06-14-2016, 04:30 PM
06-14-2016, 04:57 PM
(06-14-2016, 01:15 PM)Sickologist Wrote: [ -> ]You have to go through betrayal in life to see the light, like one of my favorite stories The Count of Monte Cristo. It's a universial theme all great men experience and that's how we become badass. Basically the worse the situation, the stronger you become because you have to dig that much deeper to exorcise those demons and beat your worst enemy; naivety.
But I digress...
Became curious from reading about pheromones in your thread, don't have any experience. Anything you'd recommend? I like the looks of Aqua Vitae, Bad Wolf and Overdose. Basically anything that helps me attract bad girls, and not the wannabe kind that screws just about anybody. If she drives a Ducati and despise weak men I'll go for her.
Yeah man, I absolutely love Count of Monte Cristo. One of my fav books. As for pheromones, I'm a fan of PheromoneXS's stuff. Haven't tried too much of LAL outside of Aqua Vitae. AV's pretty awesome, it's just... really intense, lol. I'm eager to try AV with AOSI. Since I'm not really into that "bad girl" type, I can't really tell you which blend will attract 'em. I'm a fan of submissive, quiet and kinda demure.
06-15-2016, 10:17 AM
French au pair date may not happen. First, she gave me her number, then said not to contact because it's for the host family only. Whatever. I ignored that message, asked when she was free this weekend. She replied with: "I don't know yet..." Which could mean anything from her waiting on a response from someone else to her being unable to come out because of her au pair duties. For those following along because they wanna learn the online dating game, here's my advice for these situations: Don't speculate. Don't even dwell on it too much. There's a million different reasons this could happen, and you'll never know the truth.
So, whatever. Normally, I'd move on. Online dating is a numbers game. You hit up a large amount of women, move for the number close and push for the date with as minimal investment as possible. BUT, I really wanna try AOSI out in my preferred setting, a one-on-one date. Generally speaking, my conversion rate in that setting is pretty high. The only time I don't get what I want is when she does something to turn me off. So, I'm gonna let her response sit a few days before a final push. If no response, I may go out an cold approach. Or... might just let AOSI rest a week, run AM6 and work on my business.
Speaking of which, I've decided to pare down some of my online properties and focus solely on one or two things. Those things are: Kindle publishing and Mental Alchemy. So, I already have a site dedicated to writing, now I'm going to start a mental alchemy site. Nothing huge at the moment, just blog about my experiences and the such, build an audience and figure out how to monetize it. It's a long term play. If only a certain HISTORY MAKING, REVOLUTIONARY SUBLIMINAL COMPANY had an affiliate program, I could send loads of qualified traffic to it. I make a pretty penny off Pheromone affiliate sales now, but I like subliminals better. I've run affiliate programs before -- to deal with the fraud problem, you just make the barrier to entry to becoming an affiliate much, much higher.
So, whatever. Normally, I'd move on. Online dating is a numbers game. You hit up a large amount of women, move for the number close and push for the date with as minimal investment as possible. BUT, I really wanna try AOSI out in my preferred setting, a one-on-one date. Generally speaking, my conversion rate in that setting is pretty high. The only time I don't get what I want is when she does something to turn me off. So, I'm gonna let her response sit a few days before a final push. If no response, I may go out an cold approach. Or... might just let AOSI rest a week, run AM6 and work on my business.
Speaking of which, I've decided to pare down some of my online properties and focus solely on one or two things. Those things are: Kindle publishing and Mental Alchemy. So, I already have a site dedicated to writing, now I'm going to start a mental alchemy site. Nothing huge at the moment, just blog about my experiences and the such, build an audience and figure out how to monetize it. It's a long term play. If only a certain HISTORY MAKING, REVOLUTIONARY SUBLIMINAL COMPANY had an affiliate program, I could send loads of qualified traffic to it. I make a pretty penny off Pheromone affiliate sales now, but I like subliminals better. I've run affiliate programs before -- to deal with the fraud problem, you just make the barrier to entry to becoming an affiliate much, much higher.
