When you're a kid, you have lower empathy and very low observational skills. You learn these things over time. You get a small allowance or cash gift, and you think "Wow this is so much money! I can buy so many snacks and toys with this!"

I remember being a kid and thinking money was only useful for buying snacks, toys and trinkets. It didn't occur to me that bills are for services that need to be paid. I didn't realize that my parents bought every single thing in our house with money. As a kid, if you forced me to spend my allowance money on rice or cleaning supplies, I'd have been livid and very upset.

As an adult, I love to buy practical things as long as they are useful. Finishing a bottle of windex or a bottle of shampoo feels so satisfying to me. Paying bills also feels satisfying. Paying off debt makes me feel ecstatic.

Scrotes have that "money is only for snacks and toys" mentality except they are 25, 30, 35 years old. They have a very childish mentality about money and time. They do the bare minimum in adulting just so they're not homeless, but are very resistant to level up in any way, because they never developed self-esteem from self-discipline. They cope with this with the fun things they buy with their money, the fun things they do with their time-- which is video games, porn, general coasting and wasting their lives.

This is one of the biggest differences between scrotes and pickmes. Scrotes are endlessly irresponsible, emotionally stunted, for the most part a lost cause. Pickmes however have so much potential, if they just STOP doing the shit they've been doing for so long, shit that isn't working for them and never has. Pickmes just need to be lucid, aware, change their mindset, recalibrate.. that's it really. Scrotes are so fucked up in comparison. I think on some level they know it, which is why they're so angry at the world, at their mom, at society.

A lot of pickmes are good at their careers or good with money. Many of them have self-discipline, which results in genuine self-esteem. The problem with pickmes and practical life, is that they make themselves into targets for parasitic men with the cognitive function of a 7 year old. They present themselves to men like they're single mothers without children-- so they end up finding a grown ass man to be the child they can be a single mother to. Pickmes give off this air of "you, you, you, take, take take, take from me" and scrotes who have an air of "me, me, me, I need, I want, me, me, MINE" zero in on that.