So grounded. So humble. : linkedinlunatics

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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.

https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-meet-woman-who-flies-jet-drives-exotic-cars-claims-herself-as-struggling-entrepreneur-she-is-3119582

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://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-jessica-mah-tech-entrepreneur-faces-multiple-lawsuits-from-ex-colleaguesinvestor-article-152125789

OH DEAR: https://archive.ph/263Z3

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

"entrepreneur playing the long game" ok fuck right off Jessica, in my country we say "stories made up in the beer garden"

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago

[–] Zanmato@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I think she wants to cope with her downgrade or something along the lines...

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

So brave 🥹

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How to turn your financial rough spot into pretentious self-marketing 101

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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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Jessica Mah is no longer even remotely human

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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/

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If grounding doesn't satisfy you, you may wanna try sounding.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Why not both? Take a long double sided pin, one end goes in the ground socket, the other...

[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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?

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

“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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's hilarious. If you actually bought into this BS, you could just walk outside barefoot, it's free and literally everyone has access.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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???)

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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)

[–] PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I have friends who sleep on a pile of wires…

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago

BURN CORPO SHIT

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 day ago

"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!"

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

If only she would ground herself in reality starting from the top floor of her skyscraper

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

"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

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 days ago (6 children)

"I want to live like common people. I want to do whatever common people do."

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 40 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Who the fuck flies economy for fun

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[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 208 points 2 days ago (2 children)

a lunatic? completely. but this is almost a valuable message to break through to that echo chamber.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 187 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Flying economy just for fun?

It is just her humble bragging about being rich by cosplaying as a regular person.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 152 points 2 days ago (17 children)

yeah, it's ridiculous - but the core messaging is "money insulates you from reality" and that's something these people need to hear.

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[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Wish we poor plebs could vosplay as rich without maxing out ourncredit cards for life.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What I really appreciate is her humility.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm just pretending to be poor and didn't lose it all on Tesla futures.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 19 hours ago

no no see, she's founded three six-figure companies since middle school

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[–] jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Everybody hates a tourist"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

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