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The average salary in my provincial town here in SE Asia is $200 - $300 per month. I've heard that some waitresses, or girls working retail, only manage to get $120.

If you ask me the question, "What exactly does she do with the money that you give her?", the answer is mostly, "I don't know".

In fact, I don't care.

For her, it is clearly a massive flood of cash rolling in. For me, however, in terms of my own assets/income, it amounts to mere peanuts.

She is actually aware of that. However, I never disclose any figures.

Have you ever tried to keep track of the little individual nuts in a handful of peanuts? It is a lot of work. What do you even gain by spending all that effort?

Of course, she inevitably spends some part of her windfall on family. She is not heartless. Furthermore, that is what I would also do, if there were a need for that, which there isn't.

There is a viral Chinese YouTube video in which a girl famously says: "I would rather cry in a BMW."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would ... y_in_a_BMW

"I would rather cry in a BMW" is a quotation that became an online sensation in the People's Republic of China in 2010. The old, long-familiar phrase was made famous by Ma Nuo, a 20-year-old female contestant on the television dating show Fei Cheng Wu Rao (also known in English as If You Are the One).

The Chinese girl, Ma Nuo, is definitely not alone thinking this.

If you take the blue pill, you listen to what they typically say. If you take the red pill, you look at what they typically do. Ma Nuo inadvertently disclosed a red-pill truth.

Biology as a science is based on observation. Biology is therefore decidedly red-pilled:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Briffault

Briffault's law

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place. — Robert Briffault, The Mothers. Vol. I, p. 191

godelian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:33 am The average salary in my provincial town here in SE Asia is $200 - $300 per month. I've heard that some waitresses, or girls working retail, only manage to get $120.

If you ask me the question, "What exactly does she do with the money that you give her?", the answer is mostly, "I don't know".

In fact, I don't care.

For her, it is clearly a massive flood of cash rolling in. For me, however, in terms of my own assets/income, it amounts to mere peanuts.

She is actually aware of that. However, I never disclose any figures.

Have you ever tried to keep track of the little individual nuts in a handful of peanuts? It is a lot of work. What do you even gain by spending all that effort?

Of course, she inevitably spends some part of her windfall on family. She is not heartless.

'This' seems quite ironic, since it is coming from 'the one' who said, and clarified, that it would not save a child's life if there was not some thing in it for 'you'.

But, 'each to their own', as some say, and let 'us' carry on, here.

godelian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:33 am Furthermore, that is what I would also do, if there were a need for that, which there isn't.

There is a viral Chinese YouTube video in which a girl famously says: "I would rather cry in a BMW."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_would ... y_in_a_BMW

"I would rather cry in a BMW" is a quotation that became an online sensation in the People's Republic of China in 2010. The old, long-familiar phrase was made famous by Ma Nuo, a 20-year-old female contestant on the television dating show Fei Cheng Wu Rao (also known in English as If You Are the One).

The Chinese girl, Ma Nuo, is definitely not alone thinking this.

If you take the blue pill, you listen to what they typically say. If you take the red pill, you look at what they typically do. Ma Nuo inadvertently disclosed a red-pill truth.

What 'some people' would prefer never necessarily aligns with the actual Truth.

godelian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:33 am Biology as a science is based on observation. Biology is therefore decidedly red-pilled:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Briffault

Briffault's law

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place. — Robert Briffault, The Mothers. Vol. I, p. 191

If absolutely any one knows how 'this' relates to preferring to cry in a particular brand of motor vehicle, then will you please inform me, here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qev-i9-VKlY

Janis was here...

-Imp

"For her, it is clearly a massive flood of cash rolling in"

And who would blame her? Indeed, how many would envy someone who made more money having sex than others made peeling potatos all day?

The prostitute is the merchant that refuses to be the gimp of the capitalist (and get a real job). She is both a detestable and admirable thing simultaneously.

In this case, we can indict neither the godelian nor the sexy young beast who love him long time. The former provides a better alternative to legal wage labor, and the latter is not foolish enough to get a real job.

And here is how this exchange is purely egotistical as it should be.

The sexy young beast can't concern herself with the fact that what G gives her is peanuts relative to what he is able to give - she can't determine the value of the gift by looking at what G lost, had to sacrifice etc., to give it. If she were to concern herself with this, she would become lost in moral mincing, start worrying about what is 'fair'. But the genuine egoist does not believe there is such a thing as 'fair' and purposes his or herself only toward getting what they want. Clearly, there can be no love between G and Lun Sing if they are to be genuine egoists... but only a union sustained by the use of each other for their own ends.

At the same time, G can't determine what he should give her by considering what she deserves. She deserves nothing. If he does, he starts moral mincing and starts worrying about what is 'fair'. All that should concern him is the price. If Lun Sing demands three times more, she can do that without a shred of conceit, and he can not say, "You don't deserve it!"

Now, if in a sudden moment of transcending philosophical insight, these two were to truly understand themselves as the egosists that they are there could be between them a unique bond that moralizers aren't able to have.

Two renegade free spirit sexy libertine beasts, godelian and Sun Ling, entwined under the soft light of a Bangkok moon. The distant sound of mopeds hums behind them as they lay on the white sand at the beach access listening to the waves. "All things are nothing to me," she whispers, staring up at the stars. "Holy shit did you just quote Stirner," he shouts with a start. "That is so hot!"

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 2:24 pm "For her, it is clearly a massive flood of cash rolling in"

And who would blame her? Indeed, how many would envy someone who made more money having sex than others made peeling potatos all day?

The prostitute is the merchant that refuses to be the gimp of the capitalist (and get a real job). She is both a detestable and admirable thing simultaneously.

Why?

'Who' 'detests' a human beings who just exchanges sex, or manual labor, for money?

By the way, 'who' actually 'admires' a human being who just exchanges manual labor, for money?

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 2:24 pm In this case, we can indict neither the godelian nor the sexy young beast who love him long time. The former provides a better alternative to legal wage labor, and the latter is not foolish enough to get a real job.

How do you define a 'real job', from just 'a job', exactly?

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 3:20 pm And here is how this exchange is purely egotistical as it should be.

The sexy young beast

Why are so-called 'young beasts', to you, 'sexy'? Whereas, to most others, 'beasts', young or old, are usually the very opposite of being 'sexy'.

"Why are so-called 'young beasts', to you, 'sexy'?"

Obfuscation! Only sexy young beasts are sexy, while young beasts may or may not be sexy. If a young beast is sexy then it's a sexy young beast now, not a young beast.

Only all sexy young beasts are sexy.
Some young beasts are sexy.
Therefore, not all young beasts are sexy young beasts.