A short spoken-piece (YouTube Short) reflecting on how society defines success and failure. The speaker questions phrases like “crushing it” and criticizes a social dynamic he calls the “king of the dipshit mentality,” arguing that if one earns substantially more than peers he prefers to associate with people earning at even higher levels (millions).
Who told you what rich was, who told you what failure was, who told you what stupid was, who told you that you're short, who told you that you're fat. All these things like, where did this stuff come from? Oh, dude, you're crushing it. Define crushing it. Because it works in both ways, good and bad. Dude, you just murdered the game. To who? And what does that mean? We talk about this often, but king of the dipshit mentality, you got five guys or five gals, whatever, and everyone makes 50 grand, except one person makes 100 grand. Guess who's the king of the dipshits? We only make 100 grand, max. Everyone else in the 50 grand category is like, dude, you're amazing. You're crushing it. Must be nice to be you. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm not saying that's good or bad. I'm just saying that's not where I'm hanging out. I would want to hang out. If I'm making 100 grand, I want hang out with the guys making millions.
