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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.
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.
So because she's not personally struggling, she can't analyze the situation?
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.
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.
You sound like a Maga right now.
Said the person complaining that someone pointed out that its getting to expensive to live and that avocado toast isnt the issue
Are you implying that the CEO of a company that consults for IBM is struggling to get by?
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
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?
Dude. Your entire "analysis" was : this person might possibly have a bias so what they're saying must be wrong. Which is an idiotic conclusion. Bring skeptical is fine. But assuming everyone who could have a motive must therefore be lying is a good way to never gain any information at all because literally everyone who says something online has a motive to do so
I never claimed they were wrong in any way, shape, or form. I said it smells like a grift and we should be aware of their position.
You just called someone maga because they said she was right regardless of what her personal situation was...
It's right there. You're not going to trick people in forgetting what was already said.
I called them maga for blindly defending some rich figurehead's promoted tweet against any and all slight apprehension. Like how dare I promote critical thinking against the oligarch whose statements vaguely align with their political ideology?
You're the one blindly attacking someone's statement BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE without any critical thinking. The exact thing you're accusing this other person of doing.
What you have demonstrated is the opposite of critical thinking, but a reactionary dismissal based on the identity, not even considering the actual content of the statement.
You can see your hypocrisy here, right?