Lesson 2 of 3 · 7 min
The feed is a showroom
Curated wins, rented lifestyles and the comparison tax — why your feed is a production rather than a sample of real life, and what it does to your spending.
Social media shows you the top 1% of everyone's life, edited, and your brain compares it against 100% of your own. With money the distortion is worse: gains get posted, losses get deleted, and an entire rental industry exists to make creators look rich — supercars by the hour, business-class photo sets, borrowed apartments.
You are not comparing yourself with people. You are comparing yourself with productions.
Spot the scam · Direct message
The mentor with the rented Lamborghini
Bro saw you liked my reel 🔥 I was broke like you 2 years back, now I trade 2 hrs a day from Dubai. My students made 4–8 lakh last month, screenshots on my story. Next batch closes tonight, only 3 seats left. ₹14,999 but for you ₹7,999 if you pay within the hour. Don't miss out on the life you deserve 💸
The comparison tax is real even when nobody is selling anything. Watching curated consumption re-anchors what 'normal' looks like — normal flat, normal phone, normal holiday — and spending drifts upward to chase an average that does not exist.
The first-salary course covers the money mechanics of lifestyle creep. The fix for the feed itself is cruder: curate it back. Unfollowing the accounts that reliably make you feel behind is not weakness; it is choosing your own anchors.
Sort it
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Feed check: does this post actually tell you anything?
A screenshot of one trading day, up ₹47,000
Just for you
Which three accounts most reliably make you feel poor? Nobody sees this answer but you. What would change if you muted them for a month?
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Check yourself
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Kabir asks
A creator posts from a supercar and a Dubai balcony as evidence they can teach trading. What does that prove?
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