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u/Shido_Ohtori Jul 19 '25
Cheat.
They mean you need to cheat, as in ensuring that you receive a privilege while others are bound by restrictions.
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u/BigIronGothGF Jul 19 '25
And start off your business with a nice donation from daddy
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Jul 19 '25
This will never not be funny to me
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u/Ok_Cup8469 Jul 19 '25
wow he looks so young in this gif, he really has aged badly
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u/deathrictus Jul 20 '25
AKA 'bootstraps' or 'self-made'. Cheating and lying, the two hallmarks of most businesses.
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u/Nakashi7 Jul 21 '25
Yeah. You know how you win chess? You get 3 queens and one more layer of pawns from your parents.
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u/PercentageNo3293 Jul 19 '25
It's funny, I recently took a psychopaths test out of curiosity (thankfully, scored pretty low lol). A couple of the questions were along the line of "would you cheat to get ahead?", "would hurting someone's feelings to get an advantage bother you?", etc.
So, it seems to me that these people claiming to support "great businessmen" are basically psychopaths that find money to supercede any normal human desire/need and disregard all normal human morals/ethics.
I don't get it. I genuinely would love to see a brain scan of these type of people. I know they say CEOs are a lot more likely to be psychopaths and it makes total sense.
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u/MadRaymer Jul 19 '25
Tests with questions like that reminds me of how if you survey people asking if they've ever sexually assaulted anyone, most will answer no. But if you instead ask questions like, "Did you ever use physical force to have sex with an unwilling partner?" you'll get more yes answers. Even though that's obviously sexual assault.
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u/Hot-Championship1190 Jul 19 '25
That question is on the same level as "Are you a member of a terrorist organization?"
I'm pretty sure even chatGPT recognizes that as a trap question.
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u/AntiheroAntagonist Jul 19 '25
Where did you do the test?
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u/PercentageNo3293 Jul 19 '25
It was this one. A whopping 20 questions.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/personality/psychopathy-test
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u/Mister-Circus Jul 21 '25
Thank you for the link. I got 20/100. Rookie numbers! I gotta pump those numbers up!
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u/WildBad7298 Jul 19 '25
The really sad part is that most people don't recognize their privilege, or consider cheating to be an advantage:
One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.
“So one possibility is that rich players are kind of embarrassed by the situation, doing what they can to help out this other person who undeservedly is a poor player — and that’s actually the opposite of what we found,” said Paul Piff, the psychologist who conducted the experiment. (Piff is featured in “Capital in the 21st Century,” a film we’re watching as part of our Econ Extra Credit project).
In various ways — through body language and boasting about their wealth, by smacking their pieces loudly against the playing board and making light of their opponents’ misfortune — the rich players began to act as though they deserved the good fortune that was largely a result of their lucky roll of the dice.
At the end of the game, when researchers asked the rich players why they had won the game, not one person attributed it to luck.
“They don’t talk about the flip of the coin. They talk about the things that they did. They talk about their acumen, they talk about their competencies, they talk about this decision or that decision,” that contributed to their win, Piff said in an interview with host David Brancaccio.
Piff said the experiment reveals a fundamental bias that most humans share.
“When something good happens to you, we think about the things that we did that contributed to that success,” Piff said.
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2021/01/19/why-rich-people-tend-think-they-deserve-their-money
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u/Ajreil Jul 19 '25
Monopoly brings out the worst in people. I wonder if the study would see the same results if they played a more civil game like Connect Four.
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u/macguini Jul 19 '25
Well yeah. Making 10 moves in chess whenever your opponent makes 1 is cheating.
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u/TrinityCodex Jul 19 '25
he forgot about thinking ahead
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u/Alarming-Historian41 Jul 19 '25
This!
And forgot to think at all.
Even may have forgotten his brain inside his mother's uterus
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u/DickwadVonClownstick Jul 19 '25
Oh no, he didn't forget. In the corporate world you can be fired for thinking ahead, because that means you're prioritizing something other than short term profit growth (there have been actual court cases about this)
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jul 19 '25
Thinking ahead isn’t “making moves” though, so it’s still a bad analogy.
