No doubt all of you have heard by now that Bill Gates, the evil overlord of the EEEEEEEVIL empire of Microsoft, is getting divorced. Given that this is BILL FREAKIN’ GATES that we’re talking about – pretty much the third or fourth richest man in the ENTIRE WORLD – inevitably, the memes surrounding the news have been truly savage:
Now obviously, Bill Gates is going to be fine. He’s worth $130 BILLION. That makes him many multiples richer than Bruce Wayne, and several times richer than Scrooge McDuck. Even if Melinda Gates takes 50% of his shit – and apparently, she won’t, since they seem to have a “divorce contract” of some sort in place, even though they didn’t get a pre-nup – he’s still going to be one of the top 10 richest men on the planet.
Let’s put that into perspective a bit. He could go to Ukraine, or Thailand, and blow $10,000 EVERY SINGLE NIGHT FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS on the highest-priced hookers in the world. Do you know what that comes to?
$109 million.
That leaves him with… oh, let’s see… drop the one, carry the three…
Yeah – $64.9 BILLION still left over.
You see what I mean about the power of mathematics to explain things?
There’s more to this story than just fun with numbers, though – and if you want some really epic use of mathematics, check out this post, and this one, and this one.
Take a look at Bill Gates in that last meme. He looks like an oddly-shaped Chinese fortune cookie.
Now take a look at him and his wife:
I don’t care where you come from. That’s a DUDE on Bill’s shoulder.
And Bill Gates actually has a history of dating severely unattractive women – and asked one of his exes whether he should marry his soon-to-be-ex-wife:
Bill and Melinda Gates have had a decades-long agreement that the Microsoft boss could vacation for a long weekend at the beach every year with his venture capitalist ex-girlfriend.
The odd arrangement raises eyebrows now that one of the richest couples in the world are going their separate ways after 27 years together and building a $130billion fortune.
Bill, 65, and venture capitalist Ann Winblad, 70, dated in the 80s but broke up in 1987, the same year he met future wife Melinda. Ann was reportedly more ready for marriage than Bill as he worked day and night to build his billion-dollar Microsoft empire.
However, the pair maintained a friendship and in a 1997 piece in TIME Magazine, Bill said, ‘When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda, I called Ann and asked for her approval.’
She approved and the former lovers – with Melinda’s blessing – kept their yearly vacation alive, with Bill spending a long weekend with Ann at her beach house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The pair spend their getaway every spring riding dune buggies, hang-gliding and taking walks on the beach.
The woman in question? Here she is:
What does all of that tell you when you put it together with even a basic understanding of the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy?
Yep. Bill Gates is a MASSIVE Gamma – possibly even an Omega, who got REDONKULOUSLY lucky.
He’s the kind of guy who couldn’t get laid in a Bangkok brothel with a billion dollars in small bills – which, I assure you, he can easily acquire. And that’s before we get to the realities of Microsoft’s increasingly crufty and godawful software.
Now, despite what I expressed above, I’m not saying that Bill Gates and Microsoft ONLY got lucky. They didn’t. If you look at the history of DOS and Windows, you’ll quickly realise that Xerox actually had a GUI operating system, created within their Xerox PARC R&D division, well before either Apple or Microsoft. But Xerox didn’t have a clue what to do with it – whereas Microsoft took the same exact idea and put it before IBM, and the rest is basically history.
But MIcrosoft’s software was never the best. it was simply the most widely accessible and usable. To this day, I find Microsoft Office – with the conspicuous exception of Excel, which I consider to be THE best spreadsheet program around, hands down – to be less easy to use than LibreOffice and the alternatives available in the FLOSS world. And that’s before we get to the pile of shite that is modern WinDOZE 10, which I truly loathe.
What we have here, in Bill Gates, is in fact a Gamma who did a great job with his abilities as a technical expert, but who plainly had no clue how to make relationships work.
