"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
The Economic Matrix!!
- Thread starter Last Man Standing
- Start date
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Think about it this way:j-flex said:the problem is that the government is too big, all those taxes and shiet, i heard if u get an inheritance you have to pay like 50% of taxes.
people should never rely on the government.
More people should listen to Milton Friedman, friederich hayek, etc.
- You're taxed when you earn money.
- You're taxed on the money you make on investments.
- You're taxed when you spend money.
- You're taxed when you save money.
- In some instances a person is taxed when they are given money.
- There's a tax when a person dies.
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Everyone is coming to the states since the exchange rate is in their favor.Ricky said:I did work for Harvard for a while. Just not an economics professor here.
I am concerned about the devaluation of the dollar. Not a good time to travel to Europe, or Canada for that matter.
Microphone Fiend
Master Don Juan
Oh. So I just have to sacrifice my freedom to get it? Sounds kinda counterproductive to me :crazy:Obsidian said:If you want to get rich, which will allow you to truly become hedonistic, you have to save money.
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Nope, not at all.Bonhomme said:Hedonism doesn't necessarily have to be all that expensive.
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
Living paycheck to paycheck enslaves you to your job. Pook advocates owning a business to make money, but saving (and investing) is essentially the same thing. Stockowners are part owners, and they can still make money through non-entrepreneurial means at the same time. If you live on 75% of your take-home pay and invest the rest, you'll be a wealthy man in 10-20 years. And you'll also be better disciplined.Francisco d'Anconia said:That's earning money. A lot of people mistake the two. Those are also typically the people who spend their lives just saving money because they are afraid of not having any. People who know how to make money don't have that fear.
Once you get enough funds, you can even self-insure yourself instead of buying many minor kinds of insurance (eg, car insurance), and thereby cut down on profits that would otherwise go toward the insurance industry. You would only need to hang onto the more extreme kinds of insurance, like life insurance (until you save enough money that your wife won't need any insurance) or health insurance (you can save money by lowering your premiums and raising your deductibles).
It's people who think the way you do ("don't save") that are requiring our government to bail them out in their old age. "Nah, don't save for retirement. Nah, don't save for an emergency or a rainy day. Your job will always be there for you until the end of time. Or if worse comes to worse, the government will help you." Give me a break.
Hint hint: Social security is a pyramid scheme.
Savings are what allow a country (or an individual) to become wealthier over time. Look at the Solow Growth model if you don't believe me. And America has no savings.