rant · moment 11 of 14

Drop Shipping Is All Anyone Wants to Do

from Boomer Bashing & Campus Protests | The Tim Dillon Show #391 · #391

5 min

Tim rants that every young online 'entrepreneur' guru ultimately just teaches drop shipping, mocking the get-rich-quick mentality and comparing it to Boomers' Antiques Roadshow-era scams and casino-fantasy thinking.

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  • Tim argues that young people are being told life is a casino and they should maximize every moment, which is hedonistic and leaves them only scams or gambling as paths to wealth.
  • When you suggest an 18-year-old learn a craft, they stare at you—all they want is to be put onto some scam.
  • Drop shipping is all anyone wants to do: setting up a website for viral TikTok products made by children in the Philippines.
  • Every online guru's advice reduces to the same thing—drop shipping—and nothing else matters to them.
  • Tim explains what drop shipping actually is: selling goods on your website that you don't keep in stock, sourced elsewhere.
  • Young people want to buy things on Alibaba, sell them on a website, and then gamble away the profits—turning everything into a casino.
  • Instagram entrepreneurs claim to have built empires, dropped out of university, have 17 businesses—but when you dig in, it's all just drop shipping.
  • Drop shipping can't work if everyone does it; the products are garbage, like a Corona beer can that's also a water gun.
  • It all comes back to the idea that learning a craft and being good at something is a waste of time for young people.
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drop shippingSteve WynnAlibabaTikTok

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