Red pill spaces abound with hustlers who have ambitions of making it someday, and think those ambitions will be advanced by acting and talking as if they already have.

You can spot them by their expensive watches and cheap apartments. They are typically salesman types, and "everything is sales" is their favourite stupid thing to say. They would have you believe, mostly as a side effect of trying to make themselves believe, that wealth building is "all about the hustle", and that anyone can become wealthy overnight if they are willing to work very hard, and take advantage of suckers.

What I do for a living is that I am what's called a "Principal" software engineer... which means I am in charge of large projects, doing design work, directing the efforts of other software engineers, aligning priorities with large scale business strategy, and reporting results to C-level executives. I don't consider myself wealthy (although perhaps some of the younger people here would), but I've spent considerable time in the company of very wealthy people, some of them billionaires whose names you know very well indeed.

I know what's different about them, and it's not hustle.

It's knowledge and opportunity. Simply put, they know how to run business enterprises, and they have the resources to start them. Specifically, they have the resources to start them multiple times until one project takes off. Most of them were born into wealth, but not nearly as much wealth as they now have.

It matters very much what parents you have, but not for the reasons you think. It has nothing to do with "oppression". Purge that commie nonsense from your skull right now, before it poisons your entire life. It has to do with being past a certain critical tipping point, the point where you can afford to start multiple business ventures until one of them takes off. This requires resources in two ways.

The first is that you have to fund a business somehow, but this is actually the lesser problem. Plenty of promising enterprises have started on a shoestring budget. More seed money helps, but all you need is some.

The second, far greater, problem is that you need to be wealthy enough to not be dependent on a regular income. You need to be able to start the business out while earning nothing, and, even further, you need to be able to do so multiple times if necessary until one of them "clicks".

These two factors create a "tipping point" which mimics the one that forms a barrier between tradesmen (such as carpenters and auto mechanics) and professionals (such as physicians and engineers). Carpenters and auto mechanics get paid apprenticeships, so they can "earn while they learn". But professionals need to go college, and, even if their tuition is fully funded by scholarships or socialism, they still need to be wealthy enough to spend four years (or eight) not earning an income. Unless you have a certain amount of "fuck you money", you can't take time off to go to college. In fact, most poor people not only don't have enough to support themselves for four years of non-productivity, their families need the income they bring in working. Like Alice's Red Queen, they are running to stand still.

By now you probably understand how there is a similar boundary at the upper edge of the professional class. Professional-class people, to leap that barrier, need not only seed money to become an entrepreneur, but enough "fuck you money" to get by, and not sink into poverty, if multiple failures come before eventual success.

This means that building wealth is certainly a life-long, and usually a multi-generational, process.

Which brings us to the red pill. Our messages have always been optimistic ones, messages of hope, but one needs to distinguish between hope and wishful thinking. TRP does not teach how to conquer reality and make circumstances not matter, because magic doesn't exist and we know that. TRP teaches how to play poker intelligently with the hand of cards you were dealt, and try to slowly draw better ones.

Before you can join that class of people, you need to gradually accumulate that kind of fuck-you money. That happens by playing the hand of cards you have been dealt.

So, if you want to play your hand of cards well, and get wealthiER, here’s what to do:

• Learn a skill that’s in demand, ideally something that plays to your personal strengths and talents.
• Sell it at the highest price you can. Always negotiate salary, always be interviewing for new possible jobs, always know your market value.
• Spend only a fraction of your paycheck. Make sure your income exceeds your expenses by as wide a margin as possible.
• What you don’t spend, invest. Don’t just put it in the bank. Only keep a moderate amount of cash there, for unforeseen expenses.
• Invest doesn’t mean “play the stock market”. The stock market is not a game, and, if it were, the bigger, better connected players have far more pieces to control the board than you do.
• Invest means “put your money in low-fee, highly diversified mutual funds”. You are looking to bet on the market as a whole, not on any one particular stock.
• Yes, the market can fail, but if it does, everyone is hurting, not just you. And if it fully collapses, you have bigger problems than losing your dreams of being a big shot, and the only investments that will matter are your vegetable garden, your chicken coop, and your stash of rifle ammunition.
• Avoid prestige spending. Don’t buy new cars, expensive watches, or other things whose function is impressing others because they know how much money you burned.
• Be stingy with repeated expenses. Rent, eating in expensive restaurants, gym memberships, anything with a monthly fee, you economize on it. Quit smoking. Don’t take fancy vacations.
• Be slightly more liberal with one time expenses. Don’t buy shitty used cars that are going to break down. Don’t buy cheap boots that wear out in six months. You’ll end up spending more over time.
• Don’t check your investments every day. They fluctuate, and you’ll be far more depressed by temporary losses than you are cheered by slow gains. The market has a general upward trend, but with lots of jagged “noise’. Don’t get lost in that noise.
• Only borrow to acquire things that will appreciate in value… real estate, an education, or a business. Anything else, if you can’t buy it with cash, don’t buy it.
• Never. Get. Married.