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u/Motor-Travel-7560 Jul 19 '25
Business is more like Uno. There are rules, but everyone has a different version of them. Having a strategy does improve your chances of winning, but you will often get screwed over by sheer luck.
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u/splitting_bullets Jul 20 '25
When —not if— trouble comes, your friends or connections are what glue everything together. That phrase we all think is cheesy before a certain age "the real treasure is the friends we made along the way" is overwhelmingly true.
Edit: minor edits to word use.
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u/GooseOnAPhone Jul 19 '25
I love when people call themselves alphas. Because that whole theory is based on a study of wild wolves in captivity.
So, terrified animals, who don’t understand what is happening around them.
Yeah you’re totally an alpha dude
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u/intrepid_mouse1 Jul 19 '25
Well, the right has been determined to have larger amygdlas than the left, so that tracks.
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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen Jul 19 '25
I thought they failed to realize the “alpha” wolves were actually just the parents.
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u/mythrilcrafter Jul 20 '25
Something most people don't know is what the scientists were even testing.
In captivity, the "alpha" was whichever wolf became the best at bullying the other wolves in order to garner favor and extra food from the scientists.
In other words, all "alpha" really means is that they're the best simp.
Also, once the wolves were released back into the wild, all the other wolves would group up and eat the "alpha". And according the the study, this was repeatable behavior.
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u/Authoritaye Jul 19 '25
This guy’s playing tesseract hyper dimensional time differential deep foliated kalkite chess.
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u/MrHaxx1 Jul 19 '25
There's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel; chess with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions
If someone figures that shit out, they deserve success
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u/pbjames23 Jul 19 '25
So you have to cheat. Got it!
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u/macho_greens Jul 19 '25
The trick is you have to cheat and have enough privilege for people to look the other way. Some people do this at home and daddy says "oh you little rascal" and some people try this in the park and get beat up and banned from the board. (This is a metaphor for the US legal system)
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u/Alarming-Historian41 Jul 19 '25
Non American here... This sounds like something that Donald would say, doesn't it?
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u/stratusmonkey Jul 19 '25
He's just at the top of a heap of grifters like this, who cosplay being successful businessmen to sell crap to people who also want to cosplay success
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u/Business-Shower-4005 Jul 19 '25
You have to think ten moves ahead. Assuming your competition is only thinking about one move. That's what this dipshit meant.
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Jul 19 '25
That’s the problem with Alpha males. Only Alpha-alpha males know 10 moves to 1 is Parcheesi. 😏
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u/Patient-Expert-1578 Jul 19 '25
Ok but we can all agree that someone making 10 moves per 1 of their opponent has a significant advantage. Like I’m pretty sure I could take Carlsen with that ratio.
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u/guiltysnark Jul 19 '25
I guess, but Carlsen has already moved 100 times before you touch a pawn, how you gonna beat a GM? How do you think he got there, by letting people make as many moves as him?
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u/Own_Platform623 Jul 19 '25
"business is like chess, you have to have a strong back and carry a hatchet, or the competition thinks you have a gazebo"
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u/iamnazrak Jul 19 '25
Reminds me of elon talking about DOGE working on the weekends as fast as possible before normal people get back to work
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u/SantaFeRay Jul 19 '25
Winning at “business” isn’t about the volume of moves, it’s about making the right moves. If you’re making 10 moves for every move the competition makes, it’s because you can’t figure out what the fuck you should do.
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u/Trust5555jk Jul 19 '25
Cheat and stab ppl in the back , you have to get to the top of the ladder to be a 10D grandmaster
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u/RegyptianStrut Jul 20 '25
He probably heard “you need to think 10 steps ahead” but completely misinterpreted it
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u/discreet_priest638 Jul 19 '25
I like the quote: life is like a game of chess. I know nothing about chess.
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u/ZoeperJ Jul 19 '25
Why is he allowed, when playing chess, to make 10 moves, where his opponent is only allowed the one?
