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Just finished the show. It really highlights the peril of putting power, money and status at the top of your values. @Leo Gura your videos on the importance of truth and love as top values make even more sense to me now. Augustus seemed really like a dead inside psycho and every character is basically ruined by having values in the lower stages of the spiral. Really makes sense why Christianity grew out of the Roman Empire. It was really a cluster fuck of the lower stages. Being reborn as a high class roman would be sweet though. Rich kids these days have just a tiny bit of the impunity these guys had.

You have the accounting knowledge of a failing undergraduate student or a smart high schooler take your pick. You don't understand the math of what you're talking about. A global mega-bank handles trillions in customer deposits. Even if they lend out the vast majority and keep just a 10% to 15% liquidity buffer to handle daily withdrawals, that still leaves them holding hundreds of billions in 'Cash and Cash Equivalents' at any given time. Multiplying that across the top 100 banks easily hits that $32 trillion figure. When a database pulls 'Cash on Hand,' it pulls that exact asset column. That money isn't corporate profit sitting in a vault that a CEO can legally spend; it's the aggregate checking and savings accounts of everyday citizens and businesses globally, held in reserve so the system doesn't collapse. Your entire 'gotcha' argument relies on looking at highly regulated depositor liquidity and confusing it with a corporate piggy bank. Confusing a bank's corporate equity with its depositor liabilities is a day-one accounting error. You remind me of the average Redditor and are even less fun to have a conversation with.

True but that site doesn't only count corporations it counts banks as well. So that cash on hand includes all the private deposits that people like you and me and people in china deposit. At this point we're talking about global liquidity and not just a few big corporations being too greedy and stocking cash in a vault. Have you watched Mr.Robot? The plot is basically that there is a big company E corp that controls most of the banking in the world and they hack it in hopes of resetting the system and making it better. It basically devolves into chaos for a while until it becomes even more centralized and dystopian. Unfortunately there is no real easy solution to global inequality apart from slow gradual change IMO. Maybe UBI tech singularity can solve it but then again it's still about international trade agreements and peace treaties.

You're not wrong but you're inflating numbers. The total cash and liquid marketable securities held by all public corporations globally combined sits closer to $8 trillion. It would apparently cost $100 billion per year not 50 to feed everyone globally but that's still manageable. With the current political polarization we're experiencing the US can't even manage to not cut its own already working benefits program so we're not quite there yet but ultimately all the problems we have globally are not more than a few years to a couple decades to fix. We should be quite optimistic about the future! @Hojo Yes you're right. I'm glad Leo taught us about the spiral dynamics model because it makes a lot of sense. Most of societal problems stop existing at stage green but below it's just a clusterfuck of competition and annihilation. It's hard to get rid of though, I've spent the last 10 years of my life self-actualizing and I still love petty competition. Let alone people that never did any that salivate at the thoughts of the death and suffering of their enemies. Which is like most of the politicians globally it seems lol.

I like to solve complicated problems and then help others do so as well so they don't have to struggle and suffer as much as I've had to solve them. It's worked here and there but if I could build a global business out of it that would be cool. The general concept of abundance is cool too, studying history all the human history has been one of struggle and scarcity. Seems we're going towards a more abundant future though so that's encouraging.

He's also one of the few starting revolutionary life changing endeavours that have already changed society for the better vs a lot of rich people that just don't really do much apart from finding gaps in the market to get richer.

Fuck yeah. Are you making and posting music right now? I would say don't wait to be setup to start working on it now. If you don't already make a youtube channel and start posting weekly releases about even feeling shitty or even your mental health issues. A lot of art and especially music is made through suffering unfortunately. If you don't know Hopsin he's a great example of that Also luckily for you making music and rap videos especially is a great way to meet women so two birds with one stone.

The idea that humans only want more because they're traumatized ignores basic biology. Every organism is biologically wired to optimize for resource collection to ensure the survival of its lineage. In a state of nature, animals exploit their environment until they hit a resource ceiling. Capitalism didn't create the desire for 'more'; it just hyper-accelerated our capacity to get it. If you look at human history before modern markets, resource hoarding and tribal dominance were still the norm. You're not wrong that the trauma of society makes it worse but it's not the root cause. The root cause is scarcity in and of itself. Only through something like post scarcity brought by the singularity/AI UBI can I see a way out of this.

