/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>52430588
SBF is gay but books are for fucking fedora retards or boomers

>oh boy I love spending 8 hours for a couple of days to read information that is outdated already for many years when a simple google search or youtube video could have given me the information that i'm looking for in a few seconds

>>52430621
Zoomers truly are the most mentally retarded generation to ever live. I don't think civilization is going to make it past 2050 with your generation existing.

>>52430716
seethe. im an oldfag and books are obsolete technology.

>>52430716
im in my 30s

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>>52430621
it really shows how retarded you are because you niggers don't read

>>52430621
true. all my information has been short articles or at the most wikipedia entries.
books are outdated

t. made 7 figures before anyone calls me a loser

>>52430818

>Need new power supply for RTX3090
>Go outside
>Raining
>Get wet
>Walk to library
>Dont get mugged and survive by some miracle
>Find the front desk
>Ask the lady where books are about graphic cards
>She says she doesnt have books about graphic cards
>Ask them books about computers
>She points me some way
>Have to walk through old forgotten building
>Find bookshelves
>Try to find something that could indicate they write about computers and power supplys
>Oh boy its a book about the subject
>Written 20 years ago

Yeah im sure thats reliable information. Im sure I can also easily check the sources and its not just like 1 guys opinion that might already be dead

Yeah I love to spend half a week going through all this instead of just going to that magic website and type in "PSU recommandations RTX3090"

Kill yourself you fucking retarded boomer and take your books with you

>>52430588
>his early life
>88
Checked and gassed

>>52430716
That anon is clearly baiting

>>52430588
Most books were written by glowniggers in their time. He is def on to something

What he says is true of most philosophy/concept writings. I once had to read an entire book about the concept of infinity. You can explain infinity in like 30 seconds to a toddler. Yet I was still forced to read a book that was basically just "okay so it would be like you go in any direction, but forever, or you divide a thing and you can always divide it again." Okay got it chief. "Okay but if you had infinite peanut.."

Allow me to summarize Rich dad poor dad for instance :
"identify the diffrence between assets and liabilities. Things that make money and things that don't. Buy things that make money." There, now you don't have to read the rest of the book which is just shilling his tedtalks and a boring story irrelavent to most people that is the same "le self made" story of "and then my dad plopped a free 250k in my lap and by golly I pulled myself up from my bootstraps!"

>>52430621
>oh boy I love spending 8 hours for a couple of days to read information that is outdated already

Homer doesnt go out of date. Nor Marcus Aurelius. Nor Shakespeare.

>>52430874
Computers used to come with thick multi volume manuals dumb faggot. Also they were far less locked down and dumbed down when they didn't have to cater to braindead zoomers who can't even comprehend reading a sentence without their adhd kicking in.

>>52430874
if you think this weird made-up fairytale story somehow debunks books, you live a sad life.

>>52431080
>reads retarded book
>gets retarded answer
SAD! Many such cases!

>>52431080
>irrelavent
I can tell you don't read.

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>>52430588
Book are great..... if there is no electricity.

>>52430588
He's got a point, many books are about explaining a simple concept in 300 ways when you could explain it all in one page

>>52430853
But are you vaxxed?

>>52430874
>Books are only useful to learn how to make my bing bing wahoos more shiny
I rarely use this term without shitposting, but you are an honest to God subhuman.

I have a theory that people that don’t like reading physical books are wordcels that can’t shape rotate.

>>52431125
>Nor Marcus Aurelius. Nor Shakespeare.
I work in software engineering making a six figure salary and all the other successful people I work with have never read anything by those people nor have we read a work of fiction since high school. In fact the only people I know who are "well-read" are loser humanities students who make my coffee. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by reading classical literature in the modern age. People should be taught to code, not read useless crap like Shakespeare.

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>>52430588
he is like a hyperoptimized literal crypto jew
I bet he talks alot about human value alignment AI in his free time, materialist scum

>>52431463
The uneducated don't know their source of its ills, no matter the amount of wealth, you will always be an ignorant dwelling code monkey with wisdom to offer than coding in JavaScript.

sad!

>>52430874
Libgen retard

>>52431241
Most good ideas aee at heart simple. The point isnt just to explain the idea, but to explain it with a depth significant enough that you feel it to be true in your bones. Reading a blogpost discuss an idea is sinply not the same.

The face of the zoomer generation.

>>52431463
Getting paid 6 figures at some soulless tech job isn't success to me. I've worked with those people before, and trust me, they aren't all satisfied with their lives. Maybe if you read more you'd understand there's more to life than your salary.

