Benewing
Ben Ewing

Australian. Objectivist.

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benewing@nostrcheck.me

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aquastarfish1@primal.net

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2024-09-27 07:19:20

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Sounds like you’re talking about a gun

2024-09-26 08:39:05

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Going to a low key meetup event this evening at a lounge bar. Last week there was a 10:1 guy girl ratio. It’s not the bros not making effort, at least at this place…

2024-09-26 08:36:22

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A lot of that ‘currency debasement’ was spent on necessary public works that almost everyone in the country benefitted from. Name a people that didn’t have currency debasement that wasn’t invaded by one that did

2024-09-26 07:40:05

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So your solution is to criticise everyone until they adopt your economic but not physical alternative?

2024-09-26 07:07:28

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So it’s like fiat then

2024-09-25 22:30:15

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Bitcoin not a lifeboat unless the fiat empire lets you go? Some lifeboat…

2024-09-21 10:55:28

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Tried batting for the other team for a weekend?

2024-09-21 10:52:05

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Well they were both right. We had self driving cars and software that could interpret images at the time they said.
Maybe it’s the faceless bureaucrats that stood and still stand in their way from this achieving mass adoption that we should be pointing our fingers at

2024-09-21 10:45:55

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The Maverick Of Wall Street calling Druckenmiller Drunkenmiller, or saying something like ‘ok so retail shoppers are downgrading and so higher end shoppers are going to shop at Wallmart, but this can’t happen for lower end consumers, I mean if you’re going to shop at Dollar Tree what where you gonna go downgrade and shop in the garbage can?’

2024-09-21 10:30:28

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2024-09-18 01:14:31

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You can assume he means don’t do pointless busywork but what, just lie in bed all day unless you think of something to do that you’re passionate about? That doesn’t seem like very good advice

2024-09-17 23:53:46

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Take equity? What do you mean?

2024-09-17 23:50:52

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I don’t get it

2024-09-16 08:27:09

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ot of what you're saying doesn't really make sense. Firstly, the amount of seniorage, which is money debasement, relative to the income tax collected in developed countries is really low. Like, maybe money printing accounts for 10% of tax generated through direct taxes. This can be higher, like maybe 20% in developing countries, or 50% in hyperinflation countries. But in developed countries, it's a really small amount. So you can't really say that governments need to print money to get the country going and cover expenses. And that if the government just raised taxes a little bit more, that would mitigate the need to print money at all. Like, you have to have one or the other. Secondly, no, the government couldn't raise tax effectively if Bitcoin was the standard. Because the transactions would have to be traced, and privacy measures would mean that it would be very difficult to trace Bitcoin to collect tax on it.

2024-09-14 08:16:07

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Won’t they just close your account?

2024-09-14 08:09:58

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Haha. American men are hillarious

2024-09-13 10:44:30

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What did they tell you

2024-09-13 10:29:32

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Ai could do it

2024-09-13 10:27:09

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The logical conclusion is that they will leave, like Elon already did when he left South Africa because the government there were going to jail him for not joining the army

2024-09-13 10:17:46

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🥹

2024-09-06 09:24:19

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My butthole produces a lot of vented gas

2024-09-06 09:19:45

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Bitcoin meetups are also an option but you can’t exactly go to a meetup with a few bitcoin worth of cash in your pocket hoping to find some dude who will trade you bitcoin for it

2024-09-06 09:17:27

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I looked into this too. @npub1sg6…f63m was talking up Azteco a while ago. The issue is that you can only buy the prepaid cards at vendors in a few south american countries. Obv anything online requires a credit card

2024-09-06 09:14:05

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Thanks. I definitely think Robosats is one of the best options, but the thing that keeps me from it is that you’re sending funds from your bank to someone else’s bank right? So then that person has kyc’d you since it is coming from your bank with your real name. And they’re possibly a government agent (not that there’s anything illegal about buying bitcoin in this way in Australia at the moment, but it kind of defeats the purpose of it being non- kyc).

2024-09-06 09:06:36

Nostr should have an integrated anonymous non-kyc exchange

2024-09-06 09:04:47

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I’d really like a non-kyc anonymous way to buy bitcoin with AUD.

