Fancy political fundraisers for rich donors. In 2019 photos surfaced in which Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, IN was seated with rich donors in a Napa valley wine cave for a fundraising event. During Dec. 2019 debate, Elizabeth Warren attacked Buttigieg for appealing to rich donors instead of grassroots supporters by using this imagery. A few minute later, Andrew Yang stated his campaign reform policy would increase women and minority elected to offices around the country because "they don't have to shake the money tree in a wine cave", gesturing to Buttigieg.
You will have many many more women run for office because they don't have to shake the money tree in a wine cave.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”