And that’s before we get to whatever level of blame that Melinda Gates bears for the breakdown of what used to be considered a model marriage. When marriages break down, it is almost never a one-way street – both sides are usually at fault.
In the case of Mr. Gates, it looks like his dedication to his work, and in particular his increasingly whacked-out Illuminati-like plans to “solve climate change” and stick not-vaccine needles in our arms, contributed to the breakdown of the marriage. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that he finally realised that he’s a gazillionaire, married to a woman who looks like a boiled horse – and that’s putting it very kindly. Sarah Jessica Parker, who actually IS a boiled horse, looks better than Melinda Gates.
There are many lessons to learn from this story – though, if you’re anything like me, you’ll have to get past your raging Schadenboner to learn them.
First among these is that money CANNOT compensate for Gammatude. It doesn’t matter how rich, wealthy, or influential you are – if you are a hardcore Gamma, this will show through eventually and inevitably. The list of such men goes on at some length – Jeff Bezos, Harvey Weinstein, Harry the Ginger Whinger, and now Bill Gates. And, in the case of Weinstein, the Gammatude has devastating consequences for those women unfortunate enough to be caught up in his web of influence and corruption.
The second, related, lesson has to do with an old maxim of Roissy’s from back in the day. Essentially, the sum of testosterone in a marriage equals the sum of oestrogen. A low-T man like Bill Gates will eventually end up with a low-E woman. By contrast, a high-T man will inevitably end up with a high-E woman.
Case in point:
The third lesson can be found in the key phrase, “irretrievably damaged”, used in the statement to describe the couple’s separation. Think about it from Bill’s point of view. He is one of the richest, most powerful, most influential men on the entire planet. He has deceived himself into thinking that he is on a quest to save Mankind from itself. And his best buddies are all liberal, progressive, right-on loonie gazillionaires like him – and every single one of them has the approximate musculature of a chipmunk. (Even Jeff Bezos isn’t in that great shape, these days.)
Yet, even then, he knows, somewhere deep down, that he can do better than what he has. He could buy himself a harem of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful Eastern European women to rival King Solomon’s, but he stays with a woman whose best days are thirty years in the past.
Would you be able to avoid straying under those circumstances? Especially given the reputation that Melinda Gates has for being an unpleasant ball-buster?
That’s not me saying this about Melinda Gates, by the way:
Given her appearance, I can WELL believe it, though.
The overriding lesson of all of this remains the same for all men, of any age:
Money, power, and influence do not make up for innate Gamma traits, and never will. The ONLY way out of that particular Hell is through relentless, focused, careful, structured self-improvement.
It doesn’t matter if you have $130B to your name, when you can’t lift anything much heavier than a fork. And it doesn’t matter if you’ve created one of the greatest and most powerful companies on the planet when you consistently date gutter-goblins and weirdos – just ask Elon Musk, who ditched a beautiful woman who bore him five children, for… some musician named “Grimes”.
Most of all, it absolutely doesn’t matter how rich and famous you are when you let your work and zealotry get in the way of the people who need you most. The idea that a man can achieve true “balance” between work, family, hobbies, and friends, is basically a myth – you only have enough energy to keep one of those things as your primary focus. This is the “Four Burners” theory, and I think it applies in this situation.
Do not let your work consume you until there is nothing left for your family. The thing is that almost no one will remember you for your work – I’ve known men who worked for the same company for 30 years, and within a few years, pretty much everyone at those companies had forgotten about them.
Your work will not carry through into your legacy, with very rare exceptions. Your family, your bloodline, is what matters. Do not neglect it.
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I’ve fucked hotter chicks than Bill Gates.
This pleases me.
This comment works both ways.
Yep. The first time I saw that comment, I interpreted it to mean, “slept with women better-looking than Bill Gates”, not “better-looking women than Bill Gates has slept with”. The penny only dropped much later))
So have I.
