The saddest truth about my marriage is that she has to wake up day in day out knowing my $zeph stack is bigger than her ass.
When a van of builders drives past and beeps, it's for me.
As much of a tragedy this is, I'll never reduce my $zeph stack to let her shine.
The UK went from “we need to stop kids from watching porn” to actual dystopian mass surveillance in the span of two years
Digital ID is the slipperiest slope of all time
There's basically 3 jobs in the 'economy of the future':
1. Guy who goes into traditional white collar businesses, fires 80% of people and replaces them with AI
2. Guy who builds in deep tech for the real world (biotech, space, hardware, manufacturing, hardcore engineering)
3. Guy who is Chad relationship sales-maxxer (relational jobs)
If you are not positioning to be in one of these categories, I am afraid, unfortunately anon, you will be in the permanent underclass where Dario gives you 3 tokens a week, the State gives you universal basic fiat, and you get slopboxes (bugs) delivered to your door by robots for dinner.
I hate niggas who think like this alexander was groomed from a young age to be leader he had fucking aristotle as a private tutor in one of the most advanced civilizations at the time, he was great but he was MADE great. Your ass goes to a public school with no toilet paper.
Once you gain a certain competency in your craft
This is how all jobs start to feel
You make more money, but do less work
Why is this?
Because when you actually get to hone the same skills for 3+ years
Vs trying to pick up a new skill every 6 months to a year
Your skills start compounding and work becomes really easy
And you become really good and can command more pay
Everyone talks about generational wealth, but nobody talks about what the one individual in the family tree had to do to create that wealth.
They weren’t a 6’8 genetic phenom like LeBron James.
They were a psychopathic, sociopathic, Machiavellian motherfucker who exploited people, used slave labor, embezzled money, laundered money, owned oil rigs, and worked 150 hours a week.
Those types of motherfuckers created the Elon Musks and Donald Trumps of the world.
The “self-made” millionaires you see on Instagram are standing on foundations they never built.
I hate to tell you this, but if you didn’t come from a rich family, you’re not getting rich bro. You have no chance.
Unless you’re a real psychopath. A real sociopath.
Someone who’s willing to destroy personal relationships, tarnish their reputation, become unemployable, work 3 days straight with no end in sight, take advantage of people, and sacrifice everything for money.
If you’re not willing to do that, just accept you’ll forever be part of the underclass and sit back while society slowly crumbles around you.
@fredsoda As someone in their early 20s, yes. I have zero room to misstep in my judgement and it’s a creeping tension I carry behind my every decision.
my engineering professor left me with a powerful lesson before i graduated undergrad:
beware of taking the prestigious job with the big salary; you’ll get accustomed the lifestyle and you’ll take less risks because you’d have to forgo the cushy perks and status
from my personal experience, he was right
my 20s weren’t perfect by any means but i had a pretty cool journey because i was willing to follow my curiosity versus chasing the next big salary or prestigious gig
i grew a lot because of all the unique experiences i had
for Gen Z’s they have it tough, because you need to explore in your 20s vs. just optimizing for the next rung on the latter
I am genuinely terrified the Internet is going to completely break and be unusable in the UK soon. What the fuck am I supposed to do
Even if all these companies DID integrate this tyrannical authoritarian bullshit, many others will just refuse to comply and geoblock us.
My god you 20s gen z kids are morons. It's official. You're foolish to the depths of idiocy.
There's two girls next to me saying,
"I realized I never want to live like my mom. She sacrificed her whole life for dad. Then she sacrificed for each of her kids. She gave up her whole life!
Why should I give up my whole life?!"
Morons.
This is like saying, I'm never going to give up taking taxis. Why should I spend all that time washing and waxing my own Lambo?!
They don't realize that you're getting a family that loves you by sacrificing depression, lonely emptiness and 5 cats.
25–28 is an interesting age. I've observed an inflection point during this time at which people start to really diverge in their careers.
e.g.
I have friends who, by this age, have become wildly successful, making millions of dollars, and some have even achieved fame.
Other friends have fallen into a dark hole, not able to find employment or steady work, and even starting to engage in destructive behavior, resulting in life-changing circumstances.
I wonder what it is at this time that causes this extreme divergence.
My guess: if you start working at 22 after graduation, it takes about five years to get good enough at something where people start to notice.
But if you don't find traction early, a few years of drifting can push you toward harmful habits that push your life in the opposite direction.
our government officials have genuinely lost their minds, idk how else to put it without saying shit that will get me banned from X, i wish companies would stop selling their shit here maybe the government might take the hint
its really funny. in the future, the ai founder vibe code prompt engineer priest class are the only ones who can afford real girls and you in the permanent underclass get a claude gf who tells you "you are out of free feet pics until 3:40pm today"
Trading212 sent me an email about the ipo of space x, don't think I've ever seen an email about an IPO before from them.
space x is about to finess the hell out of retail investors and make musk a trillionaire. Brilliant.