Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
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> "that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill."
Area man who builds oppression machinery and who is a liar is sad that other people are turned off by both of those things.
Also, lying to someone to convince them to have sex with you means you don't care about consent. There isn't a bigger turn-off in the world than that.
Text-only, no Javascript, no CAPTCHA, no geo-blocking
curl -k https://www.wired.com/story/tech-bros-dating-palantir-tesla/ \
|grep -o "articleBody.*isBasedOn" \
|sed 's/.\{14\}/<meta charset=utf-8>/;
s/.\{12\}$//;s/\\n/<p>/g' \
|tr % '\n' > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
#links https://www.wired.com/story/tech-bros-dating-palantir-tesla/And the leaders of those industries really weren't in the same league as many of today's top tech zillionaires, for public perception of being alpha sociopaths.
It's like "here, everyone read this interesting thing ... oh wait 99% of you can't read it, ha ha".
Can't is a strong word. https://archive.ph/IY18i
The problem is that 'tech bro' types want to date left-leaning, idealistic women rather than the much more suitable career-oriented, right-wing women who share their outlook. It's really hard to date people outside of your world view because they don't find you attractive.
You don't get to have all the money and status of a well-paying tech job, and also date people who don't find money and status attractive.
This isn't complicated.
Everyone has skills & interests (tech, building things, sales, marketing, etc.) and everyone needs to survive (rent, mortage, food, etc.)..so why in the world would you assume that these things are only the domain of the right?
Tech bros who put their personal gain ahead of everything else (other people, society, privacy, the environment ,etc) need to realise that people who don't think that way won't be attracted to them, so they should look for partners who are. I've worked with plenty of tech bros who want all the money, status, and prospects of founding a unicorn, and who are happy to sacrifice all of society's good parts to get there under the guise of 'disrupting an industry', and yet have no clue why the cute hippy UX designer who goes on environmental protests at the weekend has zero interest in dating them. They think the money and wealth means people will overlook their lack of ethics, or even lack of interest in ethics.
The only people who will are the career-oriented, right wing ones. People are generally attracted to people who are a bit like themselves. It's a cliche, but cliches are usually cliches because we see them a lot.
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