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Elites are humans too. They do not want to hole up in bunkers with robots and a few humans on hand. They wouldn't be happy living like that. Not only that, it's a bad survival strategy. They'd eventually be snuffed out and killed. Also, their will to power is built around power over humans, not power over robots. The only solution will be another economic model. That's their best play.

If people can't afford to consume goods and services, the elites can't sell anything, and if they can't sell, they stop being elites. It will be in their own best interest, as well as everyone else's, for that not to happen. If it happens, a new system will emerge. There will be opportunity there, as there always has been.

Also, to anyone worried about jobs, you might look into getting into the trades like HVAC, electrical, etc. These guys are making insane money, especially if you run your own business. I know a guy who routinely makes 2-4k per day installing heating and air systems. I'm doing his marketing for him. Which is another job that AI will not be able to manage for quite some time. So, trades and local marketing seem like good ideas. I'm into coding, so what I'm doing is building out entire digital infrastructures that will allow me to quickly scaffold out any app that I need. This will be my toolkit for business solutions. You no longer have to be an advanced programmer to do this stuff. I mean, you have to have some knowledge, but you can simply work with Claude Code in your terminal, which has full access to your system and project files, and you just tell it what you want it to do. Having AI in the terminal is a game changer.

Yeah bro, I have. In your doom scenario of 95% unemployment, which will never happen, the capitalist system would collapse and necessitate a new system. Obviously. I was wondering if you had any advanced ideas on what the restructuring might look like. It sounds like in your mind, restructuring isn't worth considering. Got it.

I feel like, with a proper attitude, a sufficient sense of self-efficacy, psychological fortitude and resiliency, faith is not needed. Or maybe all of those things combine into a notion that is close, or even identical to what you describe as faith. But this is faith in yourself, not spiritual faith. From your description, and what I know about JP, I think what’s happening is he is conflating the two. Whatever I set my mind to, I trust that I will be able to manage it. For whatever reason, I have high self efficacy, which makes it so that I never even look to reality for anything. I never say to myself, Boy I hope this pays off in the future. Because I’ve already assessed that it will or won’t and have made my decision to go after it. I feel like for people who are prone to rumination, indecision, low self-efficacy, or worrying if they’ve made the right choice, then faith seems to be a viable substitute for managing the psychological friction created by those improper uses of mind. I don’t expect reality to take care of me. The only way to live is to assume that it will but not expect it to. We have to assume everything will be ok because to live any other way would be unhealthy and inefficient. JP turns this into a spiritual thing. So I would say we can simplify by replacing “faith” with “assume”. This comes quite easy for most anyway. It’s when the mind over-analyzes without proper context or hyper-fixates on the negative that we get stifled in such a way that JP’s maladaptive notion might be valuable, so it seems to me. Actually, thinking about it more, it seems that faith is just being used as an affirmation that everything will be okay or favorable. But again, that’s maladaptive because it’s hoping reality will be kind and it sets you up to be the victim in a harsh world.

@Leo Gura In your blog about AI and 95% unemployment, how do you see that playing out? If 95% of people are unemployed, then 95% of people have no purchasing power, so who’s buying all the stuff the machines are making? Capitalism only functions if people consume. Wouldn't society collapse before we got to even 50% unemployment? Robotic or AI production would be meaningless without a population to consume it. I guess there'd have to be some sort of UBI or something. All the more reason to get good politicians in now because we're going to need them before tech advances too far in the next few years.

You’re asking for the ultimate escape hatch. The problem is, the very experience of escape is yet another experience that will pass. No psychedelic or drug or anything else will free you. Do not listen to that advice. There is no escape, only surrender of the thoughts that resist. The mind spent decades beating the paths you wish to not be on, so you cannot simply will them away. New paths have to be formed. You form new paths slowly, over years, with discipline. That’s the only way to escape hell, you have to reject any mentation that contributes to it. Until you get clarity on this, meditation is a waste of time, as is everything else. You have to understand the mechanics of the mind first, only then can you choose your tools. You can take 1000 leaps of faith with meditation and psychedelics but all they’re good for temporary escapism and maybe showing you one thing, which in itself will not free you. You gotta fight. Accept it. And fight hard. Do not succumb to weakness. You’ll make it .

You only need an argument for a thing when you want to justify its existence. What compels you to justify your meat-eating? Guilt? Do yourself a favor and accept your selfishness. Carrying meat-eating guilt around just diminishes your health even further than the meat-eating. Lol.

Exactly. His profit model is pandering to insecurity by moving men from shame, apathy, and anger, up to pride, at the expense of women. His earlier videos weren’t as overt but I suppose they are now because he’s got a much higher definition view of his audience.

These notions of “what a man is supposed to be like” are all rooted in low consciousness. And that PyshHacks dude is a fuckwit. He does discuss interesting psychological dynamics, but unfortunately couches them in cringy egoic perspectives. To be expected I suppose since his target audience is a bunch of insecure men who are angry at women for not making them feel good. The whole “alpha male” archetype exists for purpose of egoic pride, which is an attempt to compensate for one’s own perceived inferiority. See, you don’t fake or play superior, you either are or aren’t. Anyone getting ego juice by identifying as a superior alpha male is not superior. Lol. If I grant the term, true alpha males would shun the label, not embrace it, because the superior man would see such thinking as foolish.