06-15-2016, 11:27 AM
If only it was feasible to have such an affiliate program after considering taxes and all the other crap involved.... but I am planning to check back into it every 6 to 12 months.
06-15-2016, 12:23 PM
(06-15-2016, 11:27 AM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]If only it was feasible to have such an affiliate program after considering taxes and all the other crap involved.... but I am planning to check back into it every 6 to 12 months.
Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous how hard it is to create and sustain a business in the alleged "land of opportunity." I remember when I first started out as an entrepreneur and my accountant told me how much I'd REALLY be making versus the revenue I was generating. Almost went back to a 9-5 job.
Quick field report: I haven't run AOSI since last Thursday. Was in one of those small "Dollar" stores grabbing some stuff for tonight's workout at the dojo. Ran into a really pretty Latina with a "nerd" aesthetic. Short and fit with a very... endowed posterior. We passed one another and I noticed that she cut her eyes at me. Nothing remarkable. I ended up behind her in the checkout line. It was like she sensed my presence, turned around and locked eyes with me. Her gaze lingered on me for a moment and something happened that hadn't happened before: An intense visualization of she and I having sex. Like, super vivid daydream. I felt the energy project. She looked down and broke into a huge smile. Those of us study body language knows that tends to be a strong sign of interest, and she's shy. I was about to say something until I realized that *cough* shewastherewithhermomandidontknowhowoldshewas *cough* andirealizedshelookedreallyyoung *cough*.
The lady at the checkout saw the whole exchange and began grinning ear to ear. She was rather unattractive, so I tried not to lock eyes, but I felt compelled to do so.
Which of course, caused her to open me, asking how my day was and then she asked if I WERE SINGLE. I lied. I said I wasn't.
Fast Times On AOSI.
06-15-2016, 12:41 PM
Alright man, I'll check out the XS stuff tho I'll probably order AV first. I just ordered enough for two 12-week cycles of andarine, ostarine, cardarine and ligandrol....STACKED! I'll post my results on my thread.
Americans have no idea how lucky they are, I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Try living in the commie nation where Red Bull was illegal until like 2010. WTF! Bulding a business here is like climbing Mount Everest 10x. There's no pursuit of happiness over here dude, only boredom, taxes and "la mentira".
Americans have no idea how lucky they are, I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Try living in the commie nation where Red Bull was illegal until like 2010. WTF! Bulding a business here is like climbing Mount Everest 10x. There's no pursuit of happiness over here dude, only boredom, taxes and "la mentira".
06-15-2016, 08:42 PM
Right on. I'm continually astounded by the entitlement mentality of people around me here in the US. The problem is people take everything at face value, lack gratitude, and are satisfied to the point where they aren't aware of what "lack" is.
People come here from other countries and see the hope and value, and kill it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of American-born victim-mentality poor-little-me type people everywhere with their hand held out like they're owed something.
Living here, at times, it's hard to keep perspective. But that's nothing compared to the hardships that many other people have to endure.
On the other hand, there are many wonderful, generous, and grateful people here as well.
People come here from other countries and see the hope and value, and kill it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of American-born victim-mentality poor-little-me type people everywhere with their hand held out like they're owed something.
Living here, at times, it's hard to keep perspective. But that's nothing compared to the hardships that many other people have to endure.
On the other hand, there are many wonderful, generous, and grateful people here as well.
06-15-2016, 08:51 PM
(06-15-2016, 08:42 PM)RTBoss Wrote: [ -> ]Right on. I'm continually astounded by the entitlement mentality of people around me here in the US. The problem is people take everything at face value, lack gratitude, and are satisfied to the point where they aren't aware of what "lack" is.
People come here from other countries and see the hope and value, and kill it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of American-born victim-mentality poor-little-me type people everywhere with their hand held out like they're owed something.
Living here, at times, it's hard to keep perspective. But that's nothing compared to the hardships that many other people have to endure.
On the other hand, there are many wonderful, generous, and grateful people here as well.
