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20-45-20 lifecycle maxim

April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (TLDR)

  1. I deconstruct your lifetime work years, hours, and income and show it in a graphic format and as an Excel workbook (that you can download and modify).
  2. To make it easy for you to understand and remember, I will also introduce some lifecycle maxims

Disclaimer: the maths may not be 100% accurate, but neither is the predictability of your life 🙂

 

Don’t tell me! I don’t want to know!

People typically never contemplate their full lifetime existence from a time and money perspective. By examining these things, you can proactively react in ways that could benefit you and your family.

How much you earn and how long you work profoundly impacts many aspects of your thoughts and identity, including (but not restricted to):

  • Worldview
  • Ideology
  • Political Beliefs (Left, Center, Right): Views on Tax, Social Policies, Govt, etc.
  • Ethics and Morality

Understanding the entire human working lifecycle also helps to shine a light on poorly explained or understood political tropes and narratives like:

  1. DIEE: Diversity, Inclusion, Equality/Equity, This out-of-date and often poorly understood ideology elevates an individual’s gender or minority group membership over hours, experience, or capability. e.g. A good person may have worked for 2 decades/36,000 hours in a specific field but because they belong to a ‘vilified majority group’ they are overlooked for another individual that belongs to a ‘cherry-picked minority group’ even though they may have only worked 6000 hours.
  2. Gender pay gap: Again this trope does not consider anything about hours worked, experience, and capability. Just vilification of another group!
  3. Home Ownership: Why don’t 30-year-olds own their own homes when 55-year-olds do?
  4. Income/Age/Time: Why and when do some people have more than others? Why and when are there poor, middle-class, and rich.
  5. Tax: Why do some feel not only entitled but also robbed by high-income earners’ tax money even though those high-income earners might pay 5x more tax than many others? We don’t consider that a 20ish-year-old might only pay ~15k tax per year and a 55-year-old may pay ~65k per year. Or a 20ish-year-old has contributed ~30k in tax vs a 55yo who may have contributed ~1 million
  6. Homelessness and Poverty: There are many different reasons for homelessness and poverty SOME people CHOOSE not to work and/or instead prioritize their individual freedom over their desire to work. This group of people may have only worked less than 10,000 hours in their entire lifetime even though they may be middle-aged.
  7. Political Ideology: Why and when do people at a certain age or income vote left/center/right?

Of course, everything I’ve stated above is a (cherry-picked) example only. There is a lot more to say on each point – but I have saved it for another blog (I’m not ready to be canceled in this one)

 

 20-45-20 lifecycle maxim

  • 85 years of your life might look like this.

20-45-20 lifecycle maxim

  • 85 years of your life might look like this.



Additional Reading

This document forms part of a 3 blog series:

  • Part 1: Your work lifetime hours and income deconstructed (THIS DOC)
  • Part 2: Cross the F45 Line (INCOMPLETE)
  • Part 3: Money and Time Hacks (INCOMPLETE)
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Amazing Life #2

April 9, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Immortal Jellyfish

Forever is a long time, especially towards the end.

The ‘Immortal Jellyfish’ Can Age in Reverse And Possibly Live Forever : ScienceAlert

 

Tardigrade

Tardigrades have been on Earth for about 600 million years, about 400 million years before dinosaurs.

You can boil them, bake them, deep-freeze them, crush them, dehydrate them, or even blast them into space. It doesn’t matter—tardigrades can survive practically anything. These eight-legged aquatic animals may be small, but they’re nearly indestructible.

Tardigrade (nationalgeographic.com)

tardigrade facts

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Amazing Life #3

April 9, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Immortal Jellyfish

Forever is a long time, especially towards the end.

The ‘Immortal Jellyfish’ Can Age in Reverse And Possibly Live Forever : ScienceAlert

 

Tardigrade

Tardigrades have been on Earth for about 600 million years, about 400 million years before dinosaurs.

You can boil them, bake them, deep-freeze them, crush them, dehydrate them, or even blast them into space. It doesn’t matter—tardigrades can survive practically anything. These eight-legged aquatic animals may be small, but they’re nearly indestructible.

Tardigrade (nationalgeographic.com)

tardigrade facts

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The Joy of Estrangement

April 1, 2025April 19, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com
You can't spell Friends without ends

Summary

It appears to be a strange character flaw that we willingly cling to toxic relationships that cause more harm than good. Despite repeated disappointments, we naively hope that things will get better. Estrangement should be considered a healthy and normal way to protect yourself from toxic family, “friends,” or frenemies.

People change, circumstances change, relationships change. Siblings turn on each other, Parents and children disagree, family and friends betray.

Prisons and graveyards are filled with family and “friends” who never set boundaries and instead allowed things to spiral out of control.

You can't spell Families without lies

WTF is Estrangement?

Estrangement refers to being alienated or separated in feeling or affection. It can often manifest as hostility or unfriendliness between individuals or within families. Some reports suggest that 1 in 4 families experience some form of estrangement.

  • It is just a fancy name for “Ghosting” or, as we say in our family, “snipping,” e.g., “you should snip that b!tch for 6 months…get the scissors!”
  • Estrangement is just a simple boundary that can enable personal peace and harmony.
  • Estrangement doesn’t have to be permanent, nor does it have to be accompanied by anger or resentment. It is best applied with apathy or positive sublimation.

Bye Bye Bitch

You cant spell Lover without over

Benfits of Estrangement

Without estrangement, the earth’s population would not have spread as far and as fast as it has. For some, leaving people behind can be incredibly liberating.

Arguing with a fool makes you become one.

What are some reasons for Estrangement?

  • You experience negative feelings before, during, or after you spend time with them.
  • You dislike what they say,  what they think, or how they behave.
  • 1000 people have 1000 reasons, but they might include abuse, neglect, betrayal, bullying, destructive behavior, and disagreements over matters like sexual orientation, choice of spouse, gender identity, religion, or political views.

Is There Any Evidence Trigger Warnings Are Actually a Big Deal?

When arguing with a fool be mindful they might be thinking the same thing

Why is there conflict?

It’s sometimes interesting to contemplate why people behave the way they do – it’s fun to pretend you are a psychiatrist with the latest pop culture terms and all the insight. Other times, it can be more practical just not to GAF.

  • If they (or you) have narcissistic tendencies or don’t self-reflect, they will probably not be aware of their contribution to the disharmony. So, even if you discover a good reason, it probably won’t help them or you.
  • Some seek answers in frameworks, but often, these offer zero help in resolving issues.
    • Attachment Therapy,
    • PsychoAnalysis
    • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • What matters most is how you feel and the story you want to write…
1 in every 3 people is a jerk. If it's not them it must be you

People will never be what you want them to be

  • There was a time in my life when I held anger and resentment towards my father for his blatant neglect, but over time, I realised I just didn’t care anymore. He neglected me during the first part of my life (as did my mother), and I neglect them in the last part of theirs. It’s when I realized the opposite of love is not hate but apathy.
  • We tell ourselves that our story is unique, but the deeper truth is that the details may be unique, but the plot is the same for 100s of millions around the world.
  • Sometimes, a parent’s only useful purpose (in your life) is to create you. They have placed you on a family tree that spreads 10s of thousands of years, past, present, and future…and that alone is sufficient reason to have some silent gratitude towards them.

Big Family Tree from you to your 128 great-great-great-great-great-grandparents

Arguing with a fool proves there are two

What if they said exactly what you wanted to hear?

As a thought experiment, you could ask yourself this question and how you would respond if they did. It might feel liberating, or perhaps awkward, or perhaps just empty if they said what you wanted to hear. Regardless they most likely will never utter those sweet words for many reasons, the main one being is they can’t find the words to tell themselves let alone explain reasons to someone else.

Only a fool loves unconditionally - (me)

But I still have some love for them!

You might have been programmed from childhood to believe you do, but sometimes that idea is just malware that needs to be uninstalled from your brain. Isn’t it hard to love someone who continually mistreats you, or someone you don’t like?

Only a fool doesn't set boundaries

Conclusion

  • Fcuk their story now. Instead, focus on your story!
  • Always have your scissors ready to snip snip bitches

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3rd Party Apologies and Attonement

July 29, 2024August 2, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

The argument for an Apology

The argument for an Apology

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The arguement against offering an apology

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Summary

What a foolish idea to have someone apologize for something somebody else did.
 
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3rd party atonement

"I need a white person to pay for sins perpetrated against my great great great great grand mother""
  • Imagine if a Father sinned. Would it be ethical and moral to make the child pay for that sin? Perhaps the grandchild should pay? Or maybe the great-grandchild?  Maybe it should be the great great grandchild?

Of course, you should eventually come to realise that it is an absurd notion! Should you also pay for sins that your parents inflicted on others? Perhaps your parents were saints.

“I still need a Mofo to pay for the Injustice!”

He who seeks revenge should dig 2 graves

 Pin on crabby
 
 To the person who demands an apology for a past injustice. I wonder if they ever ask themselves:

  1. Which side of their personal identity is owed an apology their Mum’s side or the Dad’s side?
  2. How many generations back do you need to go to find the injustice?
  3. Does the injustice you claim have clear evidence that would stand up in court today? There is 2 sides to every story if you don’t know your opponents side then you only know half the story.
  4. Did anyone benefit from the alleged injustice? Including anyone from your family blood lines.

