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@WittyEchoes Is she hot and down to be a SAHM?

MEN ONLY: Would you date a girl who’s more educated and has a higher degree than you?

"That is the new meritocracy. The most valuable skill becomes agentic command" I just posted. Finance is mad because climbing that ladder was so egoic. It was a hazing ritual to work 100 weeks refining models, plugging away at excel sheets. You don't need citadel anymore. Lock in for 6 months with AI and advance financial research and you can skip straight to where 5 year vets at Citadel are. AI is going to isolate meritocracy. You're better off standing up your own business.

⚡️This is the moment AI stops being a productivity tool and becomes a replacement architecture for elite cognitive labor. Citadel is not a random corporation automating low-level admin. It is one of the most competitive intelligence machines in finance. The work Griffin is describing sits near the top of the white-collar pyramid: research, modeling, financial reasoning, market analysis, scenario work, probably pieces of strategy design and investment process. If that work is moving from “PhDs over months” to “agents over days,” then the protected class is no longer protected by intelligence alone. That is the earthquake. For years, the comforting story was that AI would eat repetitive white-collar work while elite judgment stayed safely human. That story is breaking. The machine is now moving into work that looked elite because it required credentials, stamina, math, domain knowledge, and long-form synthesis. A lot of that work turns out to be decomposable into agentic loops: gather data, structure problem, run model, test variants, summarize findings, compare assumptions, stress scenarios, refine output, escalate uncertainty. That does not eliminate the human at the top. It makes the top human massively more leveraged. The portfolio manager, senior analyst, or strategist who can frame the right question and judge the output becomes more powerful. But the pyramid underneath them gets thinner. The machine does the grind. The human becomes conductor, evaluator, risk owner, and taste layer. That breaks the apprenticeship model. The junior analyst’s old job was not just to produce work. It was to become someone through the work. The grind built pattern recognition. The model-building built intuition. The memo-writing built synthesis. The repetition built judgment. If agents now do the repetition, firms get efficiency today while quietly destroying the training pipeline that produced senior judgment tomorrow. That is the social bomb inside this. Finance can automate the ladder faster than it can rebuild the ladder. Law, consulting, software, accounting, corporate finance, marketing, research, medicine, and education all face the same problem. The entry-level layer was always partly inefficient, but it was also how humans absorbed tacit knowledge. AI attacks the inefficiency and accidentally attacks the formation process. The winners become extremely powerful. One elite operator with agents can produce what used to require a team. One small fund can run research breadth that used to require institutional scale. One independent analyst with the right workflow can compete far above their formal weight class. That is the opening. But inside big institutions, the same force compresses headcount. Fewer juniors. Fewer middle managers. Fewer generic analysts. More pressure on everyone to prove actual judgment. The credential stops being enough. The market asks a colder question: can this person command the machine toward truth better than someone else? That is the new meritocracy. The most valuable skill becomes agentic command: knowing what to ask, how to decompose a problem, which outputs are fake, where the hidden assumption lives, when the model is overconfident, what data matters, what contradiction breaks the thesis, and when the machine has produced coherence without truth. Griffin feeling depressed is the tell. He saw the labor impact inside the walls before the public narrative caught up. This is not about a chatbot writing emails. This is about high-end cognitive production being mechanized. AI is revealing that a shocking amount of elite knowledge work was structured pattern labor protected by credential scarcity. Once agents can perform that pattern labor, the real scarce asset becomes judgment under uncertainty. Everyone else gets repriced.

Hot Take: Finance is going to be hit the hardest because the industry ego identifies with the hazing ritual of making new recruits do nonsense busy work (by that I mean glorified data entry) for 100 hours/week for the first 2-3 years of their career. Every white collar industry is about to have AI come in and kick out that foundational entry-level layer of the career path. But only in Finance is it an egoic social requirement for the industry. Put another way: Only Finance will be butthurt if you are able to skip the first 3 years of the career path due to AI Mastery.

Worse. A team of McKinsey consultants sat her down and said: "Listen, pretty much 100% of political violence the last 10 years has been your supporters murdering MAGA people in cold blood. We need to pretend it's both sides. We put you in a glass booth, your voters will think you're in danger too"

She thinks she’s the pope 😭😂

Frame it in the Louvre. Gunna buy $TSLA tomorrow on this alone.

@narflowy "If you cant do this challenge, she's too fat or you're too weak" I always thought the world wasn't ready for this line. Thought they'd get hung up on the first half. Then I saw the second couple.

What is stopping you and your partner from joining this challenge? 👀

There is no answer. The trick is to not play. People like this will let you know they are this kind of person literally the second you meet them. I cannot stress enough I mean literally. The only answer is to recognize it and disengage. Cause once they hit you with this You can only sound poor and mad.

