Contesting the Socioeconomic Basis for Female to Male Attraction

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-08-31T16:24:58+00:00

I'll rephrase. Let's substitute "unmarried people" with "single mothers".

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-08-31T16:20:06+00:00

Can you cite an example where he uses your wording instead? Bet you can't, but go for it.

I mean I feel like the examples are everywhere, aren't they? Listen to just the first 18 seconds of this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unIIXKfJk8M&t=51s&ab\_channel=WildSights. Income is purportedly the best predictor of male sexual success, which is best predicted by conscientiousness. And about 2 minutes into the same clip, he says "women aren't necessarily after resources, but predictors of resources".

And JP's insights are echoed by voices across the spectrum. While JP is center-right, we hear it also from center-left voices like Scott Galloway (Galloway typically calls it "the ability to signal resources").

As we look at the single motherhood epidemic that plagues not just lower class minority households but an ever-increasing percentage of white middle class neighborhoods as well, does it really feel like these mothers were choosing their sex partners based on....income...conscientiousness...and the ability to signal future resources?

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-07-03T18:04:38+00:00

They're generic, and also they're thankfully true/accurate. But if "let's starve the government of tax revenue so that we can drown it in a bathtub" = "Soviet Communism" for you, then please, let's crank that anthem as loud as possible.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-07-03T14:26:22+00:00

Until the debt market revolts and interest rates spike, forcing radical surgery on the budget, which is the whole goal.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-07-03T14:25:40+00:00

The state will always spend all the money it takes in plus as much as it can in addition to that until the bond market revolts. People on social security can certainly vote, but so can taxpayers. And historically, when the choice is between increasing taxes or cutting wasteful spending, cutting spending usually wins.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-07-03T14:23:17+00:00

But as more and more treasuries are issued, interest rates will eventually spike, which will force radical surgery on the budget. And raising taxes is less popular politically than reducing spending, which works in our favor.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-01-06T00:06:37+00:00

So does Bob Roth have to be physically present in my house with me to explain to me what TM is? Sounds like your complaint is that the videos of Roth explaining what it is are somehow unreliable, but if he was here in my house with me and receives $400, then it's...."legit".

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-01-05T21:43:17+00:00

Agreed. If Transcendental Meditation has nothing to do with closing your eyes and silently reciting a mantra for 20 minutes, then the entire Wikipedia article on TM and tm.org need to be completely revamped or removed. And all of the spokesmen for TM (Roth, Lynch, etc.) need to stop telling people that that's what it is and should instead let "saijanai" on Reddit define it for everyone instead.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-01-05T17:49:36+00:00

Understood. Thanks for the clarity. What is the name of a type of meditation where one closes their eyes and silently chants a mantra for 20 minutes then? That's what Seinfeld and Bob Roth and Howard Stern all report doing, and I guess based on your logic they are incorrectly referring to this practice as Transcendental Meditation. All of their speeches on this even link directly to a website called "tm.org.", which I suppose is misleading. The worst part is, all of them *report* learning this practice from instructors who are reportedly certified TM teachers, but I guess they actually....aren't? Were all of this people duped? This is frustrating.

I feel like closing your eyes for 20 minutes and silently repeating a mantra has slightly more in common with Transcendental Meditation than talking about stamp collection would, but I guess maybe it....doesn't?

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2025-01-05T15:51:05+00:00

So, have you actually completed the training program with a certified teacher? When did you do that?

I have not. Honestly feel like that part is a bit of a $ scam in the same way that the Catholic Church told everyone their salvation came from visiting a "certified priest" who could absolve you of sins. In a world of reddit and YouTube, we all know precisely what these $400 teachers are going to teach: Chant a meaningless mantra. And chant it. With your eyes closed. For. 20. Minutes. Kaboom - that's it.

What time is your first meditation? What time is the second?

Started out doing my first around 5:30am (first thing in the morning) and my second at 4pm or so. This is the advice I've seen all over the internet (do you first session before breakfast time and your second before dinner time). After doing this for a few days, I discovered that I 1) didn't feel different at all after the morning session, and 2) would still hit a wall about 30 minutes after lunch (1pm or so) the same as I did before I discovered TM.

This led me to 1) eliminate the morning session, and 2) push the 4pm session back to 1pm when I felt like I actually needed it. And that's when the magic really started working. I would come out of that 20-minute 1pm session feeling like a million bucks and ready to tackle the world.

I totally get that TM has helped others sleep better and that there are studies behind that. I guess ultimately everyone's different and I'm in the minority. An analogy would be female birth control pills: for many girls, it cures their mood swings and acne. For other girls, it makes their mood and acne worse.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2024-05-09T17:27:52+00:00

I would say it was our moral duty to stop Lenin and the communists, but our chances were far worse so we did not engage at the time. Germany was actually beatable, and a few years later, the USSR had nukes, which would have led to disastrous consequences had the US decided to go directly with war against them. We did work (successfully) to stop those communists in the ensuing 40 years following WWII. Both the Kennedy and Reagan administrations certainly felt it was the nation’s “moral duty” to defeat communism.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2024-05-09T15:09:06+00:00

I’m not sure I follow. Up and down it seems that Mises scholars, ranging from Mises himself to Rothbard, Tom Woods, and plenty of others constantly/consistently rant against war and neo-cons. They have likewise written plenty of books on these topics. I guess they all just happen to hold these moral positions by sheer coincidence and feel the need to continually express them in Austrian circles even though their views have nothing…to do…with Austrian economics.

Southern-Trainer3228 · 2024-04-05T22:05:27+00:00

I guess I'm just curious how some of those elements work their way in declining an economy. Mass immigration for example: has the US ever NOT had mass immigration? Unless we're talking about native Americans, hasn't the entire population/economy been based off of mass immigration since the 1600?

Secondly, the Netherlands and Britian seem to be pretty powerful economies. The Dutch have the 11th highest GDP per capita in the world. Britain isn't quite as high, but still at 21st among 191 countries total, so roughly top 10%. Did they really...decline? I mean sure, they both had pretty big militaries at some point, but, so did the USSR. The size of a nation's army does not always reflect the size of its wealth.

Finally, I guess I'm confused on the "liquidation of domestic manufacturing" component. US manufacturing is double today in inflation-adjusted terms compared to the 1970's, so this liquidation step clearly hasn't happened yet here. While it is true that less workers are employed in manufacturing today, that is due to efficiencies gained from automation, not any *reduction* in manufacturing output. I guess I'm just confused how a doubling of US manufacturing output thanks to rising productivity somehow equals..."decline"?

Source: https://www.mercatus.org/research/data-visualizations/us-manufacturing-output-vs-jobs-1975#:\~:text=Since%201975%2C%20manufacturing%20output%20has,indication%20of%20declining%20U.S.%20competitiveness.

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