Homeless Guy talks 2,145 days of homelessness, social ladders, mythical man month [2024-04-15]
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:45 pm
Description
Made it out to the hiking trail again, beautiful day, beat the crowd.
Talk about logistics, social ladders and my trail / difficulties thru that lens.Change gears a little at the end and talk about how some things just can't be broken up into smaller units like 20 minute chunks.
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1xEO_BzPE
Transcript
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Yo, and welcome to the Ice Boog Daily Channel.
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This is an experimental tech and media brand.
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We're doing 20 minute daily videos.
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Mostly on the topic for homeless guy, explains,
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rages this or that.
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So, maybe you can see in the background,
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I'm back to security.
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Why don't I just go here every day
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if I'm having all these problems with Starbucks and blah, blah, blah.
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Logistics, my friend.
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We've got 54% battery now.
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That will probably do me good for the better part of the day with just the laptop.
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But it takes a good 5-6 hours for a full charge,
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so 3-4 hours to get that much charge.
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It's a good 30 minutes to get here, maybe 45,
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depending.
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Today was really muddy, so the hike was slower.
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I forgot that it rained the last night,
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so I'm actually also, you know,
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my shoes have gotten a little wet.
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I'll dry out before too long.
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I'm not...
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I ain't crying about it.
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But yeah, it's just...
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Something more I have to think about.
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It's death by a thousand paper cuts with homelessness.
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It's not.
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If only you could stop being a drug addict,
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you could get off the street.
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If only you could get a job, you could get off the street.
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No.
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How long before your first paycheck when you get a job,
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who's been in the situation of just having to scrape by
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until the first paycheck comes.
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Now imagine not having a parent's house or something to stay in.
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Oh yeah, I've got my music going.
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You guys can't hear it.
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No copyright strike today.
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So...
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I was going to talk about the three ladder...
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social system in the US,
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basically the...
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the case system.
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I read the essay by Michael O'Church a few weeks ago.
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On the channel, you can find it.
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So...
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visually, it matters,
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because I can picture the different groups of people
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and how they've discarded me.
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How they've excommunicated me from their portion of the social ladder.
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If we just think of one linear social ladder,
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it's too easy to be...
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your thinking isn't clear.
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It's too easy to just...
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wave your hands and say, well, just get back up and try again.
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When you think about it through the lens of their being three
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infrastructures,
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three social ladders,
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I can picture, okay,
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I climbed off of one ladder onto another.
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I was thrown off the second ladder.
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I tried to get back on the first ladder,
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and they would not let me back on there,
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because they were envious jealous, whatever.
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For my already having climbed above,
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and maybe not brought them up with,
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or whatever.
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They didn't see the hard work I was doing.
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When they were partying,
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I occasionally went to a party,
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but usually I turned down invites.
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But I mean, some of these people had party houses,
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and things like that just partied.
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The whole early part of their life while I was working.
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And then I go to them for help,
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and there's no help being offered there,
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despite the fact that it worked so hard,
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quite the opposite of the projection.
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On to me is like dishonesty,
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not wanting to work, yada, yada, yada.
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They partied hard to they worked hard,
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I'm sure, is what they tell themselves.
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And, you know, I had a period of that too.
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I partied hard and worked hard,
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but importantly I worked hard,
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and I'm sure these people probably worked hard too.
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But there's a part period where I,
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was all work, no party,
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and that part gets overlooked.
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There's no paper trail,
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there's no accountability.
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There's just my word,
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and what's my word,
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the word of a homeless guy,
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of an underclass,
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of someone not connected to any social ladder.
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Someone not connected to the infrastructure,
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needed to climb and get ahead.
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So,
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you know,
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on my video,
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whose fault is homelessness?
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It's the parent,
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who brings the child along to the social ladder
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if they're born on to.
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If the parents will not help their child
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get ahead,
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they are,
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you know,
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you can picture it as they've just got their hand
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on the wrong of a ladder
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and doesn't want their child to climb past it.
