It’s not like his checking account was overdrawn and he has no assets to pay it. He owns a fucking house lol.
A checking account overdrawn PLUS OWNING A FUCKING HOUSE does not mean he needs money. It means he got the amazon job solely to write this article. It’s just obvious IMO
The sad truth is that the guy was ALREADY a dick. The management job just enabled that tendency to come out. There are tons of people who would have been able to work that job without being dicks — the Stanford prison experiment has been debunked, authority alone does not create dickish behavior.
I agree with you. Modern Money Theorists agree too. America can not go bankrupt because America prints its own currency. The very idea of America going bankrupt is nonsensical.
Macro debt means nothing in the age of fiat currencies.
I’m loving your comment, and speaking of stimulants, you write like you’re on adderall lol :)
We do need drive and charisma to emotionally mime. But the implication of what you’re writing is that the Kings among us manufacture that drive and charisma ourselves.
I have a different hunch about the best way to produce this charisma than you: we don’t need stimulants. We just need placebos and placebo thoughts.
The solution isn’t in “superior stimulant medications” because it seems like the main value people really stimulants is their value as placebos. The solution, IMO, is either in superior PLACEBO medications, or superior methods for people to simply trick themselves into becoming manic.
Like dude just try it as an experiment. Wake up tomorrow and don’t drink coffee. You really think you’re going to crave a king to mimic? What if — just what if — you turn out to be the king ? And what if the only difference between the two outcomes was your willingness to ingest and embrace a “placebo thought” like “IM THE KING!” (Or Zuck’s “Im CEO, Bitch.”) rather than a “superior stimulant medication”?
You don’t need coffee or adderall or “superior stimulants” bro, all stimulants are mostly placebos. All you need is superior “placebo thoughts” that allow you to go from a state of normality/anhedonia/“slight depression” to mania without chemical assistance, IMO.
My 2¢ btw: maybe coffee actually increased the need for kings , because suddenly everyone’s adrenals were fried in the afternoon and they all craved naps and sedatives more. Equally plausible IMO but I like ur theory too.
This person is missing the obvious explanation that it was 98% Aggie’s husband posting from Aggie’s account the entire time; then when they broke up he had to ghost because he could no longer plausibly post under her name.
Holy shit THIS IS HUGE NEWS, How has it only gotten five points in seven hours !?!? Do you guys understand how fucking big of a deal this is !?!????? The entire internet ad industry is over ! Apocalypse Ad Industry and Apocalypse NOW ! HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE UPVOTES
this is a digital weapon that will prevent the transfer of billions of dollars of wealth per year that are generated throughout internet ads. It’s like a digital nuke has just been created to destroy an entire industry. AND NO ONE ON HN IS PAYING ATTENTION (?!?!?)
am I the crazy one here for seeing this as a hugely significant event !?!?!?
You just debated a straw man because I never said what you just quoted me as saying.
All thought processes are irrational because humans are not rational beings. He’s not an asshole for making irrational decisions — by that logic we’re all assholes. He’s an asshole for abandoning his fucking child.
Lots of people make irrational decisions WITHOUT abandoning their children. Those people are certainly NOT assholes. Bourdain does not fit that description.
You’re doing mental gymnastics to excuse the abandonment of children that are absolutely next level. Here’s Occam’s perspective:
Abandoning children is bad. There’s no excuse for it. Full stop. The end.
You’re currently a child abandoner apologist. It’s not a good look.
Did you read my comment? I never said having children is the highest purpose in life, or that it’s the highest good. Your comment bears zero relation to mine
I said that abandoning children is contemptible and all child abandoners including bourdain deserve vilification.
Your logic makes no sense. You left out the part where bourdain abandoned his nine year old daughter. Mental illness is not an excuse to abandon children. Bourdain deserves more than contempt —- he deserves vilification.
If he’d had zero kids, I’d sympathize and say RIP, what a tragedy.
But he DID have a kid. A kid he abandoned. Bourdain is not just mean for that decision — he’s borderline evil.
I agree 100%. In theory it’s good to consider all perspectives and not acquire hyperfocus/tunnel vision on any one plan or destination. But I n practice, people seem to find leaders with tunnel vision far more convincing and worth following than those who take a more multi faceted/ less focused approach to leadership IMO
Maybe that’s because, it seems like the practical reality of discussing ones attempts to be bias-free always comes off as disengenuous no matter how genuine those attempts may be. So fuck it man. Embrace bias :)
Fascinating comment all around. I fully agree. It never occurred to me that “silent thinking” and “silent reading” are relatively new phenomena. But after reading this comment it’s so obvious that they are.
Is being raised by ones uncle really more popular than being raised by ones grandparents, on a global scale? Somehow I doubt it. In many Asian countries being raised by grandparents is the norm but being raised by an uncle would be more of an uncommon arrangement.
When I start to actually give a shit about politics I know I’m unhappy
It’s also a great way to rationalize why I write off all politically minded ppl as simply unhappy — when I am politically minded it is always solely the result of personal unhappiness — when I am happy I don’t care about politics
>As for Gates, he had the drive and interest to spend his time learning how to program and explore business while he was a kid. While most of his peers were likely using that time to watch TV or party. That's an essential difference and no amount of privilege is going to bridge that.
Dude his drive and interest was solely determined by his physical appearance aka the fact that he considered himself ugly. If gates could choose he would have been a good looking tv watching party chad. But he was an uggo so he statusmaxxed instead.