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Started by jimmy olsen, June 25, 2014, 10:15:04 PM

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The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ed Anger

Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2014, 05:00:19 PM
Low class families? High class families? Wtf is this shit?

Ladder theory.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Ideologue

Quote from: MBLadder theory.

Stroller corollary.
Kinemalogue
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Siege

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 30, 2014, 05:29:53 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2014, 05:00:19 PM
Low class families? High class families? Wtf is this shit?

Ladder theory.

The ladder theory has nothing to do with class warfare.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Ideologue

Malthus friend-zoned the woman with less money.
Kinemalogue
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Siege

Quote from: Ideologue on June 30, 2014, 08:46:12 PM
Malthus friend-zoned the woman with less money.

Yes, because wealth is part of what make a person attractive.
For females wealth translates as economic security for her and her future children, specially after her biological clock starts kicking.

For males wealth are part of an equation in which the prettier the female is, the less wealth she requires to get placed in our ladder.
In other words, an average-looking rich chick could potentially place higher than a poor pretty girl. If she is extremely poor, which means extremely uneducated, she needs to be extremely pretty to place.

Malthus friend was not pretty enough to place in his ladder without wealth/education.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Ideologue

I know the framework, Siege.

I actually buy, for the most part, the key postulate--that every relationship is transactional.  (Transactional being far more encompassing than financial or sexual, of course.)

I also think ladder theory in its strong form, which seeks--like any economic model--to reduce all buyers and sellers to interchangeable actors with the same tastes, interests, and hang-ups is at best only a predictive supplement to behavior, and at worst an attempt by losers and sociopathic winners to impose order upon their environment.  In this regard, as well as in its base misogyny, it fits well into the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Ideologue

That said, I ain't saying Malthus is a gold digger, but...
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Siege

Quote from: Ideologue on June 30, 2014, 09:02:43 PM
That said, I ain't saying Malthus is a gold digger, but...

but...Malthus got standards and you don't?


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Eddie Teach

Quote from: Ideologue on June 30, 2014, 09:02:43 PM
That said, I ain't saying Malthus is a gold digger, but...

He ain't messin' round with no broke niggas. They can't keep him in luxury strollers.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ed Anger

Quote from: Siege on June 30, 2014, 08:44:11 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 30, 2014, 05:29:53 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 30, 2014, 05:00:19 PM
Low class families? High class families? Wtf is this shit?

Ladder theory.

The ladder theory has nothing to do with class warfare.

ITS A HEIGHT JOKE, YOU MEATHEAD
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Malthus

Quote from: Ideologue on June 30, 2014, 09:02:43 PM
That said, I ain't saying Malthus is a gold digger, but...

I would be, if I was single and ever had the opportunity. And the owner of the gold was hott.  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

celedhring

My school tested us for IQ when we were 14 and I got 145. I remember the school's psychologist telling me "yeah, you're technically a genius but don't let it get to your head, you're a pretty bottom-of-the-barrel one".

Is this a good humble brag? TBF I believe I've grown dumber since then.

DGuller

Quote from: celedhring on July 01, 2014, 08:57:25 AM
My school tested us for IQ when we were 14 and I got 145. I remember the school's psychologist telling me "yeah, you're technically a genius but don't let it get to your head, you're a pretty bottom-of-the-barrel one".

Is this a good humble brag? TBF I believe I've grown dumber since then.
If you are a genius, it doesn't translate to an ability to predict an outcome of a soccer game.

celedhring

Quote from: DGuller on July 01, 2014, 09:08:25 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 01, 2014, 08:57:25 AM
My school tested us for IQ when we were 14 and I got 145. I remember the school's psychologist telling me "yeah, you're technically a genius but don't let it get to your head, you're a pretty bottom-of-the-barrel one".

Is this a good humble brag? TBF I believe I've grown dumber since then.
If you are a genius, it doesn't translate to an ability to predict an outcome of a soccer game.

I forgot to save my picks! I'm of the absent-minded kind.