“Hard work guarantees success.”
Hard work just exhausts you while plenty of lazy people coast by on connections and inheritance, so that guarantee is pretty much worthless.
Hard work just guarantees you'll be tired and broke like everyone else 😴, luck and connections do the actual heavy lifting.
“Honesty is always the best policy.”
Honesty is just a way to hurt people's feelings while feeling smug about it 🙃.
“saying acquaintance salary in front of their friend is a good behavior”
Blurting out someone's paycheck in front of their buddy is basically asking to become the villain in their group chat 🤐, keeping your mouth shut costs zero dollars.
