is almost a valuable message to break through to that echo chamber.
Flying economy just for fun?
It is just her humble bragging about being rich by cosplaying as a regular person.
yeah, it’s ridiculous - but the core messaging is “money insulates you from reality” and that’s something these people need to hear.
She “launched her first six-figure business in middle school” aka. has rich parents and never knew anything she is talking about here
Every “independently” wealthy person under 35 on the Internet.
Step 1, have lavishly rich parents
Step 2, use parents money and business networks to make money
Step 3, brag about being humble while also flaunting your wealth.
I don’t think it’s restricted to under 35 and on the internet. I know a 40 something year old that says shit like “my wife and I are so independent and good with our money, we don’t get any handouts. The only gift we get is that her parents pay off our credit cards every Christmas” unironically.
Rich people are so fucking out of touch.
Lol, fair enough. It’s basically impossible nowadays to be comfortable without a little help, even if it’s just systemic in nature.
I’m in my mid-late 30s and doing really well compared to most of the people in my age bracket mostly out of dumb luck and because my dad was in the military.
During the last housing market scare I was able to buy a run down abandoned house for 35k after qualifying for a loan through USAA that I really shouldn’t have ever been approved for. Just stupid little things like that can really make a huge difference in the long run.
“I made this all myself. If I can do it, anybody could do it”
If I wanted to see someone bragging about their accomplishments, I’d just look at this:
I’d even posit that this otter has contributed more to society than anybody on Linkedin.
the otter pup has contributed more to the universe by simply existing
No they need to feel it by taking away their wealth
How are you going to do that? Ask politely?
i will be asking politely, however i cannot speak for what my friends with clubs might or might not do.
Luigi style 👍
I hear whispers of cannibalism from these types occasionally.
I know a good pork bolognaise recipe that feeds like 50.
By preference using state mechanisms or idk some kind of people’s tribunal. Future bleak as fuck so at a certain point enough people will be okay with either
There is a high enough quantity of millionaire/billionaire simps who can prevent this from proceeding by protecting those pieces of trash that this will likely never happen in your lifetime.
Ok well lets just drown in shit then, never mind any historical precedences at all (even only a few years back up until today).
You are pretty much one of those simps right now, you are defending the statues quo.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking. Wish we poor plebs could vosplay as rich without maxing out ourncredit cards for life.
You’ll never live like Common People
It is just her humble bragging about being rich by cosplaying as a regular person.
Pretending to be rich yet grounded while actually being neither.
It’s her justifying to herself that whatever success she previously had and just lost was a choice, not a failure on her part. Clearly her business took a turn for the worse.
100%
No leg room and screaming children just for giggles 🤭 hehehe
Not really. It’s more an attempt to prove that rich people and poor people are vibing together so the poors don’t revolt.
If only she would ground herself in reality starting from the top floor of her skyscraper