 
What if the injustice was applied on one side of the family but benefit was made on the other side benefited?
What the aggrieved person benefits far more that the original injustice
But wait! Surely at some point I will be related to the perpetrator of the original injustice…*slaps forehead

Someone from the Present Apologising for a past injustice they had nothing to do with

How about if a serial killer slaughters your family while they sleep. Is it moral and ethical for someone else to forgive the killer while ignoring your feelings on the subject? Of course that is another absurd notion


The Past belongs in the past

Let sleeping dogs lie”.
“The past is unpredictable.

The history of the world is one of conquest, corruption, injustice, and untold horrors. Every human has experienced cruelty and injustice. .

There are plenty of good reasons to try and equalise those inequalities in the present

Gender, ethnicity, religion

2. Imagine there is a workplace where only red people work. It openly rejects orange and yellow people from working there.

  • When: Every single generation anywhere in history, any place in history
  • Why: Red people created the environment and want to protect it because it is good
  • How: Excluding anyone that is not red
  • Impact: Clearly defined easy to get triggered rejected by at least 3 generations

And there was a time that those injustices should have been corrected however today we live in the best time in the history of humanity

Some bearch gotta pay!

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

People who think that they are being “exploited” should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: “Good riddance”?
We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did, but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past.

Your Family: Past, Present, and Future — Wait But Why
How Millennials compare with prior generations | Pew Research Center

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Amazing Life

July 28, 2024July 31, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Immortal Jellyfish

Forever is a long time, especially towards the end.

The ‘Immortal Jellyfish’ Can Age in Reverse And Possibly Live Forever : ScienceAlert

 

Tardigrade

Tardigrades have been on Earth for about 600 million years, about 400 million years before dinosaurs.

You can boil them, bake them, deep-freeze them, crush them, dehydrate them, or even blast them into space. It doesn’t matter—tardigrades can survive practically anything. These eight-legged aquatic animals may be small, but they’re nearly indestructible.

Tardigrade (nationalgeographic.com)

tardigrade facts

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Heritage Blindness

July 14, 2024July 27, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (tldr)

In this post, I am going to explain a cognitive bias called Heritage Blindness or Heritage Denial. It is defined as follows:

  • Individuals of multiple ethnic backgrounds may identify more strongly with one aspect of their heritage while willfully ignoring the other parts.
  • By cherry-picking the minority group side of their heritage they can adopt a narrative that enables them to become instant victims of perceived societal injustices. This opens up many opportunities they can exploit. 
  • They willfully ignore the heritage that grants them privilege whenever it suits their ‘virtue signaling’ narrative.
  • They often don’t have any words or thoughts of appreciation for the side they dislike. 
  • Many politicize their heritage. They pretend to be hero’s of minority groups and also teach others to become disenfranchised. Many persecute common taxpayers by demanding and gaslighting.

Examples

  • Family bloodlines and heritage data on the Mum’s or Dad’s side of the family (Parents, Grand Parents, GGP, GGGP) are either willfully ignored or cherry-picked.
    • This is especially true when it comes to acknowledgment of their colonialist roots
    • or any aspect of belonging to any majority group, and/or the benefits received.
  • Heritage deniers are often experts in every other persons heritage or identity (including yours)

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See also: Heritage Deniers, Cherry-picked bloodlines, Majority group envy, 

Heritage Blindness

Imagine that you are a Zebra then ask yourself which part of the Zebra are you, the black or the white? An absurd notion because you are obviously both

I will attempt to build on the ideas of heritage blindness by using the metaphor of a black and white Zebra.

The Zebra is used to illustrate logic flaws and fallacies in identity groups (including skin colour), but can also be applied to any other domains of thinking. See Cognitive Dissonance


If you want to change the world start with yourself!

Angry Zebra

  • This Zebra acknowledges only one aspect of its identity and family tree. e.g. I only have white stripes not black, or only black stripes and not white. 
  • The Zebra is angry often because of perceived injustices perpetrated against one side of their identity. 
  • They willfully ignore the great Zebra vs Zebra conflicts of the past
  • They falsely believe they represent all Zebras and become easily triggered when other Zebras don’t support their outdated or traditional worldview. They often make disparaging remarks calling them ‘Plastic Zebras’, or ‘Fake Zebras’ if they disagree.
  • Is most often a small but noisy, privileged, and entitled subgroup that polarises, and create negative stereotypes. Many are demagogues have learned to monetize and also industrialize their minority status especially when it benefits themselves. They are well supported by compliant pandering leftist ideology.

Examples:

  1. Your Dad is an indigenous minority and your Mum comes from England so whenever you rant it’s only for the rights of the minority side. You never acknowledge or utter a word about your English family ties
  2. Your GGGGG Grandparents had injustice perpetrated against them, but now 60-120 years later, you claim you are still experiencing the effects. You are willfully blind to the benefits you and your bloodline have received over that same time period.
  3. You falsely see yourself as a hero of the underclass and are blind to the discontent you create. Every perceived injustice is racialized.
  4. You see your minority group as a largely homogeneous group even though they are not. They are disparate groups often with different agendas and ideologies, that sometimes compete. You claim you are the hero of them all even though the opposite may be true.
  5. You have learned how to Monetize your identity group, especially through Government-backed sponsorship, and are therefore compelled to keep your old racialised narrative alive even though it may be 20-60 years out of date.
  6. You have a general dislike and distrust of any Majority group. You consider your group more deserving than the majority.

 

  1. Are they self-loathing? 
  2. Do they suffer from Learned helplessness?
  3. How do they exploit learned helplessness?

 

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D-GAF Zebra

  • Is happy that it is a Zebra and enjoys all other Zebras. Loves their own stripes and doesn’t GAF if you do, or don’t.
  • Acknowledges its origin story and acknowledges the trials and tribulations of its Parents and Grand Parents

Zen Zebra

  • The greatest of all the Zebras.
  • Understands and acknowledges all narratives true and false.
  • Celebrates and is grateful for its existence, and the existence of all other Zebras

Other Zebra Types:

  • Zebra in denial
  • Blind Zebra
  • Silent Zebra
  • Privileged Zebra
  • Entitled Zebra
  • Ignorant Zebra
  • Willfully Ignorant Zebrara
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Authenticity Debunked (stop being yourself)

July 10, 2024April 12, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (TLDR)

Always being “authentic” is among the dumbest ideas to come from pop culture zeitgeist. People should be cautious about when, where, and to whom they expose their ‘authentic’ selves.

If you were truly authentic then surely that would mean you have to reveal what you are feeling when you feel it…all the time! You would say what you think and think what you say in real-time. Any dumbass can be “authentic” in a good moment under favorable conditions – It’s the non-favorable conditions where you should NOT be authentic! Authenticity and truth go hand in hand.

Your workplace, boss, colleagues, friends, frenemies, and family are not always authentic, …and you should be grateful for that! It might be that the only people who are always truly authentic with you all the time are anyone you know under the age of 6 …and your enemies!

After reading this the next time you hear someone extolling the virtues of always being authentic you can laugh quietly to yourself.

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Whoever tells you to "always be yourself" is an idiot!

Dictionary Definition of Authenticity

Put simply, authenticity means you’re true to your personality, values, and spirit, regardless of the pressure that you’re under to act otherwise. You’re honest with yourself and with others, and you take responsibility for your mistakes.

Authenticity in Reality

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. 
#filter-yourself
  1. Surely only a fool would reveal their shadow self at the moment a wave of emotion is experienced. Imagine revealing these uncontrollable “authentic” emotions in real-time: love, lust, desire, anger, resentment, jealousy, envy, contempt, etc.
  2. I prefer the carefully curated BS image you present to me. I don’t want to know the authentic you, and if you knew the authentic me you would never speak to me again!
  3. Imagine an “Authentic” Sales Rep, Doctor, Lawyer, Realtor, Teacher, Mentor, Tradie, Marriage Councilor, etc. If you knew what they were thinking during a consult…yikes! What about an authentic Radio DJ lol.
  4. We romanticize aspects of ourselves we probably shouldn’t and we archive painful memories. I don’t want you to know all my “authentic” secrets and I sure AF don’t want to know yours.

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Homophily Groups

Only a fool (or naive leftie) loves everybody within a homophily group they belong to or support. e.g. I'm a man so I love all 4 billion men. I'm a women so I love all women. I'm gay so I love all gay people. I'm indigenous so I love all indigenous people.

Homophily is attaching yourself to groups of people with similar characteristics. You might show just one of your so-called “authentic” faces to your dating group, church group, drinking group, family group, drug-taking group, political views group, etc. But none of these groups gets to really experience the true “authentic” you.

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I think a good way to measure who your true close friends are is by asking yourself which ones know the most about you in each of these different groups.

Consider these examples…

Authenticity in Social Media

Most Social Media photos and pages are carefully curated to present just the best side of that person, business, influencer, politician, religious leader, etc. If they were truly “authentic” imagine what laughable truths, or horrors you might see.

Authenticity in Dating

Hi, Tinder date. I’m authentic so I need you to know that, I can’t form a meaningful bond easily, I like bodies more than I like minds, and I enjoy the honeymoon phase of new relationships more than a long-term relationship. Also, I love Kenyan midget p0rn, and my body count is >100. Also, I only identify with my Tinder age not my chronological age.

