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>>16993653

Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy Baumeister

>>15546799
This. Also, checked.

Being a man today and thinking you're going to have normal "relationships" with women is like being a serf in the middle ages and thinking you can have "upward mobility" if you become an "entrepreneur."

It's sort of true, in the barest possible sense, but there are so many sociological and psychological factors working against you that it's basically totally random. Even if you do everything right, everything you can possibly do on your end, it's still overwhelmingly likely that you will simply be crushed at the bottom of the shitheap.

No one is saying that business acumen is bad. But there's a difference between trying to be a self-made entrepreneur as a boomer, when jobs and financial opportunities grow on trees and you can get a loan by asking, and trying to be a self-made entrepreneur in an Aztec village that is regularly harvested for slaves to sacrifice to the blood god. You probably aren't going to make it if you roll "Aztec village" at character creation Quest, bro. We are living in the Aztec village scenario of pussy. The pussy game ridiculous.

Adjust your hopes accordingly. Do your best, enjoy the scenery, eat a yam. But accept that you will probably not be the Rockefeller of the Nahuatl, and you will probably not have a qt wife during the age of mass degeneration of marriage and monogamy, and the rise of the simp economy. You will probably not date an "art hoe" who looks up to you like you're "Chad" from the internet memes.

You are to dating prospects in 2020 as an ancient Chinese slave working on the Great Wall is to the prospect of unionization and workers' rights. Even if you ARE one of the Wat Tylers or Ciompi revolts of history, remember, they still got crushed. It's a lot easier to be born a noble or a mandarin than it is to really rise from the bottom to the top. And the first thing that people at the top want to convince you of, in any context and any era, is how easy it is to rise to the top "if you just try a little harder," you pathetic lazy incel.