True for most modern non fiction books. They have maybe one or two original ideas and the rest is filler bullshit about the background and journey to the concepts.

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>>52430874
Well, not all knowledge has a place in the internet (or is not allowed; I don't know). For example lots of medical subjects are not available on the internet or if yes then on member-only-websites. The goy must not know everything. Some important subjects you have to work for because you don't even know that they exist.

why would you read books when you can get the same info on youtube?plus books destroy the enviorment

>>52431080
Brainlet detected. You read/write a book about Infinity because the first question a critical thinker asks when you explain the basic concept is, "Okay, but who gives a fuck? It's not even real" and then you explain an actual use for it in Mathematics, and then more questions arise, and you give more answers/examples, and on it goes until you have a whole book's worth of material.

Maybe you just think books are pointless because you're in the habit of thinking like an NPC who's accustomed to uncritically accepting any piece of information in front of him at face value, and never really feel any impetus to think through its implications. And maybe that's exactly how the SBF's of the world want you to be, too.

>>52430874
The last man (German: Letzter Mensch) is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe the antithesis of his theorized superior being, the Übermensch, whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. The last man is the archetypal passive nihilist. He is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security. Therefore, The Last Man is unable to build and act upon a self-actualized ethos.

The last man's first appearance is in "Zarathustra's Prologue". According to Nietzsche, the last man is the goal that modern society and Western civilization have apparently set for themselves. After having unsuccessfully attempted to get the populace to accept the Übermensch as the goal of society, Zarathustra confronts them with a goal so disgusting that he assumes that it will revolt them – a culture which seeks only passive comfort and routine, avoiding everything that could potentially bring risk, pain, or disappointment. Zarathustra fails in this attempt, and instead of repelling and manipulating the populace into pursuing the goal of the Übermensch, the populace take Zarathustra literally and choose the "disgusting" goal of becoming the last men. This decision leaves Zarathustra disheartened and disappointed.

Nietzsche warned that the society of the last man could be too barren and decadent to support the growth of healthy human life or great individuals. The last man is only possible by mankind having bred an apathetic person or society who loses the ability to dream, to strive, and who become unwilling to take risks, instead simply earning their living and keeping warm. The society of the last man is antithetical to Nietzsche's theoretical will to power, the main driving force and ambition behind human nature, according to Nietzsche, as well as all other life in the universe.

>>52431463
>look at me, I slave away barely above minimum wage. I demand others follow my example and live a futile life.
When I grow up I also want to become a suicidal retard like you

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>>52430874
why the fuck would u need a book for that u dumb motherfucker

I’ve never met a well-read dumb person.

I’ve met countless illiterate retards.

Really makes you think.

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>>52432228
I can beat you all up and i dont read books

>>52432208
He thinks books are for "information" and not actually for their own sake. He can't appreciate the artistic and recreational value of reading a good book.

He is literally Nietzsche's Last Man or as we say today a fucking NPC.

if it's fiction then I agree with him, but non fictional/educational books are great

>>52432228
Most people who say they read lots of books I’ve known were npcs. You can read all Greek philosophy and still be a dumbfuck if you’re an npc or a female.

>>52430621
I have a 11 book set of the zohar (jewish messianic kabbalism commentary)
I have like 1000+ pdf books about occultism, esotericism, philosophy and magical systems

>>52430588
since when did this faggot "control the entire crypto industry"? did you all just get here from the new york times comment section?

>>52431125
>Homer doesnt go out of date.
Composed epic poems for recitation not written down until long after his death.
>Nor Marcus Aurelius.
Kept a personal journal to keep track of his musings.
>Nor Shakespeare.
Wrote plays.

>>52430588
Pity. If he'd read the right books he might have avoided all this mess.

Jesus, this thread is full of midwits who never tried to get at anything.
Once you dive deep into a topic you have to rely on knowledge/research of other people. And these things don't fit into a blog post. The more complicated a topic becomes, the more context the writer has to provide to make his point across.

No wonder this board is full of pink wojaks. Traders who learned trading from blog posts. Never having focus and discipline to learn both theory and practical applications.

It actually makes so much sense now. Never change biz

>>52430588
>Why did we allow
People are selling off their crypto and getting it away from sketchy brokerages, that's why we're down.
No one did shit, someone did something sketchy and people are pulling out money.

>>52430716
PDF is far superior than any library, boomer.
Kill yourself.