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Authenticity in Politics

Hey constituents, because I’m an authentic politician, I need you to know I disagree with 40% of what my party believes in. I don’t know WTF I am doing half the time, especially when it comes to economics. I have done some unethical things. I will say whatever needs to be said to keep the greatest number of people happy – especially my donors – and myself in this position.

Why do politicians lie? Because it works — and shame on us – Baptist News Global

Authenticity in the Family

Hey, family, I want to be authentic and tell you about my dark thoughts, addictions, jealousies, envy, and how many times each of you has annoyed me.

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Authenticity in Religion

Hey, congregation I am having doubts about my lifelong faith and can’t reconcile the endless immorality I read in the scriptures. I also can’t accept that there is not a single shred of evidence for my God’s existence and I don’t understand why my God is superior to the other 17,999.

Authenticity with Friends

Hey friends you whucen annoy me a lot. I often get jealous and resentful of you. I think your partner is hot. I cheat on my taxes. I get triggered easily, I experience schadenfreude when something bad happens to you.

Authenticity in Industries

Food Industry

  • Imagine if the public knew what really goes into making the sausage lol.

Clothing Industry

  • Sweatshops

Marketing Industry

  • Social Engineering, Manipulation, Memetic Desire, etc.

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Authenticity in Mental Health

Hey, work I’m authentic so I’ll tell you now that I am often depressed, I have big mood swings, I’m often medicated, and I can’t function easily with work, colleagues, or customers.

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Authenticity in Job Interviews

I need you to know I prioritize myself over work. I get triggered by underperforming colleagues. I like the occasional long lunch. I am mostly 30% nonproductive. Once I’m effective at my job I will mostly do the bare minimum to get by. I don’t do any self-study to improve my work skills.  I complain about things I can fix. …now when do I start, and would it be rude to ask for a corner office?

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Authenticity in the Workplace (Moral Grandstanding)

Imagine if your boss asks you to do something you don’t want to…should you give them an “authentic” response each time lol? Here’s some “being authentic” BS we hear in the workplace.

“All Ideas are welcome” But only if they fit into our existing worldview or narrative, and if they are too different you’ll be talking to HR.

“We care” You are nothing more than a resource in a mutually exploitive symbiotic relationship, and to claim otherwise is just naivety or narcissism. If your company needs to get rid of you because of sufficient stressors then they absolutely will.

“Family Businesses are caring” Sometimes they can be the most authoritarian places to work because by including you in the ‘Family’ you are now expected to do things you would never otherwise do e.g. unpaid hours, giving up personal time, and making sacrifices no corporate would dare ask, and many other things that border on immoral or unethical. All served with a big inclusive smile of course.

“Workplace Values and Virtues” Why do some companies think a grown-ass human wants to be lectured about empty relativistic values and virtues? If companies want to spend resources and energy on virtue signaling they should probably take it somewhere that people will embrace it. Leave highly conscientious people to do productive work!

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Don’t break the 4th wall

The third and fourth wall is a term used in the theatre industry where a character talks to the viewer directly and reveals an “authentic” moment. It seems a good metaphor for acting out your life in front of others. I don’t want a doctor to have an “authentic” moment and reveal that they are inexperienced, or not properly trained. No, I want them to maintain the illusion and pretend they are the best in the industry so I can also pretend I’m getting the best health care.

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Conclusion

  1. Every person has at least 3 identities Public, Private, and Secret. You should show a filtered version of yourself in each.
  2. A person who is centred on themselves cares less about what others think, and so is perhaps more authentic.
  3. An authentic person does not concern themselves so much with Conspicuous Consumption /Veblen goods or dressing and behaving in a way that appeases others.

True authenticity should mean recognizing that you wear different masks with different people at different times. It means exposing weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and failures. It means filtering, controlling, and regulating how you display your real-time emotions to present the best part of yourself at any given moment.

Wearing different masks is good and to not do so would lead to mental exhaustion….

Addendum:

Is not revealing yourself actually revealing yourself?

See my next blog: Whucoff I’m not writing any more on this topic.

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Comforting lies and dumb things we believe about Taxes

March 6, 2024July 14, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (TLDR)

In this blog, I will attempt to convince you of the following:

  1. Your notion of ‘fairness’ when it comes to tax might need some error correction.
  2. Most High-income earners and companies should not be vilified but lauded
    Demagogues that crusade in the name of higher taxes for high-income earners are never giving you a full and clear picture, instead, it is often a biased nonsense view designed to create a common enemy. Because nothing unites us all like a common enemy.
  3. If it is possible and practical then you should optimise your 45-year work life to reduce your tax liability in exchange for more personal time.

Govt please just take what you need

It seems a strange ‘group think/echo chamber’ phenomenon that citizens don’t contemplate their personal tax liability and how it impacts their lives. We are programmed to dutifully pay tax without asking how it is used or wasted (I used to think they only wasted 20% but these days I think it’s more like 60%). Here are some examples of taxes we pay in NZ:

  1. Income tax – NZ (~25%).
  2. plus GST (15%) on most things we buy.
  3. plus ACC (accident compensation ~1.97%).
  4. plus Property taxes ~3k (property and water).
  5. plus taxes on daily commodities like fuel, alcohol, etc.

Give more milk!

“Greed”

Why is everyone else greedy when it comes to what they own, or to paying taxes …but not you?

  1. You want to keep more of what you earn? …That’s selfish and greedy!
  2. That rich person has more than enough! …they should share what they have (I won’t though).

 

“Fairness”

We are outraged when we feel rich people and companies don’t pay their fair share, and act as if it is money they have stolen from our pockets! Demagogues and Legacy media have been pushing this narrative for decades.
But why should you feel entitled to 1 cent of the money that someone else has earned? What a subjective notion ‘fairness’ is:

  1. Everyone should “pay their fair share” A young or low-income earner thinks the distribution of wealth is a good idea, but a high-income earner gets annoyed when they have to part with so much of what they have earned.
  2. 1M vs 2M How is it fair that in a year 1 person pays only 20k in taxes but another pays 100k, or in 10 years 1 person pays only 200k but another person pays 1m? How about in 45 years 1 person has paid only 1m and another 2m?
  3. Age and Earning Scenarios We don’t consider any earning scenarios. Especially hours worked and/or age e.g. a 20-year-old might only pay 15k tax that year when a 50-year-old may pay 65k. We move through different tax brackets as we get older and become more economically successful. In your early 20’s you earn FA, in your 30’s you become economically stable, and hopefully if you’ve lived a good life in your 40s and above you will be financially secure. Also, the top-tier income earners often don’t stay in that top-tier income group for long periods.
  4. High-Income Earners Whoever is in the so-called 3% of high-income earners does not usually stay there for long, and they usually don’t arrive there until after 30-40 years of work (don’t worry you will be in this category soon enough)
  5. Govt waste How is it fair when we give money to a government that wastes so much or spends it on so many things we might oppose (e.g. ideology, minority groups, contrived Carbon Emission Tax, Military spending, Infrastructure spending, Education, government handouts, etc?
  6. You don’t pay enough but I do lol Instead of gratitude some people feel not only entitled but also robbed by high-income earners even though those high-income earners might pay 4x more taxes than many others…(see earning table below):

20-45-20 Rule: Lifecycle earnings
20-45-20 Lifecycle maxim
20-45-20 Lifecycle maxim EXCEL LINK

Govt Forced Fairness?

One thing you can rest assured of is that Govt will take from you as much as they legally can.

  1. Perhaps that is fairness? It is exactly what they will do.
  2. Taxes vs. Prison If you don’t think they forcibly take money from you, then try not paying taxes and see what happens!

How the Ideal Tax Rate Is Determined: The Laffer Curve
The Govt can raise the tax rates but it may not lead to the increase in tax revenue they expectFunny Accounting Memes to Get You Through Tax Season

 

Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

If rich people and companies suddenly disappeared, society as we know it would probably collapse!

People are envious and feel entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labour, telling themselves that the successful have somehow stolen it through unfair means and exploitation. Yet those who have found success in life have almost always done it through hard work, fair means, and voluntary transactions with others.
Business owners are often demonized when they should be lauded for their contribution to society for many reasons including:

  • Jobs and industries are created: That support countless families.
  • 3rd-party Taxes are paid: If a business employs 100 people then 100 people pay taxes (and support their families)! Also, all kinds of trickle-down taxes are paid by: Accountants, Lawyers, Bankers, Cleaners, Groundskeepers, Drivers, Kitchen Staff, Hospo workers, local pie shop, etc.
  • Luxury Cars, Homes, Yaughts, etc. Imagine a 20-million-dollar luxury thing is built. That requires 120 people working (off and on) over a 2-year period. I wonder if you got rid of the wealthy what would happen to people dependent on those industries?

An Apocalypse Observed: Unions, Parties and Killing Golden Geese

 

But wait I want to pay more tax!

…said no one ever. 🤥

Intelligent people pay as little tax as they have to. Not a single business person in the country seeks to pay the maximum amount of tax. Businesses will do whatever they can to avoid paying additional taxes and they would be incredibly stupid if they didn’t! They can easily avoid tax by increasing expenses (spending profits back into themselves), sending money offshore, etc.

Signs suggest the rich are trying to dodge new tax – here’s what’s being done about it
New Yorkers confirm high taxes are pushing them to flee the state in droves

Democrats just love taking tax money from hardworking Americans? What ...

