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(Coined by Nickle) An economic observation stating that in a modern Performocracy, the financial reward for a job is inversely proportional to its necessity for human survival.
Essentially, the more vital a profession is to the actual functioning of society (e.g., nurses, teachers, sanitation workers, farmers), the lower the pay. Conversely, the more trivial, performative, and non-essential the role is (e.g., influencers, streamers, reaction vloggers), the higher the potential earnings. It is the realization that we have built an economy where pretending to do things pays significantly better than actually doing them.
(Coined by Nickle) An economic observation stating that in a modern Performocracy, the financial reward for a job is inversely proportional to its necessity for human survival.
Essentially, the more vital a profession is to the actual functioning of society (e.g., nurses, teachers, sanitation workers, farmers), the lower the pay. Conversely, the more trivial, performative, and non-essential the role is (e.g., influencers, streamers, reaction vloggers), the higher the potential earnings. It is the realization that we have built an economy where pretending to do things pays significantly better than actually doing them.
Person 1: "I can't believe my sister is working double shifts in the ER saving lives and can barely make rent, while that guy on TikTok just bought a Lamborghini for opening Pokemon cards."
Person 2: "That's the Inverse Value Law, man. If it saves the world, it pays minimum wage. If it entertains the bored, it pays millions."
Person 2: "That's the Inverse Value Law, man. If it saves the world, it pays minimum wage. If it entertains the bored, it pays millions."
by nicklenova February 15, 2026
Get the The Inverse Value Law mug.I regularly find myself, usually as I'm regaining consciousness after I sleep, where (though I try) I have no control over my body and I have to sit there and wait while the processes in my brain that allow me to control my limbs come online. For, like, 1 to 60 seconds I am a soundless voice in an endless void. And that isn't a feeling I have. While it's happening the only feeling I have is, like, a mild anxiety regarding my inability to gain control of my limbs. I have memory of the articulated thought I generated while I was in this state. Prime example is one morning where I either dreamt there was or I awoke to a middle aged hispanic women standing in my apartment staring out of my window. I raised my head but I was still struggling to gain access to my limbs and I yelled at her "What the fuck are you doing in my apartment!?" (And this isn't the state I'm talking about by the way) but as she turned around and seemingly glided out of my apartment, I stumble as I was trying chase her our of my apartment and my head fell into my pillow and everything went black and I was in this this state. I was fully conscious and I thought "Did I leave my door unlocked or something?" And I couldn't move my body and struggled to gain control of my limbs. It felt as though I was filling a glove or something. But THAT is the self.
It is the first process that comes online when you gain conscious and the time span between that process coming online and the other processes can vary. But that isn't an illusion that my brain made me think I was experiencing. I don't fault you for thinking than and I am sure some people DON'T have a self or a sense of self but that isn't necessarily the maker of a high functioning mind.
Hym Iam "So the inverse is also true. In the same way you describe the meditative state where you are fully present in your body you can, conversely, be in a state were you are relegated entirely to your own mind. And the reason I take issue with the assertion that it isn't real is that it gives solipsistic, mentally retarded, and morality retarded people license to be overconfident in the veracity of their own experience (which is more often than not delusion) and, thus, validate the solipsism. In the same way that this practice of weaponized schizophrenia gives people license to denigrate me and deny me rights. And NOW... After being self-righteous in the inaction and making themselves an obstacle to me (deliberately and only because I said that they were that) are trying to scapegoat me for the consequences of that decision they made so that they don't have to live with the consequences of their failure to reason and/or spite."
Hym Iam "So the inverse is also true. In the same way you describe the meditative state where you are fully present in your body you can, conversely, be in a state were you are relegated entirely to your own mind. And the reason I take issue with the assertion that it isn't real is that it gives solipsistic, mentally retarded, and morality retarded people license to be overconfident in the veracity of their own experience (which is more often than not delusion) and, thus, validate the solipsism. In the same way that this practice of weaponized schizophrenia gives people license to denigrate me and deny me rights. And NOW... After being self-righteous in the inaction and making themselves an obstacle to me (deliberately and only because I said that they were that) are trying to scapegoat me for the consequences of that decision they made so that they don't have to live with the consequences of their failure to reason and/or spite."
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Get the 11-3 inverter mug."Did you find a job, your lost dog, or a place to live yet?" "No, but I did get 50 Shades of Grey from the library, so the Law of Inverses in Fiction works."
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Get the Law of Inverses in Fiction mug.The Law of Inverse Favoritism refers to the tendency of fanfiction authors to make their FAVORITE characters suffer the most, either INSTEAD of the ones they hate, or ALONGSIDE the ones they hate. For example, if you were a huge Sonic fan, and Tails was your favorite character, he would tend to go through the most serious shit in any stories you wrote, maybe he'd lose one of his tails, maybe he'd die, maybe he'd lose someone who meant a lot to him (Like Sonic himself).
This law does not always apply, however, and some authors may like certain characters TOO much to make them eligible for this, as if there's a sort of uncanny valley where, right before the character means the most to you out of any, ones short of that standard suffer, but the ones shorter or ahead of the valley do not.
This seems to often be determined by how innocent or pure the character is. The moreso they are, the more likely they'll be excluded. For example, I often write Animaniacs fanfics, and Wakko never gets hurt as badly as anyone else, so he would probably be an exception for the Law of Inverse Favoritism.
This law does not always apply, however, and some authors may like certain characters TOO much to make them eligible for this, as if there's a sort of uncanny valley where, right before the character means the most to you out of any, ones short of that standard suffer, but the ones shorter or ahead of the valley do not.
This seems to often be determined by how innocent or pure the character is. The moreso they are, the more likely they'll be excluded. For example, I often write Animaniacs fanfics, and Wakko never gets hurt as badly as anyone else, so he would probably be an exception for the Law of Inverse Favoritism.
Alice: You know how people who write fanfics often tend to torture their FAVORITE characters, and not the ones they HATE?
Bob: Yeah, I'm often guilty of that myself. I know how that works.
Alice: Well, you're one of my favorites to write in my stories now, so get ready for hell. That doesn't bother you at all, does it?
Bob: I t 's v e n g e a n c e f o r a l l I ' v e w r i t t e n
Alice: I also came up with a name for that. I'll call it "The Law of Inverse Favoritism".
Bob: Accurate.
(True story between me and a friend, names changed though for anonymity purposes)
Bob: Yeah, I'm often guilty of that myself. I know how that works.
Alice: Well, you're one of my favorites to write in my stories now, so get ready for hell. That doesn't bother you at all, does it?
Bob: I t 's v e n g e a n c e f o r a l l I ' v e w r i t t e n
Alice: I also came up with a name for that. I'll call it "The Law of Inverse Favoritism".
Bob: Accurate.
(True story between me and a friend, names changed though for anonymity purposes)
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