>>52430874
>write
Wrote, you fucking illiterate.

>>52431126
>adhd
ADHD, it's an acronym.

>>52432271
Of what use is the ubermensch if the last man is content with less. I would much prefer to be the last man than an ubermensch who strives towards... what exactly?

>>52432449
Doesnt matter you fucking faggot thats the beauty of computers it will just autocorrect

While you spend time writing down words seeing if they are correct im already onto the next thing

>>52430716
>books are dumb
>having kids is dumb
>immigration rules
>why have secure employment when you can work 11 micro side hustles
>automatically go to college to get indebted for a shit degree you have no interest in

>>52430621
>the stupidphone induced incurable ADHD patient opinion
zoomer holocaust when

>>52431463
uneducated drone, you slave away chasing worldly goods instead of true knowledge

>>52432319
>I have a 11 book set of the zohar (jewish messianic kabbalism commentary)
what's your favorite part?

>>52432271
http://whatdoyoubelieve.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1305.html

>>52430588
Average millennial mindset.

>>52432468
Nietzsche had it right. You don't even understand the Will to Power. No ambition. No sense to overcome anything.

The world is fucked with people like you in it.

>>52430588
>retard
>crypto
You answered your own question.

>buy my fake internet money and then sell it to another moron for profit later
Is it any fuckkn wonder that the king of this shystery clown bolognashit would be an illiterate soft bodied crook lecherously hovering over a venereal diseased chipmunk?

Wow, biz is filled with adhd-riddled, materialist mongoloids who can conceive of nothing in life if it isn't fed to them through a screen. Who would have thought, kek.

>>52430621
Not sure if bait. If not, I feel sorry for you.

>>52430818
none of us read lol this is 4chan

>>52432658
based

>>52432575
I ain't complaining. I work in digital marketing and data science. The amount of money in this industry is mind-boggling. There is a race to capture as much people's attention as possible. It got to a point where disconnecting from internet is somewhat of an event that happens a couple of times a year for several days. Taking time out of your day to read or spend time with your loved ones is becoming a luxury.

Nobody forces people to consume online content or use apps. The do it because they like it or marketing. The only entity that sort of takes your data seriously is gov't, but this is a pretty bar to begin with.

This is an exclusively Pax Americana Golem problem btw

It's not that they don't read books
Most Americans can't fucking read at all.

>>52432544
My ambition is the same as everyone else's here. To attain enough money to live in comfort up until the point of death. What is your ambition? What are you trying to overcome? What is left to overcome?

>>52432895
>What is left to overcome?

>>52430588
He's right on this one though

There are two kinds of ideas:
Big ideas that are really "understandings", things that cannot even be reliably communicated through writing necessarily, these are things like skills, mindsets, nuanced perspectives on things, like how an alcoholic learns to be a nonalcoholic, no one set of words/datasets will convince them

and then there are small/practical ideas, ideas for which brevity is ideal, they're really just the expression of categories, degrees, uncontroversial facts
(like this post)

>>52432895
Why live so long if you want to be comfortable?
If your perception of the future is only how comfortable you are today, than simply enjoy your day of comfort and kill yourself.
Than you'll be comfortable forever and you don't even have to work!

>>52431674
This is a peak neoliberal midwit reading list

>>52430588
thats quite Andrew-Tateesque of him

>>52432385
Kek

>>52432959
>you have to promise him virgins and paradise.

>>52432468
>Of what use is the sex-haver if the cuck is content with less. I would much prefer to be the cuck than a sex-haver who strives towards... what exactly?

>>52430716
fpbp

>>52430621
I'd unironically murder you if you sad that to my face

>>52432257
I can tell by your post you have severe mental scars that could be fixed by reading

>>52432257
>Mass reply Chad
I kneel

>>52430853
You are still a loser.

>>52430621

You are weak and you will never survive outside your WEF bubble

>>52430621
>80iq take
Thinks that books are for gathering information

>>52431126
That was a pure waste of paper.

>>52432319
What crypto do you hold?

>>52430588
Why did we allow mouth breathing sub-80 iq retards to control the most powerful nation on earth?

>>52430621
This, muh read books is midwit cope

Midwits never even summoned the devil to steal a grimoire bound in human flesh.