2024-09-06 09:00:24

Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter is the greatest book ever written

2024-09-06 04:48:39

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Seems like a scam? This wasn’t for eyesight but all the other claims the company makes..?
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2024-09-05 09:52:38

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Hopefully it doesn’t come to this. Would mean face to face collaboration is dead…?

2024-09-05 09:50:43

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Yeah but that wouldn’t have saved zion would it

2024-09-05 09:45:49

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Isn’t the issue though that sure, you can retreat into Nostr and Bitcoin but lets say they’re illegal, how is that going to change your life in the real world. If you’re just a pseudonym on a protocol and have value in bitcoin that you can’t spend… I can see how this might give you hope and be a path to revolution but it doesn’t help your immediate reality. I know patience is key but there at least has to be a path visible

2024-09-05 09:37:44

There is only one person that can solve the Israel-Palestine dispute
#note1mmv…jwgh
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2024-09-02 23:47:19

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Would think it would depend on how tyrannical the government is. Some really extreme ones could even spin up accounts of well known dissidents just to have something to arrest them for

2024-09-01 05:29:27

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Well that might result in the person’s arrest anyway. I doubt the regime is going to lose too much sleep accidentally prosecuting people

2024-08-31 00:33:21

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I think he’s more saying can you really define it. And I think this back and forward on here about free will vs determinism and fate is resolved like this:
You have some free will, maybe even a great deal, about how your life turns out, but some stuff is basically out of your control. You’re like a ship with a rudder and sail, but you can’t control the wind, just catch it and steer in the direction you want to go given current wind conditions. Too much sail and you’ll capsize, too little and you’ll be adrift. Trying to go directly into the wind is futile, and going directly down wind is easy but might not always be the best place to go.

2024-08-30 03:06:29

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Hi Lyn, got a question. If the fed was forced to do balance sheet expansion again, wouldn’t this have to be offset by fiscal tightening in order to keep the USD at a rate that didn’t increase inflation (especially if there were also rate cuts)?

2024-08-28 22:39:57

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It’s like Christianity but if Jesus were alive and healing people but just not on the scale you demand of him.

2024-08-27 03:58:29

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Anyone who orgasms for that length of time would likely face significant mental and physical stress. The human orgasm, even in females, can be extended for several minutes, but if it were to last several months there would be risk of severe physical and mental harm. Please consult a healthcare provider if you are experiencing this for further information to address the underlying cause.

2024-08-23 23:11:51

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At least if you start a war the people you fight can fight back. This dog probably still loves his owner

2024-08-23 22:56:45

If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s animal cruelty
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2024-08-23 21:15:45

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I get specialisation of labour but not seeing how bitcoin makes it better. If Boeing decided to only accept bitcoin they would get zero government contracts for helicopters and go bankrupt

2024-08-23 10:12:01

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It’s the philosophy created by Ayn Rand

2024-08-23 10:06:24

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Also the fact of having to fly thousands of miles just to get some kind of intimacy is kind of pathetic

2024-08-23 10:05:46

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🤷‍♂️ mostly just from public transport ig

2024-08-23 10:00:30

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Almost every time I go to Asia I end up getting sick

2024-08-23 09:49:19

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The problem is your health, family and friends - you can’t really do that much to change them. Sure you can be nice to them and take care of your health but mostly you just got what you got.
You can go and buy a car, and the small stuff is really easy to change.

2024-08-23 08:45:11

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You’ll have to explain this one to me

2024-08-21 22:07:22

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2024-08-17 21:44:18

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Sounds like communism to me. Without strong property rights we’d still be living in caves

2024-08-17 00:02:30

Saw an ENT doctor during the week about some ongoing back-of-throat pain. He basically said it was probably nothing and I just have a low pain tolerance.
In other news, just finished dermaneedling my own face
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2024-08-16 22:33:23

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I like you

2024-08-16 22:31:29

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2024-08-16 22:28:23

I guess life is a lot easier when you just assume what most people are telling you isn’t true

2024-08-16 22:25:52

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Yeah that might be a priority for a bitcoin app
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2024-08-16 21:58:05

Will Kamala outlast a head of lettuce?