 

But I can’t do anything about it!

hmm some years true and some years not. It depends on many different variables including (but not restricted to): age, income, tax status, assets, liabilities, relationship status, dependents, lifestyle, etc.
Instead of feeling nihilistic about tax on a financial year-by-year basis – perhaps it is better to think about tax over the course of your working lifetime (~45 years), and how you can optimize your lifestyle against your tax liability so it benefits you and your family. Consider some of the following:

  • Low income = low tax / No income = no tax.
  • Is it better to have more time (than money) at a specific point in your life?
  • Is my life better if I am able to work 8 months per year instead of 12?
  • How can myself and my family benefit the most?
  • Am I better off as an employee, contractor, business owner, etc.
  • What Govt benefits are available to me based on my income or tax status? e.g. Working for Families
  • What is my actual weekly/monthly/annual cash burn rate (expenses only), and can I change that?
  • Can I earn more money overseas or live cheaper short term or long term.

Places like casinos, insurance companies, and govt, have most things mathematically weighted in their favor – is there a way you can shift tax liability in your favour?

Also consider also the following points:

  1. You can’t fix inequality by diminishing the successful down to the same level as the not-so-successful. Better to let a thousand flowers bloom.
  2. You can’t have a welfare system without first having wealth
  3. Forced Equality is unfair especially if you are taking from those who have earned to give to those that have not. e.g. If you work 100 hours and I work 1 hour but demand equal pay to you.
  4. The government doesn’t create wealth! It’s the Business Complex that produces capital
  5. Tax Rebate: We celebrate a tax return when maybe we should be annoyed the govt has been taking too much each week. Technically they are not giving you anything back – you have overpaid and they are returning what is already yours – of course without any interest.
  6. Tax Cuts: Every election comes with bribes and tax cuts are often part of it. It is surprising when people resist, seemingly oblivious to the fact it is their own hard-earned money being returned back to them – or moreover their own money not being taken from them. These very same people think the govt of the day can spend their own money better than they can.
  7. What is best middle ground? Hmm, I’m not sure here – a smaller government with less spending or maybe some form of optimised taxation. Max fairness is when the govt does not waste excessive amounts of taxpayer money.
  8. Isn’t it amusing when wealthy or elite people preach about taxing the rich when they already belong to that group but will not volunteer any additional payments themselves.

Blog notes:

Disclaimer: Before you start getting triggered and ranting about the 1000 benefits of tax – yes I already agree! This post acknowledges those benefits but is not about that – it is about exploring hidden reality that might affect you, and also poorly understood tax memes.

Tax is a tax on people that are bad at Maths!

98% of people get their taxes done on time. …finally I’m in the 2%

Selfish Altruism Just so you know…I’m not greedy, once I gave a homeless person $2…everyone else is greedy though…especially my boss…and successful people…and the wealthy!

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Your lifetime work years, hours, and income deconstructed

February 14, 2023April 13, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (TLDR)

  1. I deconstruct your lifetime work years, hours, and income and show it in a graphic format and as an Excel workbook (that you can download and modify).
  2. To make it easy for you to understand and remember, I will also introduce some lifecycle maxims

Disclaimer: the maths may not be 100% accurate, but neither is the predictability of your life 🙂

 

Don’t tell me! I don’t want to know!

People typically never contemplate their full lifetime existence from a time and money perspective. By examining these things, you can proactively react in ways that could benefit you and your family.

How much you earn and how long you work profoundly impacts many aspects of your thoughts and identity, including (but not restricted to):

  • Worldview
  • Ideology
  • Political Beliefs (Left, Center, Right): Views on Tax, Social Policies, Govt, etc.
  • Ethics and Morality

Understanding the entire human working lifecycle also helps to shine a light on poorly explained or understood political tropes and narratives like:

  1. DIEE: Diversity, Inclusion, Equality/Equity, This out-of-date and often poorly understood ideology elevates an individual’s gender or minority group membership over hours, experience, or capability. e.g. A good person may have worked for 2 decades/36,000 hours in a specific field but because they belong to a ‘vilified majority group’ they are overlooked for another individual that belongs to a ‘cherry-picked minority group’ even though they may have only worked 6000 hours.
  2. Gender pay gap: Again this trope does not consider anything about hours worked, experience, and capability. Just vilification of another group!
  3. Home Ownership: Why don’t 30-year-olds own their own homes when 55-year-olds do?
  4. Income/Age/Time: Why and when do some people have more than others? Why and when are there poor, middle-class, and rich.
  5. Tax: Why do some feel not only entitled but also robbed by high-income earners’ tax money even though those high-income earners might pay 5x more tax than many others? We don’t consider that a 20ish-year-old might only pay ~15k tax per year and a 55-year-old may pay ~65k per year. Or a 20ish-year-old has contributed ~30k in tax vs a 55yo who may have contributed ~1 million
  6. Homelessness and Poverty: There are many different reasons for homelessness and poverty SOME people CHOOSE not to work and/or instead prioritize their individual freedom over their desire to work. This group of people may have only worked less than 10,000 hours in their entire lifetime even though they may be middle-aged.
  7. Political Ideology: Why and when do people at a certain age or income vote left/center/right?

Of course, everything I’ve stated above is a (cherry-picked) example only. There is a lot more to say on each point – but I have saved it for another blog (I’m not ready to be canceled in this one)

 

 


2-3-4k lifecycle maxim

  • 1 year of your lifecycle will mean 2k work, 3k sleep, 4k non-work.


20-45-20 lifecycle maxim

  • 85 years of your life might look like this.


20-45-20 lifecycle maxim

  • 85 years of your life might look like this.


45-80-4.5 lifecycle maxim

  • 45 years of your working life might look like this.
  • Before you get too excited about earning 100k per year for 45 years…it doesn’t work like that because of CPI and Inflation. e.g. $100 of cocaine today might only buy the equivalent of $10 worth of cocaine in 40 years.

    Consumer Price Index (CPI) Explained: What It Is and How It’s Used (investopedia.com)


Enough ranting, show me the data!

Behold…by unleashing the awesome power of Excel, I have created a Workbook that shows age/time and money.

  1. It’s an impossible task to create it for every use case or scenario, so I’ve applied the 20-45-20 maxim and the 45-80-4.5 maxim for simplicity, and also started you on an income of $50,000 with a 3% pay increase each and every year for 45 years (even though you do fa) OECD age of retirement Labour Market Stats
  2. Tax: Also at no extra charge (and to annoy you), I have included your PAYE tax liability. Note that I have not shown the additional GST of 15% which is applied to nearly everything you buy, because in Decades 1 or 2, you might spend everything you earn week to week but in Decades 3, 4, and 5 you might not.
  • Again you should be able to pinch-zoom in on the image (unless you are using your nana’s phone).
  • I have included a link to the Excel workbook – which has separate tabs for each screenshot – so you can do your own modeling and debunking here

Optimised Life

  1. Through all the noise, fear, and uncertainty of contemporary life, I think it’s possible to live in a financially optimised way that enables you to create a balance between work/non-work. If you think about all the sh!t you buy and map that against your 45 years of work, you might think twice next time your on Aliexpress (see also Shityabi curve)
  2. Of course, it is difficult to reduce your tax liability because we don’t choose how much we pay, but you can trade potential income for time, especially with changes to the Modern Workplace in the last 3 years (out of scope for this doc).
  3. Only a dumbwhuc would pretend to know how your life cycle will unfold – you need to discover your own life patterns and algorithms and make those decisions for yourself.

TAX 

TAX = PAYE (~25%), + GST (15%), + ACC (1.46%)

  • It seems a strange ‘group think / echo chamber’ phenomenon that citizens don’t consider their personal tax liability and how it impacts their lives. We are programmed to dutifully pay tax without asking how it is used or wasted by the government (I used to think they wasted 40% of tax money but now think it’s more like 80%). Of course, you might argue that’s a good thing especially if you are a public servant. Or because the less we know the better lol.
  • We vilify high-income earners for not paying their fair share of tax, but only a whucwit would pay as much tax as they can, or think the Government can spend their money better than they can lol. A wise person would pay as little as is legally possible.
  • Whoever is in the so-called 3% of high-income earners does not usually stay there for long, and they usually don’t arrive there until at least Decade 3 or 4.

 Unspoken Truth about Work

  1. If you CHOOSE not to develop a skill you can monetize, then it is LIKELY you will remain around the minimum wage for many decades, and get stuck on earning just the 4.5 milly.
  2. In your first decade of work, you will live on noodles and live on your pay week to week, it’s not until your 3rd decade of work that you will have accumulated money, assets, and security (Noodles to Oodles).


Critique of this post

  1. Only assumes a modest income for an unskilled worker as opposed to a highly skilled worker that will earn much more. Note: the skilled worker may also have earnings that start later e.g. 27yo and also have a massive debt to begin their career because of study costs
  2. Only assumes work start age of 20 and end age of 65
  3. It does not show any breakdown of earnings in different use case scenarios e.g. business, contractors, absences from workplace, etc.
  4. Only shows 3% pay rises year on year

Other

  1. Inflation and CPI are also not referenced in this post although, at the time of writing, it is >7%
  2. There are heaps of calculators out there for different countries so you can confirm my tax calculations, this is my current fav: MoneyHub NZ
  3. You might double your income by getting married
  4. You might half your income by getting married


Additional Reading

This document forms part of a 3 blog series:

  • Part 1: Your work lifetime hours and income deconstructed (THIS DOC)
  • Part 2: Cross the F45 Line (INCOMPLETE)
  • Part 3: Money and Time Hacks (INCOMPLETE)
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How to drive on roads

September 26, 2022May 28, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (tldr)

In this blog post I am going to tell you how to drive a vehicle on the road.

