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Let's talk about this hustle culture.

So I saw a clip on Instagram I thought was interesting.

Let's play this clip, please.

Hustle culture and cruel optimism, it leads to a lot of crazy things for black folks like exhaustion.

Here's an article from the time.

It says that the hustle is an idea, a discourse and a survival strategy often

glorified its economic opportunity.

It is an ode to a type of

capitalism that cannot secure

the futures of anyone but

the wealthiest. But its popularity

lives and now hustling

can feel like an equal opportunity

struggle.

Okay, in that clip.

And shout out to that, brother.

He does a lot of political different takes.

So he pretty much was saying that, you know, I've been hearing a lot as far as on um Instagram social media that also culture is a trap to keep people unhappy you're never really gonna really reach the level of wealth

that you know my times out 10 that you're really going so it's just the treadmill that we've brought into to kind of feel like

you know we're running a race to nowhere type thing and yeah you know the traps of capitalism

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