@JoshuaSheats Well said, this type of upbringing brainwashes one to believe in a very binary formula for success (high gpa, "highly regarded" University, impressive job title). If you don't reach that then you must truly feel like a failure. If you succeed you may still find your self unhappy.
@compoundpapi Lol, I've found my tolerance for flaking/outright annoying behaviour declines precipitously after about age 23, to the point where if she is near 30 I basically can't with anytime of bullshit.
@compoundpapi called being "pro-choice". Feminists should be consistent on the subject of choice. If a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion, she should also have the right to choose to have sex for money. It's her body; it's her right.” ― Chester Brown, Paying for It
@compoundpapi “Feminists have accepted that choice is possible when it comes to a different, difficult subject: abortion. The feminist position (and I agree with it) is that women own their bodies and therefore each woman has the right to choose to get an abortion if she gets pregnant. This is
@compoundpapi I actually think the right approach is just decriminalise it, since legalising it would have the government involved and require women to get licenses (when many prefer to be anonymous).
@compoundpapi ... can do, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world. In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people! In civilian life you go to jail for giving someone an orgasm!”
George Carlin
@compoundpapi “I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? I can't follow the logic on that one at all! Of all the things you
@Richard_Casey The jewish tranny "Lyn Allen" is so undeserving of his respect in the btc community. Look up his resume very little actual real world experience working on debt etc besides starting as a seekingalpha writer.
@compoundpapi Honestly, the solution is just have several years of spending allocated to short term 3mth treasury ETFs once you hit a couple million or already in retirement. You basically can rest easy knowing whatever volatility you are comfortable.
@Larryjamieson_ It's just a slow burn societal collapse as the incentives are just not there for men. This will just get worse as the sex robots and or VR porn + pocket pussy/mouth devices vastly improve over the next 10 years removes more men from even trying...
@taobanker Female single FIRE is basically a joke anyways at least if they are thin and somewhat pleasant, they can always find a bf/husband who makes the money. Good luck pulling that as a Male single Fire.
@shagbark_hick This was an era before birth control and the expectation was marriage if you had sex. You remove birth control and access to sex requires marriage and fertility would be 7 births a woman. But we don't have the political will to do that.
@shagbark_hick Have you looked into capital gain/dividend taxes? A single income filer could collect 64k in dividends and pay zero in federal taxes. Compare the quality of life of a W2 employee earning 100k renting or w/ mortgage vs a person with a paid off house and collecting $5300 tax free.
@shagbark_hick@happy_mcneal My buddy in Fairbanks Alaska sells chaga tea online and basically during the summer goes on public land to cut them from the trees or sources it cheap from Hermits. In good years he grosses 6 figures.