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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
I had this conversation with my friend other day. Whatever the big fad is, everybody flocks to it, oversaturates it and ruins it for everyone else.

I'm a Software Dev and I also train Muay Thai. I've had several people reach out to me asking about a career in programming/anything computer related. The #1 thing I tell them is that like anything else, you have to put in the work. Don't expect to take a bootcamp and start making $100k.

With Muay Thai and MMA in general, it feels like everyone is trying to sell private lessons now. I've been training for the past 7 years and people with 2 years experience are trying to sell privates all over instagram. It's incredibly annoying.
gpt
+1 to this. This is where we are with the economy. The US is no longer a startup. Every fucking fitness person is promoting their bullshit copy-paste fitness/diet course on their instagram page. Just scamming the hell out of everyone they can. I see the fitness coaches showing off their top clients, and those guys are also fitness coaches selling the same exact shit. Even boomers didn't run game on each other the way zoomers are, but they would have if they had tiktok and instagram. It's no different than airbnb scumbags with empty calendars selling their $5k courses for "only" $2000.

I was a member of a gym on the other side of the country pre-covid. I even fell for the guilt trips a bit and continued paying for a couple months where I got nothing. Based on social media, they're barely surviving as a business. No matter how many times I unsubscribe (from things I never subscribed to), they keep on texting and emailing me with bullshit offers I don't care for, even online things. "Online course, training + diet + whatever, $600 value!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

&lt;scroll down giant advertising page&gt;

Yours for ONLY $197!!"

Then the "10 week transformation challenge, pay me $600 for a tiny chance to win cash prize plus some free coaching!" Sounds like their normal coaching business is hurting to start that game up again.

People are broke and have no real job skills so they're just scamming everyone. Everyone wants to be a STR landlord. Everyone wants to be a fitness coach.

We have way too many people. Not enough jobs for everyone. Not in a non-zero interest rate environment anyway. It's weird and sad to hear how guys like Elon always tell us we have a crisis of not enough people.