No matter how bad Trump does, it will not sway people toward Kamala. If they run Kamala again, they will lose. People don’t understand what happened in 2024. Through very effective propaganda and influencer marketing, Rs were able to bring many people over to their side, and for most who hopped on board, there was some degree of integrating right-wingism into their identities, which will not simply disappear with Trump. Think of all the apolitical UFC fans who now identify with the right and Trump. That doesn’t just go away easily. Also, the winning strategy of identity integration, using influencers for memetic desire, and effective yet subtle psychological manipulation is now a tried and true strategy. Which means, the people with the money will implement it for as long as it works. In my estimation, that’s for decades to come. It’s a whole new era. G-funk step to dis, I dare ya. Chords, strings, we brings, melodies, where rhythm is life, and life…. Is rhythm.

That was never the point of the tariffs. They were pitched as a way to strengthen the economy, not to launch a moral crusade to Make Americans Ethical Again. Lol. But of course, the best the right can muster to defend this disaster is, “Well, maybe we shouldn't be such consumers anyway.” Funny how that willful ignorance is the same willful ignorance that fuels toxic consumerism itself. Ignore the consequences, reject reality, and pretend virtue while actively participating in the very thing you claim to oppose.

This is hilarious :

I think a lot of it has to do with the parents values, attention spans, and the things they model for their children. And this is only exacerbated by ideological divide. Charter and Christian schools are on the rise. My nephews were put in some ridiculous Christian school. They’re in 5, 6th grade. I could read and spell better than them when I was in grade 2. I was above average but still, not good. I chalk it up to their parents caring more about Christianity than anything else. The parents just plan on having them work in the trades, so they figure they don’t need good education.

This is a guy who lives in a multi-million dollar high-security compound. He probably has rooms full of weapons, underground bunkers, and hidden passageways. He’s wishing shit would pop off so he can play out his survival fantasy. He probably has plans for how to funnel woke mobs to specific locations around his perimeter where he can be most effective at killing them. Probably has a Gatlin gun, a 50 caliber sniper rifle , a flame thrower, grenade launcher, and bazooka. Might even have installed a hidden moat with alligators and burn pits. Lol. At least 75% of this is true. And people wonder why we’re critical of poor Tim who is just stating a different perspective. When forming perspectives, one can allow the perspective to be formed by truth, where one is careful and respects reason, impartiality, and intellectual honesty, setting one’s preferences aside, or one can say “fuck no, I’m taking the helm because I want reality to serve my whims.”. Tim is a larper, blending fantasy with ideological messaging. His epistemic conduct is that of a clown. Whoever treats belief-formation this casually, with an agenda to spread the beliefs, deserves to be mocked and ridiculed, not for the content of their messaging, but for their epistemic misconduct.

Tim is such a retard. His intellectual posturing is pathetically shallow and see-through. These days, if you have a high Need for Cognition, a decent working memory, and are an extrovert, you’re well-suited to become a right wing propagandist. Lol. I never really liked TMR’s style, but at least someone holds a mirror up so that this foolishness might catch a glimpse of itself. 7th generational warfare right there.

You’d need to know his marketing strategy, budget, who the target audience is, projected betting volume and bet amounts, etc. Is there a cap on your profit-sharing? What is the reduced salary if you take the profit- share route? I’d try to figure out how to make it so that you make a minimum of 120k either way you go. Does the client have any prior business success? Does he already have branding and a web presence? What’s your responsibility? You managing the entire project from scratch and subbing out or are you planning on building it all yourself? Design and dev work? Frontend, backend, mobile apps, web app, etc?

@SwiftQuill ah, I gotcha. Didn’t know the history. I get you about Pakman. It took me a while to figure him out. I actually just thought he was somewhat of a grifter for a long time, and I do still think he’s operating in a grifty way, but I have come to respect him a little after watching him do interviews with people. His real personality can be seen in the interviews, whereas in his solo commentary, it’s kind of hard to get a read on him. After seeing enough interviews, I have concluded that he is actually pretty sharp. As far as popular left-wing commentators, go, there’s probably no one that could compete with him argumentation wise. If you were to stack him up against Ben Shapiro in a structured debate, he’d wipe the floor. He’s really good with logic, debate, spotting fallacy, etc, But most of that is hidden if you only watch his commentary. I apologize in advance if this was triggering. Lol

@SwiftQuill today is the first time seeing your profile. It wasn’t until after you responded that I saw you actually have an anti woke page on the internet. My intuition picked up on an anti woke undercurrent and I just harped on it. Either way, I was just hoping you could elaborate on what about it that actually moves you. You said “lies”. If I saw the woke foolishness as lies, I’d probably hate it too. But I just see it as foolishness. Like, I don’t think of Christianity as “lies”. I think of it as foolishness. Honestly, It can trigger me from time to time, but I don’t walk around with a constant anti Christian boner. Lol. If I did, it would likely be because it was detrimental to me or I was majorly impacted by it and haven’t made peace with it. There’s a reason why woke impacts you the way it does. That’s all I’m trying to get it.

@SwiftQuill I am not what you’d call woke. I had a friend who was very much anti woke and I didn’t really get why. I mean, I could see the foolishness he was taking aim at, but I still didn’t understand the energy behind his attacks and why it moved him the way it did.

Shit, how did I not see it before? Hating woke = offloading or projecting guilt

I eat meat bro. It’s not a moral competition. It’s fine.

@SwiftQuill - that’s too bad, it was aimed at you. Lol. Of course you’d stop reading upon seen those letters, because I’m just another lost, woke idiot.