There are things that money cannot buy…but if I were rich, I would have dislocated my dong, necessitating a complete rebuild ages ago. Alas, I am a completely reformed and rehabilitated pu**y hound and dearly love my wife. (She reads this blog)
The fact that at least some women read my content, without having spontaneous rage-breakdowns, does give me hope. There are one or two red-pilled ladies around, which is nice to see.
Also dude, lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Almost EVERYONE has fucked hotter chicks than Bill Gates.
Do you suppose Billzebub will file for divorce citing irreconcilable younger pussy, or will she file under irreconcilable pool boy with a 12″ schlong?
Oy, that’s a difficult one to figure out. Between his Gamma-dorkiness and APPALLING taste in women, and her hide-under-a-brown-paper-bag looks, it’s actually tricky to decide which one is more likely.
Apparently there are already rumours flying around that the first is true, though. And if the Chinese lady at the centre of that article did indeed do the nasty with Bill Gates, then it simply proves, yet again, that money don’t buy game.
Well, at least her ears would serve as good handles…
I think the marriage was never about looks but the fact that they share many of their view of humanity. A man (Bill) on a mission to save the earth by reducing the human population must of needed someone like Melindia. Most other people would either be too horrify or get too board.
If not it could also be about blood lines or something.
Anyway interesting article
Based on what I’ve seen and read, it was very much about shared values and outlooks. But it also had a lot to do with the fact that Bill is himself actually quite a weak man and his wife is something of a ball-buster.
It’s also worth pointing out that a lot of people give Bill Gates most of the credit for building up Microsoft – but if you look at co-founder Paul Allen, you’ll see a very different physical and mental specimen.
Paul Allen’s physiognomy, bearing, and attitude show someone much more independent and aloof than Bill Gates. And that comes through in what we see and read about the way that their working relationship fractured. Bill actually worked to dilute away Allen’s ownership in Microsoft, in very sneaky ways – you could not Gamma harder than Gates if you tried. This is exactly how Gammas deal with people that they dislike and envy.
The reason this becomes important is that Gates’s marriage reflects who he is as a person. He was known for being a hard taskmaster who often belittled subordinates and put them down as a way of “motivating” them.
Compared to that, I’m downright cuddly as a team leader. Anyone who thinks that I like people is tripping balls, but even I’m not that stupid when leading teams. Neither are most truly effective team leaders.
That kind of a manager, leader, and man, would require, and even thrive with, a wife who is as competitive, narcissistic, and ego-driven as he is. And that is where Melinda Gates comes in.
Would Larry Ellison founder of oracle software be an example of an alpha or sigma?
I honestly do not know enough to draw a conclusion. The primary difference between the two lies in the fact that Alphas enjoy and relish their position at the top of the pile and work within a strictly hierarchical framework. Sigmas, on the other hand, are massively disruptive to that hierarchy and have no desire to be part of it.
Based on those points, Larry Ellison is probably an Alpha. But I don’t know enough about the man to be sure.
A reliable metric for a Sigma is to see whether a man has a beautiful wife (or girlfriend) and naturally assumes command of various situations, yet clearly has absolutely no desire to spend time around others and quite happily walks away from teams when the job is done.
“That’s a man baby!” On her best day, about 30 years ago she was a 5. You can safely wager that William H. Gates, III, has never seen the inside of a weight room, ever. His gammatude reeks out of every pore in his body. It’s always interesting when gammas try to fake being alphas. It works for some period of time, but in the end most people tire of their faking it, and ignore them. Gates is one of the big main faces of evil inhabiting this planet, he will meet the Big Guy some day, and his billions won’t mean diddly.
Seconded. She is effing ugly. More than her looks, when she talks, her facial expressions are just creepy. I can safely say that ALL of the eight women I have had sex with are much better looking than her.
Watch any recent video (i.e. after she turned 50) of her talking even with the sound mute. You will get creeped out even without hearing her woke content. She is unwatchable even on mute.
