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You just redefined alpha as a person with money. I would argue that the wealthy which hold loans based on stock collateral are holding debt and not credit. US
by yndoendo 2y ago
You just redefined alpha as a person with money.
I would argue that the wealthy which hold loans based on stock collateral are holding debt and not credit. US banking laws are just hiding the fact. So a number of rich people you define as alpha are not really alpha because of debt vs credit imbalance.
This means the person spending money while going through Disney World are alpha.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoBro I define an alpha as someone who leads and controls others. Someone people follow whether by will or by force or because they are paid a salary. You’re just being pedantic. I don’t need to explain to you why people intrinsically know Elon musk is an alpha and the person going to Disney world is a beta.
- throw4847285 2y agoIt is hilarious to see people use bro pseudo-science to reconstruct dialectical materialism.
- darkerside 2y agoThis is a very not HN comment
- ninetyninenine 2y agoSure HNers hate Elon for various reasons. But overall some random dude who goes to disney world versus A billionaire who caught a rocket and makes stupid tweets online.... Let's be real here about what "society" defines as alpha, not some HNers backwater opinion. ANd even that HNer knows his contrary opinion is backwater. Trump and Elon get a lot of hate, but they are leaders on the apex of the human status hierarchy.
- blackqueeriroh 2y ago> Trump and Elon get a lot of hate, but they are leaders on the apex of the human status hierarchy. Trump can’t spell “Colombia” and Elon is, at best, an idiot savant.
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoWhen I think of “leaders of the human status hierarchy”, I do not think of a man who spends his entire day online trolling people, regardless of whether he is worth billions or not. Similarly, I don’t picture a guy that wears lifts because he is ashamed of his height, or who paints his face orange, to be that “apex” either.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoRichest person in the world and president of the USA are not people at the top of the hierarchy? Who is then? Is it you? Because you don’t spend all day trolling people or you don’t paint your face orange? Let’s get back in touch with reality please.
- myvoiceismypass 2y agoI’m really confused as to how trips to Disney are entering the conversation here. What does that have to do with any of this discussion?
- vpribish 2y agolook, HN, stop feeding the troll. he's tweaking you - just shun him
- yndoendo 2y agoTo me the Alpha Mentality is just stupidity in another Yes-Man form. Seems you hold the alpha mentality deeply and respect those you seem as alpha. By your own logic, cult leaders are alpha and should be respected. Respect can only be earned, continuously reinforced, and lost in a single moment. Respect cannot be demanded or forcefully requested. Watch the first episode of "Band of Brothers". Who would you want as a leader, the alpha, one with power, Captain Herbert Sobel or 2nd Lutenaint Richard Winters, the one without power?