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I'd love your take on why they can't (or wont) get mortgage rates down? I'm the dumbass who rode the whole wave. Locked in a 30 year fixed in early 2020 at 2.75% Paid it off early because boomer parental advice said so. In early 2022 refinanced that at 5ish% In late 2022 did a refi 7% on an investment property. Did exact same thing in summer 2023. Numbers didn't change. Interest rates have not budged. I call banks every few months. They half heartedly try to sell me on refi-ing the 7% ones down 0.5-1.0%. Don't even acknowledge the 5% one. Whatever sent rates straight up from 2% to 8% 2 years, just throw that shit in reverse. As a young person I truly could not care less what breaks. Finance friends tell me it was all the money printed during covid. Here's my thing with that: that money isn't in the economy. Its in swiss bank accounts of airline execs. It's overseas in China and Ukraine through Hunter Biden Hell I bet a non zero portion was just swallowed back up by $MRNA 's collapse back to pre covid levels. Not to mention the $GME squeeze. But these are the ramblings of a schizo who missed the signal. Not this time. If Mamdani ever says "Hantavirus" I'm full porting MRNA leaps and moving to Florida.

We closed the borders driving negative labor force growth. We shocked higher oil prices. We turbo pumped the wealth effect via equities at ATHs… And yet, inflation remains muted. We are about to crush consumer sentiment for the entirety of white collar. Every college kid is freaking out about job prospects and locking-in. The risk is going to be towards deflation even as the govt attempts to run the economy hot as we re-industrialize and buildout AI infra. The difference between now and COVID is we are pushing capital towards productive assets. I’d argue the most productive asset humanity has ever discovered. That is very diff vs funding your local miami rappers lambo with PPP loans.

@ywomendeservles Fyi this is an L because at no point does the post remotely suggest she might keep this guy. The whole post is "he raised the bar for the next 30 guys I bring home" The kids are not alright.

@itslinklauren Are you talking about Alex Cooper or 99.999% of all women who ever achieved wealth and fame since Christ walked the earth? But we cant talk about the 19th yet...

As I’ve said, she tells her audience to be promiscuous and have sex with strangers. Meanwhile, she’s living the white picket fence dream with a traditional family. She needs the young girls who follow her to stay single and immature, otherwise her entire business model collapses. She’s a fraud.

@aakashgupta Actually let. Me go further. If the punchline is that 1000/week is smarter that 1M upfront because 1M upfront is impulsive and spent instantly, it makes even more sense to assume the 1M is NOT invested and the 1000/week is.

@aakashgupta Any reason you skipped over investing her $1,000/week in VOO/SPY? For clicks? For dramatic effect? You painted worst picture possible to prove your point?

The spreadsheet math on this is brutal. She left roughly $54 million on the table. Yet she probably just made the best financial decision of her life. $1M in an S&P 500 index fund at age 20 compounds to approximately $58M in inflation-adjusted terms by age 80. The historical real return is about 7% annually over 97 years of data. Her annuity pays $52,000 a year. Over 60 years that totals $3.1M. The gap is 18x. Every finance account in these replies will tell you she's wrong. The compounding math is clear. Take the lump sum, put it in VOO, don't touch it for 60 years. The Certified Financial Planner Board says roughly a third of lottery winners declare bankruptcy within five years. Illinois court records show 28% of winners who won $50K or more went bankrupt in the same window. The average winner spends 60% of their winnings on family and friends in the first two years. She's 20. Peak impulsivity, minimal financial literacy, and every person she's ever met just found out she has a million dollars in her checking account. The $1M doesn't go into a Vanguard account. It goes into the most socially pressured spending environment a human being can occupy. $1,000 a week is a permanent $52K salary, tax-free in Canada, that arrives whether she makes good decisions or catastrophic ones. Can't be drained by a partner. Can't be lost to a scam. Can't be "invested" in a cousin's restaurant. Shows up every Friday for the rest of her life. The spreadsheet says lump sum by 18x. The data on what actually happens to people who receive $1M at 20 says she just bought the most expensive insurance policy in lottery history, and it was worth every dollar she gave up.

@ImMeme0 Having that kinda money and staying in NYC is beyond batshit.

Welcome to guy’s $24.5 million home in Manhattan.

@WildSentences Wait... you can do that???

Sunk Cost Fallacy. "I cant admit I was wrong" 2 things for which the above mentality is a string driver.

@RepJackKimble "Real Idiots" would share your sentiment and not run. More Donald Trump types would. Hey that's a great idea! Make holding public office so bare bones, only successful people who feel a calling like Trump can/do run at all. Thanks Jack.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

@MrGrimSmile @BrianAtlas Today I learned the Motte and Bailey fallacy. Glad I did. Today's liberal voter basically subsist on this alone.

@BrianAtlas In order 1. Motte and Bailey 2. Strawman 3. Strawman continued and blended with false dichotomy.

What fallacy is this?

@highbrow_nobrow Chances at the midterms like...

“We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.” - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on lawmakers trading stocks.

@HazelAppleyard "Paying for asset or service" So I can auto transfer to Brokerage account and buy stocks every day.

How would you manage it?

@reddit_lies Hey @FBIDirectorKash ... When this guy's daughter transitions and shoots up a school in 6 years. I'm blaming you. What a fucking layup.

Predditor.