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5 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read
From the perspective of biology this is maladaptive, but 99% of you are really not ready to hear that.

#UnpopularOpinion
In #biology, anything that increases your odds of offspring is beneficial and anything that decreases it is maladaptive.

The paradigm of "not settling for less" means that most women high earners have a substantially decreased chance of getting married and having kids.
Note that this decreased chance comes about by a variety of mechanisms - time/energy commitment to the business as well as increased standards for men.

Remember, "top tier women get married pre-24."

If you're learning marketing and grinding the photobooth in your early 20s, that could make sense from a retirement perspective, but later marriage cuts down on offspring and potentially on who you land.

I understand why some women make the trade-off - it's risky to bet on what someone else does, and many don't feel confident unless they personally control the money.

But if you're willing to take risk, you can get better results than OF by marrying well.

Also, according to studies, women who have been with many men and know they have many options tend to be insecure in their relationships and much more likely to doubt they made the best choice.

This functions like the "hundreds of sandwiches" problem.

Uploaded these before, but here they are for the thread.

You statistically will have fewer kids if you get married at 28-32 than in your early 20s. And it's questionable whether you even will have kids if you get married at 37+.

(Maternal age is what matters here.)

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6 Oct
High stakes means people are on the lookout for anything bad.

And honestly, if you get vetoed by one interviewer, you probably didn't vibe with them. That may or may not be "your fault" but you CAN work on being positive and high-energy.

Let me do a quick thread on #interviews.
I've done hundreds of interviews, both as interviewer and interviewee, and most people grossly misunderstand how #interviews work.

First off, an interview is human interaction.
This seems obvious but the point is, it's not a neutral infodump. It's a vibe check.

What that means is a little more complicated, because people are complicated.

If you are awesome and they can pick up on it, great! Unless they're insecure, in which case it goes against you.
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Learned a new word today: Bhimta.

No, not Bhima, the hero with a mace who sired Ghatotkacha, who threatened to kill an entire army and forced Karna to use a single-use astral weapon.

This is a social thing.
Have you ever wondered, when listening to someone describe a caste system, why the lower castes don't just defect?

I mean if it sucks that much, you'd take any other ticket out of town, right? That's the "economically rational" thing to do.
Well, they couldn't when India was ruled by Hindus, but apparently 500,000 Dalits did just that after the British took over.

Only, they couldn't quite decide what to be next.

Identity is tricky like that.
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5 Oct
I sometimes wonder if people who rant about "artificial scarcity" were dropped on their heads as children.

SCARCITY IS THE POINT OF SOCIETY.

#statusmatters
Every functional society since the dawn of time has had winners and losers, because a society that cannot assign resources and determine winners and losers is one that doesn't have to be obeyed at all, or in other words, one that is extremely likely to fall apart.
"But, like, imagine if everyone just had everything they needed provided to them. Wouldn't it be so peaceful?"

Congratulations. You have just managed to describe Africa, where for many years they got food shipments for everyone but warlords intercepted them.
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4 Oct
The relevance and reasonableness of strategies depend heavily on whether you want to keep the purchasing power of your current dollars within the US, or internationally.

#investment
Obviously, in either case you can consider some physical gold and bitcoin.

But physical gold and bitcoin do not generate cash flow. So after that, you have to ask yourself what you believe is a likely scenario of collapse and where you will be standing when it happens.
If you're planning to be in the US the whole time, buying real estate as a performing asset that hedges against inflation works quite well.

If you're planning to leave and go outside the US post-collapse, that's questionable because it's still dollar denominated.
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A biologist asked the other day why everyone feels qualified to have opinions on biology and if his is the only field that is treated with this level of contempt.

Since I have talked publicly about #money #mindset for years, I had to laugh.
"Everyone knows what money is" is on the same level of logic as "look, everybody can read and write these days, so anybody can be a writer."

Theoretically this is kind of true, but in reality is it?
If people widely suck at a thing despite having an introduction to it, and don't accomplish their goals, consider that maybe the field actually has some depth beyond the introductory level.

#philosophy
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Watching a lot of people flip out at @BrianNiemeier without understanding the issues involved.

Here's the skinny.

1. Brian is known for a controversial test when people act like pundits on what Christianity is or isn't. He asks them to publicly confess faith in Christ.
@BrianNiemeier 2. This is to see if they have skin in the game, because there have been, over the last few hundred years especially, a LOT of bad-faith attempts to redefine or redirect Christianity to serve someone's immediate political goals.
@BrianNiemeier 3. The controversy: the term he uses when he informs someone that he has no desire to continue discussing his faith with someone who comes in bad faith is "witch."

Outside of rural Africa or Indonesia, where you can still be killed for it, "witch" is not really pejorative now.
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