LordFall

Have you watched Leo's video on radical open mindedness? It's always uncomfortable to have people challenge our ideas and especially paradigms that are more core to our identities. Practicing open mindedness is necessary for true intellectual pursuits because you shouldn't be attached to being right, you should be attached to the truth. I mean as you've seen I like a good ol forum debate myself but the more I'm open to other people's ideas(not in a naive foolish way, feel free to use AI or any other resource to fact check anything someone says) the more your mind opens to more perspective and you get smarter. I've noticed in a few conversations you get really defensive and indeed aggressive for no reason. I made all my posts apart from the last one in this thread in good faith and engaging in your points and taking the time to research what you said and then you get pissy say you put me on ignore and bye lol. I don't really care to me that's a victory for me but ideally we should both be on the same side and seeking the truth together my friend. If I manage to debunk one of your ideas you should be thankful that I've added to your knowledge. It doesn't feel that way in the moment though because the ego's safety if built on understanding the world and when someone pokes a hole in that it sort of feels like you're dying and need to fight back immediately but usually when I manage to stop myself and take a pause it's for the better.

If you're autistic you can still learn to be funny, charismatic and have pretty good game. You just need more reference experiences than the average person. Try to look at it in terms of pattern recognition and try saying something funny and usually its cringe and awkward at first but you learn and after 20 times you'll get people chuckling and after 100+ times you'll get a group of random hot girls you've never met to laugh with you and build rapport and you'll have just learned a super power my friend. Pickup was just dudes that did this and then wrote field reports on forums and learned from eachother. Thankfully you're here 30 years later when most of it has already been figured out and you also have AI to comment on your field reports and if you have money you can pay a dating coach to help you. Take more action is the best answer though. I'm 6'4 and I've had short guys take girls away from me all the time. Don't use being short as an excuse. One of the guys with the highest bodycounts I know is a short indian guy, he just dedicated himself to it.

That's a big one. Women are very social and if her friends and family don't approve of you it can score major negative points. Unless she's the rebellious/blacksheep type which is probably a yellow flag in and of itself. Which is why I always liked the idea of fucking multiple girls in the same friend group. If one of them likes you and fucks you the chances that other ones will is pretty high. I had a club promoter buddy that did this on a night out, went straight to my bucketlist.

Awesome! See how it goes over the next few weeks but it's hard to find a great relationship off of one date. It's not a hard science(that's the beauty of it) so you could really hit it off with this girl but realistically if you want a solid monogamous relationship you'll probably need to go more on like 10-20 dates if you have decent standards for yourself.

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.