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Can't, you're not climbing over me, kid.
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I'm going to throw you off,
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you can find your own way back on
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and around,
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and keep trying to pull you off,
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because I can't see my kid get better than me.
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Okay, so you,
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you go to college.
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I know you're climbing up the gentry ladder.
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You get your opportunities and merit there.
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You know, your merits,
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based growth there,
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your merit based opportunities there.
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Awesome.
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You get into work,
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and your boss throws you off,
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you know,
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makes you unemployable through the whole reference check process.
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I find that matters less on the labor ladder
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than it does on the gentry ladder,
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and gentry references are everything,
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probably lead as well.
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I've maybe been on E4, G3,
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L3,
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is where I came from.
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Transitional class through college onto the gentry.
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Graduated,
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worked hard,
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merit based,
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changing of jobs,
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maybe switched over into E4.
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E4 throws you out,
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makes you look bad to gentry,
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gentry won't take you back.
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Labor where you came from is
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NDS won't let you back.
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So you just walk around downtown and apply
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to some jobs,
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now you're an L4 kind of.
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Now you've got to get past all the bullying
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in the workplace,
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make it to the first payday,
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start buying your personality.
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Something I noticed today now,
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when I walk out onto the trail with these earplugs in,
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even though earpods of the new thing,
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like this isn't an iPod,
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but people see these,
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and they're like,
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oh,
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you're an apple guy,
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cool man,
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yeah,
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like it's my bot personality.
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I think that's what people need to see,
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cause I also had a red bull in my hand.
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I've got two red bulls for five bucks.
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It's a little pleasure.
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I don't need energy drinks,
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but just the plain old red bull,
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not the monster,
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not any of that super crazy stuff,
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just plain old red bull,
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which it's made with high quality spring water.
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That's what actually brought me back to that one,
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energy drink.
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I'm a coffee guy,
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not an energy drink guy.
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I'm a water guy,
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not a coffee guy,
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but when forced to go to Starbucks,
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but when I found out,
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red bulls made with good spring water,
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okay,
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I'll drink red bull.
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Especially when you know that coffee is made with tap water,
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which has fluoride,
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and I'll just leave it at that.
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But yeah,
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being thrown off the social ladder,
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you know,
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status legibility is a big thing.
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Like if people know for a fact that you're underclass,
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then that's not good.
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If they're elite and,
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well,
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less so elite,
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elite and labor are kind of.
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That'd be the natural single ladder progression,
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but we've got this whole gentry ladder,
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which is like virtuous and all this kind of stuff.
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It's like what you would think of as progressiveism
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in like the 90s.
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But it's,
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it's a dividing conquer tool really.
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The description in the essay of
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labor thinking that the underclass,
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and the gentry are trying to pair up,
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keeping on against those.
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And then elite being basically invisible,
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even by the gentry and high labor ladders.
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We have a thing with gentry as they're very like.
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They're very collective.
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They've got the whisper lists,
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the black list, the reference checks,
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all that kind of stuff.
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We're labor,
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they'll go with their gut feeling.
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Gentry is sort of the midway class.
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Like they're educated and everything,
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but they may not be wise.
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And we are in direct sunlight right now,
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so there's a good chance that this broadcast
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is going to get chopped short.
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This fish eye makes it really hard to see clearly.
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Got some hell of fish eye.
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Wow.
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There was this one channel I thought was fake,
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because of weird fish eye looking effects like that.
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It's like, is that a bending green screen?
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I don't know.
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I think it was just the fish eye.
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So this is homelessness day,
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2,145.
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And you guys are probably getting annoyed
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that you emailed me a week ago,
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seven days ago.
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I haven't responded.
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Yo, I've been out here for 2,000 days.
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Hold your horses.
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You're probably like,
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ah, your audio quality's bad today.
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Yeah, I don't have my,
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I didn't hike out with the mic.
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I just got the laptop microphone today.
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I do have the camera.
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But.