Yes that’s all bearch!

It’s not your road bearch

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Ever whucnuts thinks they are an ‘Above average driver’

They say everyone else but them can drive well lol

Heading 2

When a was a young numbnuts the first 2 years I had my license I think I had 3 accidents!

It’s not your road bearch

 

Slow down when passing men in tights

  • It’s easy to feel jealous when you see them in their bright tight pants. But don’t be resentful. 
  • You are a lethal weapon in your vehicle. 

Drive for Life

If you start at 20 and end at 75 that’s 50 years of driving

Stop whucen idling

Don’t idle

  • In a Car for longer than necescary
  • It shocks me how Truck drivers feel that’s it’s a necescary thing to do

Every dumbass makes mistakes including you!

 

Drive safely because

Accidents are:

  • expensive
  • embarrassing
  • a waste of time
  • a massive inconveniance

It’s embarrising meeting your Tinder date at the bus stop!

Swap road rage for Zen time

In the same way that happiness is a learned value so to is being relaxed on the road

When you drive you should 

Road Rage / Amygdala Hijacking

Anyone who has been in a car has experienced this. You need to control your emotions bearch!

If you haven’t already. Eventually, you will be:

  • Cut off in traffic
  • Lane cutters
  • No indicators

Whuc you bearch!

It’s not your whucen road! ~350 good people die each anad every year

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Links:

It’s The Best Time In History To Be Alive and Here’s Why – YouTube
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker – YouTube

Reference Links

  • I ma have have referenced these links directly in this blog or searched and found something that supported my claim

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

Criticism

There has been no criticism received to date of this amazing idea! Even Karen loves it!

…Lies! …Karen got full triggered when she read this!! 

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Why are you so jealous of successful people

September 12, 2022July 31, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (tldr)

In this blog post I am going to argue that whenever you hear lefties, or the left-leaning media complaining about the Successful, Rich, Wealthy, people, it is a completely biased nonsense view designed to create a common enemy. Because nothing unites us all like a common enemy 🤣

You are jealous and entitled and should be ashamed of yourself!

Overview

I started with nothing and still have most of it left

How to Judge them?

Easy, the same way you should judge anybody, by the content of their character and not their demograph

Benefits that others recieve

It’s hard to define a truly objective way to say what a financially successful person is. In this section, I bundle generic 45-65-year-olds, with Millionaires, and also Billionaires and I’ll leave it to you to work out the details.

I think the most objective definition is someone that makes your sorry arse jealous 😂

Wealth distribution

Imagine the luxury properties, boats,

  • To build a boat means 200 people get work and pay taxes
  • To build a house means 300 people get work and pay taxes
  • To own a plane means 300 people get work and pay taxes
  • To own luxury car(s) means 300 people get work

Apart from your Mcdonald’s purchases how much Wealth have you distributed bearch?

Jobs are created

  • Because of their success jobs are created
  • Because of their success industries are created
  • Professional Consultants receive work: Tax Accountants, Lawyers, Bankers, Investment Consultants
  • Blue Collar workers recieve work: Cleaners, Groundskeepers, Drivers, Kitchen Staff, Hospitality workers, etc.

How many jobs have you created bearch?

Tax is paid

  • We are programmed to dutifully pay tax without asking how it is used or wasted by the government.
  • Instead, most lefties feel not only entitled but also robbed by high-income earners even though those high income earners might pay 4x more tax than everyone else…(see earning table).! We don’t consider that a 20-year-old might only pay 15k tax and a 60-year-old may pay 65k
  • Jealous lefties are outraged when corporates don’t pay there full share of tax

 

Your life is improved

Every transaction you make with them is voluntary

Lies we are told by the Media and the Left

Words and stuff

Successful people don’t pay enough tax

You are entitled to their earnings

WTF should you be entitled to 1 cent of what somebody else has earned?

Succesful people make exploit others. That’s why they are rich

What a whucen absurd notion

Successful people are all horrible people

  • What a horrible biased nonsense point of view

Successful people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth

What an absurd notion. Many of them have come from extreme adversity or poverty. …just like the rest of us!

Irrational Jealous Syndrome

I just made this up lol

Successful people are greedy

  • What is greed
  • Are you greedy? Of course not only everybody else right?

Numbnuts look in the mirror

Successful people are successful their whole lives

Criticism

There has been no criticism received to date of this amazing idea! Even Karen loves it!

…Lies! …Karen got full triggered when she read this!! 

Reference Links

  • I ma have have referenced these links directly in this blog or searched and found something that supported my claim

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

Lies in the Workplace | Psychology Today New Zealand

Three Hazards Of Working For A Dishonest Boss (forbes.com)

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45-80-5 Rule: Money and Time Hacks

August 30, 2022April 9, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

In this post, I’m going to give you my money hacks that I attempt to apply in my own life to help you to come up with your own. I am also going to attempt to convince you that you should contemplate what money is and how it profoundly impacts your life.

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45-80-5 Rule: Cross the F45/Farqwerk line

August 17, 2022June 4, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

The Farqwerk line is a theoretical line that is crossed in your life time when you find yourself with more money to spend than you have life remaining, and therefore are not compelled to work. After crossing the line any work that you do is considered optional (your choice).

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How music impacts your life

August 5, 2022July 30, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Musica

Summary

In this blog post, I am going to present key principles of music throughout your life.

 

What Music do you like

It’s better to give a thoughtful answer when asked about your music preferences, instead of saying “I like everything.” It would be more preferable for you to provide a thoughtful response that reflects careful consideration. e.g.

  1. I have always liked mainstream pop music through my life.
  2. In my teens I also enjoyed Reggae first and then Rock and Metal
  3. In my adult years I started to enjoy hiphop
  4. I enjoy listening to strong vocals

What you dislike

Sometimes it’s useful to know what you dislike 

  1. There are genres I generally dislike like country

What I don’t know

  1. There are also genres I have never heard e.g. Opera, Symphony.

What do you really like?

To truly understand your preferences in artists and genres, it’s essential to reflect on playlists you have listened to over the years.

August | 2011 | The Beautiful Times | ベートーヴェン, クラシック音楽, ねぇ

Living in the past

It’s bizarre how some people attach their identity to the past. I have a few friends who are infatuated with romanticized versions of their great achievements from years and years gone by. Far-fetched stories that bear no relationship to their present selves lol.

It seems that people can be exactly the same when it comes to music as well.

Why have you stopped listening to new music?

  • Most people stop listening to new music at a certain age. That age is probably between 22-28
  • Once you reach this age you will claim that the music you used to listen to is the best
  • You will also insist all other music is crap and inferior to the music of the past

Sad and pathetic lol

Why you should always be listening to new music

Music acts as different bookmarks in you lifetime

  • And that’s one compelling reason why you should listen to new content through the years

Music reinforces shared memories

  • Moments with loved ones, times you want to remember

There is so much amazing new content

  • What a whucen stupid notion that new music is not as good as old content. The musician talent pool doubles each generation and each generation learns and improves from the previous

 

 

Most music is sh!t

  • Most music produced is shit! Every whucken album I have ever brought has produced 1 good song! Maybe 2 if I am lucky!

Why we need Simon Cowell — Espresso Theology
 

Most Artists are only good at producing music

Isn’t it strange that we revere artists as intelligent when most of them are only capable within a single narrow band of musical skill.

  • Generally speaking I have no interest in an artist’s personal life and I don’t  (or try not to) moralise or judge them simply because I just don’t care enough about them that way. I only enjoy their product.
  • A lot of them I dislike their ideology, and their politics

See ‘The Hallo Affect’

Appendix

Definition: What is music

Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal.

List of music genres and styles – Wikipedia

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The Sinister Side of DEI. Why DEI must die

August 4, 2022July 29, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com
DEI is just a metaphor that means less white people

Summary

In this post, I am going to attempt to convince you that all the things you love about the ideas from the left like Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality (or Equity) have a dark and sinister side that diametrically opposes their central moral and virtuous narrative of uplifting (cherry picked) minority groups and the oppressed.

The ideas behind DIE are good for many use cases but they also have a dark and perverse side that is wicked and immoral for many other use cases which I will attempt to enumerate below.

My central thesis is this; when you grant a right or privilege to one person then you are more often than not taking it away from someone else; that poor mofo! It seems bizarre that there is no public discourse on this incredibly important talking point!

Of course, we know the real reason is that no one wants to be accused of being a bigot or a racist (including me but I’m still going in lol).

  • It seems absurd that there are untold use cases where blatant racism, bigotry, bias, and discrimination apply directly because of DIE.
  • DIE violates principals of ethics and morality because it is a doctrine that discriminates against majority groups without any objective moral compass and should be illegal.
  • Where TF is the Human Rights Commision on this issue. Are they just Fake Samaritans, or Toothless Tigers?

Just take a moment and think about how disgusting this accepted pop culture term is: “pale, stale, male”. 

Of course, it’s always served with a caring loving smiley face all in the name of the greater good.

It’s time for DIE to die!
The story is not told.

