The most unhinged case in this entire situation is Hess v. Commissioner from 1994, where an exotic dancer performing as "Chesty Love" deducted her breast implants as a business asset and WON. The Tax Court allowed it specifically because the implants were so large (size 56FF, each weighing approximately 10 pounds) that they provided zero personal benefit, caused her physical harm, and were, in the court's exact words, something she "would have removed on a daily basis" if she could.

The fact that the finance industry convinced us all that jargon was the same as authority is genuinely unforgivable.

Ask any finance professional what kind of content they should be posting and watch them immediately start describing an educational video. Step-by-step tutorials. Tax tips. Bookkeeping 101. The "did you know you can write off your home office?" carousel.

It's the only mode most of us were ever told was available.

After enough years of watching beautiful top line income numbers evaporate into P&Ls that look like crime scenes, you learn to stop leading with the pretty number 🙃

Your total revenue is actually so boring when it’s paired with the more interesting numbers that actually tell the story of your month/quarter/year and if I can de-influence you from going all starry-eyed 🤩 when someone says “$50k quarter” with no context, then I’ve done my job here

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