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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 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.



Bro 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.


To 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?


I’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?


This is a very not HN comment


Sure 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.


When 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.


Richest 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.


> 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.


It is hilarious to see people use bro pseudo-science to reconstruct dialectical materialism.


look, HN, stop feeding the troll. he's tweaking you - just shun him




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