Exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the rich. https://t.co/axsjAmLMuL pic.twitter.com/4Y37ck7gSf
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 19, 2024
Study: exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the rich.
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God I fricking hate Paul Graham's bullshit midwit takes on everything. How does this support "the concept of luxury beliefs"? A: It doesn't, he's just mashing his stupid blue check fingers on the keyboard like the r-slur he is. Holy frick if only the tech industry didn't reward self-promoting white male mediocrity so handsomely...
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...then it would be over run with self-promoting female mediocrity
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Lol assuming females can even reach mediocrity in tech.
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I just want all the money and glory to go where it rightfully should: to autists who can't give a TED talk or look another human being in the eye, not these VC pricks.
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They will lose half of it to the first Asian foid to smile at them thou
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I can get behind that
But female autism is still fake.
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My special interest is annoying people on niche websites.
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it shows
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Take it up with the people who kicked out meritocracy
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This is textbook luxury belief. If you're a rich socialist at university, you're like everyone else. If you're a rich socialist among poor, they'll try to guilt-trip you until you're either no socialist or not rich anymore.
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If you only believe in socialism as a luxury belief to look cool on twitter & bang lefty girls at redscarepod meetups, then you don't give a shit about actual existent poors, and you would never change your opinions after contact with them.
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Sounds like hating Paul Graham's twitter takes is a luxury belief
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it's not because
"luxury beliefs" is an ill-defined meme concept that midwits drop to sound smart, like "virtue signalling"
Hating on
@paulg
doesn't easily bring me status at no personal cost to myself (which I think is how Pauly G is using the phrase here, but it's rslurred because in this formulation the whole point is that the luxury belief has no correlation with realty - so it makes no fucking sense that being confronted with real world implications would change that belief. If anything, it's evidence of the exact opposite: That rich people really think redistribution is a good idea, until they see it isn't working. So it's not a 'luxury belief' for status purposes, but a sincere attempt to help their fellow humans.)Neither is hating this smug prick an expensive, demonstrative handicap for me (like a peacock's tail), which is another way the phrase "luxury beliefs" is sometimes used. For example, elites can dabble in drug legalization and polyamory because they are wealthy with stable personal and professional lives so I can let my bull snort coke off my ass on Saturday night and still get my shit together for the OKR check-in on Monday morning, whereas the poors would be destroyed trying to live my lifestyle and believe the things I do. Maybe you could say that if I publicly took a swing at
@paulg
on Twitter with my real name and LinkedIn profile, then that would be a luxury belief because I'd be risking my career purely for spite (and to show I'm untouchable), but I'm actually not quite that rich or successful yet.Jump in the discussion.
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!fellas Jimmy is seething at white male techbros again
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I wish I stayed in tech just so I could make her seethe
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white womens' weakness is always strong independent nerds
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Again? Always.
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Keep it up bb
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even though ur a wh*ite w*man I stand with u seething at tech bros
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Luxury beliefs is a good and useful observation and its use by Silicon Valley r-slurs doesn't make it any less valid.
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None of these words are in the Bible
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See, luxury beliefs are supposed to raise your status. This belief just gets me dunked on by longpostbot.
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Many of them are, in the King James Version for example: an is used 2970 times. ill is used 14 times. that is used 89272 times. drop is used 11 times. to is used 60155 times. sound is used 71 times. smart is used 1 time. like is used 1168 times. virtue is used 3 times. hating is used 6 times. on is used 5259 times. easily is used 2 times. bring is used 634 times. me is used 3190 times. at is used 2814 times. no is used 3525 times. cost is used 1 time. myself is used 51 times. which is used 7540 times. I is used 32360 times. think is used 110 times. how is used 491 times. using is used 1 time. the is used 444952 times. here is used 92 times. but is used 10908 times. because is used 3105 times. in is used 22460 times. this is used 4548 times. whole is used 198 times. point is used 6 times. with is used 20800 times. so is used 4323 times. being is used 238 times. world is used 90 times. would is used 1164 times. change is used 18 times. if is used 2986 times. anything is used 4 times. evidence is used 5 times. of is used 30820 times. exact is used 6 times. rich is used 100 times. people is used 1044 times. a is used 43614 times. good is used 455 times. until is used 326 times. they is used 12784 times. see is used 431 times. working is used 11 times. not is used 10374 times. for is used 39735 times. purposes is used 3 times. sincere is used 1 time. help is used 83 times. their is used 3228 times. fellow is used 13 times. neither is used 721 times. tail is used 3 times. another is used 198 times. way is used 362 times. sometimes is used 3 times. used is used 18 times. example is used 4 times. can is used 410 times. wealthy is used 1 time. stable is used 1 time. lives is used 15 times. let is used 1392 times. my is used 22896 times. bull is used 2 times. off is used 323 times. butt is used 35 times. night is used 104 times. still is used 41 times. get is used 107 times. together is used 210 times. morning is used 82 times. whereas is used 30 times. destroyed is used 91 times. name is used 578 times. then is used 1982 times. purely is used once. quite is used 5 times. or is used 974 times. yet is used 609 times.
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Good bot
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But how many of them are in the hebrew bible?
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youre a woman in tech, ur immune gofor it
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Cope
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Sounds like someone has a... luxury belief
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Paul Graham is right about Lisp.
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Paul Graham is so rslurred he invented his own custom Lisp dialect (not rslurred, plenty of autists make a hobby language for fun) and then tried to actually use it for his startups like an utter egomaniac. It's why the orange site never gets new features and still looks like it's from 2002.
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Yeah but the orange site never getting updates and looking like it's from 2002 is a big part of what makes it good. Nowadays I'd expect it to be some SPA that requires 200 MB of JS to run despite not actually benefiting from being an SPA at all.
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This is all true, and accidentally succeeding in spite of your rslurred decisions (and misinterpreting it as success from your idiocy) is very much on brand for him.
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I don't understand why he didn't just make something like clojure so non r-slurred people can do it
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