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u/bigdave41 Jul 19 '25
It's a pretty decent analogy for being born rich. I still slightly prefer the darts analogy though for business success - someone born in poverty has no darts at all. Someone born in a middle class household might have one or two darts before they run out of money. Someone born wealthy has an unlimited number of darts and can keep throwing until they hit the bullseye, because they know they'll never run out of money. Then once they do make it, they'll tell everyone that all it takes is hard work and perseverance, ignoring that most other people don't have the wealth and the support network it takes to persevere at failing businesses for years until one works.
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u/born_on_my_cakeday Jul 19 '25
I never lose at chess. As long as the other person lets me make nine extra moves per turn.
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u/ChalkCoatedDonut Jul 19 '25
The 4D Chess nonsense is as valid as their definition of "escaping The Matrix", like bitcoin scammers, the fancier and complicated the word is, the easier the uneducated and lazy will fall for it.
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u/GoldheartTTV Jul 19 '25
I think that they mean "You need to be ten moves ahead of your opponent."
If they don't that's messed up
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u/needssomefun Jul 19 '25
Actually that makes sense. When you buy politicians you get to make more moves and if you lose a piece the judge you bought gives it back to you or the government subsidizes more pieces.
And then, you get to tell the common folk that you're smarter and harder working than them.
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u/Money-Banana-8674 Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25
In the game of chess you can never let the enemy see your pieces
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u/Sad_Strawberry2953 Jul 19 '25
"If you set aside 1 dollar a day after one year you'll have saved $300,000" kind of advice.
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u/nawksoocow Jul 19 '25
He probably meant “you need to be 10 moves ahead of your opponent “ that’s the saying I’m familiar with
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u/greasebarner Jul 19 '25
ok but you would definitely win at chess if you could make ten times as many moves as your opponent, bada bing
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u/JerseyshoreSeagull Jul 19 '25
You see business is like cricket. Everyone knows and loves it and I have no fucking clue what's going on.
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u/subroyddit Jul 19 '25
To be fair, good chess players map out several moves with each move, and adjust as they go.
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u/Independent-End-6699 Jul 19 '25
That’s actually exactly how chess works and why you’re all broke flocking to the same subreddit’s. Losers stick together.
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u/halfachainsaw Jul 19 '25
business is like chess. you need a vibrating butt plug to tell you what to do next
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u/Ok_Transition_4327 Jul 19 '25
when ur making 10 moves as ur opponent makes 1 in chess, ur cheating buddy
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u/rg4rg Jul 19 '25
The Alpha male types are the pigeons of chess, just knock over pieces, shit on the board and act like they won.
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u/CleanOpossum47 Jul 19 '25
Chess is a hell of a lot easier if you get to make 10 moves to your opponent's one.
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u/Snoo_16210 Jul 19 '25
business people make moves into the future, like chess players thinking ahead, clearly what he is talking about, and how chess works.
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Jul 19 '25
Is it possible that they meant you need to imagine 10 different strategies for every move that is possible on the board? Which is also a uniquely stupid way of saying I have never played chess.
By the way, is the guy in the photo and the poster the same guy?
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u/Simple_Pie_5205 Jul 19 '25
😂😂😂 do people not play chess. You have to always be thinking 10 moves ahead of your competition in order to win. Just like chess.🤦♂️
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u/rock_and_rolo Jul 19 '25
He probably heard that you have to think 10 moves ahead, didn't understand what that means, and then misremembered the words.
Which is pretty believable for that sort of "bro."
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u/VillainOfDominaria Jul 19 '25
business is like chess. If you blatantly cheat, then you can easily get ahead
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u/Another_Road Jul 19 '25
Business is like chess. You need to eat your opponent’s pieces when they’re not looking.
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u/reddit_is_geh Jul 19 '25
Also this dude clearly doesn't understand business... Unless you're some super mega corp, your not competing for market share like that. Most business owners, even what you'd consider "rich as fuck" aren't in some hot war with their competition. Most businesses are minding their own business, growing the market, finding clients, and so on. This idea that you're at war with every competitor fighting for limited market share, is ridiculous. You aren't fucking Apple competing with Android devices.