It never ceases to amaze how a patently pseudo-intellectual system—the sexual-social hierarchy—is used to explain the glaring mistakes for a man to marry a bi-racial, older, divorced woman, when their impending nuptials is of little or no personal consequence to the detractors. Men, Christian or otherwise, who create and perpetuate that structure make a series of subjective behavioral and personality appraisals as its foundational pieces. Any protestation about this label or refusal to act in the prescribed manner brings about a pejorative response. It may be “convenient” for men to articulate what they believe are definitive aspects of their fellow man’s conduct because they subscribe to this hierarchy, but what about those men who find definitive flaws in how those decisions were arrived? What happens when those men challenge the structure by arguing that the “unvarnished truth of the structure” is in reality a set of assumptions predicated on sophistry? Would God truly judge in this exact manner by calling Christian men betas, gammas, and situational alphas?
Trademark gamma wall of text.
Ayup.
The SSH is an observably true fractal heuristic framework. If you cannot see it, that is a problem of your perception, not of observable reality.
God VERY clearly judges based on hierarchies. if you cannot see this, go read your Bible.
Again, the problem is with you, not the real world.
The SSH is dependent upon subjective observations cloaked as objective reality.
God judges us based on our individual conduct.
A closer reading suggests that the Bible’s heroes aren’t meant to be models of outward toughness but exemplars of inner fortitude. So wSy have so many Christians accepted secular standards of masculinity by way of the “SHH” as the basis for biblical manhood?
C.S. Lewis warned against this conflation of Western machismo and scriptural precedent in his seminal work, The Screwtape Letters. In it, the eponymous demon advises a devil-in-training to feed his target “the grand lie which we have made the English humans believe, that physical exercise in excess and consequent fatigue are specially favorable” and, therefore, worthy of divine aspiration. Such misguided thinking, Lewis writes, creates “a condition of false spirituality,” in which the object of godly manhood is confused with that which mainstream culture portrays as truly manly.
Sadly, in many American churches, you won’t find an alternative to this vain portrait of masculinity but a co-opting of it. Not athletic? You’re not a man. Can’t shoot a gun? You’re not a man. Not dating? You’re not a man. Enjoy music more than weightlifting? Turn in your man card. That’s the message of the Christian masculinity movement.
When Christians casually throw around loaded terms like “real masculinity” in ways that reinforce—rather than rebut—secular formulas, we oversimplify a nuanced concept best expressed through eternal values, not earthly ambitions. Christians must resist the temptation to lay blame first at our physical conditions before our spiritual ones. We must recover the idea that the marker of a true man is his moral strength, not his muscular fitness.
Typical Gamma wall of text, yet again. Furthermore, you show clearly that you haven’t the first clue about what the SSH actually is.
The SSH is not a cartoonish depiction of masculinity. It simply distils down male hierarchies according to observable evidence.
Yes. And? I’ve read it. Neither God nor Lewis ever castigated men for being physically strong. There is in fact nothing wrong whatsoever with a man strengthening his body, as long as he does not do it for purposes of vanity. Furthermore, if you think that Alphas are all stereotypical bodybuilder jocks with roided-up muscles, you are clueless about what the SSH is and what it means.
Once again, you don’t have a clue. Go read about the SSH and what it means. It is about social and sexual status and encompasses MUCH more than merely physical attributes.
I offered a cogent argument, not a “gamma wall of text”. Now, if we do employ the SSH, it is patently obvious based on your own response that you are assuming a lecturing pose and are attempt to disqualify, disqualify, disqualify the other party in lieu of demonstrating the errors of their position.
As it was indicated before, women are very good judges of “gammatude”. So when I showed this exchange to several women I know, they were universally repulsed by your defensiveness and strawmen. True, some of these ladies were other than familiar with the gamma label or the SSH in general, but when I explained it, their initial take was confirmed.
Food for thought…
You have no argument. You essentially posited that:
1) The SSH is a subjective construct masquerading as an objective heuristic;
2) Christians have accepted the SSH as a substitute for the Biblical definition of manhood;
3) God does not judge men based on hierarchies;
All three positions are false.
