mr_engineer

I could very easily make a counter-argument that a huge issue is that the emergency-services specifically are monopolized by the government. If you privatize them, maybe, they'd get more negotiating-power, because they're so needed. For example, employees of emergency-services that belong to the government are struggling with low pay, because they have to be cheap, because they're not for profit. But, the emergency-services that are private, that are for profit, like ERs, they're expensive! Their employees aren't struggling all that much, doctors do make six figures. So, you can't really have your cake and eat it too. You can't talk about low wages for emergency-workers and high costs of healthcare in the same sentence! It's a hard optimization-problem.

I'll tell you a harsh reality about pricing - the way it works, is by a perceived value-disparity. It really is just a matter of supply and demand. How hard is it to become a police-officer?! Or, a fire-fighter?! Through the training?! Not very hard. I mean, of course, it is hard. But, the percentage of people who'd be able to clear that would be significantly higher than the percentage of people who could become programmers or gain technical proficiency/technical expertise in something. For the latter, you have to get good grades. Which aren't that common. I'd highly suggest that you read a book on Austrian economics to understand how entrepreneurs set prices. For products, for labor, etc. This is why, the way to get rich is to create best from waste, to be a creative motherfucker. Someone who can do that improves the efficiency of the overall system, because wastage goes down and output goes up as a result of doing something like that. And this is why so few people get rich. Because so few people develop themselves to have this ability! The one who can do this becomes the market-leader, because they come at the forefront of their industry in terms of innovation.

I say it is justified. My attitude, my opinion is what matters. You got a problem with that?!

@BenG Then don't complain about my 'attitude', if it's something that trivial. @Ulax Sometimes people need to get a taste of their medicine. I don't have any stakes in this, I don't have an agenda to convince anyone. I'm still trying to make sense of how feminists get away with this level of self-delusion. On my end, this still is an open-minded discussion!

@Ulax Would you be willing to say this to feminists? The bro-talk of 'stop complaining about the world and actually do something'. Cuz I think they really need to hear it.

@Ulax Go say that to a feminist and watch their reactions. They are some of the most condescending, disrespectful people I've ever come across. None of you have the balls to give them a lecture about 'attitude'. Cuz they're so 'oppressed'. And that would be 'misogynistic'. All of this bullshit-talk is reserved for men in our society. Shame on the people enabling it.

Out of curiosity, if I were a woman, would you be saying the same to me?

Unfortunately, it's not 'on the internet'. Cuz if it were, it would get censored, as so many female MRAs are. It's anecdotal. Maybe you're the one who needs to stop spending time online. And don't come at me with the 'I need stats' thing. Cuz what women say matters too! Now, some women are smarter than others. So, what the smarter women say matters more than what the dumber women say.

Women wiser than you or me have openly admitted to this reality about other women, who aren't so wise. Don't tell me what I can/can't know. Don't project your limiting-beliefs onto me. In fact, the entire MeToo movement can be boiled down to 'shit you read online'. Checkmate.

@something_else @KH2 A large part of the MeToo movement was women who regretted their decisions sleeping with someone, trying to flip the tables and blame the other person for their decision. That's what I mean! Don't take women's maturity for granted on this issue. Yeah fine, they're more socially calibrated and stuff. But, when it comes to the nuts and bolts of consent-status, they can lose track! It's not facts-first, it's feelings-first. And, there's all kinds of messiness with them being able to revoke consent after the fact.

That's a problem. Because, 'truth' is much more complex than a single sentence. You could. You'd just have to integrate the context of what's being said and where they're coming from, how trustworthy the source is, etc. And, because the feminine epistemology is feelings-first and not facts-first, I'd especially be careful believing women. All lying is not malicious. It can simply be a product of being wrong or miscommunications. But, malicious forces can definitely take advantage of gullible people who just don't know they're wrong.

Blindly believing a woman when she makes an accusation, is a very recent thing. It didn't happen in the era of arranged-marriages, when men were getting laid. Sex didn't cloud men's judgement at the time. 'Believe all women' is a highly irrational response to accusations. And, the idea of it being 'reasonable-sounding', is a rationalization. You're the one looking to the internet for MeToo trolls. In reality, most men are decent people.

Too much truth for you?!

Most of the guys who are on board with the 'believe all women' trend are white-knight soy-boy cucks. Who think that doing it is going to get them pussy.

Has she used a vibrator/dildo? Maybe you could get some insight from that info.

I think it's cryptos. People bring up the issue of security/hacking. I think that the technology to protect against that is either already there, or it'll get there shortly. If regulation happens algorithmically, there is no possibility of corruption.

When these people, who had a record of the highest criminal fine paid in the US, $2.3 billion dollars, were rolling out this thing with a liability-waiver, i.e. you can't sue them if anything goes wrong cuz of what you got from them, and everyone was lapping it up, it just didn't sit well with me. Any surprise that we're starting to find holes in their narratives now, officially?! They always existed, they're just surfacing now.

No.

Don't marry. And ignore their BS.

Depends on what you want out of pickup. If you just want to get laid, you don't need anything. Just game. If you want a relationship, though, you need a plan for how you're going to make the money-dynamic between the two of you work. You need to know the kind of woman that's compatible with you and you need to know her role in your success, what you want it to be. That's how you vet out the gold-diggers. HTH!!

@Someone here Why do you want to be a better man? Why do you want to be more masculine? Purpose is the cornerstone of masculinity. You need a reason to 'be better', so to speak. If you don't, your entire morality is purely theoretical bullshit.

Why do you want to have an actual life? Most of it is shallow bullshit anyways. Mostly pointless. It's a serious question. Because if you wanted it, you'd have it. And nothing is really stopping you from having a 'normal life'. As far as that's concerned, you're standing on the shoulders of giants. The root of the issue here is that you don't know what you want. The thing about 'wanting a normal life' is actually conditioning. And what you gotta focus on, is figuring out what you want. And exploring the world to know what exists out there and what your options are.

If you don't want to socialize, don't socialize. It's that simple. The simplest way to fix your social life is to not worry about it until you start feeling lonely. Then, you will start to know the kind of social-life and community-life that you want and you will have that as your objective, socially. This will help you sort through the petty bullshit and find people who you resonate with. My point is that once you get to this point, you won't get lost in the petty bullshit of socialization anymore. HTH!!

Partying is a waste of time and money in general. I wouldn't look to it for self-improvement if I were in your position. Concerts can be fun, though. I'd suggest that you go to concerts of good, famous artists. You can learn a lot by watching a live-performance by a high-quality artist! And if you go with friends, it can be something you can connect over.