Disclaimer: 

This is a topic that might invoke strong feelings especially if you feel a long history of injustice or trauma. Of course, it’s easy for me to point out all the logic fallacies and hypocrisies, but harder to fix. 

  • When you grant someone a right has any other person missed out? Why have they missed out, and is it justified? Is it prejudicial, racist, bigoted, biased, or discriminatory, and does it support apartheid for ANY group including the majority

 

There are many subjective definitions of these terms based on the current pop culture zeitgeist, but I’ve copied these directly from the dictionary to keep myself, you, and Karen honest.

Diversity the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.

Inclusivity the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized.

Equality: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.

Equity: 

prejudice, bias, discrimination, racism, apartheid

Ethics are moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Morality principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

DIEE seems like a good idea!?​

Anyone can use simple intuition to realise that times in the past were cruel. filled with injustice and immorality.

The Myth

Of course, at first glance, it seems like an amazing idea! Include those that have been excluded, and atone for the injustices of the past! Why TF wouldn’t, anyone, want to do that!?

The Truth

The idea of DIEE was justified and excellent before the year 2000. Maybe from the Silent Gen to the Millenials. Especially with so many Version 1 immigrants

Two wrongs don’t make a right

It is immoral to offer to pay for the sins that someone else has committed, or to expect someone that didn’t commit the sin to pay

A huge percentage of minority groups are alive today ONLY because of the civilizations created by the majority e.g. Longer lives, Medicines, Improved Healthcare

 

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.


Discrimination against the Majority!

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand

Majority vs Minority and the assumption of privilege

This just might be the cruelest of all the woke culture memes it’s an absolutely absurd idea that violates principals of kindness. Just because a person has a certain ethnicity or gender it is automatically assumed that they are privileged without a single thought given to anything about their past, or their current struggles 

The Myth

  • Majority groups have more advantages than minority groups

The Truth

  • I think this is the most obvious and overt example of blatant bigotry, prejudice, and bias. How immoral and also illegal to pre-judge an individual because they belong to a majority group of some kind. You know nothing of that individual’s past trials and tribulations. Instead, you feel ordained enough to impose your illegal and immoral judgment and decide that they should be excluded from jobs, or opportunities in favor of someone that belongs to a minority
  • Guess what bearch, every single individual belongs to a majority or minority group of some kind. However current zeitgeist woke culture is mostly focused on skin colour. Consider some examples:
    • Gender
    • Religion
    • Income
    • Race

The industrialisation of (Cherry-picked) Minority Groups

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Minority groups have been turned into an industry that will not disappear anytime soon. That’s fine if they can sustain themselves but when it is paid for by the taxpayer then there should be clear evidence of what good is being returned for the investment.

Billions of Taxpayer money is being used to fund useless initiatives that often just benefit a subset of a minority group. Money that should go towards improving the lives off ALL individuals

Why Cherry Picked

  • Where are the Asians and Indians?

We live in the best time of humanities existence!

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.

The Myth

  • Paleolith, Mesolithic, and Neolithic lifestyles are far far more idyllic, just, and less stressful. It’s far better to have kept those old ways

The Truth

  • Whuc living back in those ‘idyllic times’.
    1. No Internet
    2. No medicine
    3. No healthcare
    4. No toilets
    5. No Playstation. 
    6. There was no PrawnHub
    7. There was rampant infant mortality
    8. Imagine a warring tribe killing your family and taking your land
  • 7.5 Billion people are alive today thanks to Modernity
  • We live in the best time of humanities existence
  • But today we live in the year 202x. There is no better time in the history of humankind to live!

It’s The Best Time In History To Be Alive and Here’s Why – YouTube
Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker – YouTube

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Why it is an immoral and unethical doctrine

Overt prejudice, bigotry, and racism, (bias and discrimination and apartheid)

Let’s do a quick thought experiment and just so yo ass won’t get offended we will use colours of the rainbow instead of skin to illustrate my point. I’ll use the mnemonic ROYGBIV to choose my colours in order (that’s right bearch I’m claiming back the rainbow and IDGAF if you get triggered!!!)

  1. Imagine a workplace where two people are going for a job, a red person and an orange person. the red person has completed 10,000 hours (1 decade) in that specific field and the orange person has completed 500 hours. Simple logic should tell you that in most cases you would hire the red person but unfortunately, if you apply the DIE doctrine then the orange person gets the job! 
  2. Nothing is known about the struggles of the red person instead it is just assumed they are privileged, and can go somewhere else
  3. What single thing did that individual red person ever do to victimize you!?

The love of Judgement

  • This is a central tenant of DIE, how good and righteous they feel imposing their morals and virtues upon others while at the same time completely blind to their own bias, bigotry, and prejudice

My Values and Virtues are superior to yours

  • Another absurd notion! Damn you bitches are so lucky that I alone understand more than you do and therefore will correct all the past injustices of humanity by doing something that is also unjust

Fake Diversity / Colour Diversity

  • Diversity is allowed but only when it comes to skin colour or gender!
  • Absolutely no diversity is allowed when it comes to political agendas 
  • Diversity in thoughts and ideas that don’t comply with the woke worldview are demonized

The lie of equality​

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

  1. If you work, should your paycheck be the same as the lazy mofo who barely did their job? Should everyone get a promotion at the same time?
  2. How about business, should we give a new firm the same access and price point for sales and purchases as the one who is established and efficient?

Reverse Racism

  • Hate the player not the game!

Backfire Effect

  • It will be schadenfreude (interesting and amusing) to observe those present-day recipients of supposed equity eventually lose out to those who are not yet born, for precisely the same reasons they today receive some kind of advantage.

Unethical Use Cases for DIE

Wisdom has been chasing you but you have always been faster!

The Lie of DIE

Nowhere in nature do we see equality.

Do you see it at

  • Home? Hey Dad I think I’ll be controlling the finances
  • Work? Hey boss I think I’ll be making all the decisions today
  • Sports? Hey All Blacks, I represent the old fatties. See you on Saturday
  • Arts? Whuc that Picasso painting look at my finger painting surely it’s just as good you racist mofo!

The Myth

  • Equality will help everyone and make the world a better place

If you support equality then why

  • Feminism: 4th wave feminism no longer demands equality, it demands superiority
  • Why is there legislation that advantage minority groups
  • Why is there entire government departments for so called minority groups 

Equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity

Surely it must be because of sexism, racism, prejudice, or bigotry!

Use Case: Hours of productivity: 2000 vs 80

How is it fair that you work for 2000 hours (1 year) and I work for 80 hours yet now we are both entitled to same pay and benefits?

Use Case: Hours of study: 8000 vs 0

  • How is it fair that you spend 8000 hours (4 years) of study to eventually become a skilled high-income earner you are also now vilified, judged, or targeted for your success
  • I study zero hours and become an unskilled worker I begin to vilify, judge, and target you for the injustice and inequality
  • Why should a person who has not dedicated themselves to developing a skill feel entitled to the labours of someone who has has toiled for 8000 hours to develop a skill? 

Use Case: Career Hours – 20 years vs 10 years

  • If you work 20,000 hours (20 years) and become financially successful then why should I who have only worked 10,000 hours feel not only outraged at our pay difference but entitled to your earnings

Use Case: DIE in Age

  • One person is 25 and the other is 45 but because of DIE they are now both treated as equals intellectually, financially and emotionally
  • Hey 50yo boss I’ve just started shaving but I’ll be taking over
  • Hey 40yo Dad I’m making all the decisions now that I can read

Use Case: DIE on the sports field

  • Hey let’s mix genders together when we play rugby, or any other physical contact sport
  • If your team is stronger then I want my team to have a points handicap!
  • At the very least both teams should win and all team members receive a medal
  • Hey All Blacks, I’m no athlete but it seems fair that you have a token old fatty in the team I’ll see you at training on Tuesday night

Use Case: DIE in the Beauty Industry

  • I’m not tall and attractive, but it seems fair that the beauty industry has have someone ugly. 

I wear Calvin Klein 4XL see you on Monday

Use Case: DIE @ Home

  • Hey Mum and Dad. I’ve decided I want to be equal with you
  • From now I on I decide what we eat, where we live, and how we spend our family money
  • Pocket money will be allocated equally to all regardless of age or work done! The 5yo will recieve the same as the 15yo

Use Case: DIE when grading in the classroom

  • You studied for an exam for 8 hours and got an A
  • I studied for 2 hours and got a D. 

It seems so unfair! It must be because of my skin color! At the very least everyone should get a mean average of a B…you racist mofo’s!

Housing

  • You have worked 40,000 hours and have a house
  • I have worked 10,000 hours and have no house

Surely it must be because of sexism, racism, prejudice, or bigotry!

Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcome

If you can’t join them beat them

Equality of Opportunity

  • Excellent idea! 
  • Everyone should have the same opportunity and a nation should strive to grant that to all citizens

 

(18) Equity vs Equality | Joe Rogan & Tim Pool – YouTube The Difference Between Equality, Equity, Inequality and Justice | Daily Infographic

 


equality equity in theory min

The paradox of entitlement

The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’

Indifference and Apathy is OK

“Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.”

  •  IA is OK.
  • You do you bearch.

Stolen Rainbow

Whuc you for stealing the rainbow. I’m taking it back and also punching you in the face for taking it bearch!