>>52430588
Not even all about the fertilization of books meme, but that's really a brainlet take
Although, everything we've seen so far from this guys shows he's sloppy, lazy, malicious and not very thoughtful

>>52431674
Needs more Nietzsche

>>52432405
>The more complicated a topic becomes, the more context the writer has to provide to make his point across.
Also the complexity of expressions, emotions and human experiences beyond "angry" and "horny"

>>52435783
I disagree on this one. Reading alone trains the brain. Even if you read junk.

>>52430621
Andrew Tate pls go.

>>52430621
troglodyte

>>52436463
> always illuminated by a blue screen light
Well, guilty as charged, just like the Anon you were addressing. The rest of the meme fits some of my buddies to a t. I will use this meme.

>>52430588
Epstein, Maxwell, Gates, Musk and Bankman-Fried are just frontmen for various interests both governmental and private. The deal is that they're given fabulous wealth and in exchange they'll put forward ideas that on the outside appear to be for the betterment of humanity when in reality the people who are really pushing the ideas have extremely sinister motivations and if the majority of people knew they were the ones behind these ideas they would be far more hostile to them.
If those same ideas are pushed by wacky billionaire philanthropists who have no prior history or sinister familial ties then a large majority of people will take those ideas more seriously because if Elon Musk says something it must be true because Elon is super rich and super rich people are obviously very, very smart because that's the key to making shitloads of money.

Right?

>>52430621
This, fuck books to be honest

>>52430588
I agree with that though. Most books are filled watered down content because the author desperately needed to hit the wordcount set by his publisher.

>>52430716
This is not an answer to why you have to escape to a fantasy land in your noggin for hours at a time.
If you want them to read, explain things like,
>knowing history will tell you where the treasure is, and which of the people standing in front of you comes from a place known for bad morals or inter-familial violence.

>>52438795
Talmudists absolutely increased the volume of books over the last 100 years with the express intent of selling you crap, and keeping you from telling each other the most important stories.
Some have still made it through, often in movies like "In Time," and "Jurassic Park.".

>>52430588
he's right u kno

Bookchads, should we bother responding to philistine cope?

>>52439332
I don't know how we've gotten to a point where we need to justify to plebians the need for reading.

I feel like a 13th century monk looking out my castle at the horde of barbarians
But at least 13th century barbarians had the ability to wage wars and claim land
The barbarians of the 21st are little troglodytic gremlins who aren't even fit for canon fodder.

>>52439332
No, fellow paper enjoyer

>>52439162
Andrew Tate sits around playing Chess like an autist for hours everyday

Literally everything he says is fake, gay, and hypocritical

>>52439622
His target audience does not have discipline or drive to anything on their own. He tells them what they want to hear.

>>52439332
No. No we don't.

You were busy fapping for porn.

I feel bad for those unfortunate masses who, chained to their goyjobs and addicted to screens and social media like youtube and 4chan, never experience the pleasure of reading a book.

Books+guns time?

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I also like books, guns, metals, and other tangible things.

>>52430621
These are the types of people who will be plowing the fields when technology ceases

>>52440167
Is that a golden Rhino?! How's the silver stack going anon? I plan on planting some vegetables this spring, how are yours doing?

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>>52439839
Shove these books and guns up your assholes gaybois

YeeHAHHHH!

>>52432405

What do you expect from a midwit software engineer up there who has only ever watched YouTube videos on using JavaScript and has only ever read cringe nonsense on here

>Musk reads books
>Ray Dalio reads books
> Buffett reads
> the Guy who just bankrupted two companies and scammed people billions doesn’t like reading

>>52440202
Post your guns otherwise opinion discarded

>>52440197
>Is that a golden Rhino?
Yes and I absolutely love it. It's the best range gun I've ever owned. Stilver stack is going great, but haven't bought anything in a few months so haven't posted on /pmg/ in a while. Rabbits ate a big chunk of my crops, but I still managed to get some good yields. Currently reading The Bloody Crucible of Courage by Nosworthy. If only I had known I could learn all about US civil war tactics in a 6 paragraph blog post I would have burnt every book in my collection. Stupid me, why form my own opinions when some eCeleb can tell me what to think.

>>52430853
loser

>>52430588
I hate this mother fuck SO much anon......

>>52440289
>rabbits ate a big chunk of my crops
sorry to hear that anon, did you bag any?

>>52440353
No but it's only the second year I've had my garden going. My big investment this winter is chicken wire, posts and 2x4's to build a proper enclosure around my vegetables. I went in on half a pig this year and that's been the best thing I've bought all year. I've got bacon, chops, roast, and mince for days!

