MostlyHarmlessJan 12, 2023
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer
Show threadMax Leibman has moved!Jan 12, 2023

@MostlyHarmless No. 7 is increasingly driving me crazy.

“This founder gets up at 4:00 AM every day to tackle his most important tasks!” Yeah, so do working parents who scrub toilets for a living.

“You won’t believe how frugal this billionaire is!” Ok. I bet he is. But his wife clipping coupons has nothing to do with him making A BILLION DOLLARS.

Show threadpublic universal fox
@maxleibman @MostlyHarmless if the man isn't clipping his own damn coupons, then he doesn't get to call himself frugal 🤣
Jan 12, 2023 at 6:58pmWeb
Show threadMax Leibman has moved!Jan 12, 2023
@agenderfox @MostlyHarmless Totally agree! I was thinking about a particular story I once heard about Warren Buffet when I wrote that example.
Show threadMorganJan 12, 2023
@agenderfox @maxleibman @MostlyHarmless I'm remembering someone did an interview with Grimes about how Elon Musk lives as though he's poor, and one of the examples was that there was a hole in her side of the mattress and he refused to get a new mattress... like, the more money someone has, the more that just makes him a huge asshole lol
Show threadpublic universal foxJan 12, 2023
@raphaelmorgan @maxleibman @MostlyHarmless I REMEMBER THAT!!! 🤬🤬🤬 that's not "being frugal", it's "not caring about your partner's comfort/safety"
Show threadMorganJan 12, 2023
@agenderfox @maxleibman @MostlyHarmless if his solution was to flip it so the hole was on his side, then I'd be like "sure okay"
but I guarantee the only reason he didn't replace it was that it wasn't affecting him personally
Show threadpublic universal foxJan 13, 2023
@raphaelmorgan @maxleibman @MostlyHarmless THIS