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They're taught to be helpful, but not ambitious. Ambition is seen as "toxic masculinity" because basic resources seem to just fall from heaven, due to the welfare state and cheap credit.

They don't realize that male ambition had a purpose.

Gary ₿usey 1y ago

Just another part of the states indoctrination program. 😮‍💨

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Laeserin 🇻🇦

Most men and most women are not childless. That's "the cut".

Men are significantly more likely to be childless than women, in most countries.

Gary ₿usey 1y ago 💬 2

Is this more the case in first, second, or third world countries?

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Laeserin 🇻🇦

Li et al. (2021) manipulated the faces of participants to be more or less masculine. Men rated their own faces to be more attractive when manipulated to be more masculine. However, women did not rate men’s faces to be more attractive following the masculinization manipulation. Clarkson et al. (2020) similarly found that unedited faces were rated as more attractive than edited faces. This is in line with my Gigachad data which indicates a male preference for men’s masculinized faces that women do not share.

Gary ₿usey 1y ago 💬 1

That term gigachad cracks me up every... single... time. 🤣

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Laeserin 🇻🇦

We're all suffering from normalcy bias, I suppose. We look back 50 years and assume that's how things have always been.

Gary ₿usey 1y ago 💬 9

Could be the case. That's what complacency gets you. 🤷‍♂️

Here's a funny story. The short version, that is. I had a discussion with this 19 year-old kid not too long about what he wants to do when he gets older and his response was "I just want to help people." No doubt a nice sentiment, but then I said towards the end of our convo "That's nice. But, if you don't have the capacity to care for your own well-being, how do you expect to care for the well-being of others?", and that kinda lost him a bit. What I mean by this is that the priorities of the newer generations seem a bit different in comparison to those of previous generations. Of course, I don't mean for this to sound like a generalization in any way. A big portion of them seem a bit lost, is all.

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Laeserin 🇻🇦

"Humanity has an inherent addiction to what they want and not what they need."

Yes, but that is sexual selection. Women won't reproduce with men who don't make the cut. They'd rather stay childless. Which leads to the next generation of men being more-likely to make the cut.

We're just taking notice of this dynamic now because the environment has changed so dramatically, that about a quarter to a third of men won't make the next cut. That's brutal. Evolutionary pressure on par with the Bubonic Plague.

Gary ₿usey 1y ago 💬 2

I was referring to resources as a whole. Not just sexual selection. Sorry, I didn't read the whole thread before I wrote all that. Whoops.

Yes, I agree with you. 🤷‍♂️ But, oh well. This isn't the first time this has happened throughout history. The Silent and Boomer generations were able to afford taking care of larger families due to lower living costs, then as time went on and as living costs increased at a significantly faster rate than wages and salaries, fewer and fewer people were able to afford having a family. No one said evolution was a merciful process.

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mark tyler

She is brilliant. Love it. Absolutely loved how she recognizes the limits of knowledge for example.

And I totally agree. Even as long as we are mostly earth-based, we can still support immense numbers with much increased technology and some humility in consumption, as opposed to what we have now. Just imagine the carrying capacity of earth and the effect on poverty if people could be as economically productive as FAANG management and live on a budget only a few times higher than poverty. I mean AI makes that thought moot but still.

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Gary ₿usey 1y ago

It's quite fascinating to observe it play out, in my opinion. Humanity's (or at least the past few generations') seemingly intrinsic need to embrace an overconsumption-based culture has had some very strange and contradictory effects on society. What I find mildly amusing is that no one (or very few) ever seems to want to blame themselves for the state they're in. Social media/technology addiction, laziness, an obsession with the lives of the ultrawealthy, and a continuous rise in the cost of living—and those are just a few things—have created this bizarre culture of narcissism, overconsumption, and victimization. To be blunt, now they're all getting bit in the ass! So many individuals within the 20-35+ age range are broke, can't find employment, or have given up looking for opportunities. There are always opportunities if you look hard enough. For the record, I don't want any of this to sound like a generalization in any way. I know this is not the case for all, but what I described above is quite rampant today.

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mark tyler

She is brilliant. Love it. Absolutely loved how she recognizes the limits of knowledge for example.

And I totally agree. Even as long as we are mostly earth-based, we can still support immense numbers with much increased technology and some humility in consumption, as opposed to what we have now. Just imagine the carrying capacity of earth and the effect on poverty if people could be as economically productive as FAANG management and live on a budget only a few times higher than poverty. I mean AI makes that thought moot but still.

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Gary ₿usey 1y ago 💬 1

I've watched pretty much all her interviews. 😁 I agree. She is absolutely brilliant! I highly recommend this book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91263.Symbiotic_Planet