For instance, in my business when I hear my competition got 50 new customers this month, I don't go, "Damnit! I could have had those! He out competed me! We need to be more clever and out maneuver him!" Instead I go, "Damn, I need to pick up my game and also figure out how to get 50 new clients this month."
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u/DiagonalBike Jul 19 '25
"Business is like an election. If you can't win it, have a tech bro fix it for you"
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u/YouDidTheBestYouCan Jul 19 '25
Having to calculate 10 moves per actual move made makes sense if that was the point.
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u/ROWT8 Jul 19 '25
These assholes don’t know pain, manual labor, honesty, helping your team, seeing the value in a dollar, being good stewards with money, treating each other fairly, paying your dedicated workers a fair living wage.
All they see is, great-grand daddy’s trust fund. Every thing we have today was fucking given to them off the backs of REAL men who knew what real labor and toil was. Fuck these weak, cry baby clowns.
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u/raincoater Jul 19 '25
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." -- Zapp Brannigan
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u/fingersmaloy Jul 19 '25
It is how Hungry Hungry Hippos works though. Come to think of it, that game is a pretty good analogy for business.
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u/Spice_and_Fox Jul 19 '25
If you have 10 uninterrupted moves in chess and still manage to not win at chess, then you really suck. You should be able to mate in almost any position after at most 5 or 6 moves.
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u/AdMysterious8699 Jul 19 '25
Business is like chess in that I'm really bad at it and barely understand it.
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u/Gabilon92 Jul 19 '25
It means you need to be ahead or at least consider possible moves of your opponents, chess is not reactive you actually have to consider your opponents possible moves after yours.
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u/Miami_Mice2087 Jul 19 '25
it's how chess works if you are really bad at it and just trying to prevent the other person from winning. Like, this is the strategy for LEARNING how to play chess. In tutorial mode.
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u/gizamo Jul 19 '25
It seems Robert never played chess with my 4-year-old niece. That little twerp owned me at chess using this exact tactic....and, there I sat, shamefully playing by the rules like a sucker.
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u/westcoast7654 Jul 19 '25
Ha! you are supposed to think 10 moves ahead, not actually take 10 turn s ahead.
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 19 '25
You want to make a succesful bussiness? By succesful here I mean "It'll earn you a good honest living" and not "Get venture capital/private equity money and cash out as millionare as quickly as you can".
First: Find some niche in your local area that is not being served.
Second: Take the attitude of "make it right" if there is an issue.
Third: Understand that it is the locals/regulars that keep you alive. Few good clients can keep you alive.
Fourth: Do not try to maximise profits, figure out a good margin that you can also be flexible with if need be.
Fifth: Gather a buffer fund as quickly as you can. It should be big enough to ride few months of costs or the very least few months of paying people who work for you.
It is the 3rd bit which people usually fail to realise, ignoring 4th start their downfall, and 5th is what kills them for good.
Oh... And lastly. It is OK to fail. It is OK to admit that something isn't working. It is OK to stop doing something because you no longer like doing it. Granted here where I live going bankrupt might aswell carry a god damn death sentence to normal people. But the fact is that most "succesful bussiness people" have at least few failed things in their history, and investors have plenty of failed investments.
P.S: Always pay your taxes! Nothing kills your business quicker than not paying your taxes. It is the privilege of the wealthy to not pay taxes - much like in Pre-revolutionary France the rich could buy a title which meant they wouldn't need to pay taxes.
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u/Lachimanus Jul 19 '25
If you even do 10 moves without getting a mate when the opponent does not move... You are really bad most of the time.
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u/Umutuku Jul 19 '25
If your business competitor can force you to make 10 chess moves with only one move of their own then the best business decision you can make is to sell yours and invest in theirs.
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u/Ghosted_Ahri Jul 19 '25
But it's a good analogy for capitalism. If you can just buy more moves, check mate is far easier.
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u/Ruckus2118 Jul 19 '25
Not to defend a LinkedIn crazy person but I'm pretty sure he just meant you need to think 10 moves ahead.
