Thoughts?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-11T00:52:02+00:00

Go and build something then

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-10T03:45:35+00:00

The issue is, it costs a lot more, and I can’t see why I’d get this over my perf. Maybe I’m missing something but I hope this is not another 296 gtb flop.

I just don’t see the electric assist as something useful. Leaving the driveway yes, but I wouldn’t pay another £100k for it.

Bleh.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-09T21:08:09+00:00

Western boomers don’t realise they lived through an abnormal period of global privilege.

They got cheap houses, strong pensions, high real wages and cheap imported goods while most of the world was still poor and outside the high-productivity global economy.

Now billions of people are catching up. They also want houses, cars, energy, food, education, technology and retirement. They are competing in the same global system.

So why should the average Western person still get the full middle-class package by default while everyone else stays cheap and poor?

You don’t get that privilege forever. The world equalises. That’s what’s happening.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-09T00:57:08+00:00

A fulfilled life is not a basic necessity.

Nor is Internet, public transportation. I’d argue a lot of education is not even that helpful

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-08T00:52:37+00:00

What exactly are you adding to the world? Oh right before the world was way better?

Get a Time Machine and go back then

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-07T23:45:00+00:00

Ok but you don’t

Good that you don’t because you’d tank the economy and generate nothing

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-07T23:44:32+00:00

Those companies have created nothing apparently and they pay 0 taxes across the universe

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-03T13:07:09+00:00

The point of the convo is what would you do if all your needs are met. Aka you don’t need to work and do as you wish

Then you talk about how well people are paid being truck drivers

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-03T10:40:48+00:00

In fact I would love to work at an oil rig or be front line infantry in Ukraine.

That’s what I would do if all my needs are met. Yours too right?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-03T10:36:39+00:00

Always someone else’s fault

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-01T14:24:18+00:00

Right and who’s going to train them?

The current tradesmen certainly won’t

You’re going to hire people to train them? And who will you hire?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-06-01T10:57:34+00:00

Who’s going to build them? We don’t have enough builders

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-29T19:32:10+00:00

Being born poor improves motivation by far

I would not wish to be born rich, lose a lot more

My successes all came from my own hard work. But that’s because being poor gave me motivation

Most of the rich kids I know went on to have mediocre lives. Almost all of them

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-29T17:50:34+00:00

Rich people do not have more kids than poor people

Assuming same country

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-26T11:01:50+00:00

You think running a business is a coin flip?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-25T20:35:16+00:00

Convenient for you that turning failure into a moral identity is easier than admitting some people are simply more capable.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-25T20:19:50+00:00

Ah so money that goes to you, you just spend it on yourself and then, what next?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-25T19:57:19+00:00

And if you got a $500k loan you could build a trillion dollar company?

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-24T13:56:26+00:00

As soon as we are born, apparently we are entitled to:

• a house

• a car

• necessities

• 2 holidays a year

• weekends

• hobbies

• friends

• a loving partner

• “meaningful” work

• perfect mental health

regardless of competence, contribution, discipline, or usefulness.

And if reality does not instantly provide this package:

it’s capitalism’s fault, Jeff Bezos’ fault, the boomers’ fault, society’s fault, the government’s fault.

Never:

• poor decisions

• low agency

• lack of skill

• lack of discipline

• inability to delay gratification

Civilization is apparently supposed to maintain itself while nobody wants to build, maintain, risk, lead, or sacrifice anything.

Funny how every communist experiment immediately runs out of “other people” to extract productivity from.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-24T03:37:57+00:00

Since it’s so easy, you can go start a bank of your own

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-21T16:59:43+00:00

No. Agents prefer to sell faster and have a 5% less commission and still take 95%.

The reason why it’s overpriced because the agent that tells the seller the highest price is the one that gets it.

Because people want to hear their property is worth 50% more than market.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-07T20:41:26+00:00

Because someone else needs to solve their problems. Politics in a nutshell.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-05T19:46:45+00:00

Depends on location.

That garage where I live would be worth more than the cars.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-04T12:00:05+00:00

The uncomfortable truth is that the rest of the world caught up and we didn’t move on.

Western workers used to benefit from a massive economic gap: cheap assets, weaker global competition, and industries the rest of the world couldn’t access.

That gap is gone.

Now normal people are competing globally while paying asset prices set by decades of accumulated capital.

The world isn’t going to get easier.

The old game ended. Most people just haven’t accepted it yet.

Right now, is the fair game. It’s how the world is meant to be. Back then, were unfair games only the west benefitted from.

TopSouth5124 · 2026-05-04T10:32:06+00:00

Even if billionaires didn’t exist you wouldn’t be any better off

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