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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:35:19 JST cjd
   Oh man, TheAtlantic just accidentally stumbled across the mechanism behind the fertility crisis and now they have to pretend like they didn't see anything, because if they acknowledge it, it's going to destroy their fragile little world view.
   
   Go bully them.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:35:18 JST Fish of Rage

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     @cjd maybe most women think they're trapped in a bad marriage but only when the woman wins the lottery is she able to escape
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:38:55 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Pete Zaitcev
     @zaitcev @cjd I didn't say they settled, I said they were in a bad marriage. but it is possible that they think they can do better now that they're rich
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:38:56 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     • Fish of Rage
     @sun @cjd Duh, that's what female hypergamy is all about. They all aim high (statistically).
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:11:25 JST veff :trash:

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     • Fish of Rage

     @sun @cjd An aspect of female nature that's virtually never talked about is how their own perceived value is lowered by being in a relationship. When the okboomer egirl revealed she had a boyfriend, her simps dried up almost entirely and immediately.

     So, in her mind, a woman can choose between several simps who are good at one thing (money, sex, lifestyle, etc.) vs one boyfriend/husband.

     One guy can never truly compete against a roster of specialized individuals, so if she gets enough money to never rely on her unsuspecting sugar daddy (the avg 5 guy in a relationship right now), she'll ghost him. It's just how they are.

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:11:25 JST Fish of Rage

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     • veff :trash:
     @veff @cjd yeah I think that people often don't want to hear that there are reasons based in reality that explain some double standards
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:17:17 JST Fish of Rage

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     • veff :trash:
     @veff @cjd @EdBoatConnoisseur there are enough women that don't fall into these patterns that I'm not comfortable assuming about any individual woman that she's like this.
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:17:18 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     • Fish of Rage

     @veff @sun @cjd that is why women should have never been recognized as individuals, only as property.

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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:17:18 JST veff :trash:

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     • Fish of Rage

     @EdBoatConnoisseur @sun @cjd It is what it is; she'll do what she can get away with. The problem is the simps. Simps allow them to live this way.

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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:18 JST cjd

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     • HateMonster (unofficial)
     Forget about economic metrics, anyone can tell any story they want with metrics. You want to get the real truth, look for people FLAUNTING WEALTH.
     
     Count Ferrari dealerships, count marinas.
     
     The surest sign of new wealth is people showing it off. And what you're going to find is that The Land Of Opportunity is actually the land of opportunity, and all these metrics are a bunch of cope.
     lainy likes this.
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     HateMonster (unofficial) (gatheist123@genderheretics.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:21 JST HateMonster (unofficial)

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     @cjd Pretty sure I read it in this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:22 JST cjd

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     • HateMonster (unofficial)
     I suspect you're talking about "Global Social Mobility Index" which is a cooked number.
     
     > The Global Social Mobility Index is an index prepared by the World Economic Forum.
     > Pillar 1: Health, Pillar 2: Education Access, Pillar 3: Education Quality and Equity
     ...you get the idea
     
     It's fake, and it's counting a bunch of WEF bullshit to make countries who implement the WEF plan look the best.
     
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     A bit better is Income Mobility because it is literally "do the children of poor people stay poor?" which is a simple question you can't really fake, and in Canada, they do.
     
     But even this misses the actual point. Imagine a country where 3 families owned everything, but at least they implement a nice education system so the son of a poor field worker can become a middling factory worker, by this metric they succeeded, but nobody will ever actually OWN the factory.
     
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     If you REALLY want is how many sons of factory workers end up owning a factory. How many working class become actual billionaires. Because if 100 people become billionaires, then you know 1000 people became millionaires trying. That's the kind of social mobility we care about. Canada isn't as bad as Europe, but it isn't as good as the US, by far.
     
     "A lot of people have a lot of money" is not something you can fake.
     
     https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/140523001236-superentrepreneursandhowyourcountrycangetthemupdate.pdf
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     HateMonster (unofficial) (gatheist123@genderheretics.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:23 JST HateMonster (unofficial)

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     • Dicey

     I don't know about Italy, but Canada has definitely has higher social mobility than the U.S. People born into entrenched poverty are less likely to find their way out of it without a decent social safety net.

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     Dicey (dicey@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:24 JST Dicey

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     @cjd as a libertarian do you know why your ideology focus so much energy on the rights of people who are very rich and why most rich people seem to follow this ideology
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:24 JST cjd

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     • Dicey
     Well I can't speak for everyone, but I can speak for myself:
     
     More than the "rights of the rich", I care about the rights of people to BECOME rich. Sadly, once people become rich, they often use the political power of their money to slam the door on others, so that they and their families can stay The Rich for perpetuity. The world is no better off thanks to John Kerry, even if his wife's great great grandfather he invented ketchup 100 years ago. But the world is a LOT better off because of Elon Musk inventing practical electric cars, economical space flight, and low latency satellite internet, or because Jeff Bezos invented modern e-commerce.
     
     If there's no opportunity to become rich, then the country becomes reified with a couple of families owning everything and no innovation - as it is in Italy or Canada. Everyone suffers as a result.
     
     Why are rich people often libertarian, well, this is a bit of a self-serving point of view, but I think SMART people tend to become rich, and smart people also tend to become libertarian. There are rich socialists, like John Kerry, but these are Old Money rich, they did not contribute anything to become rich, they only became rich by inheritance.
     
     So really, libertarianism is not so much the philosophy of The Rich as it is the philosophy of The Disrupter. And disrupters are the ones who move the human race forward.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 21:01:25 JST cjd

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