The SSH is fractal. It works on multiple levels and is observably true.
The SSH does not contradict Biblical Truth. The SSH has nothing to say about whether a man is morally upright or not. There are moral Alphas and highly immoral ones, just as there are highly moral and immoral Gammas and Deltas and so on. The SSH is merely one truth that points to the larger Truth.
Furthermore, you imply that men judge other men’s status within the SSH based on outward physical attributes. This is, again, observably untrue. For some reason you insist on substituting vanity and muscularity for actual Alpha, Bravo, Delta, and Gamma traits, which are broader than these points.
And God absolutely judges based on hierarchies. That is made clear in multiple passages in the New Testament, e.g. Matthew 18. Those hierarchies simply are very different from what secular men consider to be important.
Your “arguments”, such as they are, therefore are based on poor logic and even weaker assumptions. And the only one using straw-man arguments here, is you.
You are merely repeating yourself without specifically addressing my arguments. Using your own logic, your behavior is the mark of a gamma.
“1) The SSH is a subjective construct masquerading as an objective heuristic”
Indeed. It is relatively easy to label someone’s position they personally find fault in or a person’s outward behavior or mental make-up they individually oppose as being “gamma”. Different peer groups can observe the same behavior and draw varying conclusions baed upon their own values and experiences. Remember, as indicated earlier, woman are good judges in “gammatude”, and when provided your responses thus far, they made specific reference to your traits as reflective of this realm. Now, certainly you will challenge their conclusion, and your relatives/friends would assuredly make claims to the contrary, In this regard, you/they would be proving my point—conduct and attitude predicated on the SSH is ultimately subjective.
As further clarification…
Source: sigmamaleforum.com
“As I write this in 2021, interest and content about Sigma Males has exploded. There is now a tsunami of misinformation and nonsense written about Sigma Males, and a suspiciously high number of men who declare themselves Sigma, most notably on Youtube comments sections. Remember the 2 most important criteria : being extraordinarily attractive to women – higher than the top 1% – and outside of the hierarchy. If you can approach and attract the TOP QUALITY – i.e. 7-10 range regularly – not an internet 7 – 10, but an ACTUAL 7 – 10 and you are location independent – then you may well be a Sigma Male. But, simply being introverted, smart and declaring yourself a Sigma does not make you a Sigma Male.”
“2) Christians have accepted the SSH as a substitute for the Biblical definition of manhood;”
You mean some Christian men have wrongly incorporated the SSH into the Biblical framework. Consider how Matthew 18 stresses the importance of humility and self-sacrifice as the high virtues within a community, NOT a limiting system that ranks men based on their social position with other males and their ability to attract women.
“The SSH has nothing to say about whether a man is morally upright or not…For some reason you insist on substituting vanity and muscularity for actual Alpha, Bravo, Delta, and Gamma traits, which are broader than these points”.
I never made these arguments, nor disputed them. Repeatedly making strawmen are the mark of a gamma, as Vox Day has repeatedly inferred on his fine blog.
“Furthermore, you imply that men judge other men’s status within the SSH based on outward physical attributes.”
Absolutely. Refer to Hypergamouse, which is an over exaggeration of the physical and mental characteristics of each category.
“3) God does not judge men based on hierarchies”
God does not judge men based on the SSH. Rather, In Corinthians 11:3, Paul lays out this principle of God’s hierarchical relationships in a much broader context: “I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.” God works through a chain of command even within Himself in order to accomplish His plan and program in history.
Again, would God truly judge in this exact manner by calling Christian men betas, gammas, and situational alphas? If you believe the argument can be made, cite the relevant Bible passages and offer the requisite context.
I addressed your arguments succinctly and clearly. You responded with a massive wall of text and are clearly projecting. You have failed to address my responses to you and have repeatedly dodged straightforward rebuttals of your basic positions. You have directly violated Rule 2 of the Laws of the Domain, repeatedly. Enough is enough. You are hereby banned.
