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Linkedin is a giant pain in the ass.

The virtue and perfection flags fly proudly there in every post. The definitions of ‘professional culture’ are incredibly corporate and tend towards conformity of thought and control. I find it just as gross as any of the other platforms.

What’s worse, it’s the preferred platform for local people to try to sell to me. I’m a shopper. My mom’s a shopper. My dad’s a shopper. My kids? They’re good little shoppers too.

As shoppers, we take the role of ‘informed consumers’. We tend to persue things that are within our scope of interest, not things that others think we should consider.

Cue the financial planners.

Linkedin is a rats nest of financial planners and insurance people. Holy shit am I ever not interested in purchasing products that support these industries. I hold my nose and deal with the insurance criminals. I tend to avoid banks and the investment world as if it were the plague.

Why?

It doesn’t fucking work. Investing in stocks seems like a great wa…