https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/16/how-ghost-work-in-silicon-valley-pressures-the-workforce-with-mary-gray/

The phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically.

It’s not actually physically possible to do — especially while wearing Allbirds and having just fallen off a Bird scooter in downtown San Francisco, but I should get to my point.