[Guriko]

(12-11-2016 10:50 PM)Delta Wrote:  

I don't understand why anyone here believes it takes elite private schools and connections to make it in this world. That's a leftist rationalization for why economic mobility tends to be low, and it's a myth. Sure, you can probably find some study purporting a correlation between schools' pricetags and their students' life outcomes, but correlation does not imply causation. Only high-IQ elites can afford to send their kids to swanky private schools, and children tend to turn out like their parents. Nothing remotely groundbreaking. The surest path to success in life is as follows:

Step 1: Do reasonably well in high school.
Step 2: If you did well enough to earn a scholarship at a 4 year college, go there and enjoy some well-earned fun making friends and chasing pussy. Otherwise, start out at community college which is fairly inexpensive.
Step 3: Study a practical field that isn't oversaturated with aspirants, and maintain a decent GPA.
Step 4: Apply for jobs until you get one.
Step 5: Don't blow massive amounts of money on bullshit you don't need.

It really is that simple. I spent my entire educational career at mediocre public schools, never had any sort of private tutor, never had a connection help get me a job, and I now earn more money than I know how to spend while most of my peers are busy digging out of debt and complaining about how the system is rigged against them.

My case is not unique. Almost everyone I know with a good job and good life never attended an expensive private school, and went into fields they had zero connections in. From my observations, there are only 3 things a child needs to be given in order to maximize his/her probability of success:

1. A high IQ
2. An upbringing in a safe neighborhood
3. Involved parents who stress hard work and responsibility

#1 and #3 have nothing to do with money, and #2 is affordable to anyone who isn't dirt poor. Don't buy into this nonsense that raising a couple of children is economically infeasible for most people in one of the most affluent societies ever to exist. Stalin hits the nail on the head that any middle class and up couple who believes they can't afford children is incredibly misguided as to what it takes to raise a successful adult. If you're wiling to spare the time to instill proper values in your child, you've already accomplished more than $500K worth of private schooling ever could.

I am in agreement with Delta.

I believe future middle class parents are nowadays over thinking and overanalyzing situations within their heads which is causing them to stand still.

Paralysis by overanalysis?

To paraphrase Bertrand Russell:



'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always popping out babies, and wiser people are full of doubts to even have one.'

I am not saying that it is not a challenge to raise a child properly today but what I am saying is that if the parents are committed to it then they will certainly be able to achieve it.

Even if they make some mistakes down the road, so what?

How many of us have found this forum during a darker stage within our lives, when we've blamed everything and everyone but ourselves for the predicament we've faced and found the way again with the help of the RVF brothers?

I know I have.

There is no perfect way to raise a child.

People say that I'm a model son who must deeply love his parents for how they've cared about me and got me the best of things, yet for a couple of years there was a seething rage within me against my father and mother for breaking up and I almost quit med school because of that.

They did the best according to the knowledge they've possessed and their capabilities, which you've made me realize.

Here I am walking down my own path with the fundamentals they've given me.

I believe this is key - the right fundamentals, because everyone will get shaken in their lives at least once.

This is not a question of 'if' but of 'when' and if a child has gotten the right fundamentals, like I did, then they will find the way again, I am sure of it.

1. Discipline.
2. Love of hard-work.
3. Honesty.
4. Frugality and how to invest in low fee dollar cost average index funds.
5. Importance of one's word and credibility.
6. A zest for life.
7. Truthfulness.
8. Importance of sex.

And what do we call all of this combined? The Red Pill.

And you don't need a lot of money to teach the Red Pill to a child.

You only need a father who has found himself a suitable companion and you're set to go.

Will it be hard?

Sure.

But I've yet to see a smile greater than the one on a Man who is the de facto patriarch of his family.

Case in point: Trump.