Please disambiguate the grammar on this bold statement. Did you mean that those people kill the hope and value, or "kill it" in achieving so much success?
06-15-2016, 08:56 PM
(06-15-2016, 08:51 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ](06-15-2016, 08:42 PM)RTBoss Wrote: [ -> ]Right on. I'm continually astounded by the entitlement mentality of people around me here in the US. The problem is people take everything at face value, lack gratitude, and are satisfied to the point where they aren't aware of what "lack" is.
People come here from other countries and see the hope and value, and kill it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of American-born victim-mentality poor-little-me type people everywhere with their hand held out like they're owed something.
Living here, at times, it's hard to keep perspective. But that's nothing compared to the hardships that many other people have to endure.
On the other hand, there are many wonderful, generous, and grateful people here as well.
Please disambiguate the grammar on this bold statement. Did you mean that those people kill the hope and value, or "kill it" in achieving so much success?
Thanks for catching that. I meant to convey success. Or at least, gratitude for what they have - material, opportunity, or otherwise.
06-16-2016, 04:41 AM
(06-15-2016, 08:42 PM)RTBoss Wrote: [ -> ]Right on. I'm continually astounded by the entitlement mentality of people around me here in the US. The problem is people take everything at face value, lack gratitude, and are satisfied to the point where they aren't aware of what "lack" is.
People come here from other countries and see the hope and value, and kill it. Meanwhile, there are a lot of American-born victim-mentality poor-little-me type people everywhere with their hand held out like they're owed something.
Living here, at times, it's hard to keep perspective. But that's nothing compared to the hardships that many other people have to endure.
On the other hand, there are many wonderful, generous, and grateful people here as well.
I'm going to be very honest: I find this mentality of yours overly simplistic and a little disturbing.
I'm quite well versed in American economics, American sociopolitics and socioeconomics -- I had to be, in order to operate as an effective marketing exec. And when you REALLY get down to the nitty gritty of how this country works (because it's a system, like everything else in existence), you find that for the most part, the idea of "the American Dream" is a bullshit illusion. The most successful people in this country are generally "others," people that were either rejected by society by virtue of some undesirability, people that are hyper-intelligent (and rejected because of it, turning that rejection into motivation) people from another country, or people that were given a pass by virtue of race, looks, family legacy, or a mixture of all three.
The people from another country that come here and "kill it" were never inherently part of the system in the first place and aren't expected to operate by those internal rules. The average American does not willingly disengage from the system because great pains are taken to prevent that from happening. From birth to old age, we're taught to go to grade school (which indoctrinates you to become a happy worker), go to university and accrue lots of debt (which, outside of STEM, operates as a propaganda machine), get married (which no longer exists in an optimal state -- it's purely a tax play now), accrue MORE debt through buying a house and fancy car and having kids (which makes it IMPOSSIBLE for you to disengage from that system).
And if you dare say you want to become an entrepreneur, what happens? People will criticize your idea and go out of their way to push you back into being a good little worker. The idea of your self-actualization as an individual existing outside of the system threatens them so much that they'll do ANYTHING to make you fail. Hell, if you say you have no intentions of getting married, that somehow makes you a misogynist man baby -- as if your entire life's purpose should be to hand over all your resources to a woman so she can consume, consume, consume. Or, in other words: place your earnings back into the system.
What you're referring to as an attitude of entitlement is a collective subconscious realization that the dream we're sold is NOTHING like the reality of the situation. And what we're seeing is a very small percentage of people at the top hoarding the majority of the wealth in America and flaunting it in our faces by doing whatever they can to NOT reinvest money back into the system. America's financial burden is falling on the backs of the middle class. And people are getting angry, and they're threatening to opt out and/or bring down the system (hence, this very odd selection of presidential candidates -- this is a disruption.)
Hey Sarge: This is a manifestation of "as above, so below." On a subconscious level, people are growing increasingly frustrated with the system, so it's manifesting on a macro level as a disruption of the system through the election process. Sorry, had to do it bro.