>>52440395
>went in on half a pig
Nice, how much was it? Did they also butcher it for you?
Goodluck w/ the garden, I hope the barriers keep those rabbits out.

>>52440422
$450CAD, an abattoir does the processing, so he'll give you most your basic cuts, but you have to take finer cuts to a butcher. The taste alone has been worth the price.

>>52440450
>CAD
I’m sorry for your loss

>>52440465
>I’m sorry for your loss
Near ATH's against the Euro and the GBP, and almost touching 76cents against the USD, which is above it's 75 cent export sweet spot.

>>52440450
Thanks for the info and goodluck anon

>>52430621
>books are for fucking fedora retards or boomers
Actual retard.

He’s somewhat correct. Every book has 4 to 6 key points. And they could be described in a couple of pages

>>52440555
No worries anon, if I could recommend anything, learn what goes into the food you love to cook and start from there. A little herb garden and a place to grow seeds can go a very long way in the kitchen and your wallet.

>>52430874
You don't even know how stupid you are.

some of you /biz/raelis will be exposed for trusting a jew. can't wait

>>52440585
>Every book has 4 to 6 key points. And they could be described in a couple of pages
Why are there so many people in this thread who missed an actual education? Its free in most of the world by now surely? This retard thinks his bullet point cheat list is books. Its beyond sad. These people are civilizational death. How the hell did they end up here? They should be on tiktok

>>52431770
>Maybe if you read more you'd understand there's more to life than your salary
just explain it how you already are. a sentence of paragraph.
>> self-actualization is within, not through others.

>>52432208
ok what books are actually worth reading then?
what would you avoid and what would one actually spend time to read.

>>52441762
Start here >>52440167
This new "books are dumb" troll is retarded because it's essentially saying "reading lots of words is dumb". "Books" come in a million different genres and varieties and it's on your lazy ass to figure out what the fuck sort of information it is you want to know beyond the wiki article. Animal Farm can be read in 2 hours by anyone that isn't retarded. You will gain more perspective on the modern world from reading that than 100 lifetimes getting angry scrolling /pol/.

>>52432405
what's good if you don't apply what you read?
in this case, just going head-on into trading and learning from the experience itself.

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>>52441814
glowniggers and midwits fuck off
I don't have time to waste with your stupid book suggestions stay poor and contained >>>/lit/

>>52431463
anon you can't be this stupid. You understand that reading has been the dominant form of knowledge sharing for the past millenium? All the people who invented everything we know read books. It's cool that you make six figures, but presidents, emperors, explorers, etc, all read books. Have some humility god damn

>>52430588
I don't like how most books usually have some kind of agenda behind them. i'm not talking political, just pushing some kind of viewpoint of the author.

>>52441947
nigga wtf does this even mean? Anything anyone ever communicates has some sort of viewpoint, that's called consciousness?

>>52432090
Why does it feel like we are living in these times? Did every generation before us have these observations or is it just being realized before us?

>>52430621
Thanks, this convinced me to close 4chan and read.

>>52430588
Why wasnt he sceptical of tiktok dances?

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KEK

>>52440167
mirin' that Rhino

>>52431126
Imagine spending an hour flipping through all that shit to find a solution for your problem when you can get an answer is 20 seconds with google

>>52430588
He really was the ultimate zoomgroid

>>52430621
>8hrs for a couple days
a 300 page book shouldnt take more than 3 hrs to finish retard

>>52430588
it was the vcs and institutional boomer money, they're easy to bullshit to because they're so used to scamming that you can just get them to scam themselves with the right song and dance. they say you can't bullshit a bullshitter but in truth you don't have to.

>>52430588

>This thread summed up in one picture

>>52430716
I work with a Zoomer who reads. Fun fact of the day!

>>52430853
loser

>>52430588
Yet he shiller some "free" book in this cringe tiktok

I regret reading all these novels in my 20s lol, especially tolsoy
it was a waste of time, at least for me, they are just the video games of the ancient world desu

>>52439162

I knew that Tate was the fakest, gayest man on the planet but after watching that my contempt levels fell to new depths.

What a tiny, cretinous, self absorbed, ignorant faggot.

>>52430788
Correct. Long books only serve to bury the valuable information in loads of boilerplate. I became a professional futures trader (not crypto) and never read a book on trading.

>>52444651
I think you were just too stupid to get the same things out of it that people with at least average intelligence would. You probably speed read them too.

