I grew up just outside of Atlanta, a city which consistently ranks in the top 10 for the
worst traffic in the country.
Given a metro area containing roughly 2 million workers, and an average of
59 hours per commuter per year spent in traffic, Atlanta wastes approximately 118 MILLION man-hours every year due to traffic.
Now that's a really big number, so let's add some context.
According to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee:
-Mount Rushmore was built in 123,000 man-hours.
-The Empire State Building took 7 million man-hours.
-Nationwide ObamaCare compliance costs for a single year are estimated to be 190 million man-hours.
So basically, the city of Atlanta is losing the economic equivalent of 17 Empire State buildings each year because damn near every morning some Georgia State sugar baby trying to eat a bowl of Cheerios while putting on her makeup on I-85 crashes into a tractor trailer at 90 miles an hour and makes a hundred thousand people late to work.
Rinse and repeat for LA, D.C., Houston, etc. and you have the answer as to why we still don't have flying cars, let alone self-driving ones.
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Now take this same concept of wasted man-hours, and apply it to the number of girls studying useless degrees for 4 5
6 years on average.
To the years (sometimes decades) of corporate slave labor required for them to pay off their federally-subsidized student loan debt.
To the number of guys spam approaching sluts at the bar for four hours every Thursday/Friday/Saturday night.
To the experienced player who fucks three new girls every month, which involves on average two dates of roughly five hours each, but continually needs to refill his pipeline because his aversion to monogamy inevitably drives the girl to start over with a new guy who can't imagine what a filthy whore she is.
To the nerdy 25 year-old virgin who just discovered the red pill, and spends thousands of hours over the next several years learning game and making endless approaches and getting rejected countless times just so he can get a taste of the love and intimacy his grandfather stumbled into at 17 with his high-school sweetheart.
And this doesn't even take into account the compounding factor.
Just like money, time invested in skill sets early on can help those skills grow exponentially. Imagine if, instead of investing all this time in learning how to navigate our corrupted sexual marketplace, we invested in ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Imagine if the 25 year-old from above had a sweet, feminine wife who fucked him and fed him and helped support his innate talents for, say, computer programming. So instead of spending an hour a day for the next three years learning to spam approach women in a Sisyphean attempt to quench his sexual thirst, he invests that time into mastering a few programming languages. This knowledge leads him to start up a website, which soon blossoms into a business, which more than provides for his wife and young children.
And his wife, instead of filing TPS reports in a fluorescent-lit hellhole for 2,000 hours every year for the nine years it takes her to pay off her debt, gets to wake up to the sound of giggling children every morning instead of the siren alarm on her iPhone.
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There's not much I can do to change the world Roosh describes in the video. We have to play the hands we're dealt, and we can't help it if the dating market is full of 2-7 offsuits. Most women will continue to waste their time on pointless college degrees, just as most men will waste their time playing video games or watching sports or attempting to seduce mediocre women.
But we here on the Forum are not most men. And as we saw in Roosh's recent talk with Samseau on how the Manosphere helped changed the course of history, our personal decisions, taken in aggregate, can have a far greater reach than we might expect.
All I can do is focus on myself, and that's exactly what I plan on doing. But if enough of us start doing just that, if we stop wasting our time and start investing it, seriously, with our long-term goals in mind...I have no doubt we can accomplish some truly amazing things.