The MGTOWs on the GYOW forum are thinking about tomorrow, putting on their futurist hats and pondering what will happen when, as they think is inevitable, more and more men “take the red pill” and walk away from women to a new life of happiness and wonder in which they devote their days to grousing endlessly about the women they’ve walked away from.
There’s a little talk of apocalypse, and a quick mention of sexbots, but these fellas seem most worried about, well, taxes. Because naturally, big daddy government — under the control of evil feminists and manginas — will try to take a kind of revenge against Men Going Their Own Way by instituting a dreadful Bachelor Tax.
Octavian explains just how it’s all going to go down. First, “marriage will go the way of the mechanical typewriter.” Next, the taxman cometh.
[F]airly soon the governments of the world will get hip to the fact that the dudes who dont have women in their lives have a LOT of disposable income . If 80% of the dudes in society are unattached beta males with no kids and no wife, fairly soon someone’s gonna realize taxing those guys will pay for a lot of Mr Thundercock’s progeny. …
We’ll be served with a summons to present proof of gay marriage ,alimony expenses paid ,a court order for child support or a documented relationship with a female….or pay a 40% income tax until we do.The reason?
“All men should share the burden to pay for child support, because patriarchy.Whats more important-a kid or your classic 1965 Mustang restoration?”
At first to sell the “Bachelor Tax” theyll apply it to females as a gesture of “equal burden”, but that’ll be a non-binding price ceiling. They’ll find a beta to happily vouch for being in a relationship so she can dodge the taxman …
Meanwhile , we single dudes will be looking over our shoulders every time we use an ATM.Next floor in the elevator of decline after that is polyamory …
Want to dodge the 40% bachelor tax, Mister Bluepill? Go find a bored fat girl who’s willing to vouch for you to the IRS that you’re a taken man.Of course nothing is free in this world……and you’ll have to prove to Miss Fatso you have the commitment required to join her roster.
As for the alpha’s, itll be a lonely club-moving between harems means pissing off a few women. Itll be the lowest social category of public society; staying out of jail & poverty will mean fake ID’s and quick feet.Plate spinning for males will require CIA tradecraft to avoid imprisonment.
Unlike a lot of Manosphere prognosticators, Octavian isn’t secretly (or not-so-secretly) hoping for a grand collapse of civilization.
I hope we dont suffer a Big Collapse ; the only thing worse then living in a matriarchy is wandering a post-industrial disaster filled with desperate bluepill males ,ruthless whores ,and easy accessed personal weapons with no law or order.You think guys are thirsty simps NOW….just wait until a society of feminized she-dudes have to figure out how to live without Amazon Prime and extended warranties.
Insidious_Sid, meanwhile, thinks that the Bachelor Tax will just be the beginning.
There will be a tax war. Men saying “fuck it” will continue to be taxed more and more to pay for more and more bastard alpha babies. Governments will continue to create more insidious ways of getting men to pay for children that are not theirs.
And, oh yeah, after all this? The apocalypse.
Economies will crumble – women are actually waiting for this. They believe in the lies of the feminist utopia, where the rich white men at the top of the towers fall to their deaths, the towers topple and gold spills into the streets for everyone to plunder. They have no real knowledge of what the real repercussions of this will be – they think it will be handsome alphas fucking all the women while betas toil in the mines and obediently pay their taxes.
That’s not what is going to happen. Before it’s all over they will say “Oh no, what have we done?!”
These cries will fall on deaf ears.
Oh, and there will be sexbot taxes as well. According to Abdenour,
Technologically, there will be sex robots. One question is, what legislation feminist, manginas and white knights will pass in the West to make land whales more competitive with robots. Maybe some sex robot 1,000% tax to provide income for single land whales and their thug spawn.
MGTOWs are pretty much the world’s worst science fiction authors.
@ amused
Well, one could go with the classic method of dealing with polluted water supplies: only drink beer.
Post-apocalyptic distillery, here I come!
After the Fall, all beers are microbrews….
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Just gonna casually drop this link here. [/shameless self promotion]
Is it just me, or was that scene extremely satisfying?
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@Moggie 😀 too true!
