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There’s a reason that a “hustle” is a synonym for a con or grift; once you’re hustling, it’s a foregone conclusion that you’ll bend the norms to achieve
by gdubs 9y ago
There’s a reason that a “hustle”
is a synonym for a con or grift;
once you’re hustling, it’s a
foregone conclusion that you’ll
bend the norms to achieve the
gain they would otherwise
prohibit.
Wait, what?
Edit: yes, I understand the many meanings of the word “hustle”. What I’m reacting to is the “forgone conclusion” that engaging in a side hustle will lead to bending norms, instead of, you know, “working really hard on the side.”
- mc32 9y agoAuthor is projecting. That said hustle refers to different things and they get conflated. Working tirelessly, and also street hustling are both hustling, but can result from different morals.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThey're labeled with the same word precisely so that they can get conflated. Language is fuzzy, and this fuzziness is actually used as a feature in communication. If you want to talk about honorable hard work, you have plenty other words to pick from; when you say "hustle" to mean hard work, you accept the slight semantic nudge towards something shady, or bending the rules.
- shaki-dora 9y agoIt's in the dictionary: hustle noun 1 busy movement and activity: the hustle and bustle of the big cities. 2 [North American informal] a fraud or swindle. Edit for your edit: The word 'hustle', I believe, nicely captures the author's attempted meaning: That people turning their hobbies into Etsy shops promoted with fake followers aren't running a well-organised criminal enterprise, but rather participating in a scheme where they tend to cut corners for rather low payout.