“There Are No Shortcuts” Is a LIE
You’ve heard it a million times: There are no shortcuts. Work hard. Pay your dues. Grind for decades, and maybe you’ll make it.
This is a broke normie cope. A lie told by those at the top to keep you running in circles, working yourself to the bone while they take every shortcut in existence. The only people who believe this nonsense are the ones stuck in the rat race, desperately convincing themselves that their suffering has meaning.
Meanwhile, the ones who really win?
They don’t just take shortcuts—they build secret tunnels while you’re still running laps.
The Game Is Rigged—But Only If You Play By Their Rules
The people feeding you this “no shortcuts” lie don’t believe it themselves. They just don’t want you figuring out how the system really works. Look at how power actually moves:
• The CEO tells his employees to “work their way up,” then hands his buddy’s kid a six-figure job because “he’s a good guy.”
• The juiced-up bodybuilder preaches hard work and discipline to natty lifters while he’s injecting steroids.
• The “dating coach” lectures men about game and confidence while paying women to appear in his content.
• The “entrepreneur” selling you the hustle dream is committing fraud, in debt, running a scam, or cashing in on government loopholes.
The truth?
There are shortcuts. But they don’t want you to know about them. They want you grinding, struggling, wasting your best years believing in a meritocracy that doesn’t exist.
Never Fall for the Illusion
The ones who push this lie the hardest are the ones who need it to be true. The middle managers, the office drones, the paycheck-to-paycheck believers who can’t accept that they wasted their lives playing fair in a rigged system. They have to believe that their suffering is noble—because admitting the truth would break them.
The difference between those who win and those who don’t is simple: winners take every shortcut available and then act like they didn’t. They exploit the system before it exploits them.
So wake up.
Learn the game.
Take the shortcuts.
Or get left behind.
-Beau Magic 🃏