Shanli Liu, a CPA, reads her most controversial tweets about building wealth young. She argues that cutting expenses like eating out and buying clothes frees time for aggressive career building, side hustles, and acquiring high-value skills. Her core claim: work 12 hours a day, six days a week from ages 16 to 28, and trade youthful energy for experience and utility.
Reading my most controversial tweets. Drinking costs you 2 days: the day you drink and the day you recover. Hot take: real friends don't ask for discounts, they pay full price. And Lee Rubin. If you have less than $100,000 to your name and you'd like to: number 1, stop eating out. Number 2, stop buying new clothes. Number 3, only attend free friend events. Number 4, take the rest of your time to apply to A, more jobs. B, pick up a side hustle or side work. C, learn skills so you can trade for a higher hourly rate. And then D, find the hardest worker in the room and then double their level of output and then wait 36 months. I have never admired any man who thought their birthday was a big deal. I'd like to normalize working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for men 16 to 28. Despite all the self-worth voodoo on social media, society values you for your utility. And when you're young, you have none, but you have a lot of energy. So trade your energy for experience points and become useful.
