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Originally Posted by LoudPacquiao
It makes me laugh when people say this.
What value are you providing to society at your office job cranking out tickets? All you are doing is the same repetitive work for pennies while someone else is making millions or billions off your effort.
Pushing paper in an office isn’t benefiting society. Only the owner of the company.
Getting back on track... If a local
Casino has 1/2 with $5 bring in... will buying in for $200 seriously cripple me? I want to take a 10 BI shot with 2k
Why laugh when people are expressing deep thoughts? Anybody who's played lots of poker, and has taken shots at make a living from it, has felt similar things RE: the negativity of the casino environment and not making a contribution, whether he likes to admit it or not. If he hasn't felt these things, there's something shallow about his perception of the world.
It's not just an either/or, poker or corporate world choice we as men have. We can seek other avenues to find purpose in our lives. I've resisted entering the corporate world my entire life. I worked at one startup for about 4 months, but that was the only real job I've had.
Whether we find purpose or not is not the issue. It's a natural human, especially male, tendency to want to understand life and our role as a tiny speck of dust. Otherwise, nihilism eats away at us.
The lack of purpose is a major reason there's a crisis among western men. We feel like we are just cogs in the big machine. Society wants to deaden our spirits and demands sheep-like conformity. We live in existential angst most of the time. Hence, the addiction to opioids, rising suicide rates, and materialism in the US.
Back on track: Nobody can tell you how you're going to do or how you're going to run. Are you good at poker? Have you won consistently in the past? How does your game play? Passive or aggressive? High or low variance? What are other people buying in for? Just superficially, I'd say $2000 in a $5 game is a tiny bankroll and is not really enough if you want to take the game seriously. But nobody is stropping you from taking a few shots. You don't need anybody's permission to take relatively small risks.
Last edited by spirit123; 04-08-2018 at 02:49 PM.