Observation: A problem with the SSH is not that “it” doesn’t exist, but that there are more than one of them, place, time, and culture depending. The SSH for the US, today, is different from the SSH of the US, in the 60s and 70s, is different from the SSH in the US, in the 60s and 70s, on an Ivy League college campus, is different from Southern Asia, is different from Eastern Asia…
This is especially noticeable in Latin America, where blue (or green) eyes and white skin is just the_thing, and a largish nose is not to be underestimated.
Another problem with it, as a theory, is that it discounts the effect of smell, particular as regards the little DNA analyzer women seem to have tucked in behind their pituitaries.
Yep. I can only agree with that.
Also a fair point. you’ve mentioned this before and I think you are correct. Women do seem to be able to sniff out weakness, quite literally.
Melinda Gates is truly an evil person. I don’t say that lightly. I don’t even put Sheryl Sandberg in the ‘evil’ category, but Melinda Gates is.
She produced some of the most downvoted videos in YouTube history when trying to claim that women are being held back in tech :
https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/humorless-scolds/
RamZPaul is pretty clueless too, and displaying 1990s-era outdated beta provider thought. He think’s Bill Gates’ wealth means tons of women are actually attracted to him.
No. As Didact correctly points out, only the most focussed golddigger/prostitute wants even anything to do with him, and that too in a purely transactional sense.
Bill is NOT going to end up with a hot younger woman. That I guarantee.
Well… as I’ve also pointed out, Billzebub (thanks, LTC Kratman) could spend eye-watering amounts of money on women if he wanted to.
I just don’t think he’s going to, in large measure because he doesn’t WANT to, and also because he doesn’t know what an attractive woman looks like. The phrase, “couldn’t get laid in a Bangkok brothel with a billion dollars in small bills”, is not my own invention – we have John Ringo to thank for that one – but it applies in this case.
You got a mention from the Mothership. Congrats.
Bill Gates was never an alpha. He was always a dork, and has always been portrayed as such. His wife suits him perfectly. The only shocking thing is that he actually procreated, not once, but three times. Can you actually imagine these two bumping uglies? Even when young? Boggles the mind.
There is not enough eye-bleach in the world to excise that image. ‘Scuse me while I go barf up my breakfast.
“Self-improvement” is nonsense. Genetics is destiny. Our origins themselves are disgusting. To be forced into this madhouse because some idiot could not keep it in his pants, to be forced out of a someone’s genitalia used to get rid of bodily waste.
I would never have chosen this crappy life had I been asked. “Of a chipmunk”: you cannot improve your height, your IQ, your face, get rid of a hunched back or mental illness, idiot. And even if I could, I simply would never even want to exist in the first place.
How hard is this to understand? I don’t like existence, it is dumber than tic-tac-toe, it is a “game” red in tooth and claw, our origin basically the same as that of the beasts.
Salomon paid for his horrible deeds, God killed this fucker. He lamented it all, seeing how stupid life is in Ecclesiastes.
You are the idiots. You guys don’t even have eugenics implemented! It also does not matter how much you go to the gym, since it can’t save your face or short wiener or whatever horrid genetics were forced down on you (all three in my case).
As I wrote: all I want is that God allows me to kill myself and sends a dosage of barbiturates from heaven so that I can end this nonsense I never asked for in the first place.
Apparently, genetic dung has children, otherwise I would not be here. As Andy Nowicki writes in “Confessions of a Would-Be Wanker”, sex is dirty, sex is degradation. This is why priests, monks and nuns are supposed to live celibate lives: it would sully them. In “Considering Suicide”, Nowicki rightly wrote that our sexual origins are a “slap in the face”, that should at least “give us pause”. Exactly, but both men and women are idiots — MPAI — and therefore what do I expect? Man is too dumb and horny to actually THINK.
If I weren’t a Christian, I’d kill myself in a heartbeat.
Gamma alert.