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mircea_popescu: "The problem isn't the government, the problem is you. It is always you. "
mircea_popescu: five people read that thing, at most, and nobody asked them anything. he might as well have been the author of any other rejected nbc pilot.
mircea_popescu: "Wilkinson is not just another academic social policy theorist who references Marx; he is also the editor of the 2003 version of the WHO report on social justice. " ummm... aaaand who cares ?
mircea_popescu: unfortunately inhabited, but in the modern era that can be fixed.
mircea_popescu: "oh, google is a valuablke company because it has all the world's data". a) you are not the world ; b) nobody fucking wants your data, i'd rather keep footage of afids engaging in gang rape.
mircea_popescu: self-esteem education has resulted in a country that will be sold on the open market by the pound.
mircea_popescu: brazil has actual rich people. but it also has poor people who do not fucking expect to be on tv.
mircea_popescu: "oh, income equality". brazil has A LOT more of it than the us. in the us everyone is poor. i mean this, literally, there are NO RICH PEOPLE in the us. nobody is rich there. everyone is poor like a fucking dog, like the soviets were poor in 1980.
mircea_popescu: some people are fucked in the head, that's all. this isn't socieity.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage to look at the data showing that us blacks making $1k a month just for the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas those same blacks living in brazil, making a quarter as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix the swing in the park that they build for free in their spare time and decide there's something wrong "with society"
mircea_popescu: how many shows did they do anwyay? 100 hours ? 20 ? 200 ?
mircea_popescu: "As much as Sandra Bullock drives me insane I have never set fire to a trash can or impregnated a teenager because she made what is obviously way too much money for agreeing to be in the worst movies ever scripted by spider monkeys."
mircea_popescu: but it is shockingly the foremost property of the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: which in and of itself is an unexpected result - when you think soaps you don't think "judicious remuneration of contributors" first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: it was clear to me that the amount of money he made off seinfeld (~zilch) is actually a very correct evaluation of his actual contribution to the show.
mircea_popescu: i watched five minutes of that thing, mostly to evaluate the douche's (larry) contriobution to seinfeld. i fell upon this scene where a pubescent girl rings his doorbell and then gets her first period. and he behaves like a lunatic.
mircea_popescu: no, sadly. i liked it originally. by the time i was done i squarely didn't like it anymore.
mircea_popescu: i don't either. but i did study that show, like meade studied gorilla cock or whatever the fuck she studied.
mircea_popescu: is it possible to load too much sand into your codpiece in sahara ? that's really all there is to load in your codpiece around there.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could readily say, seinfeld, baywatch, "dwfs" or whatever - i didn't look that one up, bite me - are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: elin are profiled as they raise their atypical family of sextuplets and twins." when it really should read "that boring dumbass trying to make money out of televising her sextuplets" ?
mircea_popescu: i have to google ALL his dumbass popculture references, and that is ALL i ever have to chase. somehow the medicine he knows, i know. fucking "gosselin" ? i actually have to look at a phrase going "Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (born Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Goss
mircea_popescu: somehow it doesn't occur to him he really is watching too much fucking tv.
mircea_popescu: "If I was a woman of, say, 30, overwhelmed by hidden ambivalence, making next to nothing while spending next to everything, simultaneously unfulfilled by my excellent material possessions while protected from facing my actual social position; if I had to choose a direction in life but realizing that my choice probably didn't matter because the outcome had already been decided by the audience, yeah, I'd be on Abilify, t
mircea_popescu: fun fact : the private aviation airport is in a place caled moron.
mircea_popescu: (gotta remember - it doesn't snow here. consequently, their ideas of tolerance is not 3.5 to 5x)
mircea_popescu: while im pretty sure the roof will support a dozen lithe chicks seeing how i can lift them in pairs,
mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof as in, a floor without a roof on top of the building.
mircea_popescu: this is why you can't have nice things. i end up with them and i don't even like them.
mircea_popescu: hey, it will drive linux adoption [to all the schmucks who will not run linux unless it's really windows]
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this behaviour is an improvement over windows' reboot cycle.
mircea_popescu: (which is almost always the case, which is why SV loves to "pay" in equity)
mircea_popescu: you're only a bagholder inasmuch as the shit you made wasn't worth anything anyway.
mircea_popescu: well properly speaking, most of these companies are not companies with employees, they're more like work clubs or some sort of co-op.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem with finance, and stock warrants and such. they gotta make up their own minds. which means think.
mircea_popescu: which is stupid in the first place. it's like dispensing with the part of your food that you don't like - where it nourishes you.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it is a collosal waste of time. the problem with time however is that it can be but wasted - whatever you do with it can not be traded for the time it took. not at a profit, not at all. so... waste, all of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: "wait, for them and their grandkids ? my family was foreclosed on five times in three generations! " "don't you have it so much better ? FORTY ACRES AND A MULE!!1"
mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don't thionk about that!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and getting back to slavery (as a historical consturct this time) and the subtle perversion of culture : in the ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it that point out that they were being educated (misrepresented as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop to point out that a) they didn't starve periodically like their northern counterparts and b) if they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
mircea_popescu: (more precisely : not giving enough of a shit to cave - mowing down the dumb people doesn't count.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. not giving a shit about having the same conversation with different dumb people every day.
mircea_popescu: i have the blessed chomsky advantage. apparently this is rare, but, i don't mind bothering people.
mircea_popescu: "son, your mother has cancer. here's a line-up of applicants for the job."
mircea_popescu: "oh but being a slave is bad!11". sure. except if you believe this someone will extract value out of you by calling it something else. "but i already do that, you think this brand name medicine is worth the difference from generics ?" right-o.
mircea_popescu: he can't see all this because reasons, of the TYPE of the reason that's "raceysm" even if not exactly identical.
mircea_popescu: see how the culture subtly ensures people are unhappy ?
mircea_popescu: o wait no, that's bad also. gotta call it what, motherjob now ?
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with just introducing yourself as "domestic slave" ? oh, i saw that in a film once. better call it "housewife"
mircea_popescu: because "raceysm" is the shorthand for a social convention, that's on one hand nonsensical, and on the other precludes people who are slaves from addressing their slavery as such. it must be called something else. because lo and behold, a person who does work for no pay at the behest of her masters is now "in a job" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "o but we decided slavery is bad". yeah, like ballas decided killing is never right.
mircea_popescu: "caring for her family was the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had" aka "my domestic slavery is a much more fulfilling, pleasant and empowering personal situation than your job will ever hope to get". that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would the woman have to apologize for not being retarded by calling what she does ia job is beyond me.