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  1. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    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. 

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    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. 

  3. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Elliott said:

    $40 trillion, and that's only the top 10% of corporations. Many of the biggest corporations in the world are private.

    https://companiesmarketcap.com/companies-with-the-highest-cash-on-hand/

    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. 

  4. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    2 hours ago, Elliott said:

    The top 10% of corporations alone have 40 trillion dollars in cash sitting in vaults. For context, it alone would house and feed every person on earth currently below the poverty line for the next 50 years not factoring in simple interest on the funds.

    The gripe is not about taking 10 billion in cash from Musks, the gripe is about reallocating capital through taxation away from retarded projects like colonizing Mars or beating the Chinese in data mining and moving it toward helping starving kids. This is also not a zero sum game, raising everyone out of poverty increases the population that would be active in science and invention and not just by the number in poverty but also by the number that is affected by conflict and crime that results from poverty, a peaceful world would almost certainly give rise to much greater invention and ideas, let alone peace, look at what we spend on defense which is only because there are desperate people needing to do desperate things. The u.s. defense budget alone is 2 trillion, it only costs 50 billion a year to feed everyone in poverty.

    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. 

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    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. 

  7. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    14 minutes ago, Majed said:

    @LordFall

    I wanna focus on spiritual work, psychedelics, and my life purpose which is to create rap music.

    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. 

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    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. 

     

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    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? 

  10. Posted

    4 hours ago, Hojo said:

    @Schizophonia Do you think society would be better if they didnt do what is happening in the picture?

    Could it be a paradise if all races get along?

    If true then yes there is and its being stolen by the rich via fear politics and racism.

    But they dont want that because then we would come after them.

    They cause chaos and lie to the people to proctect themselves because they know they are outsiders in society.

    People actually want communism.

    But they are being tricked by these bastards at the top that make up random narratives of people to hate.

    They do it to trick the people into thinking they dont want communism.

    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. 

  11. Posted

    20 minutes ago, Majed said:

    @LordFall well the thing is my biggest struggle currently is regaining some discipline after having faced my psychiatric illnesses. College will help me build that, plus i think it's possible to major in a field that is in demand of new professionals and get a decent salary as well as quit the country.

    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?

    5 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

    Wait do men become successful Ceo and bodybuilders with the goal of getting women in the back of their minds? Thats like traveling around the world to go to your local grocery store instead of just walking there directly. Interacting as humans thats natural stuff but becoming Ceo is like exhausting prefrontal cortex stuff that makes you feel like brain will explode (I imagine), and fitness needs you to connect to your body if youre doing it right, and focusing on women will disconnect you instead, so you not doing yourself a favor there....

    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. 

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    36 minutes ago, Valach said:

    I would say that low self esteem coming from less than ideal childhood made you to move away from people and thus gravitate towards technical fields. It's a defence mechanism.

    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. 

    23 minutes ago, Cireeric said:

    Thats exactly the view that Owen Cook is deconstructing in many of his videos. If you dont get good with girls you dont get good with girls. If youre fit and financially successful you can still be socially-weird, stifled, kinda autistic etc... and then the guy comes along who is just more funny, charming, playful etc and she is way more attracted to him. 

    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.

  13. Posted

    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. 

  14. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    1 hour ago, AION said:

    @LordFall I have friends who are competent at their work and double income. Yet they can’t get a girl because they lack inner game. While I have other friends who are broke but do have inner game but they get girls left and right. Being good at a job and getting a girl are two different skill sets.  It is not only skill set. I think a lot of these incel guys have personality. Money and looks don’t give you personality. 

     

    1 hour ago, Valach said:

    Depends how you define "having money". But as a software engineer with a lots of colleagues who have a lot of money (it is easily one of the most lucrative jobs in my country), so many of them do not have any innergame despite being financially succesfull. 

    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. 

  15. Posted

    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. 

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    1 hour ago, AION said:

    Provider game will only work if the girl is poor with no prospect for a good job and you have to be ok-ish looking. 

