I’m Getting Sick and Tired of Hearing the Rich and Affluent Talking About Serving

…when they’re not serving anyone but themselves.

Enough already, podcast bros, you’re not serving anybody! Every podcast I watch, every smart tip I listen to, there’s some bro who is talking about serving, while he’s selling his $1000 course on how to make money trading crypto.

It’s ridiculous!

Who exactly are you serving, sir? Surely not the world! With your ridiculously expensive course loaded with info that you collected off the web.

Or with your entitled attitude that fails to notice how much white boy privilege is oozed through every word? Who else are you serving but yourself?

Serving is an act of kindness, not making a profit from people’s needs.

Not even Elon has that kind of audacity.

I remember this one time when a rich friend of mine gave a shitty piece of advice to a less rich one, just to make himself look like a good guy.

The less rich was trying to make a career in PR consulting. The other one already had a very successful career doing just that.

Friend 1:

‘So what do you think, Joel, what are the main attributes to develop this new company? What should I do to get to where you are?’

Joel, full of self-importance, looking like he was just anointed by Jesus himself:

‘You see, it’s important to give back, Mary. The main thing is to serve the community. And things will just fall right into place.’

Now that was a damn lie. He hadn’t served the community one day in his life.

It was preposterous.

‘Why would you tell her that?’, I snapped. ‘That’s not how you did it, Joel. How is she supposed to give back when she hasn’t even made anything for herself? You did it through hard work and networking, not through giving back and serving. You haven’t given back a dime in the first 5 years since you started. And you’re not serving any community, you’re selling a product!’

Luckily, Mary is a hard worker and has amazing social skills. She will one day be at a point where she can both give back and serve. But to get there, she needs to sell.

Hopefully without gaslighting the public that is supposed to buy the product.

There is no serving involved. These dudes have a product that they sell to the masses. Period. The product serves a need, obviously, otherwise it wouldn’t be marketable.

It’s nothing but economy, Jesus and the gang have no involvement in this deal.

And there’s nothing wrong with it. Study the market, create a good product, and sell it to that market where you initially saw that need. Absolutely acceptable and commendable.

You serve no one but yourself. You are a salesperson. That’s it.

Stop trying to make it into something it’s not.

We all want to think we’re good people. And we manage to trick others and even ourselves into believing that.

Even serial killers think they’re good people. I remember this one guy whose name escapes me, who strangled a series of prostitutes and said he did it because he was trying to save them from eternal damnation.

See? A good guy. He was serving the community and serving the prostitutes’ souls.

How about the angels of mercy, people employed as caregivers who intentionally harm the patients under their care, because they decide those people are better off dead than struggling.

The act has nothing to do with mercy or with serving, but with the position of power that these deranged individuals have over those poor sick people.

Left to their own devices, the ‘angel’ will soon start killing healthy people, or the ones who are easily treatable.

They’re serving too, aren’t they?

Power is a fickle mistress and it will always have you believe you’re a good server of the other’s interest, no matter how blatantly obvious it is to everybody that the only interest getting served is your own.

Get over yourselves, crypto bros and course sellers. You’re not serving anybody but your own pocket. This is not an act of kindness, of necessity, or of servitude of any kind.

It’s an act of you selling your product and pretending you’re doing the world a favor.

We’re not buying it.

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