The Myth

If you don’t support or advocate any way for a minority group then you a racist, bigot, biased, <insert any other trigger term>

The Truth

  • Just because I don’t care about you or support you doesn’t mean
    • I’m racist.
    • I’m bigoted.
    • I’m biased.
    • I’m sexist
    • I hate you, your thoughts, your ideas.
  • I literally just DGAFF about your worldview
  • I don’t want to hear about your worldview either!
  • I don’t hate Jahovehs Witnessess

#iaok #idgaff #ydy


The Past belongs in the past​

Let sleeping dogs lie”.
“The past is unpredictable.

The history of the world is one of conquest, corruption, injustice, and untold horrors. Every human has experienced cruelty and injustice. .

There are plenty of good reasons to try and equalise those inequalities in the present

Gender, ethnicity, religion

2. Imagine there is a workplace where only red people work. It openly rejects orange and yellow people from working there.

  • When: Every single generation anywhere in history, any place in history
  • Why: Red people created the environment and want to protect it because it is good
  • How: Excluding anyone that is not red
  • Impact: Clearly defined easy to get triggered rejected by at least 3 generations

And there was a time that those injustices should have been corrected however today we live in the best time in the history of humanity

Some bearch gotta pay!

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

People who think that they are being “exploited” should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: “Good riddance”?
We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did, but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past.

3rd party attonement​

“Wait Bearch I still need someone to pay for the sins of the past”

Imagine if a Father sinned. Would it be ethical and moral to make the child pay for that sin? …hmm possibly you might argue.

  1. What about the grandchild? Maybe they should pay? er maybe but probably not you will say
  2. How about the great-grandchild? hmm if all generations are still alive you still might argue yes
  3. how about the great great grandchild? you might start to think no way!
  4. How about the great great great grandchild?

Of course you should eventually come to realise that it is an absurd notion! 

“I still need a Mofo to pay for the Injustice!”

  • The Mum or Dad’s side?
  • The ones that benefited from the injustice?
  • How far back?
  • What if the injustice was applied on one side of the family but benefit was made on the other side benefited?
  • What the aggrieved person benefits far more that the original injustice
  • But wait! Surely at some point I will be related to the perpetrator of the original injustice…*slaps forehead

Your Family: Past, Present, and Future — Wait But Why
How Millennials compare with prior generations | Pew Research Center


Neo Feminism

“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

Disclaimer: This section opposes the ideology of neo-feminism. Like everything, I believe most people are good including most females. but the toxic media culture which amplifies minority voices requires opposition and here is mine… 

There are 4 current waves of feminism LINK TO WIKIPEDIA

The history of the modern western feminist movement is divided into four “waves”.[33][34][35]

  1. The first comprised women’s suffrage movements of the 19th and early-20th centuries, promoting women’s right to vote. 
  2. The second wave, the women’s liberation movement, began in the 1960s and campaigned for legal and social equality for women. In or around 1992, 
  3. a third wave was identified, characterized by a focus on individuality and diversity.[36]
  4. Additionally, some have argued for the existence of a fourth wave,[37] starting around 2012, which has used social media to combat sexual harassment, violence against women and rape culture; it is best known for the Me Too movement.[38]

The pop culture lie of the left

  • Women (in the west) are oppressed in the year 202x
  • An oppressive male patriarchy dominates the world

The truth

  • There is an innate beauty in their value and existence they should be incredibly proud of without any explanation
  • Women manage the home and should be proud of it, and I’m grateful for it! They decide:
    • Where the family lives
    • What they eat
    • Where they holiday
    • What schools the kids go to
    • What I should wear, when and how I should groom myself (otherwise the world would be filled with smelly men in floral shirts)
  • 4th wave feminism doesn’t want equality it wants dominance and superiority
  • 4th wave Feminism is cruel. A whole generation of good boys/men have been gaslighted into thinking that they are toxic
  • 98.6% of men are good yet neo-feminism does all it can to try and diminish them

Hypocrisy

  • Titanic: If the Titanic were sinking today half then forget about women and children first! Everyone for themselves
  • Ukraine: At present no fighting age man is allowed to leave, but feminism says half the men should leave and be replaced by the women that are leaving…hey ladies it’s time to join the Infantry…hey men get your fa into the kitchen

The Gender Wage Gap Myth and 5 Other Feminist Fantasies | Time
Gender pay gap figures: debunking the myths | Gender pay gap | The Guardian
What You Need To Know About The Gender Pay Gap (forbes.com)


Gender Pay Gap

Same pay for same work

The pop culture lie of the left

  • Women earn less money than their male counterparts (if industries are dominated by males, then they will accept any females regardless of capabilities)

The truth

  • Women spend more time away from work than men
  • Women are more likely to gain employment in many fields over their male counterparts
  • Women select lower-paying fields of work
  • Men work in higher paying riskier or dangerous jobs
  • Men work far longer hours to become successful

 The Gender Wage Gap Myth and 5 Other Feminist Fantasies | TimeGender pay gap figures: debunking the myths | Gender pay gap | The Guardian
What You Need To Know About The Gender Pay Gap (forbes.com)

Someone from the Present Apologising for a past injustice​ they had nothing to do with

How about if a serial killer slaughters your family while they sleep. Is it moral and ethical for someone else to forgive the killer while ignoring your feelings on the subject? Of course that is another absurd notion


Generational Waves

Each Gen that emerges is typically bigger, stronger, and smarter. 

What’s a Generation?

  • I think a generation should be thought of in blocks of 20 years. That way in 100 years you get 5 generations. 200 years you get 10. 300 years you get 15

Overlapping Generational Ideas

  • Good and bad ideas and memes overlap and I think that is one reason DIE exists today 

Leading Across the Generations - Salem University blog


Industrialised Victimhood

 

Sometimes it’s easy to be either a bully or a victim

Empathetic Victimhood

  • Nothing happened to these mofos directly yet they like to carry the cross in and pretend they are great martyrs in the present
  • Demagougs love this

Systemic spending by the Government

  • How do you feel about your tax money being spent on minority groups disproportionately trying to correct injustices that only create more injustice for the majority (e.g. we spent 10m on this thing so can’t spend it on that thing…and btw most of it goes into beurocracy or is given to privileged elite minority)?
  • For every $10 only $1 ends up directly helping. Most of it goes to the Elite Minority or is wasted on Beaurocracy

Cherry-picked Minority groups 

Woes unite foes

Cherry-picked Minority groups are minority groups that selected from a society for special treatment. Other minority groups are completely ignored regardless of their needs

Not every minority group has fake hero’s advocating for them

Only minority groups that enable a specific agenda based on intensified emotive reactions


Privileged Minority Groups

woes unite foes

Why is so much human attention put onto what are such small minorities?


Majority group haters

Why do people hate the majority?


There’s always an elite ruling class

There's no equality even at your home.
  • Anywhere in history
  • Anytime in history 
  • Anyplace in History

A piece of land is owned by a group of 20,000 people. Nonsense! the land is not owned by each of the 20,000 it is owned by the ruling class who decide exactly what happens to it

Next time you feed your leftover fish n chips to seagulls at the beach you can observe a ruling class elite mofo seagull squawking and intimidating every other seagull. It feels good and right to judge him for his wicked ways and not feed him but then are’nt you just becoming him by doing that?


Fake Heros / Disney Hero’s

Pretend to themselves…

  • they have virtues and morals that are superior to anyone else
  • only they can see the real truth. others are blind to it
  • they are saving the world and making it a better place
  • they are serving the greater good
  • they are protecting the weak

They are oblivious to…

  • their blind spots and biases
  • there racism, prejudice, and bigotry

History is a story of conquest and oppression​

If I am the first person to discover a piece of land the size of Australia does that mean I own all of Australia now? And all my scion?


South Africa and BEE

Black Economic Empowerment

Wow if ever a good use case of how far the pendulum can swing to the extreme then this is it.

other interesting words words words

Neo Rennaisance

…

We live in a new age where blah blah

WTF bearch…The woke culture ideology has benefited me as a minority

…

  • I’d say you’d have to be whucen stoopid not to take advantage of something that’s handed to you on a plate
  • Good for you and power to you
  • The only thing I’d urge you to do is all the negative points blah blah

How to fix it?​

If you want to change the world start with yourself;

It’s easy to understand the reasons for DIEE and I would be lying to myself if I haven’t applied them already many times in my life however in the year 202x the pendulum has swung too far and needs to find its way back to the center. A person should be judged by their character, not by skin colour, gender, or any other cherry-picked dimension that suits your current fake virtuous narrative.

Most importantly Laws have been created in every western nation to purposely eliminate bigotry, sexism, discrimination, apartheid, etc. But these laws are toothless tigers when an individual belongs to the majority group.

It seems to me that one way to eliminate it is to define it first. That has been the purpose of this blog post.

Judge a person by their character and not their identity group

Ask yourself what right or privilege does it take away from someone else

stop racialising everything

“Evil lies in the hearts of those that see evil everywhere they look”

There needs to be a way for you to acknowledge and be grateful for your colonialist heritage but maybe also to also acknowledge and indignant about inherited traumas

Stop meaningless and hypocrytacal virtue signaling

Stop looking at people as belonging to groups

You shouldn’t necessarily look at an individual and see just that one person. You should see a family, and an extended family, and a family that reaches back into different points in spacetime. You should see a connectedness with them as well as all things

Easy don’t whucen do it!