2024-08-16 20:57:47

You must be a pretty boring person if all you ever talk about is what group you belong to

2024-08-15 22:03:48

🤔
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2024-08-14 22:55:20

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Actually maybe ETFs are sufficient

2024-08-14 22:32:06

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Veto overrides are relatively rare in U.S. history. Since the founding of the country, Presidents have issued over 2,500 vetoes, and Congress has overridden fewer than ten percent of them. Here are a few key points:
1. **Total Vetoes**: As of now, there have been about 2,584 presidential vetoes.
2. **Successful Overrides**: Out of those, only around 112 vetoes have been successfully overridden by Congress.
3. **Success Rate**: This means that Congress has overridden about 4-5% of all presidential vetoes.
4. **Historical Examples**: Notable veto overrides include Congress overriding President Gerald Ford's veto of the Freedom of Information Act amendments in 1974 and Congress overriding President George W. Bush's veto of the Water Resources Development Act in 2007.
In summary, achieving a two-thirds majority to override a veto is difficult and rare, requiring significant bipartisan support.

2024-08-14 05:39:12

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What about a hard fork in bitcoin that sets say 1% of all mined bitcoin and puts it in a pot, to be allocated in a way that is consensus approved in the hard fork (at a minimum; enforcement of transactions and remediation/ disincentives for bad actors). Not foolproof but satoshi wanted to go from 15-30% government spending to 0% which is kind of so beyond what we have evolved to cope with and also means there is no centralised force to combat other centralised forces (eg current governments) other than what people give voluntarily.

2024-08-14 05:32:46

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Well the Prime Minister certainly has a big input into what is introduced in parliament through his cabinet

2024-08-14 05:30:40

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Regular or adult?

2024-08-14 05:08:41

There’s nothing glorious about nature. It wants to fucking destroy you

2024-08-13 06:53:58

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Well maybe not. Maybe he could have signed executive orders to stop congress raising the debt ceiling or something. That oughta do it

2024-08-11 22:07:02

The #nostr users who keep going on about #sunlight being so important and not damaging of your skin
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2024-08-11 08:04:34

@npub1a2c…w83a #earstr
#note1mts…z8p9

2024-08-11 07:51:16

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2024-08-10 23:17:15

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2024-08-10 23:07:16

Ultimately, they’ll spend what they can collect.
#note1e7r…cz9d
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2024-08-06 21:30:22

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I don’t know why women waste time on this

2024-08-05 04:59:56

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Saved from what?

2024-08-03 00:46:16

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I’d like to put some milk in your chocolate

2024-08-02 09:28:57

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I extend you that same offer

2024-08-02 06:00:52

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So you’re buying kyc sats and sending your friends non-kyc sats. Can you be my friend too?

2024-08-01 06:02:32

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Nah mad respect
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2024-08-01 04:05:05

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2024-07-31 21:58:24

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Wen community notes

2024-07-29 04:51:00

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My point is I wouldn’t like to run the experiment of voluntary tax, find out that that number donated is basically zero, and then get invaded and slaughtered by an invading army since you don’t have an army anymore
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2024-07-28 08:11:30

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It gets to a point where you have to start asking yourself who it really serves to demonise surveillance, tax (military spending) in the West

2024-07-27 23:46:07

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Vitamin D is important but a word of caution from an Australian that spends a lot of time outdoors (I have a lawn mowing business)- skin cancer is the third leading cancer in Australia with about 20k cases diagnosed each year. Notably there are twice as many men as women diagnosed (likely due to men getting more sun exposure on average). A bit of sun is no doubt healthy, vitamin d is no doubt good, but it does come with risk.
https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/cancer-types/melanoma/statistics

2024-07-24 00:58:38

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I remember seeing it and telling a woman I was seeing at the time it ‘hit a bit close to home’, and she replied ‘are you happy?’. Was all a bit surreal

2024-07-20 03:37:09

It just occurred to me that we don’t really have monogamy in the purest sense in the West anymore. Every marriage between two people, and also every de facto relationship in places with extensive de facto frameworks like Australia, involves three entities: the two people and the State.
Not wanting a relationship with the State, I suppose the rational and moral thing to do is also to not have a relationship with a woman.

