>Usually the message is that you can get there without doing any actual real work (kind of says all you need to know about their target audience).
The more advanced such snake-oil salesmen have added elements of "of course you also need to put in the effort", or even directly promote "struggle-porn" [1] -- while everything else you wrote about them remains true.
The more advanced such snake-oil salesmen have added elements of "of course you also need to put in the effort", or even directly promote "struggle-porn" [1] -- while everything else you wrote about them remains true.
[1] https://medium.com/@nateliason/no-more-struggle-porn-202153a...