People like to ask “why”. Specifically they like to ask “why”, and “why that”, and “why that” again, up until they reach the villain they wish to blame. Then that suddenly becomes an entirely causeless, spontaneous eruption of pure evil that we all need to be very concerned about.

Bullshit.

Skipping over a lot of really of really boring philosophy, here, let’s just agree that no one will ever prove or disprove the existence of free will. But we all know that people do shit for reasons.

Stop looking for the reasons, and you’ve decided to stop understanding shit. In which case what are you doing here, anyway?

So we’ve certainly heard a whole lot about what feminism causes, and fuck-all about what causes feminism, which leads some dudes to get from dirt-obvious shit like this:

>> One thing that has always baffled me is how Muslim nations have practiced female subordination for centuries... and yet feminists never go after them for their, "misogynistic" practices. In fact they defend them.

To dirt-stupid shit like this:

>> I have a theory that women secretly crave that type of man guiding their lives.

… in one giant leap.

Yeah, women crave subordination… to powerful, confident men that they look up to and trust.

I guarantee you that random third world peasants do not qualify. You think women are just submissive to randos, go up to one, start groping her, get slapped, and reassess your worldview.

You wanna understand, you need better ideas. So why does feminism do dirt stupid shit like this? Where did it come from? And what the hell is it? All three questions are related.

Feminism isn’t a movement, and it isn’t a philosophy. It’s a tactic.

A tactic doesn’t have a fixed overarching goal. It’s simply a means of getting whatever the individual user of that tactic happens to want. That’s why feminists keep telling you that feminism came in different “waves”. It’s simple. Different generations of women wanted different shit. They just used the same method to get it.

What, then, is the method?

Feminism is the act of using shame and guilt to evoke the male protective instinct.

That’s it. That’s all. Think about how it works:

1. Find something you think is a problem, that affects you (a woman), regardless of whether or not it affects mostly women, or affects you because you’re a woman, or has anything to do with being a woman at all.

2. Construct a narrative that frames this problem as unfairness to women.

3. Relate this narrative to any man who will listen, and tell them that they personally are oppressing women unless they change their behaviour to fix this problem for you.

4. Repeat until men give you whatever it is you wanted.

So now can we ask why feminism exists? How about why it is so prevalent? Sure. It’s easy to explain now.

Feminism is prevalent in the modern world because the most powerful demographic of men in history became especially vulnerable to appeals to guilt and shame.

So why isn’t feminism being used against the muslim world? Easy to see that now.

Feminists don’t go after muslims because the feminist tactic doesn’t work on them.

So why do feminists come to the (verbal) defense of third world peasants who treat women as cattle? Simple to understand now. Muslims aren’t a target for the feminist tactic, they are a weapon. The concept of them as poor oppressed brown people who are victims of the evil white man (instead of the armed rabble gathered at the gates of civilization)… this can be used to make first world men feel more guilt and shame, and to get those men in the habit of feeling guilt and shame.

So what can we do with this knowledge?

Well, we now know how to protect ourselves from feminism. Become immune to guilt and shame. You’ll still be vulnerable to attack by herds of manipulated men, but you won’t be one of them.

We also know to stop blaming feminism for our problems, whatever they might be. Feminism is a thing precisely because it works… and who has allowed it to work? Modern first world men. Too domesticated. Too ashamed. Too unselfish. Too weak.

Of course it was inevitable that women should discover that femininity (which offers submission in exchange for protectiveness) was more effort than applying shame and guilt (which requires women to give nothing). Women did it because men incentivized it.

Feminism is not new. It is not a game-changer. It is not an alteration in the terrain. The Great Game has always existed and always will. Everything is a move.

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