• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    If I’m not mistaken Liz Ryan is a former fortune 500, has been a consultant to several multibillion dollar companies like IBM, and at one point might have been appointed by the Biden Admin to run Youth Counseling services?

    IDK, but I’m not convinced she’s struggling with rent or groceries and she doesn’t seem to pick the correct side in US Politics.

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      13 days ago

      She doesn’t have to be struggling herself to see other people’s struggles and try to amplify their voice.

      Even when people are millionaires, it’s a reality that they likely can’t just turn over their whole fortune at once to fix things. I’d generally guess people like this donate a lot to programs trying to fix these issues.

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        13 days ago

        Whenever you see a message promoted and shared at large scale you have to try to analyze what it is they have to gain and what steps they’ve taken to achieve it.

        They’re not promoting the obvious solution. They make massive amounts of money just by maintaining this image as a megacorp consultant and an author. Smells like grift, that’s all I’m saying.

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          13 days ago

          Except she is identifying the problem and kinda the solution. You are just complaining because… you don’t like her. Her analysis was fine, your “analysis” was “idk” and ‘but but but she must be bad’. It’s kinda weird. Something tells me I just should peace out of this conversation.

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              12 days ago

              Said the person complaining that someone pointed out that its getting to expensive to live and that avocado toast isnt the issue

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                  12 days ago

                  She never said she struggled

                  Shes likely not renting as the CEO

                  She also says it in past tense

                  I dont know what her life was like before hand

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                    12 days ago

                    I’ve got a suggestion, instead of promoting billion dollar company consultants / grift authors why not repost the message of people actually struggling? Why share a message of an Oligarch when we could share those of our peers?