Success in New Games looks nothing like success in Old Games.

You won't have a prestigious job at a famous company. You'll have equity in something you built with friends.

The infrastructure won't be rebuilt by institutions or apps or government programs. It will be rebuilt by small groups playing New Games until Old Games become irrelevant

Every system young men touch today extracts value while promising creation. College extracts tuition while promising knowledge. Jobs extract time while promising careers. Apps extract attention while promising connection. Finance extracts hope while promising wealth.

The shift from Old Games to New Games is fundamentally about reversing this flow.

These aren't revolutionary ideas. They're ancient patterns: small groups of humans doing hard things together repeatedly. We just forgot they were necessary because institutions used to provide them. The institutions are gone. Time to build our own.

claiming it's over is just an excuse to avoid building what's next.

New Games create status through contribution. The workshop where building something earns respect. The fight club where showing up earns membership. The dinner society where interesting conversation earns invites.

Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting everything: houses, cars, software, entertainment. The New Game makes you an owner of something real, however small.

When individual entry is impossible, collective entry becomes optimal. When traditional financing fails, alternative structures win. The groups doing this now will own property while solo

In prediction markets, being consistently right matters more than being occasionally lucky. Research beats gambling. Patience beats excitement. Sharing information strengthens your position rather than weakening it. The best traders aren't degenerate gamblers but patient builders of track records.

This is the model: games where your intelligence