>>52444778
cool meme response
no the time spent was not worth what "i got out of it" lol

>>52444720
absolute true

>>52432319
Occult is a waste of time. All is good for us lore for fiction writers

>>52430621
Reading for the sake of reading is retarded passive time wasting behavior. Reading for the sake of competency in a subject to them do practical things using what you learned is a completely different story (no pun intended).

Every "reader" and "bookworm" I have ever met is literally a faggy useless numale or a woman who likes to pretend she's Emily Dickinson living in the Victorian Era. Ask yourself if these are the type of people you want to be associated with. Practically and action outdoes theory and mental masturbation every time.

Charlie Munger basically said it best "Read the best book in all of the biggest ideas/subjects and you'll know all there is to know and end up better than 99.99% of society which is turn will make you a better investor".

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>>52430621
God damn zoomers are stupid fucking cunts
>>52430716
Based

>>52430621
Yeah books are gay.
I get all of my information from 4chan.org

>>52445042
I should also add to this by saying that if you spend your time reading fiction you should just fucking kill yourself. If you want to exercise the right/feminine part of your brain read works in mysticism and the occult. You'll find whatever answers or moral fulfillment you're looking for. There's nothing new under the sun and it was all figured out millennia ago. Reading some retard fuck Russian writer isn't going to do shit for you. "Milk for babes and meat for the strong men" as the saying goes. You're exercising the same part of your brain and

>>52445042

Bugman post

>>52445159
I agree fiction is silly to read.
I read the true stories at >>>/biz/ to expand my knowledge.

>>52430874
>>Try to find something that could indicate they write about computers and power supplys
>>Oh boy its a book about the subject
>>Written 20 years ago
ATX was introduced about 20 years ago. So this would be ok. Basically hasn't changed much since.

>>52432319
Please upload the PDFs somewhere or give a list of what you have

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>>52430588
He's right, books are gay.

>>52431674
Almost half of these books are useless junk or poison, especially in the lower part of the pic

>>52431674
I haven't read all but 1 of those, but I wrote one of them. Guess which one.

>authors are rich and don't post here

Think again chud

>>52446515
Hi Montesquieu, big big fan of your works here

On a serious note, a big volume on history of political thought (plus another volume on world history) would be 100 times better than some uneducated read of Plato or Aquinas, because the latter choice will unmistakably produce midwits (the kind of midwits who write “De Tocqueville” instead of just “Tocqueville” like in the pic above)

>>52430621
soulless min-maxing bug.

>Comparing books to AI targeted propaganda on youtube movies
This thread proves beyond doubt that times change, but people don't. The Socrates defence could happen exactly the same today as 2000 years ago. No amount of money will make up for low IQ. America wouldn't even exist today if Benjamin Franklin would listen to Britain's sailor trust-me bro stories instead of thinking independently. Really a shame.

If SBF is against books, I'm in favor
simple as

>>52430853
>made 7 figures before anyone calls me a loser
I feel like a winner wouldn't have the need to say something like this.

>>52446750
>Britain's sailor trust-me bro stories
Would unironically read this

>>52439162
holy fuck
it's broken

The pirate on the boat slit the soft throat of the last pathetic poorfag sailor. For a moment there was stillness, only gentle sounds of the rocking of the boat in the sea as the rivers of blood emptied from the deck.
The stillness infuriated the noble pirate, his brain was too advanced for such boring poorfag shit. Rum and whores occupied him for a few days but no amount of booty could soothe the hunger of a savage beast like him.
Only beta cucks settle and this pirate was no beta cuck, he was a prolific sex-haver with questionable but manly ideas about the differences between human races.

>>52444651
what would have been a better use of your time then faggot?

>>52432257
>t. nigger

>>52445042
tl;dr

>>52430621
>8 hours
learn to read you fucking troglodyte.

whos tolstoy

>>52430621
You jag off

>>52431463
>look guys
>I'm a code monkey
>I make six figs!!!!
>therefore I am successful
>therefore books are stupid because successful people like me don't read them
lmao dude

you're a product of your circumstances
you just happened to be born in an era that disproportionately rewarded software engineering over every other type of wageslavery
and you just happened to be good at the basic mathematical skillset required for programming
your path to "success" did not involve novel problem solving, risk management or critical thinking

this is very apparent in your post
you're a midwit sitting in a golden wagecage, making absolutely embarrassing logical mistakes and jumping to clearly uninformed conclusions

t. principal software engineer who doesn't have his head five miles up his own ass

>>52430588
Counterpoint 1: Pic related.