Now, I agree that this is the WRONG way to go about it. I believe public schools should teach more classes on entrepreneurship, creativity, financial management and innovation and using those talents for public service rather than memorizing random facts and stifling natural impulses. That way, our children will have a creator's mindset as opposed to a consumers.
But ask yourself: What would be the long-term economic implications for a social plan designed to produce creators instead of consumers?
Answer: It simply wouldn't work in the current socioeconomic system.
Ask yourself why we no longer follow the apprenticeship system that worked so well in earlier times. Where, as a child, you devoted yourself to a vocation, mastered that craft and then excelled as an adult -- only to take on an apprentice and repeat the system?
Answer: Because it wouldn't work in the current socioeconomic system. This system is based completely on CONSUMPTION. Thus, it makes sense that every facet of the system, from education to romance, be based on the notion that you must consume.
So, your suggestion to just appreciate what we have here and remember that other countries have it worse is pretty much asking people to not demand change, and that notion is usually rooted in fear. Fear of losing an advantage. Fear of more competitors. Fear of losing a privilege. Somewhere deep inside, everyone knows that they are participating in a game that you cannot opt-out of. You must adopt a strategy and play. Some are taking the victim-mindset. Some are deciding to suck it up and go after entrepreneurship. But don't try to whittle the situation down to "mere entitlement." That's a myth -- that's indoctrinated thought. And when I say that it's tough to become an entrepreneur in today's society, I'm talking from experience. I AM an online entrepreneur, and unless you've tried it, you wouldn't believe the nonsense you have to go through.
That's because the system is designed for you to consume. Not produce.
06-16-2016, 11:29 AM
It's been 7 days since I've run AM6 + AOSI and I STILL feel the aura project when I eat. The effect isn't fading. In fact, it feels like it's getting stronger. The attention is getting to the point where, as an introvert, it's become unsettling. I feel like I have a spotlight on me when I'm out and about. I want to reiterate that I've only run AOSI a total of FOUR LOOPS. There's some kind of unpredictable synergy going on here. Every time I run AOSI, the same pattern occurs -- I go out, have a fun time and when I begin to run AM6 again, I encounter HORRIBLE resistance. Then, that resistance passes and I feel more confident and powerful than I ever have in my entire life.
Was out grabbing some produce and a rotisserie chicken earlier. One of the workers (5.5/10 -- nothing impressive) sees me, immediately darts her eyes away. I turn the corner and there she is, approaching me. We lock eyes. It's almost like we're in a trance for a moment before she lets her eyes glaze over as if she wasn't looking at me. But I saw you, chick. You got AOSI'd.
Got home, ate an absurd amount of the chicken and I felt the aura project, mainly out of my upper back and hands. 4 loops. Over the course of two weeks. This is some powerful technology. V2 is going to be absolutely amazing.
I gotta be careful, though. My libido is skyrocketing and I tend to engage in debauchery when this occurs. My good friend, his girlfriend and myself all attend the same gym. He's not in good shape AT ALL and kinda uses the gym for socializing. On the flipside, she's been working very hard on her physique, and it's really starting to show. He wasn't there yesterday, but his girlfriend was. The moment I walked in, she began to give me an insane amount of attention. Now, she and I don't hate each other, but we've always been a bit ambivalent toward each other. This kind of attention has never happened. She made sure to give me several butt displays and kept finding reasons to ask me for help on different workouts and techniques. Finally, when she left, SHE made sure to invite me over tomorrow night to chill with her and my friend. It dawned on me that me that the aura was projecting hard the entire time... as I realized that I'm starting to see her as very attractive. I'm guessing the aura is programmed to work better on women you find attractive.
Spare me the moral judgments -- I have no intention on pursuing my friend's chick. If she comes after me, however...
Was out grabbing some produce and a rotisserie chicken earlier. One of the workers (5.5/10 -- nothing impressive) sees me, immediately darts her eyes away. I turn the corner and there she is, approaching me. We lock eyes. It's almost like we're in a trance for a moment before she lets her eyes glaze over as if she wasn't looking at me. But I saw you, chick. You got AOSI'd.
