{"id":31270,"date":"2023-07-30T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31270"},"modified":"2023-07-30T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:21:38","slug":"not-a-flattering-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/30\/not-a-flattering-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Flattering Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/money\/2023\/07\/28\/forbes-2023-richest-women-in-america-list-includes-four-from-wisconsin\/70477073007\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">How four Wisconsin women made Forbes&#8217; list of the richest self-made women in America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four Wisconsin businesswomen were named to Forbes&#8217; 2023 list of the 100 richest self-made women in America, alongside international superstars like Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Beyonc\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Real businesswomen compared to pop tarts.  Businesses who build\/sell things are <em>just like<\/em> celebrities who&#8230;. well, I guess two of the three sing.<\/p>\n<p>As I saw the headline, I tried to guess the companies the women founded\/run, and I only got two of four (ABC Supply and Epic Systems).  I had forgotten that ULine was based in Wisconsin and is credited to self-making its current owner (both the woman running Uline founded the business with their husbands, so <em>self-made<\/em> diminishes the contributions of their husbands).  I also guessed Trek bikes would be on the list, but I guess not.<\/p>\n<p>Still, to compare people doing real work with mere entertainers diminishes them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How four Wisconsin women made Forbes&#8217; list of the richest self-made women in America: Four Wisconsin businesswomen were named to Forbes&#8217; 2023 list of the 100 richest self-made women in America, alongside international superstars like Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Beyonc\u00e9. Real businesswomen compared to pop tarts. Businesses who build\/sell things are just like celebrities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31271,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions\/31271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}