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Wish I could share my music with you guys.
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I need to get another one of these because
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I have to stop the music whenever I do a voice memo
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and click all these buttons.
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It's how it is disruptive.
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And in the music doesn't come back.
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I got to flip back to the song I want.
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This isn't a music player.
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This is a voice memo recorder.
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But yeah,
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I just got the music onto it by making it away files.
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Oh yeah.
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The visualization of the three ladder system in my head.
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It feels like so much more powerful and intense and focused in my mind.
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But when I try to talk about it.
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It just so much of it is context.
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I've got so much context in my mind that it's it's easy.
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But then when I try to serialize it into words.
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It falls totally flat.
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Like I'm aware of all the context that I'm missing and how much context
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build up it would take to communicate that.
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Like all this talk about it like being seen at the bottom.
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Yada yada.
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I've said this before, but it's not that ego of being seen in a low spot.
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It's the insecurity and the actual danger that comes from status legibility.
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Like it's not that they see you at the bottom bottom.
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You know the bottom of labor, L4, the bottom of gentry G4, whatever.
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It's that they see you and they know where you are.
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Most people don't even know about this ladder, but especially when you're homeless, they see you under a class.
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Like they've got enough of their own struggles to deal with.
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They think you're going to be a parasite like most people in under class are.
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So they want nothing to do with it once they know for sure.
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If I could come here every day, this would be so much better than Starbucks where I go in.
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And it's like I don't sit there and like listen to them, but you know being there every day for hours you hear, you know.
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So like I walk in, nobody says anything, nobody's up to register.
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I make an order, they don't put my name on the order.
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It's like they don't say the the usual or anything.
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Like I get the same things all the time.
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But like other people come in, they're like hey, don't do that.
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Or someone's walking up to the door, they're like hey, don't do that.
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Like they're all like being super friendly and all this stuff.
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It's just so far beyond.
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It's just a million little paper cuts of like you don't matter, you're nobody, you're not welcome here.
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It's like that Charlie Brown and Snoopy thing, no dogs allowed.
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I don't remember that clearly, but I remember being an episode where like Snoopy was walking all over.
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It's like no dogs allowed, no dogs allowed, no dogs allowed.
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There's probably some moral or less into that, that was super positive.
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It's like non-verbals, like everyone who's kind of social picks up on the non-verbals.
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But in like, polite society, you know, you don't verbalize the non-verbal.
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So my, you know, the author of the three ladder system took it down.
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I don't know the true reason I was taken down.
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I just know I was taken down.
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Like within a year or two, it went archived.
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I had to search it out and find it.
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I mean, it's not hard.
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It was a popular essay.
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It's a popular guy.
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It's just not on his blog anymore.
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Like the link I had saved no longer worked.
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So yeah, I'm out here with 50% battery.
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I'll probably be able to get some coding done.
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I've been making like one or two line code changes to my apps in the morning to just like,
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it's something, you know.
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I've wanted this functionality for a long time.
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And it turns out it's like one line change, boom.
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Yeah, I've got this functionality.
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Oh, you know, a big one too.
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We don't have time to cover it today.
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That I wanted to talk about was like,
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you have time, I have time to make a 20 minute video every day.
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I might spend 30 to 40 minutes on it total every day.
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But in the mythical man months, a book about software engineering or project management,
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there's this thing about like, how can we make this pregnancy go faster?
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Let's throw another woman at it.
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It'll go from nine months to four and a half months, right?
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That sort of how it is with a lot of writing stuff.
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Like, takes three hours to write an essay or a really detailed email.
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You can't really do it in 20 minute chunks.
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You know, you can't say it'll take me nine days to write an email in a couple hours.
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Because 20 minutes a day for nine days, you know,
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doesn't work like that.
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A lot of escaping homelessness is the same.
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Like, you can give someone $20 a day.
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That might be a little high.
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$5 a day for a thousand days.
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You've given them 5,000 bucks.
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That's only about three years.