Got home, ate an absurd amount of the chicken and I felt the aura project, mainly out of my upper back and hands. 4 loops. Over the course of two weeks. This is some powerful technology. V2 is going to be absolutely amazing.
I gotta be careful, though. My libido is skyrocketing and I tend to engage in debauchery when this occurs. My good friend, his girlfriend and myself all attend the same gym. He's not in good shape AT ALL and kinda uses the gym for socializing. On the flipside, she's been working very hard on her physique, and it's really starting to show. He wasn't there yesterday, but his girlfriend was. The moment I walked in, she began to give me an insane amount of attention. Now, she and I don't hate each other, but we've always been a bit ambivalent toward each other. This kind of attention has never happened. She made sure to give me several butt displays and kept finding reasons to ask me for help on different workouts and techniques. Finally, when she left, SHE made sure to invite me over tomorrow night to chill with her and my friend. It dawned on me that me that the aura was projecting hard the entire time... as I realized that I'm starting to see her as very attractive. I'm guessing the aura is programmed to work better on women you find attractive.
Spare me the moral judgments -- I have no intention on pursuing my friend's chick. If she comes after me, however...
06-16-2016, 12:13 PM
I agree with a lot of what you're saying there Chaos. A lot of that is universial, no matter where you live. What I know is that the US may not be completely free, but it's freer than any other country in the world. That's a fact and that's one of the reasons why I'm moving there.
Many americans were furious when Obama tried to engage the population in socialist values. Where I live people accept it because they're brainwashed. The government runs just about everything and do what they can to criminalize the people at every turn. I fucking hate it here, there is no freedom other than freedom of speech which is a given.
Another thing I love about the US is that there's a market for just about anything. They say that 80% of the worlds millionares are American and there's a reason for that.
I've seen all the theories, you know, Peter Schiff, Ron Paul etc and I agree with a lot of what they say, but America is still better than any other place. It may be the only country where you can truly make your own luck.
As for people having a sense of entitlement, that's not what I was hinting at (RTBoss misunderstood what I wrote, probably my bad). They should have that, no matter where they come from. Just be willing to work for it. In my case, I worked insanely hard for what I've got. How do they repay me? Tax increase for higher salary and tax increase for more hours. Every day I'm getting robbed and my hard earned money ends up being pocketed by lazy bums.
The world will never be utopia, but moving to USA is a pretty good fucking start. Europe all together is ridicoulus, as a young man I have no idea how it got so far. My country is ruined forever, we're beyond the point of no return. When Trump wins the election you'll get your country back.
Had to rant...
Many americans were furious when Obama tried to engage the population in socialist values. Where I live people accept it because they're brainwashed. The government runs just about everything and do what they can to criminalize the people at every turn. I fucking hate it here, there is no freedom other than freedom of speech which is a given.
Another thing I love about the US is that there's a market for just about anything. They say that 80% of the worlds millionares are American and there's a reason for that.
I've seen all the theories, you know, Peter Schiff, Ron Paul etc and I agree with a lot of what they say, but America is still better than any other place. It may be the only country where you can truly make your own luck.
As for people having a sense of entitlement, that's not what I was hinting at (RTBoss misunderstood what I wrote, probably my bad). They should have that, no matter where they come from. Just be willing to work for it. In my case, I worked insanely hard for what I've got. How do they repay me? Tax increase for higher salary and tax increase for more hours. Every day I'm getting robbed and my hard earned money ends up being pocketed by lazy bums.
The world will never be utopia, but moving to USA is a pretty good fucking start. Europe all together is ridicoulus, as a young man I have no idea how it got so far. My country is ruined forever, we're beyond the point of no return. When Trump wins the election you'll get your country back.
Had to rant...
06-16-2016, 12:28 PM
I just read a very elaborate defense of the victimization of America. Maybe it was E2 that helped clear some of that kind of thinking away for me.
