Sorry everyone, had to pivot today. We spent the day completely processing ALL Q orders, meaning we’re 100% caught up and can focus solely on upgrades again for a few days. Expect some releases tomorrow— for real this time. Also, I’ll be responding to those who sent PMs.
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I thought about this a lot, but I think this is one of nature’s laws that will never change.
Remember pareto?
20% of stars have 80% of the mass.
20% of employees do 80% of the work.
20% of customers being 80% of the revenue.
20% of men have access to 80% of the women.
Etc
Thus, 20% of people hold 80% of the wealth.
Or even just 1%.
Maybe there is a way to change that but it’s a universal law so Idk.
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@AlexanderGraves I am currently under the impression that this is is a self-fulfilling prophecy in multiple cases.
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Its not so much a self for filling prophesy but more the poor pulling each other down (because they don’t know any better).
Ask yourself this, why do poor people buy expensive clothes and not have any savings. Its not just because they are lacking the IQ of a normal individual but that they are expected to share if they have excess and they don’t know when the next windfall will happen.
Hence, they have an incentive to spunk it all away fairly quickly.
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That’s a beautiful reminder of something I rarely see in money circles. I’ve been thinking of ways to share, and your bolded words are doable for both sides.
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This is generally referred to as the Crab Mentality, and might totally be the reason for this (apart from Pareto).
And decades of indoctrination.
People virtually don’t BELIEVE they can change their life. This doesn’t come naturally. It was instilled in them.
Still, let’s get back to topic.
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I think you can find the same line of thinking in House of Medici where you add value to other people’s lives.
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Some people simply CANNOT change their lives. Imagine a kid who grows up in a poverty stricken black community. He lives with his mother and sister no father.
The kid joins a gang who give him money and recognition. Years later he decides he wants to become a lawyer or doctor. So he has to go and study.
First he has to break ties with the gang. The gang says "oh no you cant leave if you do we will kill your mother sister and you.
So in the end he cannot escape he cant change for the better.
You believe “anyone can do it if they try hard enough” or words to that effect, don’t you.
Therefore it logically follows that you should be blaming the poor for not trying hard enough.
Actually, what I was talking about isn’t the “crab mentality” whereby people deliberately pull others down which is done as an ego defence mechanism that if one person succeeds it automatically implies that others could have done the same and there is automatically something wrong with the ones left behind.
What I mentioned above was that if someone comes into a small meaningless amount of money, say a few hundred bucks and they save it and a family member has an emergency, say the car explodes or washing machine breaks then the family is expected to help each other out because that’s what families do, take care of one another.
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It’s a sad reality.
A lot of people struggle in a cycle of poverty because there is a system in place to stop them from breaking free from their circumstances.
They stay within the system for various reasons such as ignorance, comfort or fear.
It happens at national level in places such as North Korea.
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This really needs its own thread so we can keep this one clear for upgrade announcements
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I am sorry but it makes me angry when people make a blanket statement about other people without even even thinking about what they are going through.
Yeah sure, but this isn’t the reason for their poverty.
This happens to rarely to make an impact imo.
I’d say, it is because they don’t KNOW that they create their reality with everything they do, including working a shitty job and putting no effort to escape. Also due to a belief system, but also negative reinforcement by friends.
And yes I DO believe any poor person could get out of that. 100%.
I get a lot of flag for saying that, I am aware.
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Ok lets run with your example.
Intellgence is (roughly) 70% inherited and intelligent parents tend to stick together when having kids. So the kid is not clever enough to become a doc or paid liar (I have a very low opinion of lawyers, think about it).
So because he isn’t particularly bright he joins a gang for the status and access to vagina that this will allow him.
Even though his dreams of living the lifestyle portrayed in rap videos eludes him, he doesn’t really want to change because the gang has become his social support system.
So yes, he can’t change for the better.
Because the welfare state encouraged his parents to breed without foresight.
Because he went to a govt school where 25% leave being functionally illiterate after 11 years of govt indoctrination which necessitates the introduction of a state legislated minimum wage (which in itself results in fewer entry level jobs).
Because even if he does leave the gang and get a proper job earning the average wage the govt will still force him to pay an effective tax rate of more than 50%.
Still, none of this is my fault because whilst I continue to seek part time employment as dictator of the world for life, to solve all of societies ills other people think they know better.
The only thing I can do is understand that tax laws so that even though I make multiples of the average wage I pay no income tax.
And this is fully legal, too.
Absolutely! Abundance comes when you take responsibility for all your circumstances (even those you aren’t to blame for) and take steps to change your situation whether it be an abundance of sex, money, power, etc.
When you take responsibility, you tell yourself that you have agency over your life and you won’t let others control it.
Abundance doesn’t depend on intelligence (the rare exception being the mentally handicapped but even here the law of attraction could take over).
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Somebody up the thread has already mentioned North Korea.
Good luck trying to take control of your life over there.
Hey! There will once again be rare exceptions to the rule. Like they say, the exceptions prove the rule
PS: people have escaped North Korea too
Strawman argument to prove your point.
I don’t know enough about NK because I never lived there.
Let’s stick with the West, where this is 100% true.
Guys, we shouldn’t go off, please 
Sorry I did 
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A straw man argument is where the original argument is distorted. You have repeated twice here that you believe ANYONE can make it if they try hard enough. That IS your argument. I am presenting evidence that this is actually not true.
Some people have diminished or little or no self agency.
Did you know that North Korea has labour camps where children are born into captivity, never to be released, because their parents were regarded as somehow “against the state”.
How much agency do you allow these children to have and are you going to blame them for not succeeding in life.
Because according to your belief you should do so.
Ever heard of the footballer Christiano Ronaldo? Apparently he trains very hard everyday and I have no reason to doubt this.
Every time he scores a goal he takes his shirt of to show his body. And as any competitive bodybuilder will tell you that sort of low body fat physique is created in the kitchen and takes a great deal of hard work and perseverance.
And it is clear that from his public persona he wants to be the best footballer ever.
Yet he isn’t.
Because Lionel Messi exists.
So even though you have already come back at me with a supposed quote of Messis that it took him 8 years of hard training to become an overnight success. Perhaps you should consider that just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true.
There exists on youtube video of a 10 year old Messi playing football and he was already head and shoulders above all the other kids and by far the best player on the park.
Did he really start serious training at the age of 2? I would be really impressed if he did. And what about all the other 10 year old boys he was playing with, were none of them trying, were they really there to only make up the numbers? is it their fault they weren’t trying hard enough. Are you seriously trying to claim none of the other kids wanted to score loads of goals.
Perhaps you should tell Ronaldo its his own fault for not trying hard enough.
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