Post B6JNYpGyutIL1Ki3Wq by icedquinn@blob.cat
 (DIR) More posts by icedquinn@blob.cat
 (DIR) Post #B6JMx9g2bdKVIaT5Gq by Nimbius666@comp.lain.la
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       Imagine working sixty hour weeks (minimum) until you're dead, having four ways to say thank you and five ways to apologize, and an entire phonebook of regulations for polite society, and the government has the audacity to call you out for declining birthrate.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JMx9py0jGlnN70k4 by icedquinn@blob.cat
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @Nimbius666 i think structurally the rich are actually brain damaged.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JNYpGyutIL1Ki3Wq by icedquinn@blob.cat
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @Nimbius666 like a recent article hopped up on fedi[1] was talking about rich whites trying to borrow the "realness" from black panthers. which there is probably something to.people with status get mobbed by sycophants. AI has made access to yes-man culture available to everyone[2]. and the measurements suggest that being gassed constantly destroys your calibration. another important note is that monopoly studies show that people internalize their competence by win rate--monopoly players believe they are just better even if the reason they won is deliberate handicaps. and then the "it's just chance" study again notes that elites are generally not actually skilled (slightly above average if anything) just riding connections to the top.david goggins interviewed about intentionally visiting slums or working bad/hard jobs as basically a calibration move out of fear of this happening to him. Sineck notes that humans deferring privilege to status is basically a deeply rooted behavior[3]. But this rooting is also based on status == some optimal function of the tribe.So basically men of middling quality have optimized to ride social ladders and reinforce beliefs with other "winners" and sycophants and truly come to believe they are actually winners at life and everyone else needs to just git gud.[1]: https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-white-face-of-black-supremacy[2]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352[3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34441077-leaders-eat-last
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JNd5o5NydhSSEDmS by icedquinn@blob.cat
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @Nimbius666 the fact that they all shut the doors behind them and then begin gatekeeping to prevent anyone else from winning apparently doesn't register to them at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JOCwMzwuq6cBeTgm by littlehatemachine@kiwifarms.cc
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @icedquinn @Nimbius666 > the white face of black supremacyLMAO
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JOCwYLGjuhBMxXN2 by icedquinn@blob.cat
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @littlehatemachine @Nimbius666 its a funny title but they're not exactly wrong about shitlibs that need to wear a progressive cloak for clout but don't actually give a shit about people
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JOvy58QnVYxIldTM by littlehatemachine@kiwifarms.cc
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @icedquinn @Nimbius666 what am I meant to take away from the article exactly?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6JOvyHBhz9JYgPGG8 by icedquinn@blob.cat
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @littlehatemachine @Nimbius666 that's between you and your reading comprehension by this point :cirno_shrug: