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mircea_popescu: the hierarchy of consume-more-than-produce young females is very strictly 1. girls who found
themselves a sponsor, who fucks
them and pays
their rent ABOVE 2. morons living in state-run orphanage.
the SAME EXACT
thing applies
to boys
too, just because you pay your own rent doesn't change
the disposition in
the field, doesn't make up down and down up.
mircea_popescu: renting means you rent from some dude who owns, and you're better off with some dude who owns in your life
than without. ESPECIALLY because you're an orphan. and you're paying, and paying on
time, and doing other
things (eg your very own quote, "maintain with own hands"), it is infinitely better for you
to have
than
to not have.
mircea_popescu: not
to mention
the MOST important element, by far : as a young orphan (and if your dad dun have any duchies for you, you ARE an orphan, whether you admit it or not ; denial won't fix status) you WANT
to get in
the way of men-who-aren't-as-fucked-in-the-head-and-offensively-useless-and-retarded as
that mongrel dog your drunk of a mother fucked
to produce you.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 21:09:33 asciilifeform: lobbes:
this may be a geographic
thing, or simply asciilifeform's luck, but when renting 'from human' never 1nce experienced rising cost.
they're extremely reluctant
to raise it, because 'what happens if
this d00d leaves and aint replaced until months later, or is replaced with a normal person who dun maintain w/ own hands' etc
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-16 05:37:45 mircea_popescu: IF
the problem is
that
the currency is shit (which is strictly what "rising rents" means : if rents are rising,
THEREFORE
the currency is shit. if urine is sweet,
THEREFORE diabethes, no iffs or butts about it,
these are NOT separable),
then owning real estate is a very poor solution : real estate follows
the currency secular
trend
mircea_popescu:
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-16#1936660 <<
this is why, eg, greenwhich village even fucking happened in
the 50s : rents were SO LOW a bunch of niggers getting
together for an evening could sing
themselves into
the month's rent. it was CHEAPER
to live
there
than in whatever alabama
that spawned
them. because back
then
the currency was strong, because etc.
mircea_popescu: you will be interested, of course, BUT FIVE DECADES HENCE. when you're old.
then
the sort of non-negotiable commitment makes sense. not in your fucking 20s, so spare me with all
the "jobs" you can not sell (yes,
this is what "working remote" IS, SELLING IT!!!), all
the "college degrees" worth 0 on auction, and all
the etcetera.
mircea_popescu: if whatever
the fuck it is "you have" can't be ~sold~, on
the ~open market~, YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN IT.
mircea_popescu: as a young orphan with potential, you keep
to negotiable instruments.
that's why
the young men of florence who did get
to be old men and successful enough as
to buy up all
the young cunts for gold
to all
the failures' despair went into
trade rather
than bureaucracy!
mircea_popescu: fucking land and chattels as
to be desperate for loyal hands, and more
than happy
to "go,
take x, hang yourself with it, holy hell finally!"
mircea_popescu: things flow
the other way, your aging dad gives you
the duchy of cornwall for you
to hold on
to for him, what
the fuck is
this ? and if dad ~dun have~ a duchy of cornwall large enough
to keep you occupied, ~you leave~. and you spit on his head,
too, because HE FAILED in life. because
this was his fucking job : by
the
time
the sons he made were old enough
to do something useful with histime, he was supposed
to have so much
mircea_popescu: buying "a house" from "the bank" is
THE EXACT EQUIVALENT of giving your savings
to your dad "to hold on
to
them for you". what
the fuck, are you
twelve ?
mircea_popescu: if you're a young man, YOU DO NOT BUY ILLIQUID, NON-NEGOTIABLE ANYTHING!!!! i don't mean, with money. i mean with anything. you have enough sense
to keep your sexual relationships at will rather
than get fucking married, fine, but
the same applies
throughout.
snsabot: Logged on 2018-11-25 13:50:17 a111: Logged on 2014-09-10 15:02 mircea_popescu: well yeah. was a bunch o people,
they got building permit and proceeded
to built like at home. concrete pillars, brick walls etc.
mircea_popescu: either you buy made
to order like
my serb friends, or else you buy leftover brownstone nobody else wants, etcetera. what
the fuck,
this is novel
to someone ?! why, because "do we still have
to" read 1700s state of
the art
textbooks on personal conduct ?
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck, are you retarded ? if people who you don't know are making
things for you,
the name for
the
thing
they're making is A
TRAP
mircea_popescu: if you're not a fucking pimp, you don't buy real estate in your 20s. and if you are a pimp, you buy in fucking baltimore, you buy in
the blighted downtown of detroit or philly or whatever
the shit. NOT crap in suburbia ;
mircea_popescu: if you're making a living driving a car, you buy CARS. if you're making a living fixing cars, you buy forklifts and power
tools.
mircea_popescu: that's what you do with every dime you can save : you buy your own
tools!
to become journeyman!
mircea_popescu: IF you are a young man, and are producing more
than consuming (if not, please
follow the recipe for gender re-assignment, you don't belong here), you should save ~in capital goods~ specifically ~of your
trade~.
mircea_popescu: (which is why us banks LEND you houses : it's
the other part of
their international
trade where
they borrow hard currency.)
mircea_popescu: if however
the currency flags, real estate forthwith moves into emergency monetization role, meaning you want
to short it as part of a
triple currency play.
mircea_popescu: IF
the problem is
that
the currency is shit (which is strictly what "rising rents" means : if rents are rising,
THEREFORE
the currency is shit. if urine is sweet,
THEREFORE diabethes, no iffs or butts about it,
these are NOT separable),
then owning real estate is a very poor solution : real estate follows
the currency secular
trend
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 21:06:04 lobbes: indeed, is a scam. I fell for
the 'well, my mortgage will be a fixed cost vs rising rents'
thinking, but neglected
to factor in cost of maintenance, rising property
taxes, whathaveyou
mircea_popescu: useless children spawned by useless women lodged in useless houses wherein a mancave fulla unusable paraphenalia of inutility are uselessly stored... what a fucking life.
the only possible progression is
towards
tranquilizers, and on
the basis of
the cheapest being weed
this
theory'd indicate "a weed epidemic".
mircea_popescu: explains a lot, such as
the "motorcycle" clubs consisting of fellows who buy motorcycle parts for an alleged motorcycle
that has more in common with a
tchotchke
than an actual conveyance, IN
THAT IT DOESN'T FUCKING MOVE
mircea_popescu: no wonder zeks end up crushed under dependopopotami in
their private relations -- at least it's consequent,
the bitch at home behaves exactly like
the home itself, spend decade
to get 0.
mircea_popescu: going from a fixed 53 bytes header
to either 46 or more generally 34 seems a fabulous gain in any case.
mircea_popescu: "snsabot Logged on 2017-12-13 23:52:25 asciilifeform:" should become "snsabot 2017-12-13 [ossasepia] asciilifeform:" for all reads of a foreign log, and "snsabot 2017-12-13 asciilifeform:" for all reads of
this here log.
mircea_popescu: then of course
there's
the hallucinatoria of
the coy reflex, girl who's never
taken a stroll nude down
the busy street imagines it's gonna be
the end of
the world!!! much like
the guy
taking a stumble imagines everyone's watchin' an' judging, AS FUCKING IF
they could unglue
their eyes off
the i[nca[pods long enough
to notice
their own fucking shoes are on fire.
mircea_popescu: (i dun even mean
trinque specifically,
the naive gent's a universal, anyone who never seriously
thought about
these
things in
these forms for
these reasons five or
ten years ago, meaning practically everyone.)
snsabot: Logged on 2017-12-13 23:52:25 asciilifeform: also it is not so hot , as a
tuner, 'shits where it eats' quite severely
mircea_popescu: it's an ecology problem, very much of
the
cycle variety ; an' will have
to be addressed,
though in
this particular case
the corner naive gent's painted himself in is SO FAR OUT
THERE, and
there's SO MUCH GOD DAMNED PAINT surface, it'll
take a while
to unwind.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 20:24:51 hanbot:
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-14#1936285 << more's
the point is
that your "household" consists of a WoT non-entity (afaik, actually. is it?)
