Wealth and power are always good
You needn't sacrifice the bag for a beautiful life
This is a quick rejoinder to a terrible article from
entitled Building Real Wealth, which the errant ginger wrote amidst an ongoing conversation in our circles as to whether it’s advisable for young men to focus on financial success.In this piece Barb flagrantly mischaracterizes my position as follows:
Walt seems to be of the opinion that Money is Power, and young men should pursue money and women, we should appeal to those things, and tell them how to do so. That, by doing so, we will attract as many bodies, get lots of power, and be able to influence society and the world to our wildest dreams.
Dave and Alex, on the other hand, seem to think there are better, higher things in life. Family, home, a wife and children. The things that men have always looked to for comfort, for meaning, for living.
Where to even begin with this?
I have indeed advocated that young men pursue a lifestyle of “job stacking” (working multiple remote jobs to pull in several six figure salaries at once) to maximize their personal income at a young age, achieve financial freedom, and help them accomplish broader objectives in their own life and for the movement.
Absolutely nowhere have I advocated that men specifically try to “attract as many bodies” as possible, or use their income to pursue an especially licentious lifestyle that’s in any way opposed to acquiring “family, home, a wife and children.”
In fact, if you actually read my article linked above, as well as my original defense of job stacking, you’ll see I very explicitly position the practice as a means by which men can save their wife from office work and allow themselves to have considerably more children than they could otherwise afford.
It is patently dishonest to frame what I am pushing as in any way antithetical to a traditional lifestyle. On the contrary, job stacking very clearly goes hand in hand with pro-natalism / traditionalism, because traditional sex roles are a luxury of wealth.
Even overlooking the obvious factors of kids becoming increasingly expensive and society being geared around two income families these days, your wife can be a lot more dainty / feminine if you can afford domestic help, and she’ll be a lot softer and more beautiful for you if you can send her off to the salon or stylist every other week.
Most importantly, she’s going to be a lot less stressed (and can therefore offer you a lot more in the way of feminine comfort) if she doesn’t have to work, and if her choice to stay at home doesn’t create any financial precarity for your household.1
More money likewise enables you to offer your kids a much better lifestyle growing up: a safer and cleaner neighborhood with more living space; more memorable vacations to cooler and more exotic locales; higher quality schools with fewer diverse youths who’ll at worst constitute a serious physical threat and at best impede their learning by singing rap songs during math class… The list goes on and on!
Ceteris paribus, more money always makes life better. And literally all of the things that Barb advocates young men pursue in the rest of his article—all of which I agree are very lovely—can only be pursued more effectively, more enjoyably, and with greater insulation from the Powers That Be if you also happen to make $450k / year.
The question is always one of tradeoffs—what are you sacrificing to get that money?
That’s the realm in which job stacking is unique: it offers smart and agentic men in particular industries an unprecedented opportunity to have their cake and eat it too.
See, most guys traditionally haven’t optimized around making more money for a very sensible reason: climbing the corporate ladder typically yields sharply diminishing returns. It requires you to work absolutely insane hours that for the vast majority of guys will have a hugely deleterious impact on family life, hobbies, physical health, etc.
That isn’t what job stacking entails.
The goal of job stacking is to only work forty hours per week, and to get as much done during those forty hours as humanly possible. So instead of doing what most people do and stretching ten hours of work into forty hours by working at a positively glacial pace at one email job, you will work very briskly for three or four employers at once.
In doing so you’re not spending any more time away from your family, hobbies, or creative interests than any other fulltime worker, because you’d be on the clock in either case. You are simply more engaged, more conscientious, and more productive—not to mention a vastly more effective provider for your household.
Look, I used to work in middle management at a Big Four consultancy, and back then I’d routinely put in 80 to 90 hour weeks. I wanted to kill myself the entire time, and would never advocate that lifestyle for anyone. Fuck that noise. But if by job stacking I can earn twice as much as I did back then while working half the hours, and this enables me to give my family a vastly better lifestyle, then why the hell wouldn’t I?
More importantly, why the hell wouldn’t you?
I realize this sounds suspiciously like a get rich quick scheme to a lot of guys, and some fellas have called me a grifter. That’s obviously inevitable with something like this, and all I can do in response is eventually post testimonials to prove it’s legit. Luckily some of my guys are already interviewing for Job B, so this won’t take long.
Until then all I’ll say is that my real aspiration is to create a network of a few hundred guys who are relentlessly dedicated to collaboratively looting Corporate America and capturing its resources both for personal benefit and for the good of the movement.
I’d love to cultivate a “job stacking gentry class” of right wing guys each making $500k / year who can easily afford to throw a few grand here and there at various art projects and business ventures. This seems a vastly more effective mechanism for funding interesting ideas than relying on Thielbux or crowdfunding from the general public of ankle-biting broke boys.
If there’s any “grift” at play here it’s that I’m absolutely working on this project with the long-term goal of establishing such a patronage network. I want to get a bunch of guys who think like me as rich as humanly possible so in the near future they can give me heaps of money for the many many cool ideas I have!
Achieving this will obviously require lots of coordination and hard work, but we already have a great little group on Telegram of about thirty guys, and the discussion we’ve seen over the past week has been incredibly promising.
So if any of this sounds cool to you I highly suggest you join Bismarck’s Buccaneers and help your girlfriend quit her job today.
You deserve to have your cake and eat it too.
Her being less stressed will also decrease the chance of your kids being gay