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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.

100% agreed this guy just refuses to level up and fix his issues and just makes money from complaining about the dating market.

Depends how you define inner game. Most men with money have at least decent inner game, they are competent at their job/business and are just not in their comfort zone cold approaching women in a nightclub or in the street. The average man in western countries is too broke to date comfortably and financial issues are one of the top causes of divorce. Having a dating life is ludicrously expensive in a major western city, you can perhaps do the broke guy with the broke girl frame and sure that works with some women but definitely not all. Especially not if you like particularly attractive and in demand women. If you mean really rich you're forgetting about sugar dating. I knew a guy that did it and he took multiple bootcamps from RSD and he said these guys were coping in their belief that money doesn't really matter with women and the relationships he got from sugaring where sometimes better than the ones he got from cold approach. He said women he got through sugaring actually put effort in the relationship, their appearance and sex whereas regular women kind of took him for granted. He said people expect those women to be materialistic gold diggers but he said a lot of them just had financially insecure childhoods and were responsible and pleasant women to be around, used the sugaring money to pay bills not to spend on clothes or dumb stuff. I haven't tried it myself but it does make sense, PUAs cope hardcore. Having a successful career let alone being rich and being able to spend $3-8k/month on sugar babies frontloads a bunch of positive male characteristics into it. I still think there is something cool about pickup and knowing that skillset but most of the pickup guys I know(I've met at least 200) never even got to sleeping with really hot women, let alone date them, let alone have a stable long term pleasant relationship with them. It's quite easy. Demonstrate higher value and women will like you. There are lot of ways to do so, both socially and overall with your life. Which is why my strategy revolves a lot around social media and social circle game. To build a social circle with hot women over time you need to provide value in one way or another and social media allows you to display that to women all over your country and the world and widen your net.

Probably true. I keep telling people they have a stange orange shadow on the forum, we should for sure have some industrialists and entrepreneurs in our ranks that have changed society in some way. I run communities across Canada but I can't say my impact is 0.01% that of Musk, you literally see Teslas each day down the street so that's product visibility let alone making electric cars again. Musk can be a dick but the main reason people don't like him is they're tired of being poor and just jealous of a dude that made it big. He's one of our top visionaries alive today and a treasure to the human race for sure. He is linked to child mining through sourcing Cobalt from the Congo though, he's apparently trying to diversify the supply chain and remove Cobalt from teslas through innovating in battery tech but still.

Late stage capitalism and globalization. In a way it's good, the world is uniting and facing the same issues together. Great point. Which is why I'm massively optimistic about AI ubi and the post scarcity that the technological singularity promises. There isn't really another way to solve the cost of living crisis that's happening. Good thing you don't have much power, your political ideas seem pretty dumb. @Basman I wasn't there in person, saw a video. Not sure how I would react, hopefully as well as the people that attacked him to get him to stop.

How is Elon Musk destroying the planet? If anything he's been one of the forces helping climate change big time by revolutionizing the electric car industry. I think he's doing amazing things although he's not perfect. Falcon 9 reduced the cost of low earth orbit flights by 20x Feel free to shake some of they key points. I think he's one of the top examples that we have today of an impactful life built around life purpose.

You'll be 99.997% fine but I mean if not say hi to Kobe for me

It's true but social skills still help. There are also concepts like authentic vs negotiated desire that are hard to grasp if you've never done pickup. If you're young like 18-24 still probably worth to learn some game and fuck since women are less money focused at that age. Online dating is also sleeper OP. You can get decent pictures and go on 1-2 dates a week from it easy, way less hassle than cold approach. Most of my bodycount is from online dating. People think you have to be super good looking to get decent matches, it helps for sure but it's mostly quality of your pictures and how fit you are. Having your money right will take care of 60% of your dating issues. The rest is emotional intelligence and communication skills which is what pickup forces you to practice.

Cool, it'll be interesting to see how this AI arms race develop. We are about to get into the thick of things. Usually the more competition the better.

There is no way I'm getting into a human piloted helicopter. That shit is a death machine. Apparently they're a bit safer than a private plane but seems like there are less ways to land them safely if something goes wrong.

I saw an immigrant almost beheaded a dude in Belfast the other day, pretty wild. It's not a popular answer but I think AI policing and police robots will solve a lot of this. Illegal immigration is hard to stop and especially wars and climate refugees will make it worse. You need bigger community support and basically mediators to assimilate these people and just better policing. You can't take people used to using stage red to resolve conflict and think it's not gonna be an issue. From what I understand most of these incidents are pretty streamlined and somewhat easy to predict. Immigrant incels raping people, people escalating conflict like street fights way out of proportion and unemployed youths causing havoc. It's quite unpopular but that's precisely what technology like Palantir and predictive policing is meant to protect against. I'm glad we got 1984 to warn against the negative effects of a surveillance state so that we now can focus on the positive ones.

Cool, haven't heard of them before I'll check em out. Which one do you recommend most? It was not bad I watched a few episodes, I didn't get too into it though I started watching Industry instead since I was interested in finance, private equity and investment banking. If you guys like the historical drama vibe shows, Black Sails and Boardwalk empire are gems as well. Especially Black Sails; a pirate's life sounds fun. I don't think there's a show around the caliphates but I watched a couple episodes of Magnificent Century. It's about the Ottoman empire under Suleiman the Magnificent and his harem.

It's all good I can get defensive as well. I apologize for not understanding what you were trying to communicate. The line between confidence and arrogance is thin, it's hard to always fall on the right side of it for me at least.