    In SD orange society and up you need inner game. If you do then your lack of money and looks doesn’t matter.

    Obviously signaling wealth or your body or anything material can come across as self qualifying and that is repulsive. 

    Money and looks game (provider game) will work in less developed countries or with girls with a lower social status. 

    So attraction is almost all inner game. And it is momentary. For example I’m tall-ish and I do get some attention in nightclubs but when I open my mouth and I start saying stupid stuff(fawning, insecure things, self qualifying stuff), it is over because I will feel the sexual tension disappearing.  So being good looking, tall and having money, only gets you initial attention. The moment you open your mouth and say stupid stuff like in this thread it is over. So big part of it is personality. 

    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.

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I had that and it got me no girls.

    You can't get girls if you don't learn to socialize. Pickup is just the skill of socializing.

    Many guys get rich only to realize they still can't get girls because they sacrificed social skills for success.

    Girls don't sleep with the rich guy, they sleep with the fun social guy.

    Good looks are great, but if you don't have them you still need a way of getting girls.

    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. 

    8 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

    The more I try to understand women, the closer I get to an aneurysm; it's simply easier to abandon the realm of understanding and just move forward by following one's desires.

    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. 

  18. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    No when did I say that? There are more fertility issues with women than men after a certain point but women can be quite beautiful in their 40s and 50s as well. Fertility tech is a blooming field so I doubt it'll be an issue for much longer. I think everyone in their early 30s that hasn't had kids yet should look into egg/sperm freezing. I'm 31 and I'm gonna do it in the next couple years. 

    I like all women personally thus probably why I'm a polyamorist. I would date a 21 year old just as much as I would date a 41 year old. For women becoming higher earning starts to limit their dating options compared to the same person being a man where it exponentially raises them. It's just personal preference though, most women prefer to not date men earning less than them but nothing prevents them from doing so. 

  19. Posted

    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. 

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Hojo said:

    Why is every left wing country having the same problem? Its very strange.

    Late stage capitalism and globalization. In a way it's good, the world is uniting and facing the same issues together. 

    46 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

    It's a far-left conspiracy theory to believe that the money that's missing is hidden away by the rich.

    I'm not against redistribution but even Elon Musk only has a few billion dollars in personal funds (in his personal bank accounts).

    Even if you were to seize all the accumulated wealth of the American super-rich, for example—which is suicidal because whether we like it or not private savings is the essential of national savings, and you would squander it—you would only accumulate a few tens of billions of dollars, whereas by comparison the annual American budget is nearly 4 trillion dollars.

    The majority of that money comes from the middle class.

    Besides nobody except a few idiots here and there actually believes what's being said in the image; it's just another leftist tactic to treat people like fools and convince themselves they're very intelligent. If you ask people why they're against immigration most of them will talk about crime; because they see the news items, ethnic statistics etc.

    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. 

     

    54 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

    If I was a dictator, all taxes would be abolished for everyone, except for socwokies

    Which would be pretty logical actually; they are the ones advocating for giving money away, well they can embody this behaviour; that should make them happy

    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. 

  21. Posted

    On 6/13/2026 at 9:02 PM, enchanted said:

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    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

    On 6/13/2026 at 10:00 PM, Rafael Thundercat said:

    Yes and the obssesion for going out there into space is bigger than the willingness to take good care of the Earth here.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Gl5D4a7TheaqrTdWQlECJ?si=PmeMS86yQBSG_HsG2kG1ng

    Check this podcast. 

    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. 

  23. Posted

    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. 

  24. Posted

    14 hours ago, Butters said:

    Anthropic used a lot of scare tactics marketing but that has nothing to do with the real application for ai. There's a growing need for ai from corporate and government, more demand than supply can handle.

    I found this interview with Mystral (a French AI company) CEO quite interesting. Basically all he talks about are enterprise and government use cases which is Mystrals core customer base, not consumers or hype .

    I think this news is bad for anthropic . Europe is already busy to reduce their dependency on US big tech and these things only accelerate that. 

    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.