10. “Private equity and consultants that are paid to tell you to just lay off workers.” —RiverParty442 “Funily enough, private equity and private credit are in trouble now, and they are cheesing their numbers so hard that it’s borderline fraud. Turns out you can only do the buy extract profits load with debts sell cycle on companies so much before they go under…

“As I’ve hit my early 30s and my old friendship circle has drifted apart naturally, most of my friendships are now more surface-level. I have one or two very close male friends with whom I can still have those conversations and several more with whom I will engage if they include me in those kinds of discussions, but for the most part…