People ultimately choose to make their lives difficult. I have compassion for those who get "caught up," in the system - but being a person who has always sought a solution to my problems, my sympathy only goes so far.
If we keep blaming anything outside of our ability to make choices, we give our power away to the system. I don't care what was stuffed into my head my whole life, I make the decisions.
I'm sure it's tough to be an entrepreneur. If it were easy, everyone would do it. Not everyone is made of the stuff it takes to walk that path. But, regarding what I said in my prior post, you took what it said and extrapolated it into something that wasn't there. I didn't make a single comment concerning people who make decisions to improve their life. I also never said don't attempt to change the system. I promise you though, the people who DO feel entitled (don't try to tell me it's just people who are angry life doesn't live up to expectations b/c we've all been lied to) aren't the movers and shakers that will get it done.
I know so many people - close friends - who don't lift a finger to help themselves. They have their hand held out while they make poor decision after poor decision crying "Woe is me!" Even to suggest something bordering on self-improvement and I get stonewalled with excuses on why it can't be done.
Is it wrong to suggest that some people could do with a little more appreciation for having first world problems? There are people who are genuinely born into a sh*t life here, but when someone who grew up in a hovel in war-torn poverty can cross the ocean, learn a new language, and make due in a system that's completely foreign to them - how is it possible to not feel a little inspired by that?
People ultimately choose to make their lives difficult. I have compassion for those who get "caught up," in the system - but being a person who has always sought a solution to my problems, my sympathy only goes so far.
If we keep blaming anything outside of our ability to make choices, we give our power away to the system. I don't care what was stuffed into my head my whole life, I make the decisions.
I'm sure it's tough to be an entrepreneur. If it were easy, everyone would do it. Not everyone is made of the stuff it takes to walk that path. But, regarding what I said in my prior post, you took what it said and extrapolated it into something that wasn't there. I didn't make a single comment concerning people who make decisions to improve their life. I also never said don't attempt to change the system. I promise you though, the people who DO feel entitled (don't try to tell me it's just people who are angry life doesn't live up to expectations b/c we've all been lied to) aren't the movers and shakers that will get it done.
I know so many people - close friends - who don't lift a finger to help themselves. They have their hand held out while they make poor decision after poor decision crying "Woe is me!" Even to suggest something bordering on self-improvement and I get stonewalled with excuses on why it can't be done.
Is it wrong to suggest that some people could do with a little more appreciation for having first world problems? There are people who are genuinely born into a sh*t life here, but when someone who grew up in a hovel in war-torn poverty can cross the ocean, learn a new language, and make due in a system that's completely foreign to them - how is it possible to not feel a little inspired by that?
06-16-2016, 01:19 PM
(06-16-2016, 12:28 PM)RTBoss Wrote: [ -> ]I just read a very elaborate defense of the victimization of America. Maybe it was E2 that helped clear some of that kind of thinking away for me.
People ultimately choose to make their lives difficult. I have compassion for those who get "caught up," in the system - but being a person who has always sought a solution to my problems, my sympathy only goes so far.
If we keep blaming anything outside of our ability to make choices, we give our power away to the system. I don't care what was stuffed into my head my whole life, I make the decisions.
I'm sure it's tough to be an entrepreneur. If it were easy, everyone would do it. Not everyone is made of the stuff it takes to walk that path. But, regarding what I said in my prior post, you took what it said and extrapolated it into something that wasn't there. I didn't make a single comment concerning people who make decisions to improve their life. I also never said don't attempt to change the system. I promise you though, the people who DO feel entitled (don't try to tell me it's just people who are angry life doesn't live up to expectations b/c we've all been lied to) aren't the movers and shakers that will get it done.
I know so many people - close friends - who don't lift a finger to help themselves. They have their hand held out while they make poor decision after poor decision crying "Woe is me!" Even to suggest something bordering on self-improvement and I get stonewalled with excuses on why it can't be done.
