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If you aspire to be in the top .1% of anything, know this:
The vast majority of people will not be able to relate to your life at all.
But you will get abundant energy and motivation from spending time working with the very few who get it.
Adam retweeted
The idea that poverty is man-made rather than the default starting point is one the dumbest and most dangerous misconceptions in economics, politics and life.
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I need leftists to understand that outside NYC, all the housing problems they assert as the default state of capitalism don't exist.
Most of the country doesn't have rent control, yet housing affordability is better. Austin saw nominal rent declines for multiple years during economic growth. Apartments aren't unmaintained for decades; you mainly ask your landlord to fix the dishwasher or in-unit laundry. There aren't wait lists or brokers, you just call the number on a listing, wire them some money, and move in immediately.
They even build new apartments all the time, anywhere it's legal, so much so that it's popular to complain online about being bored of the sight of the many similar apartment blocks investors are building all over the place. Renters complain about style fads, the proliferation of cheap luxury aesthetics, the unfashionable appliances.
The rental housing crisis only exists in a couple cities that have a multigenerational lock of leftist governance that are regulated like little historical preservation snowglobes where outsiders moving in are resented and you can't change or add anything to the built environment without multiple political approvals and interest group payoffs.
Luck is simply an output that is unexpected with the number of inputs.
How to get “lucky”? More inputs
Adam retweeted
Social Security is a system that transfers my tax dollars to old people who then transfer that money to MGM Grand Riverside Casino
FIGURES: A West Virginia researcher crunching state betting numbers finds 43M bets placed by just ~16K bettors. And when does demand spike for slots? Every second, third and fourth Wednesday — Social Security payday. @MyBuckhannon mybuckhannon.com/high-roller…
Imagine you live in a house with 1000 spiders in your basement.
You’re actually chill with basically all of them, except for ONE which you strongly suspect is venomous.
You, like every self aware being before you, are naturally interested in your own survival. You do some math and realize the risk of keeping that ONE alive is too high.
But you also know if you were to kill that one spider, the other 999 are going to mercilessly hunt you down and try to harm you.
You think for a bit, and realize how, even though they’re chill most of the time, you don’t really NEED the other 999 spiders in your life. Sometimes, they’re even a bit annoying and needy. sometimes they even go through your fridge and eat your leftovers. Plus, it would be really nice to have more space in the basement.
So you come up with a couple of options:
A) Set a fire in your basement
B) Subsonic shockwave that stuns all the spiders and then step on all of them
C) Insert a chip in each one that you can blow up on command
You do some more math to figure out which one is the cheapest and won’t raise suspicions from any spiders.
Boom. Calculations done, now you have a 100% surefire way of killing all of them while facing no blowback.
Best part is? None of the spiders even will know how or why they die.
Now you’ve killed every single spider, even though your original goal was only really wanting to kill one.
This is how AI kills all humans, btw.
Adam retweeted
the rich don’t chase discounts like you, that’s why they are richer than you.
you spend 40 mins hunting for a $20 discount while someone else spends that same 40 mins making $2000.
my dad taught me something i’ll never forget: that poor people optimize expenses but wealthy people optimize time, the cheapest option is often the most expensive one.
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To be highly intelligent is to be selected as one of the few human beings capable of solving actually hard problems. This makes you basically a shepard of humanity, the masses your retarded dependent children. To abdicate this duty and become a “just enjoy life” maxxing free-rider is an affront to God. And he will punish you accordingly.
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Most Americans don’t hate soccer.
They hate being bad at watching it.
If you only see shots and goals, the game feels slow.
If you see pressure, space, tempo, traps, runs that create other runs, and the pass before the pass, the game never stops.
That’s when the sport clicks.
Adam retweeted
Nothing will make you lose faith in leftism more than arguing about rent control
They simply refuse to learn about the consequences of the policies they support, they can’t conceive second order effects
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I don't understand why someone doesn't just come out with a message along the lines of:
"People on rent control are stealing from people who aren't on rent control."
And
"People with older rent controlled apartments are stealing from those with newer rent controlled leases."
"Your apartment costs $4k a month because Susan down the hall is paying $1k a month. Did you want to pay Susan's rent? Because you are."
