Out of Egypt

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The problem with being at the bottom of the pyramid is that the lives of men at the top (the Alpha Males) is so drastically different from those at the bottom (the Beta Males.)

Let us consider a DUI arrest for both an Alpha and Beta Male.

The guy at the top of the pyramid has a lawyer who has evidence thrown out. The Alpha CEO knows an Alpha lawyer, who in turn knows the Alpha judge. In fact they've probably all met on the golf course. The CEO gets a fine, which he can pay easily, and performs “community service.”

If this sounds far fetched, my father was a California Highway Patrolman who investigated a case of a drunk driving fatality. A young man was driving drunk and wrecked his car, killing the passenger in the front passenger seat. It seems like an open and shut case, right? The driver is looking at prison for vehicular manslaughter.

Well the drunk driver is the son of wealthy parents, who hire a professor to testify in court. (Keep in mind that lawyer's fees are so high that few people can afford to go to trial.) The professor argues that the wealthy survivor of the crash was not in fact the driver, but the passenger. He further contends that the impact of the collision caused the two bodies to be thrown around and to switch places!

The end result is that the wealthy young guy gets off scott free, when in similar circumstances you or I would have been in prison for years.

The differences between Alpha and Beta male are huge. Alpha males not only get preferential treatment, but all the “justice” money can buy, more money, better benefits, and all of the women worth having.

The irony is that all of the Beta Male's efforts to improve his situation, whether working longer hours, putting in more time, becoming more of a “team player,” etc., merely solidify the Alpha Male status of those at the top.

The solution is: you must see the pyramid for what it is. Whether the pyramid is the corporation you work for, the church you belong to, the club or organization you belong to (e.g. Elks, Rotary, Habitat for Humanity, etc.), your efforts to work your way up to the top will not only never get you there, but they merely enrich those at the top.

Knowing this, if you are in a pyramid, keep your investment to a minimum. While you go through the motions of being the ideal employee, you are not kidding yourself about reality. You are not volunteering for anything, unless it will benefit you at some point in the future. You are not going to run furiously on the treadmill because now they are dangling two peanuts instead of just one. You are not sucked in by the hype, the promise of future riches.

Start your own business and work part time on it. Moonlight doing something in your area of expertise. Start your own pyramid. Found your own church.

Suppose you are out on a date. Your expertise is web page design. At some point in the date you will inevitably, invariably, immutably get the Ambition Test if she is interested in you.

“So, Bob, where do you see yourself 5 years from now?” “Where are you at in your career?” “What are your goals?” “Where do you work?” This is a mine field, and for years I blew this, because like a dumbass I didn't even realize I was being tested.

You can answer, “I'm a low-level schmuck at Big Biz Inc.”

Or you can answer, “I've started my own webpage design business, and someday I'll be bigger than Big Biz Inc.”

Which answer is more likely to get you laid?

Breaking free of the pyramid means your freedom, the ability to set your own hours, to set your own rules, to get women, and to become rich. Even if you never become a megastar, at least your efforts will not be stripped from you to enrich someone else. You will be spared the agony of developing a crush on your young, hot coworker, deluding yourself into thinking she likes you, only to discover that she is screwing the boss even though he's already married and is a callous, hard-charging bastard.