PLATITUDES

On Life’s Fairness, Winning vs Losing, and Caring about Money

Snarky remarks on platitudes I had to endure this week

Social media is full of platitudes — trite remarks that intent to be profound. You find them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and pretty much every other platform. And people like and re-share them as if they were divine wisdom. Everyone just seems to be very pleased with themselves and how wise they all are.

But I think they’re dumb.

Here are three such platitudes I encountered this week and what I would have replied if I didn’t care about being nice.

“Give up thinking life is unfair”

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“The difference between winning and losing is not quitting”

“Once you stop caring about money, the money will come”

Have you encountered any annoyingly smug platitudes this week?