taking souls

the case against empathy

it’s x-mas time and it’s this soul-warming time of the year. hot chocolate and shit.

I’ve been reflecting lately, my spartan ultra gave me 50 mountainous kilometers to think about stuff. billionaire stuff mostly.

I was taking souls during that race, and thought to myself, “man that’s cruel”, you should be happy jolly nicy to these people, like in my past races. But my primal self realized this was beta behavior. A beta that’s timid, and hiding behind niceties, hiding from the fact that I wasn’t placing in top positions and performing well. As this is my #1 goal in the present. See the full race experience here.

This has been a pattern in my business life too. Paying employees that sometimes ate as much as 70% of my profit margins. Always being kind to them, even if they underperformed and still asked to be paid. Supporting modern mass lobotomy basically.

Always been the good guy with high EQ. That’s what corporate nonsense book has taught us. The authors of these always do well btw. Selling “feel good”.

Hypocrite billionaires that made it to the top also teach EQ, after being the most ruthless in the jungle. Standing on their MOAT, they’re trying to tell us to be heart-centered and stuff. Sells well, nice PR. But these philosophies do not get much traction on the terrain to billions.

What’s untold by most alphas that fear society’s judgement, is that winning over someone feels good. Not to have them loose, but just to pass someone by in a race feels amazing. And that should be the goal sometimes: to chase something, to chase someone.

So much for staying in your own lane. Patrick Bet David’s book is “choose your enemies wisely” and that’s no mistake. There’s power in taking souls and chopping empathy off. There are times for empathy, and the battlefield is no place for that.

As I was looking at the foggy light in the sauna the other day, I thought this truth to myself: Wall Street savages try to be as ruthless as legally possible in the market. They take home other’s meals and won’t feel bad about it. The goal at first is to make it, to live the wealth. Then, only once you’ve excelled in that field, does it get easier to share pieces of the pie. That’s what Alexander the Great did, that’s what Genghis did. Many will dispute their usefulness on this Earth, but isn’t nature the best judge of that?

This was a different point of view from most of what’s thought nowadays. Maybe it could be useful, maybe it could be offensive. At least it’s out, and it’s another piece of data you can either use as a weapon or throw in the trash.

PS a reminder that I believe that wealth and power are the fastest way to positive, sustainable change on this planet Earth. Not words and pacific protests.