Still think TITNC3: Return of the Iceberg was peak

I was just typing out a bootstraps reply and you beat me to it lol

 

You are born with bootstraps. You just gotta pull them. I think that’s how it works

 

Correct. That's because I was smart enough and driven enough to put myself here. I got school lunch vouchers as a kid. We weren't poor but close. It's why I truly think people can elevate themselves to a higher station in life. It just takes thinking and doing.

 

National forests are public land and many species require no license or tags to harvest. You can slingshot all the squirrels you can eat.

 

THAT explains it. I wondered why we were kindred spirits.

 

Who is gonna buy my dumbass a slingshot?

 

You're missing the whole point. YOU had a brain and ambition. People with brains and ambition always succeed.

What do we do about the rest of society that doesn't have brains? Just let them starve and die? You're still gonna need a kid at the lumbar yard to drive the forklift that loads the truck that provides you the wood to build the $10m house.

 

They don't.

You make it from green wood and buttcrack hair.

 

Tell me you've never had a hunting license without telling me you've never had a hunting license.

 

My buttcrack is naturally hairless
You see, I’d never survive

 

I'm a firm believer in survival of the fittest and my utopia involves IQ tests before being allowed to give birth. It's never gonna happen but a guy can dream. lol

 

Exactly.

Plenty of ditch diggers in my and many other families.

Those poor saps and being taken advantage of and have no apparent way (or knowledge of the possibility) to save themselves.

 

Eugenics has entered the chat.

 

I'd have been murdered off long ago in your world for getting a couple liberal arts degrees.

Luckily my state allows guns and yours doesn't

 

I am sympathetic in both directions. I agree with Kairo that *someone* has to be the bottom 20%.

But I am in your camp in so far as people who make no effort to elevate will never meet their potential - and their potential differing from that of others is no excuse not to try.

 

Ill give you some of mine. I have more than enough, believe me.

 

The issue I have is that you seem to have no ability to realize that intellect is a bell curve. You can't run a sustainable world if all of the money goes to the top quadrant

 

Why would I? As we've established, you don't need em for squirrels.

 

I’m not big on handouts. I’ll just throw the rocks instead.

 

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