that may or may not be just as clueless about saying something here if you get a
touch of
The Butt. aesthetipolitical bents, righteous as
they may be, pale by comparison.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 20:52:11 asciilifeform: will be a gnarly knob, cuz under no circumstances am i running a bot
that dun cross-echo in ~my~ castle.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-14 20:41:10 lobbes: Of course I'm already regretting
that resignation
thinking I did
that with my classic 'jumpy reasoning'; I
think what I really needed was clarity, which comes from communication, which has been working pretty well so far.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform a [#chan] marker from bot sounds good
to me; in #o for now at least I'd rather it cross-echoes indeed but I can see also why
this might not be appropriate for #t
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
There's also
the popular in 401k REITs
that
turn retirement savings dollars into real estate bubble dollars
lobbes: which attracts
the 'non human' rental corps. along with rising rents
lobbes: but I suspect you are correct re: human owners + geographics. Charlotte is a
typical "bubble" city; low corp
tax rates attract
the banking industry, which fuels
the need for meatworkers, but apparently NC doesn't produce skilled-enough workers on its own, so for
the last few decades has been importing 'em (virtually all
the people on my
team are not from NC)
lobbes: oh yeah, my mom used
to be a landlord back before I was born. Would
tell horror stories of
tenants writing curses in literal shit on
the walls when she had
to evict
them for non-payment
lobbes: indeed, is a scam. I fell for
the 'well, my mortgage will be a fixed cost vs rising rents'
thinking, but neglected
to factor in cost of maintenance, rising property
taxes, whathaveyou
lobbes: ^
this is correct. It is a liability right now, not an asset as far as I'm concerned
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 18:43:07 mircea_popescu: but,
traditionally, owning real estate is what separates
the bourgeoisie from
the mob/vagrancie.
hanbot:
http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-14#1936285 << more's
the point is
that your "household" consists of a WoT non-entity (afaik, actually. is it?)
that may or may not be just as clueless about saying something here if you get a
touch of
The Butt. aesthetipolitical bents, righteous as
they may be, pale by comparison.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 14:19:48 lobbes: In other words,
this is
step II ain't it?
The *fact* is
that I'm poor, so I may as well accept
that and stop pretending otherwise, yes? I.e. No palpable difference between 90K WFF per month and 30K WFF per month;
they are both
the same level of poverty
lobbes: roger
that
then re:
the mysql replication. I'll move onto other pieces
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 14:41:04 lobbes: Now, are you cool with me releasing patches in pieces? I.e. First patch will be a bot
that eats IRC and shits lines into a article on
Trilema (under 'logs' category).
Then subsequent patches for
the rest of
the asks.
lobbes: I
think
that is it for people running Stan loggers
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 14:30:31 lobbes: anyways,
this regret will go well with my
penance posts on
the consequences of derealisation inducing activities (mind rot is real!)
mircea_popescu: but,
traditionally, owning real estate is what separates
the bourgeoisie from
the mob/vagrancie.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 14:19:48 lobbes: In other words,
this is
step II ain't it?
The *fact* is
that I'm poor, so I may as well accept
that and stop pretending otherwise, yes? I.e. No palpable difference between 90K WFF per month and 30K WFF per month;
they are both
the same level of poverty
lobbes: BingoBoingo: I'm finding
that your various updates make for amusing (if not challenging) spanish practice
lobbes: ty as always for helping me
to detangle my brain
lobbes: diana_coman:
this is
true, huh. Besides, worse
things I could be
than a knight! I'll
take
the opportunity
to learn how
to not decide
things in haste for example
ericbot: Logged on 2019-09-15 12:57:02 diana_coman: I just realised
that it was probably not clear above: my point was why regret
the *decision*.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 14:46:06 lobbes:
http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-09-15#1936485 << because my decision was made hastily and prematurely imo. I don't
think I needed
to resign. I did so
thinking I could eschew choice, but
that is stupid; can't ever eschew choice wtf. And
this dumb move will result in loss of coolness, as mircea_popescu pointed out; loss of privilege.