Recognising that you have more in common with others than you do differences

People want to be seen as more than just the colour of their skin

Recognise your Hypocracy and Blindspots

Start hiring majority group individuals. 

How cruel and immoral that they are excluded when up against a privileged minority person 

Stop acting like Karen

Recognise what true love is

  • Love is the recognition of objective truth
  • Love is inclusive and not divisive
  • Love does not discriminate 
  • Love does not recognize apartheid, bias, prejudice

…other words and more words…

Be Whucen Grateful

Acknowledge and be grateful for your colonialist roots

Acknowledge and be grateful for quality of life thanks to modern day technology

Acknowledge and be grateful you don’t live in the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, or Neolithic age

Acknowledge and be grateful for your life and your longevity

Criticism

There has been no criticism received to date of this amazing idea! Even Karen loves it!

…Lies! …Karen got full triggered when she read this!! 

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The Joy of Estrangement

May 30, 2022April 9, 2025 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary

You can't speed Friends without ends
You can't spell Families withou lies
You cant spell Lover without over
  • In this blog, I am going to attempt to convince you that Estrangement can be considered a healthy and normal way to protect yourself from toxic family, “friends” frenemies, (and annoying work colleagues). .

  • Estrangement is just a simple boundary that can enable personal peace and harmony.

  • Estrangement doesn’t have to be permanent, nor does it have to be applied with anger, or resentment. Moreover, it should be applied with a substantial measure of apathy or positive sublimation.

  • It appears to be a strange character flaw that we willingly cling to toxic relationships that cause more harm than good. We naively hope that things will get better, despite repeated disappointments and the likelihood that they never will.

  • Prisons and graveyards are filled with family and “friends” that never set boundaries and instead allowed things to spiral out of control.

Without estrangement, the earth’s population would not have spread as far and as fast as it did.

WTF is Estrangement?

Estrangement is just a fancy name for “Ghosting“; or as we say in our family “snipping” e.g. “you should snip that bitch…get the scissors

  • Estrangement refers to being alienated or separated in feeling or affection. It can often manifest as hostility or unfriendliness between individuals or within families.

  • Some reports suggest that 1 in 4 families have some form of estrangement. 

Bye Bye Bitch Pictures, Photos, and Images for Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter

What are some reasons for Estrangement?

Arguing with a fool makes you become one
  1. Reasons include abuse, neglect, betrayal, bullying, destructive behavior, and disagreements over matters like sexual orientation, choice of spouse, gender identity, religion, or political views.

  2. You experience negative feelings before, during, or after you spend time with them.

  3. You dislike what they say,  what they think, and how they behave.

Is There Any Evidence Trigger Warnings Are Actually a Big Deal?

Why is there conflict?

When arguing with a fool be mindful they might be thinking the same thing

It’s sometimes interesting to contemplate why they behave the way they do – it’s fun to pretend you are an intellectual psychologist with the latest pop culture terms and all the insight. Other times it can be more useful to just not GAF.

  • If they (or you) have narcissistic tendencies or don’t self-reflect they will probably not be aware of their contribution to the disharmony. So even if you discover a good reason it probably won’t do any good.

  • Those who seek answers in frameworks like Attachment Therapy, PsychoAnalysis, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, etc, might be interested in discovering the reasons behind behavior but again it may help you but not the relationship.

What matters most is how you feel and the story you want to write…

plus 3 months’ probation on release!

Some parents will never be what you want them to be

1 in every 3 people is a jerk. If it's not them it must be you
  • We tell ourselves that our story is unique but the deeper truth is that the details may be unique but the plot is the same for 10’s of millions around the world.

  • Sometimes a parent’s only useful purpose (in your life) is to create you. They have placed you on a family tree that spreads 10’s of thousands of years, past, present, and future…and that alone is sufficient reason to have some silent gratitude towards them.

Easy to say of course but hard to reconcile emotionally. There was a time in my life when I held anger and resentment towards my father for his blatant neglect but over time I realised I just didn’t care anymore. It’s when I realized the opposite of love is not hate but apathy.

Big Family Tree from you to your 128 great-great-great-great-great-grandparents

What if they said exactly what you wanted to hear?

Arguing with a fool proves there are two

As a thought experiment, you could ask yourself this question, and how you would respond if they did.

It might feel liberating, or perhaps awkward, or perhaps just empty if they said what you wanted to hear. Regardless they will never utter those words for many reasons the main one being is they can’t find the words to tell themselves let alone explain reasons to someone else.

But I sill have some love for them!

Only a fool loves unconditionally - (me)

You might have been programmed from childhood to believe you do, but sometimes that idea is just malware that needs to be uninstalled from your brain. Isn’t it hard to love someone who continually mistreats you, or someone you don’t like?

Conclusion

  • Fcuk their story now. Instead, focus on your story!

  • Always have your scissors ready to snip snip bitches

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17 Favorite things about Colonialism

February 9, 2022July 27, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

In this post I am going to attempt to convince you that today we have have the best standard of living and welbeing in the history of humanity because of Colonialism and Imperialism (just the west?)

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Funny I.T User Names

February 8, 2022May 27, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (tldr)

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Warning: Do not read

Names:

  • Paige Turner
  • Ball Gazerann visible

Please contact HR Immediately

  • Helmut Longshaft
  • Barry Mckokiner
  • Ivana Jizinher
  • Tubby Mcfatfuck
  • Jack Goff
  • Anass Rhamer
  • Guru Hathasmallweaner (Mike Myers)
  • Jacque le Cocque Grande (Justin Timberland)
  • Ann Flatable
  • Ann Job
  • Heywood Jablome

Randy dickinsideAnita Dick
Holden Maddick
Holden Hiscock
Mike oxlong
Mike Literus
Hugh Janus
Sid Omaface
Buck Myers
Finn Germyass
Jack Mehoff
Peter File
Des Troy
Tess T Coles (Actual real name)
Dickson Yamada

Dickson cider

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Inane sayings

February 1, 2022July 31, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Summary (tldr)

Sayings both entertain and annoy me. I can easily debunk every single saying ever made!

But if you can’t beat them join them…

Business

Words and stuff

Big picture is made from small details

The act of planning is more value than the plan

  • What problem are we trying to solve
  • What is the solution
  • What do we do to provide that solution
  • What value do they get

Don’t react to every movement on the branch

What does Good look like

Good better best

Every institute is the shadow of a single man

The juice has to be worth the squeeze

You can’t control the wind but you can control your sails

You can’t pour from an empty cup cup

Psychology

Words and stuff

Don’t make a decision until you have to. That way all future probabilities exist for the longest time

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them

When you are with your kids they are observing every single thing you do and you’re either passing down wisdom wounds or warnings

You can do one of two things. You can judge people as individuals or judge them as groups

The way you do one thing is the way you do everything

Learned helplessness

We honor the dead by living their values.

Tell me who your enemy is and I’ll tell you who you are

The obstacle is the way

Evil prevails when good people fail to act

Happiness through suffering

Working to everyone is like appealing to no one

Sometimes you have to be a lion to become the lamb you are

Attention is the rarest and purest form of hospitality

The people aren’t smart enough to give them the evil you give them credit for

Which snowflake caused the avalanche Don’t waste your time on meanless pur

Sometimes the strongest sword are forged in the hottest fires

every warrior loves a good fight

A smart man knows what to say a wise man knows when to say it

There’s no good and bad drugs only the right and wrong drugs for you

Life is nothing but a competition to become the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell

Don’t block your own escape

Hate is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die 

Not everything that you can count counts

Don’t waste your time living someone elses life

It’s painful leaving the pain

It’s unhappy becoming happy

You are what you eat ate

Your passion is for you your purpose is for others

You are what you repeatably do

You can’t strengthen the weak by weakening the strong

So many people in love but not together and so many people together but not in love

Never run out of bullets

Don’t kick the bee hive
Don’t Poke the Bear

The path will be created with each step

Don’t make a decision until you have to*

Don’t be a bitch bitch*

Be objective not subjective*

I am not who you think I am; 
I am not who I think I am;
I am who I think you think I am

95% of ideas you have are not your own*

Connect the dots*

Dumb things I was taught

Words and stuff

Always eat everything on your plate

Don’t talk about Money

Funny

Words and stuff

If you can’t ride two horses at once you shouldn’t be working at the circus

Frequently wrong but never in doubt

Leap and the net shall appear

Fall down a ten story building and at each floor you say: so far so good

Don’t make me peel you like an onion

Wisdom has been chasing you but you have always been faster!

Stop talking for a second….your mom is calling…

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About Me

January 21, 2022July 31, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Why you should hire me: Hmm no good reason. You should hire me only because I am available at the point in time that you need someone. I am no better or worse than anyone else with the exact same experience and longevity in the industry.

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Weaponised Chocolate cake Paradox

January 21, 2022July 13, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

This cognitive bias is based around the idea that you have created something good with the paradox being that the same good thing you create is weaponized against you

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Thinking is Hard! That’s why I made you these Heuristics…

January 13, 2022May 28, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

Heuristics are mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision or solving problems

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Free Will – Understanding why you don’t choose anything

January 7, 2022May 28, 2024 mike.birmingham.nz@gmail.com

In this post, I am going to attempt to convince you that you don’t have Free Will and instead your physiology has had tricked you into believing that you do (I have no hope of succeeding I know lol).

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