I mean that's fair his political takes are pretty poor. Lobbying in general is pretty canceric to society. He's done more to bootstrap entirely new industrial sectors than any government program in fifty years. He broke the Russian monopoly on space launch capabilities with SpaceX, forced the entire global automotive industry to pivot to EVs, and built a global satellite network (Starlink) that literally keeps entire sovereign nations online during geopolitical crises. Still seems more net positive than negative. His familial life is a bit more chaotic than it should be but what's wrong with inseminating multiple women?

It's a joke to think billionaires are more toxic than the average person. They have a more negative effect but blaming them entirely is a joke. Communism has some cool ideals but it's a disaster in terms of understanding human nature and basic incentives. Thus why it failed in Russia and plunged the state in tyranny since then.

I mean you know yourself best if you're not very disciplined then it's gonna be hard to succeed at online business. Have you thought about the vision for your life and what you see yourself doing? Right now you're mostly focused on the negatives, if everything worked out what would you be doing 5 years from now? Not just in terms of leaving the country and having more opportunity but once you do find those opportunities what do you wanna do? CEO is a bit far fetched you can't really do that without a strong vision but being particularly successful to have an abundant dating life and lifestyle absolutely. Easier to date hot high quality women when your money is right. Being fit definitely helps a ton as well. It's also about the lifestyle you wanna live. When I was broke living with a club promoter and partying all the time I would sleep with a lot of women but those weren't solid bonds with women I was really attracted to and when I did get some longer term fwbs because my money wasn't right I didn't feel like I was valued enough by them to be satisfied.

It's true somewhat but you're simplifying brain architectures and personality types and conflating correlation for causation. They have wide ranging studies on personality and if you use the big 5, social skills can be related to extroversion and low self-esteem to high neuroticism and they're pretty much fully independent. Also when you work in technical fields you rewire your brain towards logical problem solving as opposed to real-time social processing which has nothing to do with self-esteem. @Majed If I were you I'd learn to make money online, sounds like you're gonna struggle through higher education anyway and by the time you're done in a few years the career landscape will have completely shifted with AI. Might as well get exposed to the market tomorrow instead of procrastinating with more education. Owen cook is really biased towards his bootcamps and every video of his is a sales funnel. He makes it sound like if you don't go out 3x a week your wife is gonna get fucked by another more charismatic dude everytime she gets out of the house. That does happen but in my experience it's mostly women that really unsatisfied in relationships that are open to dudes scooping them un when they go out. Most girls with a boyfriend will just have clear boundaries around it and not really be down to talk to you unless they're in your social circle which is a whole other issue.

Hard to say, it's hard to deconstruct self-esteem. I don't know if I agree with the blanket statements that most high earning highly technical dudes have low self-esteem but it could be right. If you didn't get socialized well you will probably not be able to express freely and charismatically in social situations by default. I don't think that summarizes self-esteem though. From the book 6 pillars of self-esteem it broadly characterizes it as thinking you're worthy of a good life and feeling confident about being able to handle life's basic challenges. You could be high earning and not feel confident around women which would be a part of that 2nd definition but once again that's solved pretty easily with some exposure therapy from cold approach and if your career is going well you'll probably have a high baseline of confidence overall.

Are we talking about inner game or social skills? These discussions often conflate both. Are these software engineers and guys with high incomes regularly going out and good at expressing themselves? If so I doubt they'd have a hard time getting laid. Inner game to me is your self-confidence and belief in your ability to solve problems and handle pressure. Usually those high income guys solve a lot of their issues in one bootcamp because they have already good inner game they just lack the social skills portion of it. Also being able to put your ego to the side is probably a relevant part of inner game here. A lot of high income guys have mastered their career and don't like the idea of starting from scratch at social skills and fumbling for a few days/weeks to get the hang of it. I guess that's inner game or just not taking yourself too seriously. I would define having money in this context as being able to afford to live on your own and having some disposable income to date and also save/invest towards your future. So that depends where you're from, in Canada that's like a 80-120$k CAD income. You could also manage to do that remotely and have a more flexible lifestyle which would improve your dating potential big time. I know a lot of guys that are basically incels in the west that would crush it as passport bros.

I haven't watched his content but he used to make some good videos. I think perhaps it stems from intellectual narcissism he likes to dissect things intellectually instead of actually having a positive impact on the world? I tend to fall into that trap too, much easier to get dopamine from online debates or commenting on stuff rather than solving hard problems in a business for example.