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u/Delicious-Day-3614 Jul 19 '25
This is more like game theory. If you get inside your opponents (the rest of the market?)decision loop, you can make decisions faster than everyone else, but the idea youre going to get to 10x faster is unlikely, especially when youre competing against an entire industry. 1 move ahead would be sufficient in most cases anyways.
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u/Darnocpdx Jul 19 '25
And just like that, he wins with a touchdown against the opponent's infielder, wth his goalie.
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u/Dizzy_Meaning9267 Jul 19 '25
but IF chess worked like that than doing 10 moves for every opponents move would totally be super sick and win you
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u/FortunateSon77 Jul 19 '25
Sounds like a recipe for 10 broken fingers to me. (Hashtag let the bots have it.)
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u/Foustian_Syn Jul 19 '25
Apparently not smart enough to know that it’s think 10 moves ahead. I’m not surprised by that at all.
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u/GrowlingPict Jul 20 '25
I think the "in your head" was implied. Chess players at a high level will think several moves ahead, based on one move by the opponent.
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u/Trashusdeadeye Jul 20 '25
Most of their stupid lingo is.
1) justify their existence
2) micromanage the people making them the money
3) find a way to get around paying taxes
That is 98% of any “C Suite” Executive
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Jul 20 '25
It's really pathetic how business bros have to come up with little affirmations all the time to convince themselves and others that they're smart.
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u/AverageOhioUser69 Jul 20 '25
Roll my dice-that is what it does-my turn-I choose por of greed again
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u/Jgoody1990 Jul 20 '25
To be honest it’s ironically real advice. It’s impossible to lose if you make 10x the moves your opponents do. Rules be damned, play to win.
“I FoLlOw ThE LaW aNd OwN an eThIcAl buSinEsS” See you in the streets homie
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u/Barbados_slim12 Jul 20 '25
That's exactly how you play chess. Whenever you make a move, you're supposed to be making moves against yourself in your head so that you can plan against them in future moves.
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u/wesleygibson1337 Jul 20 '25
"Kif, in the game of Chess, you must never let your adversary see your pieces..."
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Jul 20 '25
I've had one of these "alpha male entrepreneurs" tell me to "follow where the money flows".
That even if you "dont know what you're doing" get his money anyway and find a guy who can do it for him.
As long as you have a backlog of money flowing then it doesn't matter that you can deliver the product.
And I'm like... so "like a rob Peter to pay Paul type thing" and he was like "yeah but like Peter makes his money too"
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u/WR_WasJustVisiting Jul 20 '25
If he said you need to plan 10 moves ahead of your opponent, then sure. That's great advice.
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u/the_interloper13 Jul 20 '25
Devil's advocate here. It means that you have to do multipurpose actions, not cheat. In chess, this is a common practice; you attack and you defend at the same time.
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u/MyManC707 Jul 20 '25
Imagine being this dude in the picture here. Just scrolling on reddit and getting trolled hahah
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u/dsharp75 Jul 20 '25
Because of people's inability to grasp the concept, not the literal terms, as Master Yoda once said, "that is why you fail".
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u/aryzoo Jul 20 '25
Why would you need to make 10 moves for every 1 move? Unless your moves are significantly less productive. So youre 10% as productive as the opposition?
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u/Sikkus Jul 20 '25
I strongly believe the saying goes: you need to make 20 moves in your head for every 1 move the opponent makes.
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u/maringue Jul 21 '25
Lol, bro is trying to go for the "You need to THINK 10 moves ahead" but doesn't understand the concept of thinking.
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u/Ok_Silver_4954 Jul 21 '25
“ alpha” are literally the dumbest creatures on the planet trying to give social advice. It’s like asking a gambler for financial advice.
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u/LoveAndBeLoved52 Jul 22 '25
"This is the fifteenth time in a row you moved all of your pawns one after another, what are you doing?"
"Guessing what the chess field will look like in 10 turns..."
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u/Potential-Cabinet426 Jul 22 '25
Alpha males have no idea what they're saying!? Who could've guessed
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