Best place to find a vacant property after the zombies take over should be one of those mansions up in Hampstead, most of those are already standing empty thanks to ultra rich property speculators buying them up and leaving them to rot while waiting for the prices to rise further. Though personally I’d want to hole up in a shopping centre, grow food on the roof, put out some rain barrels etc,
Is hydraulic despotism like this?
I’m just glad I live in Finland. If the “Big Collapse” happens, we at least have loads and loads of sources of potable water. That’s the upside of living in a country with quite literally thousands of lakes. Of course, we’ll be out of luck when people from near-by areas with less luck when it comes to fresh water will move in and try and get our precious drinking water. 🙁
Not to mention that the “roped in” beta male get the exact same tax-dodging benefit here, so really? Who’s using who? (whom?)
@ Katz
The Mad Max films are pretty good examples of hydraulic despotism. The term derives from the fact that water is one obvious thing to control but it also applies to oil or any other essential commodity.
Ack… hydraulic empires. I could teal dear for way, way, wayyyyy too long on those.
*puppy dog eyes*
Speaking of hydraulic despotism, has anyone mentioned Tank Girl yet?
The film was funny-ish, but the comic is brilliant.
@Paradoxical Intention: Your chipmunk-vocaled Let’s Play of Talos Principle amuses me immensely.
(By which I mean, I think it’s great and am not mocking you. Definitely keep doing it; I am going to watch loads more of your videos.)
I wouldn’t say it was chipmunk-vocaled: that seems a bit mean.
But there may have been helium involved.
That was totally not the voice I was expecting from Paradoxical Intention, somehow.
That was mean of me. Apologies, PI. It took me by surprise.
My voice is higher than that. *shrugs*
Oh, no, her voice is totally chipmunk. Too adorably squeaky.
@SFHC
You’re voice must also be terribly adorable.
Yeah, it’s funny the mental image you form of people from what they write. When I’m impressed by women online, I somehow don’t expect young and perky. More Bea Arthur-ish, maybe. Terribly ageist of me.
Moggie said:
I sometimes have this reaction, too, and I get mad at myself because I think it stems more from internalized misogyny than ageism.
Deeper, “masculine” voice = serious and scholarly with important things to say
Higher, “feminine” voice = silly and probably not worth listening to
Because apparently women, especially really feminine women with high voices, have lady brains. Or something.
I have the voice of a prepubescent 12 year old boy, which I think matches what I do online.
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OT, and I don’t want to go on a rant about Moggie’s innocuous comment, but ageism is something I rarely see brought up anywhere on the net as a serious topic, but it is something that has bothered me in the extreme since I was very young. I used to go to the doctor with my grandparents sometimes when I was in my 20s, and it just made me squirm to hear caretakers speak to them like children and address all their serious comments to me.
And the point I would like to make is that, to me, saying you can be “ageist” against someone for sounding young would be “reverse ageism,” and I don’t think that exists anymore than reverse racism or sexism.
But it all hinges on who everyone thinks has “age privilege.” Me (and this is just off-the-cuff), I think it is something along the lines of 16- to 35-year-old women and 25- to 55-year-old men. I’d be curious to know what everyone’s opinion is.
How do we get to hear Paradoxical Intention? I’m intrigued!
@Belladonna
Nah, there’s definitely ageism against young people as well as elderly people. For a common example, a company hiring a 35-year-old guy over an 18-year-old guy with the same experience. I might be more aware of this than most people, though; I look and sound much younger than I am (I’m 30, most people guess 18-22), and I get treated very differently by people who know my real age than by people who don’t.
*18-20, even. Whatever, point is I stopped aging a decade ago. =P
@Alan
Scroll up. She plugged a playthrough of the Talos Principle.
I don’t know if ageism against young men exists. I do think it exists against young women though. I can’t count how many times I was told that I was only progressive because I was young. This happened well into my twenties when I was plenty old enough to have fully formed and reasonable political opinions. It was always older men who told me this. Always. Young women are never, ever taken seriously. For a recent example, just look at how Andy Cohen talked about the brilliant Amandla Stenberg. Although, obviously, racism was a huge part of that too.
If you’re a woman, you’re looked down on and objectified until you hit the wall. Then you’re invisible.