Buchuan Li

Trying to understand what happened—and what comes next.
AI, work, money, and internet culture.

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Financial advisors charging a 1% annual management fee just to put your money into three Vanguard ETFs you could have bought yourself in thirty seconds are running a legal protection racket.

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Half the people claiming to have a "gluten sensitivity" or "dairy intolerance" at brunch mysteriously cure themselves the exact second someone puts a free basket of garlic bread on the table.

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Microsoft's entire business model is forcing corporations to use buggy software they hate, raising the subscription price by 15% every two years, and watching their market cap effortlessly cross $3 trillion.

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Dating apps didn't ruin romance; they just exposed the fact that 90% of people have the conversational skills of a wet cardboard box and list "eating tacos and watching The Office" as a personality trait.

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Everyone claims they want a market crash so they can "buy cheap shares," forgetting that in a real crash, you're usually too busy worrying about keeping your job to casually deploy $50,000 into the Nasdaq.

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Buying a $45 insulated metal water cup in seven different pastel colors to "stay hydrated" while working from a couch ten feet away from your kitchen sink is peak consumer brainrot.

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Your portfolio isn't "hedged against inflation" because you bought 0.05 Bitcoin and two shares of Costco. You're just throwing darts at whatever asset class had the highest green number on X yesterday.

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Craft beer snobs pretending they genuinely enjoy drinking a $12 triple-hopped IPA that tastes like battery acid and liquid lawnmower clippings are just victims of peer pressure with beards.

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Retail traders love talking about "buying when there's blood in the streets," but the moment Meta or Netflix actually drops 40% and the headlines turn ugly, they're too terrified to click the buy button.

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Corporate "unlimited PTO" is the greatest psychological trick ever pulled on white-collar workers. Instead of giving you three weeks off, they just guilt-trip you into taking four days a year so you don't look lazy.

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Every time the S&P 500 drops 2% in a week, the exact same crowd of permabears crawls out of the woodwork to predict a 1929 depression, completely ignoring the fact that they've been sitting in cash since 2016.

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Modern minimalism is a complete scam. Getting rid of all your possessions only looks aesthetic when you live in a $3 million sunlit loft; when you do it in a studio apartment, it just looks like your furniture got repossessed.

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Technical analysis on Big Tech stocks is hilarious. You really think drawing three diagonal lines on an Apple chart is going to outsmart a $100 billion annual corporate share buyback program?

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People who brag about "never watching TV" as if it makes them morally superior will gladly spend five hours every night staring at 15-second vertical videos of strangers dancing in their kitchens.

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Nothing exposes the absurdity of the stock market quite like a Magnificent 7 company beating revenue estimates by $2 billion and still crashing 7% after-hours because some 24-year-old Goldman Sachs associate wanted higher guidance.

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Paying $40 for a single fitness class in a dark room where an instructor screams motivational quotes over loud EDM isn't about health. It's a cult for people with too much disposable income and no hobbies.

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You didn't "beat the market" this year because you're a macro genius. You beat the market because you went 100% long on three mega-cap tech stocks during a historic bull run and forgot your account password.

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LinkedIn is the only place on Earth where someone will get laid off from a middle-management email job and write a six-paragraph essay thanking the company for the "incredible journey and invaluable learnings."

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Tech reviewers spend every autumn writing essays about how Apple has completely run out of ideas, while the stock effortlessly hits new highs because teenagers would rather die than have green text bubbles in a group chat.

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Calling yourself a "dog parent" and comparing taking a golden retriever to the vet with raising an actual human child is a level of cope that should be studied in psychology textbooks.