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At the end of a few years, you can be like, yeah, I gave them a thousand bucks,
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but they didn't do anything with it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But there's certain things you just need a bigger burst,
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a bigger batch of money to do anything with it.
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Stuff like that.
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So time is similar way.
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Can't just write an essay in a bunch of 20 minute sessions.
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Maybe you can over like three times more 20 minute sessions or something,
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but maybe you just need one focused hour for part of it
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and you never get that.
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So anyway,
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worth thousands of days and if you're feeling impatient about anything,
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just buckle up because it's been a long ride so far.
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I don't want it to be longer than it has to,
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but maybe a longer ride yet.
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So thanks for joining.
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Hopefully you're getting something and looking forward to seeing you next time.
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Made it out to the hiking trail again, beautiful day, beat the crowd.
Talk about logistics, social ladders and my trail / difficulties thru that lens.Change gears a little at the end and talk about how some things just can't be broken up into smaller units like 20 minute chunks.
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1xEO_BzPE
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Yo, and welcome to the Ice Boog Daily Channel.
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This is an experimental tech and media brand.
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We're doing 20 minute daily videos.
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Mostly on the topic for homeless guy, explains,
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rages this or that.
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So, maybe you can see in the background,
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I'm back to security.
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Why don't I just go here every day
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if I'm having all these problems with Starbucks and blah, blah, blah.
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Logistics, my friend.
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We've got 54% battery now.
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That will probably do me good for the better part of the day with just the laptop.
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But it takes a good 5-6 hours for a full charge,
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so 3-4 hours to get that much charge.
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It's a good 30 minutes to get here, maybe 45,
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depending.
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Today was really muddy, so the hike was slower.
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I forgot that it rained the last night,
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so I'm actually also, you know,
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my shoes have gotten a little wet.
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I'll dry out before too long.
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I'm not...
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I ain't crying about it.
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But yeah, it's just...
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Something more I have to think about.
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It's death by a thousand paper cuts with homelessness.
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It's not.
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If only you could stop being a drug addict,
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you could get off the street.
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If only you could get a job, you could get off the street.
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No.
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How long before your first paycheck when you get a job,
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who's been in the situation of just having to scrape by
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until the first paycheck comes.
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Now imagine not having a parent's house or something to stay in.
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Oh yeah, I've got my music going.
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You guys can't hear it.
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No copyright strike today.
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So...
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I was going to talk about the three ladder...
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social system in the US,
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basically the...
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the case system.
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I read the essay by Michael O'Church a few weeks ago.
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On the channel, you can find it.
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visually, it matters,
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because I can picture the different groups of people
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and how they've discarded me.
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How they've excommunicated me from their portion of the social ladder.
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If we just think of one linear social ladder,
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it's too easy to be...
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your thinking isn't clear.
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It's too easy to just...
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wave your hands and say, well, just get back up and try again.
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When you think about it through the lens of their being three
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infrastructures,
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three social ladders,
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I can picture, okay,
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I climbed off of one ladder onto another.
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I was thrown off the second ladder.
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I tried to get back on the first ladder,
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and they would not let me back on there,
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because they were envious jealous, whatever.
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For my already having climbed above,
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and maybe not brought them up with,
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or whatever.
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They didn't see the hard work I was doing.
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When they were partying,
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I occasionally went to a party,
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but usually I turned down invites.
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and things like that just partied.
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The whole early part of their life while I was working.
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and there's no help being offered there,
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despite the fact that it worked so hard,
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quite the opposite of the projection.
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On to me is like dishonesty,
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not wanting to work, yada, yada, yada.
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They partied hard to they worked hard,
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I'm sure, is what they tell themselves.
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I partied hard and worked hard,
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but importantly I worked hard,
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and I'm sure these people probably worked hard too.
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was all work, no party,
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and that part gets overlooked.
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There's no paper trail,
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there's no accountability.
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There's just my word,
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and what's my word,
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the word of a homeless guy,
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of an underclass,
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of someone not connected to any social ladder.