Is it wrong to suggest that some people could do with a little more appreciation for having first world problems? There are people who are genuinely born into a sh*t life here, but when someone who grew up in a hovel in war-torn poverty can cross the ocean, learn a new language, and make due in a system that's completely foreign to them - how is it possible to not feel a little inspired by that?
No, what you read was an educated counter to the black-and-white thinking you're engaging in and presenting it with a pious, holier-than-thou messiah complex.
First and foremost, I'm going to point out that I'm a black man who grew up in poverty in the dregs of the American historic south. Where I lived, black skin meant you were automatically lowest on the social ladder. At least black women had vaginas, so racists could use them as human sex toys -- that utility alone put them in the rung above us. Despite the fact that I possess a genius level I.Q. in deductive reasoning, I still dealt with my pink-skinned peers treating me as inferior.
Despite that adversity, I managed to graduate high school with honors, and obtain an associate's degree, two bachelors degrees and am in the final stage of earning my master's degree. At 22, I was a marketing exec making well over $100k. And now, after realizing that I HATE working for someone else, I've dropped out of the workforce altogether and started my own business, which I've managed to make profitable and sustainable in about six months. All of this is verifiable. In fact, I've shown many of you who PM'd me asking for more information about entrepreneurship.
So please continue discarding my viewpoint and experiences as a mere "defense of the victimization in America." [/sarcasm]
I ain't no f*ckin' rookie.
No, there's a certain demographic in America that tends to believe that their perceptions and experiences is the de facto DEFAULT, and that everyone should conform to the underlying framework that builds THEIR reality.
This is based on two factors: One, ignorance of the deeper, hidden strata of American socioeconomics and two, an attempt to place oneself above others (if they'd only work as hard as I did, maybe they'd get somewhere).
But, let's look at a particularly interesting situation: Anyone here interested in trading stock for a living? Well, unless you're able to maintain a balance of $20k, your ability to do so will be extremely crippled. Whenever your balance falls under $20k, you lose the ability to do round robin trades, where you purchase a security and sell it within the same day. You're subject to a "T + 3" rule, where you must wait three days for the trade to "settle" before you're allowed to trade those securities again.
Is it a coincidence that $20k is generally the HIGHEST amount the average American will ever keep in their bank account? And keep in mind, you can't just have $20k -- you have to stay ABOVE it. If you're able to keep more than $20k, you can trade at will, or on margin, and profit from the small price fluctuations that occur in a day.
Think no one does this? Go Google "High Frequency Stock Trading" Guys, I couldn't make this shit up. HFT is a trading method employed by the big boys, where they'll make TENS OF THOUSANDS of trades a day at lightning fast speeds (I believe the figure is like, 75% of all trades are HFT) to capitalize on small changes in price. Like, these dudes go through epic battles just to be a few miles closer to the NYSE so the already unimaginably fast signal can got a few fractions of a moment faster. And they make BILLIONS each year doing this.
Meanwhile, as the average American citizen, you're completely locked out this profitable system, among others. Google "The Panama Papers." Google the truth about the Federal Reserve. You guys do realize that the Federal Reserve, the organization that governs the flow of money is NOT a governmental entity. It's an "independent organization" within the government. Congress has limited oversight over the reserve. Consult Dr. Googleman if you don't believe me.
Does this not make you lift an eyebrow? Does this not make you question some of the decisions you've made in your life? Does this not make you wonder, "what other systems are in place that are gently pushing me to make... odd decisions?"
Saying, "don't be a victim" is little more than an empty platitude. There's no actionable steps. You're not enlightening anyone. It doesn't make you enlightened. Go look at the sales page for BASE 5g -- look at the intense amount of programming needed to guide you on the path of breaking free.
Yes, it's very inspirational that a person can come from another country and succeed, but that doesn't address the problem with American victimization. "Entitlement" is a boogeyman. It means nothing. There's a deeper issue that goes beyond that.
P.S. The funny thing is, the notion of "entitlement culture" pretty much confirms the notion of socioeconomic and political systems. Of course, when you flip the argument back around, they yell OMG CONSPIRACY THEORIST! The double-think is astounding.