Counterpoint 2: $16B -> >$1B in mere days.

>>52446940
This. If a Jew like SBF tells me that reading books is worthless then I'm hitting the library ASAP.

>>52430621
>>52430874
Unprescutably BASED
Slow brains BTFO

>>52454517
when you think everyone you meet is a slow retard...

>>52452917
nice post and I agree

>>52432257
You read this sentence.

>>52440634
Because this board is full of mutts and people who fell for "knowledge is for dorks, it's cool to be ignorant". This meme is pure cope by those who end up seething in a deadend job. Sad, but true.
While education is free, it takes effort and discipline from young age to keep it going.

If you consider how popular gurus are with their "Learn how to become a millionaire in 2 weeks!" you will see that a lot of people think there is a shortcut to knowledge for an affordable price.

>>52442097
It's this way because we give more freedom to people at younger age. Cultures where parents force children to make right-ish choices are outperforming others, e.g. Chinese, Jews, Indians.

>>52430588
>high on meth everyday
>still can't muster the attention to read a whole book
some people are just too stupid

>>52430588
books are the closest thing we have to immortality.nn2jh

People ITT don't like to read, but -oh fuck- they love to be read! Just look for how long it has been on.

>>52430621
book is merely a medium through which information is passed on. unlike the internet it's not volatile therefore books still have a place in this world. especially since everything and everyone is being canceled in the virtual world which i suppose is the endgame of humanity.
>>52445042
you're all work no play, anon? while i don't like reading as a hobby i wouldn't say it's a bad pasttime. certainly better than scroling like most people seem to do these days.

people in this thread forget that 20-30 years ago, there was no internet alternative to books.

you couldnt browse around, read something then CTRL+W. you had to buy/borrow books (commitment) and then read the piece of shit or go out watch stupid sports

now you can access anything more distilled. besides a more calming recreation and less neurochemical fry, anything you get from books you can now get from elsewhere on the web

>>52456109
Basically the entire point of books is to make you think. Parroting the words in your mind faster won't help.
Creating an emotional setting and calming your mind when it comes to external stimuli is all part of the process. Symbolism and metaphor is more fundamental to the brain than formal language.

>>52430588
>>52444720
For complete retards yes, books could potentially be a waste of time. You don't know what to read, you're usually a lot slower at reading, you might be better off fishing for simple information off the internet.

For professionals in real jobs, ie. not speculation nonsense (including futures), reading books is often a must. If you object to buying a book and reading it you can get it off the internet and read it off your screen.

A book is just a large amount of text and/or illustrations all put in one place. I would actually say the inverse to what SBF is saying, that if you never have a book of reasonable quality to write you probably are neither smart not accomplished nor experienced much in life.

>>52456315
so you like being part of cults? Fair enough, not everybody shares your view.

>>52456645
You've been indoctrinated and ritually initiated into the English language cult like me.

>>52439332

no
if we are the only literate ones
in the future we rule
our children rule
our childrens children will follow our rules
let the anons be fools

>>52444651

well you read tolstoy so of course
if you read shit books you wont get anything from it
discernment matters

illitercy is stated goal of satanists necessary for the destruction of the west

source:
https://goldenageofgaia.com/issue-mediation-process-r3/accountability/nwo-essays/frater-616-satanism-and-the-illuminati/

"The aim of the Alpha Lodge remains illiteracy rates in the western world of at least sixty-six percent by 2010 and the destruction of at least seventy percent of the globe’s population by the year 2030. All governments count on their sheeple to respond in typical infantile fashions, including unconsciously identifying with a more powerful force – even if it enslaves, brutalizes and humiliates them."

>>52430588
he's actually right

most books are utterly useless
but ofc basedeaters will tell you otherwise

>>52431674
That's a lot to read. I'll just stick to my JavaScript and rely on 4chan for my political stance, thanks

>>52440167
What's that scottish cap badge beside the chicken fucker cap badge? Not Lorne Scots is it?

I imagine someone here genuinely thinks reading thick content is similar to search, or short form. And we should all hope that their someday surgeon agrees with them.

>>52441913
>>52442184
>>52445042
Goldfish-attention span zoomers and millennicucks lash out at books because their brains have been wired from childhood for rapid and incisive spurts of attention through their massive overconsumption of social media and tik-tok. It's no wonder that they can't read a single page without their attention span breaking, and unable to concentrate and focus on the words in front of them. They're used to a constant, and novel, flood of stimulating dopamine. They're literally goy-cattle that silicon valley has molded into the perfect NPC. If any humans want to learn more about this phenomenon, read pic related.