2024-07-19 08:55:05

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The ending is great- spooky

2024-07-17 05:17:08

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If I'm sure of one thing it's that you shouldn't invest based on other's feelings

2024-07-15 10:51:47

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No they don't. Each person acts in their own self interest, which is to offer their house to someone else at the highest price someone is willing to pay. What you're implying is that there is some kind of collusion between all landlords to set prices in concert with each other, which is either ignorance or willful misrepresentation

2024-07-15 09:34:27

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Except the market isn't all the same guy, hence the name

2024-07-08 04:34:06

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I agree with everything you say except your conclusion- if they can't verify the trustworthiness of their own husband how are they ever going to be in a position to know enough to be able to trust an app developer?

2024-07-07 11:24:21

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Middle aged developed world women buying a rural property so they can't be seen drinking themselves to death is actually pretty common

2024-07-03 02:38:20

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With the somewhat not minor issue that using bitcoin to buy something in Itan is illegal

2024-07-03 01:43:30

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A bond issued by the government of the world's biggest economy which has no debt in this new currency. Who wouldn't. The next rug will likely be another 300 years away

2024-07-03 00:54:27

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'Legally impossible'😂 Cute.
As I said, the us govt won't care. It's a one shot kill. The interest expense is virtually cancelled, and the us govt can reissue new bonds (even in a new currency) at what rates it wishes. What happens when an individual or corporation goes bankrupt? Same concept.

2024-07-02 14:43:31

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Life is but a stage, and all the men and women merely players

2024-07-02 13:59:51

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I'm getting too tired to wrap my head around this tonight, but my first reaction is that this is way to complicated to work in practice. Why is everyone just magically insured? Like how do we go from here to there? How do I know what level of insurance I need to go where, if each individual property owner can require that of me independently? How do they know what level of insurance I have, and how can they detect fraud? Isn't the arbitration just a court system? So then how to fund that without preventing thugs from free riding knowing that if it is underfunded they can steal stuff again? A dollar spent on private enforcement protecting my property would be a better use of my funds than funding arbitrators. So reverse tragedy of the commons again, until it all falls apart when you can't protect your basic stuff.

2024-07-02 13:39:41

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No, just say existing bondholders aren't getting anything above 2%. Then the interest expense goes to very low. Then cut spending so it's 100% funded through tax receipts. No additional debt issuance necessary.
So maybe likely in the next few years then

2024-07-02 13:19:02

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Like if you murder someone you prob going to prison. So the police come and arrest you and take you away

2024-07-02 13:10:38

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So who enforces that, if not a centralised authority, if someone kills someone else

2024-07-02 12:51:01

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So some thug comes up behind you and knocks you out and takes your stuff. How do you decend against that?

2024-07-02 11:05:20

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Gundlach floated the idea lately that US could say that any bond coupon will be capped at 2%, which would dramatically reduce the govt interest expense but also make the us treasury market instantly illiquid, so us couldn't issue more debt, resulting in massive austerity. This would solve the problem of debt going forward. It would also likely not be good for bitcoin, as it would make us dollar harder.

2024-06-29 07:42:22

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Today I'm celebrating my back hurting a little less this afternoon than it was this morning

2024-06-26 23:41:32

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This is a fascinating concept and I think it has huge implications. The problem though, seems to be women's inability to find attractive low t men, resulting in falling birthrates and male loneliness. Eg, women who want 'a high t man' despite that not being in the best interests of the man. She doesn't think about what is good for the man though, she goes with her desire (as, arguably, she should).
And not sure I agree with the claim that ability of men to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle results in their automatic success. Yes, they may not lust after woman in the same way, but they are still likely to feel a profound loneliness and ennui wothout a romantic partner, and their low t might result in their inability to mitigate this through even casual encounters.
So we're left with a majority of men who are quite well adapted to survive in such a society in some sense, but quite unable to find a partner. The question then becomes why they would continue to contribute to such a society. And I think the answer is that they will stop paying tax, in the hope that the state collapses, anarchy ensues, and we go back to traditional gender roles where a single man again fulfils the multiple roles that technology, the state and high t men provide to them separately at the moment.