Just to pile on this, Gary Vee bettered his life in an ethical way. And then he shifted what he was talking about to things like picking up free furniture and selling it for a small profit because that's what people needed to hear to get themselves on their feet. Guiding other people to be successful in a way you know is not dangerous...
I believe a lot of folks are upset at "hustle culture" in the sense of overworking as exploitation. If you want to hustle and work hard for yourself, that is an amazing and aspirational model for many other people- but make sure you are hustling for your own success, not for someone else's success.
In addition to the "hustle" motivation, he also evangelizes not treating your employees or team like crap, and espouses the "be a leader not a boss" mantra. Nothing I've seen from him advocates using other people for your own success without making sure you are also considering their success as well. He actually speaks against exploitation like that.
He preaches the so-called Hustle Gospel because Belarus, the country he is from, severely persecutes followers of the the true Gospel -- you know, the one about peace with God through faith in Jesus Christ?
So many things today are described as 'dangerous', especially ideas and information. What is truly dangerous is the idea that some information and thoughts are so dangerous (stuff we don't agree with) that they ought to be censored, deplatformed, banned from the internet, whatever.
I try to remind myself that people say crazy stuff for clicks all the time and that they probably have a more reasonable and nuanced opinion in person. Even so, I'm scared that the zeitgeist is moving towards absolutism, intolerance, censorship, etc.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 31.0 ms ] threadEvery person who holds an idea you don't like is not "dangerous".
People who hurl epithets at free speech are a lot more dangerous in my mind.
So what are you implying here? That he shouldn't have written it because it upsets you?
Or are you just complaining to the abyss that a person wrote a thing on the internet that you disagree with?
If you don't like it, maybe you could read something else instead?
I try to remind myself that people say crazy stuff for clicks all the time and that they probably have a more reasonable and nuanced opinion in person. Even so, I'm scared that the zeitgeist is moving towards absolutism, intolerance, censorship, etc.