In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

Why is South Africa the sexual violence capital of the world? The mentality of the people that live there.

Why compare mass migration with WW2 specifically? Because the “never again, at any cost” attitude towards WW2 from European elites has been a major cultural force pushing against national identity and for suicidal immigration policies. For more on that see:

See also: 95% of people who make a living through social media. Live a lifestyle by selling a lifestyle wrapped in the trojan horse of a crappy e-product.

Because they see some "digital creator" who won the lottery, they think it's normal to win the lottery...

Hot take: Americans slack off plenty, we just do it alone on our phones in our single-family subdivisions instead of with friends over a cig and a beer. Our GDP advantage is mostly caused by less regulation selection for entrepreneurial individuals

Growing up in the South as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s, I didn’t know anyone who believed race relations were poor. There was this perception that “racism had been left in the past,” with only your grandparents still clinging on to it. To say that perception is in retreat is an understatement. Ever since Ferguson, a seemingly endless stream of cases like this have eroded race relations to their lowest point in my entire life. The pattern recognition is off the charts. White people in their 20s and 30s have concluded—not without evidence—that the level of violent crime perpetuated by black people is so outrageously disproportionate that it’s better to simply avoid interacting with them whenever they possibly can. These are all people who would have recoiled from accusations of racism when they were little kids, who were taught that judging people by their skin color is the worst possible thing you could do as an American, and who believed they would grow up in the first post-racial society in history. Almost every “racist” in American society today was once a bleeding heart liberal of some sort. That’s a huge shift from those who were defending Jim Crow in the 50s and 60s. 20 and 30 something year olds have no memory of the Civil Rights Era. They’re simply reacting—often with great hesitation and moral anguish—to the fact that the priors they grew up with have been repeatedly and often violently falsified time and time again.

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