I dropped out of a top-tier science PhD program 20 years ago because I found it intolerable then. Though it wasn't until recently that Curtis here pegged exactly why it bugged the crap out of me at a visceral level. They weren't doing science, they were doing bureaucracy with a veneer of science. I was still young and foolish at the time, refusing to think that such purity should be allowed to be corrupted. 20 years later, I have not embraced the bureaucracy, but I know how to manipulate it to my ends. As far as I can tell, that's as good as it gets.
If you’re thinking about pursuing power and you have a math background, crypto seems like the very obvious answer.
Power is the capacity to affect change on the world. One of the most effective ways to do this is with money. It might make sense to master one or more of these micro-economies. It’s about to be a game changer.
Also learn to amass wealth and resources in assets that *are not* the USD, which is now effectively a sh*tcoin masquerading as fiat currency (whose days are numbered). Historically men sitting on piles of gold and land tend to have greater than zero power.
On the topic of "statusmaxxing", I'd offer one choice piece of advice: You can actually accelerate this process if you don't possess any geographical loyalties. As a programmer, I have the luxury of easily finding work-from-home opportunities. This unveils a path to greater freedom and one way in which I'm considering exercising it is moving to a shithole country with a currency far inferior to USD.
In America you might not ever become part of the patrician class, but perhaps in Poland you could? Something to think about. Boomers with accumulated wealth have an even easier time of doing this, in fact, so maybe it's time to convince your parents that there might be other, greener pastures outside the boundaries of the 50 states?
This is way too much fun. You know when you started doing all these podcasts a year or two ago, Uncle Yarv, I thought you were really even better suited to that dynamic format, than essays. Could be this whole Restoration thing is but incidental to your true calling.
Uncle Yarv, what about your readers who DIDN'T drop out, but instead pissed away their productive years thinking they could squeeze through to the upper ranks of the cathedral. Now the Racial Reckoning triggered by Herr Trump has made that all but impossible. Are we relegated to manual labor? Not everyone can have a killer substack!
I dropped out of a top-tier science PhD program 20 years ago because I found it intolerable then. Though it wasn't until recently that Curtis here pegged exactly why it bugged the crap out of me at a visceral level. They weren't doing science, they were doing bureaucracy with a veneer of science. I was still young and foolish at the time, refusing to think that such purity should be allowed to be corrupted. 20 years later, I have not embraced the bureaucracy, but I know how to manipulate it to my ends. As far as I can tell, that's as good as it gets.
If you’re thinking about pursuing power and you have a math background, crypto seems like the very obvious answer.
Power is the capacity to affect change on the world. One of the most effective ways to do this is with money. It might make sense to master one or more of these micro-economies. It’s about to be a game changer.
Also learn to amass wealth and resources in assets that *are not* the USD, which is now effectively a sh*tcoin masquerading as fiat currency (whose days are numbered). Historically men sitting on piles of gold and land tend to have greater than zero power.
On the topic of "statusmaxxing", I'd offer one choice piece of advice: You can actually accelerate this process if you don't possess any geographical loyalties. As a programmer, I have the luxury of easily finding work-from-home opportunities. This unveils a path to greater freedom and one way in which I'm considering exercising it is moving to a shithole country with a currency far inferior to USD.
In America you might not ever become part of the patrician class, but perhaps in Poland you could? Something to think about. Boomers with accumulated wealth have an even easier time of doing this, in fact, so maybe it's time to convince your parents that there might be other, greener pastures outside the boundaries of the 50 states?
This is way too much fun. You know when you started doing all these podcasts a year or two ago, Uncle Yarv, I thought you were really even better suited to that dynamic format, than essays. Could be this whole Restoration thing is but incidental to your true calling.
Uncle Yarv, what about your readers who DIDN'T drop out, but instead pissed away their productive years thinking they could squeeze through to the upper ranks of the cathedral. Now the Racial Reckoning triggered by Herr Trump has made that all but impossible. Are we relegated to manual labor? Not everyone can have a killer substack!
Just get a private sector job, you may have to move cities
That was ironically my plan to gain status and power.
1. Become the legitimate ruler of a restaurant
2. Go to law school to study law. Luckily for me
A law school close by in my state is one of
the more older law schools in the country
so it has some prestige built up.
hilarious - "it took especially hard work not to be an early Google employee or at least just Bitcoin whale—but I was up to that task."
SARGING
Uncle Yarv indeed!!!1
I learned many new words today!