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Someone not connected to the infrastructure,
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needed to climb and get ahead.
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you know,
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on my video,
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whose fault is homelessness?
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who brings the child along to the social ladder
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if they're born on to.
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get ahead,
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they are,
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you know,
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you can picture it as they've just got their hand
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on the wrong of a ladder
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and doesn't want their child to climb past it.
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Can't, you're not climbing over me, kid.
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I'm going to throw you off,
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you can find your own way back on
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and around,
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and keep trying to pull you off,
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because I can't see my kid get better than me.
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Okay, so you,
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you go to college.
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I know you're climbing up the gentry ladder.
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You get your opportunities and merit there.
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You know, your merits,
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based growth there,
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your merit based opportunities there.
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Awesome.
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and your boss throws you off,
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you know,
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makes you unemployable through the whole reference check process.
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I find that matters less on the labor ladder
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than it does on the gentry ladder,
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and gentry references are everything,
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probably lead as well.
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I've maybe been on E4, G3,
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L3,
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is where I came from.
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Transitional class through college onto the gentry.
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merit based,
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changing of jobs,
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maybe switched over into E4.
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E4 throws you out,
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makes you look bad to gentry,
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gentry won't take you back.
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Labor where you came from is
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NDS won't let you back.
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to some jobs,
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now you're an L4 kind of.
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Now you've got to get past all the bullying
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in the workplace,
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make it to the first payday,
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start buying your personality.
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when I walk out onto the trail with these earplugs in,
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even though earpods of the new thing,
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like this isn't an iPod,
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but people see these,
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and they're like,
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you're an apple guy,
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cool man,
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yeah,
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like it's my bot personality.
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I think that's what people need to see,
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cause I also had a red bull in my hand.
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I've got two red bulls for five bucks.
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It's a little pleasure.
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I don't need energy drinks,
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but just the plain old red bull,
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not the monster,
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not any of that super crazy stuff,
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just plain old red bull,
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which it's made with high quality spring water.
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That's what actually brought me back to that one,
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energy drink.
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I'm a coffee guy,
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not an energy drink guy.
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I'm a water guy,
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not a coffee guy,
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but when forced to go to Starbucks,
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red bulls made with good spring water,
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which has fluoride,
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and I'll just leave it at that.
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being thrown off the social ladder,
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you know,
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status legibility is a big thing.
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less so elite,
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elite and labor are kind of.
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but we've got this whole gentry ladder,
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which is like virtuous and all this kind of stuff.
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labor thinking that the underclass,
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keeping on against those.
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the black list, the reference checks,
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all that kind of stuff.
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Got some hell of fish eye.
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because of weird fish eye looking effects like that.
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I think it was just the fish eye.
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So this is homelessness day,
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2,145.
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And you guys are probably getting annoyed
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that you emailed me a week ago,
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seven days ago.
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I haven't responded.
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Yo, I've been out here for 2,000 days.
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Hold your horses.
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You're probably like,
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ah, your audio quality's bad today.
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Yeah, I don't have my,
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I didn't hike out with the mic.
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I do have the camera.
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Wish I could share my music with you guys.
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I need to get another one of these because
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I have to stop the music whenever I do a voice memo
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and click all these buttons.
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It's how it is disruptive.
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And in the music doesn't come back.
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I got to flip back to the song I want.
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This isn't a music player.
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This is a voice memo recorder.
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I just got the music onto it by making it away files.
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The visualization of the three ladder system in my head.
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It feels like so much more powerful and intense and focused in my mind.
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I've got so much context in my mind that it's it's easy.
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Like I'm aware of all the context that I'm missing and how much context
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build up it would take to communicate that.
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Like all this talk about it like being seen at the bottom.
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Yada yada.
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I've said this before, but it's not that ego of being seen in a low spot.
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It's the insecurity and the actual danger that comes from status legibility.
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Like it's not that they see you at the bottom bottom.
