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post 1617486811 09-24-2020, 01:54 PM
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Is focusing on your career cope?

"Building an empire" etc... etc...

Does that just translate to "I focus on work and get stuff done because no one wants my ugly ass?"
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post 1617486901 09-24-2020, 01:55 PM
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everything is cope except coping
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post 1617487191 09-24-2020, 01:57 PM
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Workcels lol.
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post 1617487501 09-24-2020, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted By thadderbox
"Building an empire" etc... etc...

Does that just translate to "I focus on work and get stuff done because no one wants my ugly ass?"
You got it.
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post 1617489361 09-24-2020, 02:22 PM
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post 1617489481 09-24-2020, 02:23 PM
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Anyone who says they're building an empire is likely not building chit
post 1617489741 09-24-2020, 02:26 PM
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so Chads don't build a career and just want to become beer chugging old foggies with useless annoying chit kids?
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post 1617489911 09-24-2020, 02:29 PM
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Yeah, I mean there's a certain level of cope to it. However it feels good to be successful. I'd rather focus on career for like 5 years then have enough money to start doing things that aren't so career focused.
post 1617490001 09-24-2020, 02:30 PM
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I don't say cringey "build an empire" stuff but I do believe working hard so your kids and family can live well. It's nice to be able to give my grandma money to help with her expenses or help my cousins out. It's more than trying to bag women or anything like that.
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post 1617490111 09-24-2020, 02:32 PM
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I’m trying to become a tycoon bro
post 1617490351 09-24-2020, 02:35 PM
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Miscin is the only thing that isnt cope
post 1617491401 09-24-2020, 02:46 PM
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Career maxing is GOAT if you're a chad. Much higher ROI
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post 1617491611 09-24-2020, 02:48 PM
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Anything can be used as a coping mechanism. Focusing on my career helps me with certain life things. So yes, I use it to cope with things.
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post 1617491761 09-24-2020, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted By FemaleWarriorxo
Anything can be used as a coping mechanism. Focusing on my career helps me with certain life things. So yes, I use it to cope with things.
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post 1617491851 09-24-2020, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted By Dmoc23
Career maxing is GOAT if you're a chad. Much higher ROI
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post 1617492081 09-24-2020, 02:54 PM
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Nothing wrong with working hard. But if someone asks you why you don't date and you answer with "too busy working" then yeah that's cope
post 1617492141 09-24-2020, 02:54 PM
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Rather have a career and money

It doesn't matter.how ugly.you.are, someone will still.want to have sex with you, but you'll have a pretty miserable existence living in poverty
post 1617492271 09-24-2020, 02:55 PM
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Kind of, but it's at least a productive kind of cope. Unless you quite literally make it into at least 1% of income, there's a certain point where the amount of money you make has extremely diminishing returns for people who aren't super materialistic, and it comes with greater stress. My theory on money is once you make above a certain level, your quality of life doesn't improve dramatically until you hit a much higher number, but your stress in the middle part increases a lot more. For example, I'm making 6 figs outside of NYC/SF and can generally do whatever I want and save a ton. More money just means I can buy a few more toys, have more expensive nights out, or save even more, but for me that's outweighed by the fact that I'd also have much more stress in my job to earn my keep. Now, if I made $320K+, which is at or near the 1% of income boundary, that's a game-changing amount of money because I can now afford to do legitimately baller **** like own a $100K car, have a penthouse in the nicest part of the city, fly myself and a hoe out in business class, etc.

PS: People who talk about "hustling" or "building an empire" on social media are usually fking loser. People who're legitimately hustling or "it's always day oneing" aren't posting on social media about it because they're busy as ****.
post 1617492381 09-24-2020, 02:57 PM
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i think you should just do whatever makes you happy

i know for me, i don't want my life to revolve around a career

so much more to life than just sitting in an office and "careermaxxing"

don't get me wrong ill do my job and do a damn good job, but don't catch me doing anything after 5 for work, or ever on the weekends
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post 1617492531 09-24-2020, 02:58 PM
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Yes it is. Theres nothing worth doing, so the thing you are obligated to do gets elevated.
post 1617492561 09-24-2020, 02:59 PM
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Lol I guess you can say that but its also at the end of the day about building yourself and focusing on yourself
post 1617492641 09-24-2020, 03:00 PM
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post 1617492861 09-24-2020, 03:03 PM
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post 1617492971 09-24-2020, 03:05 PM
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Definitely cope. If you don't get pussy you're worthless to civilization, your life has no meaning. Despite me living in my parents basement at 36 and working at Walmart I get tons of pussy from 7+/10 sloots, nothing else matters more in life than getting laid. Anybody who tells you "I'm doing me" "I'm focusing on myself" "I'm building my career" "MGTOW" are virgin losers.
post 1617493481 09-24-2020, 03:12 PM
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Exclusivelyfocusing on your career is cope. But "focusing on important things in life" - family, friends, meaningful career (assuming you have to work) are all valuable things tofocuson.
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Anything that is not working on elevating your wisdom and spiritual strenght is COPE. The only thing that really matters in this world is your inner world and your connection to the higher universal spirits, the rest of "games" we play are nothing but COPE




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post 1617493841 09-24-2020, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted By suave2000
Anything that is not working on elevating your wisdom and spiritual strenght is COPE. The only thing that really matters in this world is your inner world and your connection to the higher universal spirits, the rest of "games" we play are nothing but COPE
Metaphysics as cope. Simulation theory.
post 1617493931 09-24-2020, 03:17 PM
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Cope is a term people on the internet use to justify their own shortcomings by pointing out other's successes and putting them down for them.

This is a great example OP.
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post 1617494131 09-24-2020, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted By imbeingcereal
Kind of, but it's at least a productive kind of cope. Unless you quite literally make it into at least 1% of income, there's a certain point where the amount of money you make has extremely diminishing returns for people who aren't super materialistic, and it comes with greater stress. My theory on money is once you make above a certain level, your quality of life doesn't improve dramatically until you hit a much higher number, but your stress in the middle part increases a lot more. For example, I'm making 6 figs outside of NYC/SF and can generally do whatever I want and save a ton. More money just means I can buy a few more toys, have more expensive nights out, or save even more, but for me that's outweighed by the fact that I'd also have much more stress in my job to earn my keep. Now, if I made $320K+, which is at or near the 1% of income boundary, that's a game-changing amount of money because I can now afford to do legitimately baller **** like own a $100K car, have a penthouse in the nicest part of the city, fly myself and a hoe out in business class, etc.

PS: People who talk about "hustling" or "building an empire" on social media are usually fking loser. People who're legitimately hustling or "it's always day oneing" aren't posting on social media about it because they're busy as ****.
materialism and hedonism are nothing but the COPEST of all COPES. When you think about it materialism is the ultimante form of cuckery, so much time and mental/physical/spiritual energy is wasted into chasing money when the only entity that benefits from said materialism is the economis system itself, it's like the donkey chasing a carrot on a stick tied to its back, an endless, meaningless never ending voyage where the only road always leads to MORE consumption.

They are the true alphas, they're not manipulated by ideology or materialism, they're not brainwashed by idelogy and live in balance with nature. The need nor desire nothing that is not given to them by earth in their imediate realm...



Think about it, there are not depressed, incel, addicted bushmen, only free real people. Not manipulated cucks like firstworlders
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