>>52459711
I ain't reading that long-ass book fuck that shit. can't the author just summarize it in a blog post?

>>52459711
This, I was wondering why this anti-reading sentiment is picking up steam and it occurred to me most people under 35 are literally fucking brain damaged
I bet every self-proclaimed "man of action" in this thread is a chronic masturbator and a video game addict

>>52459793
how frequently do you have to masturbate to be considered "chronic"?

>>52445042
uh, no. Those are just the type of faggots who wear reading on their sleeve like some sort of pseudointellectual.

>>52442601
this person would not even be able to exist without the assistance of those around him.

>>52430621
Reading books is better than the retarded crack like dopamine hits of internet clicking. If I had more time I would like to read instead of browse the goyternet.

>>52459711
saved for later

>>52459852

daily

>>52430588
kek, funny he mention that, the best non-fiction book I ever read was made by editing several years' worth of the author's six-paragraph blog posts into one.

>>52460955
what if it's 6 days out of 7 per week? that's okay right? asking for a friend

>Read the best book in all of the biggest ideas/subjects and you'll know all there is to know
Wow. That is very fucking dumb. Literally one of the most retarded things I've ever read actually which is kind of amazing.

>>52460966
What is Anthropocene by John Green

>>52433614
Based

>>52446619
>plus another volume on world history
Or 11 volumes, even

>>52459157
WW2 Canadian Military Intelligence cap badge. And beside that is a PPCLI cap badge.

>>52431674
>list includes Capital
>doesn't include The Naked Communist

Your list is incomplete and shitty.

>>52446515
Plato?

>>52439162
>I’m really smart because I would always rather be driving a super car instead of reading a book

Imagine the IQ you must have to either be this faggot or like this faggot, it’s gotta be no more than 50-60 max. That or you’re only like 12-16 years old

"All the people you see, all the people you know, all the people you may get to know, are machines, actual machines working solely under the power of external influences, as you yourself said. Machines they are born and machines they die. How do savages and intellectuals come into this? Even now, at this very moment, while we are talking, several millions of machines are trying to annihilate one another. What is the difference between them? Where are the savages and where are the intellectuals? They are all alike..."

"It is possible to stop being a machine, but for that it is necessary first of all to know the machine. A machine, a real machine, does not know itself and cannot know itself. When a machine knows itself it is then no longer a machine, at least, not such a machine as it was before. It already begins to be responsible for its actions."

>>52432257
False. You are too dumb to dox me and cannot beat me up.

>>52430588
>Why did we allow a mouth breathing sub-80 iq retard to control the entire crypto industry?

"we"

>>52461579
Ah cool

>>52430588
I enjoyed this interview that was more like 60 paragraphs. I will be reading the SBF book before it becomes a Jonah Hill movie.

>>52438766
Checked

>>52446515
Holy fuck guys its Adam Smith. Act cool

>>52430621
Bet you're brown lol

>>52430621
There was a time I used to read one book per day.
The prison library only allowed to rent 8 books per week but I was allowed 15.
Let me explain it so you zoomers can understand.
Reading the Bible is like playing GTA on cheat mode. It's like having a game-guide to tell you where all hidden easter eggs in the game are. It's like watching your favorite YouTube streamer playing a game, so you know what to do next when you decide to play the game.

Being a Christian is like being in a cool streetgang. You kill and fight for each other, protecting your brothers, against the "ops" (jews, lefties, satanists, other religions) who always want to roll on our block and claim our territory.
Christian Hymns and Crusader songs are our drillrap.
Dabbing on those faggots, and rolling with our gangleader Jesus Christ.
Haha yeah bitch check my Gucci chainmail.

>>52464247
>niggerlover is a christcuck
sasuga

>>52431080
Trumptard spotted

>>52464254
Seethe more, sodomite
I know you hate the Bible because it calls for the death of homosexuals like you.

>Seethe more, sodomite
>I know you hate the Bible because it calls for the death of homosexuals like you.

>>52464338
Based satanic jew kissing African feet
I wish it was me

>>52461544
Of course, multi-volume histories are better, but for someone who’s just starting that would be overwhelming. In my opinion it’s better to master one simple textbook on any subject before going in-depth.

>>52430788
how come the martest people always read books? It's not about the content and ideas necessarily, it develops pattern recognition. everyone I know who hates on books was always a midwit at best