Hustle culture and the point of money

6/5/2025

I HATE HUSTLE CULTURE! I find hustle culture incredibly stupid and immature. Out of all of the bullshit that has been pushed in the online money space, hustle culture is one thing that I have never fallen for. It is the most prevalent, yet least talked about part of the online money space because it's such a basic value that the space operates on that most people never think about it. And I hate it to my core.

The reason why I hate hustle culture so much is because it convinces people to make money for the wrong reason. Hustle culture is a culture of hustling and constant improvement. Working 24/7, no breaks, make more money than yesterday. The reason I hate that so much is because the reason you should want money, not for the sake of having it, but to use it for things that bring you joy- And not on symbols that are boldly telling the world "I'm rich! Look at me, I'm successful! Don't you envy me? Btw buy my course." Some people may argue that cars bring them joy, but I argue that cars bring you more joy from the validation you receive from others because of it, than the fun you have driving it. If you were driving the car for the sole reason that it intrinsically brought you joy, then you would own 1 corvette instead of a lamborghini, a bugatti, and a BMW.

Making money to spend it is a losing game. A lot of people want to be rich for the glamour of it, but I don't want that at all. I don't know if other people fall in love with the process of business, but I have fallen in love specifically with creating software companies. Coding and entrepreneurship have always been a love of mine. Specifically creating my own unique ideas. Other people don't define entrepreneurship this way, but I define it as bringing something new to the world, not just starting your own dropshipping store. I think that as long as you are doing anything that you are passionate about, you're going to be happy and thereby live a good life.

So that's where hustle culture gets it all wrong. If you can do something that you love every day and make money doing it, then what's the point of hustle culture, and what's the point of money? If you make $300,000 a month, but you choose to spend all of your time working (doing something that you hate), then you're no different than the 9-5 employee. You just have a little bit more fun on the weekends, an ego problem, and maybe a cocaine problem.

I think another thing hustle culture gets wrong is that the main goal of life is to make money, because life has no main goal. There wasn't a sign above my mom's vagina that told me what to do with my life. I know that what I (and what I think everyone should) want from their life is to enjoy it. Because if you didn't enjoy it, then what was the point?

One thing that I've been struggling with is caring what other people think and wanting all of those fancy things. I sometimes have thoughts like "Wow, he's 16 and he's making $150k every month!? Wait... I'm 16 and all that I've done is make and lose $14k from selling on Amazon." One thing that's helped me shy away from that toxic way of thinking is by simply not caring about it. By shifting my goal from wanting to have the most money, to wanting to fill my life with the most joy, I've been able to fall in love with the process and focus only on myself. By doing the best I can, not caring what others think, and working on a project that I love, I've been able to relearn how to enjoy the process of making money.