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You know the bottom of labor, L4, the bottom of gentry G4, whatever.
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It's that they see you and they know where you are.
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Most people don't even know about this ladder, but especially when you're homeless, they see you under a class.
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And they know that you need like a way onto the ladder and they don't want to be that way.
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Like they've got enough of their own struggles to deal with.
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They think you're going to be a parasite like most people in under class are.
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So they want nothing to do with it once they know for sure.
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If I could come here every day, this would be so much better than Starbucks where I go in.
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And it's like I don't sit there and like listen to them, but you know being there every day for hours you hear, you know.
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So like I walk in, nobody says anything, nobody's up to register.
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I make an order, they don't put my name on the order.
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It's like they don't say the the usual or anything.
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Like I get the same things all the time.
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But like other people come in, they're like hey, don't do that.
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Or someone's walking up to the door, they're like hey, don't do that.
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Like they're all like being super friendly and all this stuff.
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It's just so far beyond.
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It's just a million little paper cuts of like you don't matter, you're nobody, you're not welcome here.
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It's like that Charlie Brown and Snoopy thing, no dogs allowed.
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I don't remember that clearly, but I remember being an episode where like Snoopy was walking all over.
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It's like no dogs allowed, no dogs allowed, no dogs allowed.
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There's probably some moral or less into that, that was super positive.
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If it's not that no homeless people are allowed, it's like the three ladder thing.
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It's like non-verbals, like everyone who's kind of social picks up on the non-verbals.
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But in like, polite society, you know, you don't verbalize the non-verbal.
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So my, you know, the author of the three ladder system took it down.
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And it's only available still because other people have archived it.
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And it's sort of like polite society was exposed a little bit too much by that essay.
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I don't know the true reason I was taken down.
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I just know I was taken down.
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Like within a year or two, it went archived.
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I had to search it out and find it.
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I mean, it's not hard.
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It was a popular essay.
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It's a popular guy.
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It's just not on his blog anymore.
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Like the link I had saved no longer worked.
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So yeah, I'm out here with 50% battery.
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I'll probably be able to get some coding done.
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I've been making like one or two line code changes to my apps in the morning to just like,
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it's something, you know.
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I've wanted this functionality for a long time.
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And it turns out it's like one line change, boom.
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Yeah, I've got this functionality.
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Oh, you know, a big one too.
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We don't have time to cover it today.
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That I wanted to talk about was like,
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you have time, I have time to make a 20 minute video every day.
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I might spend 30 to 40 minutes on it total every day.
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But in the mythical man months, a book about software engineering or project management,
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there's this thing about like, how can we make this pregnancy go faster?
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Let's throw another woman at it.
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It'll go from nine months to four and a half months, right?
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That sort of how it is with a lot of writing stuff.
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Like, takes three hours to write an essay or a really detailed email.
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You can't really do it in 20 minute chunks.
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You know, you can't say it'll take me nine days to write an email in a couple hours.
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Because 20 minutes a day for nine days, you know,
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doesn't work like that.
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A lot of escaping homelessness is the same.
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Like, you can give someone $20 a day.
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That might be a little high.
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$5 a day for a thousand days.
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You've given them 5,000 bucks.
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That's only about three years.
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Or you can give them a thousand bucks and they can do something big.
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At the end of a few years, you can be like, yeah, I gave them a thousand bucks,
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but they didn't do anything with it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But there's certain things you just need a bigger burst,
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a bigger batch of money to do anything with it.
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Stuff like that.
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So time is similar way.
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Can't just write an essay in a bunch of 20 minute sessions.
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Maybe you can over like three times more 20 minute sessions or something,
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but maybe you just need one focused hour for part of it
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and you never get that.
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So anyway,
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worth thousands of days and if you're feeling impatient about anything,
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just buckle up because it's been a long ride so far.
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I don't want it to be longer than it has to,
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but maybe a longer ride yet.
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So thanks for joining.
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Hopefully you're getting something and looking forward to seeing you next time.
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Bye.
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