Four major languages spoken in organizations among Sociopaths, Losers and the Clueles
08-29-2014, 07:28 AMQuote: (08-29-2014 04:08 AM)Dragonstone Wrote:
I would compare it in many respects to reading some of the more complex red pill writers, through there are some comments in the blog that suggest that the author would not care for the comparison.
Church is a bit of a white knight, but at least he does recognize the effectiveness of Game.
Here's one of Michael's answers on Quora:
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There isn't one typical middle-class attitude toward wealth or the rich. As the answers above show, some middle-class people despise the rich and others feel the opposite, and some middle-class people believe life is fundamentally fair while others have figured out that it's not. There is, however, one very strong and prevalent misconception among the middle class: they think social class follows from money. In their view, a person who is rich becomes "upper class". It's actually the reverse. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, is not "upper class". He's very rich upper-middle. (His children will have a shot at lower-upper-class status.) Bill Gates is lower-upper, but that has as much, if not more, to do with his father (a named partner at a law firm) as with him.
Sometimes you'll hear someone describe an income range as "upper class", the threshold being set anywhere from $100,000 to $5 million per year, depending on who you ask. No such thing. Social class is about access and opportunity, and the fact that upper-class people tend to be extremely wealthy follows from that access.
Some middle-class people have figured out that "life is unfair", but very few understand how it is unfair. When they graduate out of the deluded belief that just working hard will make them rich, they progress to the equally untrue conception that economic success is "random".
Upper-class people are (unconsciously, since most of them haven't put this much thought into it) bred to exploit peoples' social biases and get favors. They have "Game", but rather than such being a set of canned skills they learn in their college years to get laid, it's so deeply bred into them that they are able to apply these principles to most social theaters. Their "work Game" accelerates their careers, for example.
From a middle-class social perspective, most upper-class people don't have the greatest social skills, but that's because the middle and upper class conceptions of social skills are very different. For the middle class, it's about not giving anyone a reason to dislike you: a first-order approximation strategy that holds you back if you want to hit the high notes. For the upper class, it's about getting information (who's powerful and important, and how those people like being approached) and exploiting landscape features in order to get what they want. Upper class people have no problem with being disliked by half the people they interact with, as long as (a) the people who dislike them stay out of their way, and (b) the people who actually matter like them.
One other thing about social class: upper-class people don't lose their class status just because they lose their money (which they often do, because, unlike middle-class rich people, most of them don't have any financial sense). When they lose their fortunes, they have to "work" to get them back, but they have access to high-paying non-jobs (e.g. board positions) so it's mostly an annoyance.
And another one on reddit:
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The NDA is a power play. The business guy wants to establish that he's an alpha monkey so he makes you sign it to hear his idea. It's to start the relationship on his terms from the start. That means you're the subordinate. Framing.
The principles of Game apply to work even more strongly, but people are averse to discussing the fact because apparently scamming men with money is wrong while scamming young women with low self-esteem is socially acceptable.
"The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her." – H.L. Mencken