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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux examines civic participation and the impact of welfare systems on society. He critiques the reliance on government aid, arguing it fosters dependency and hinders personal initiative. He analyzes capitalism's complexities, emphasizing that success is influenced by market dynamics rather than just hard work. The importance of thoughtful dialogue in a polarized environment is also highlighted. Ultimately, he calls for a reevaluation of personal and collective responsibilities to create a more informed society.
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"With Western society resembling that of an insane asylum, how does one stay motivated to participate? Do you ever have the desire to leave and live on an island beach?"
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"When is it right to speak about an issue"
"How does the phenomenon of 'working yourself out of a job' fit into a logical capitalist system? A logical *and moral* capitalist system rewards productivity and innovation. A crony capitalist system punishes productivity and innovation. Over my many years of work, I've lost track of how many times I was told 'don't work yourself out of a job' or had bosses steal ideas and even claim work done as their own that was done by another. MAKE IT WORK PHILOSOPHICALLY. The last 'frontier' was not peaceful parenting. That was the second to last frontier. The last frontier is private sector ethics, which is the only path toward a real capitalistic society."
"What are your thoughts on meditation? Have you ever done it?"
"In a world where evil is rewarded and good behavior punished, is evil behavior justified?"
"I have a philosophical question. How should you measure philosophical principles against real world outcomes? It seems to me there needs to be an objective yardstick to gauge philosophical theories."
"A man can do bad things all his like and then do one good deed and they say, he’s not so bad, a man can so good things all his life and one day do one bad deed and they say, he’s shown his true colours"
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00:00All right, good afternoon.
00:03Questions from the fine folks on Facebook.
00:07Ooh, there's some falliteration for you.
00:10With Western society resembling that of an insane asylum,
00:13how does one stay motivated to participate?
00:15Do you ever have the desire to leave and live on an island beach?
00:19Well, I mean, everybody has their fantasy for sure,
00:23but I will tell you this, that I quite like civilization.
00:27I have a strong affinity.
00:30I did my living in the wilds when I worked as a gold panoram prospector after high school.
00:36I did that for about a year and a half, summer, winter, and now.
00:40Some of it was in town, but a lot of it was in the bush, and I quite like it.
00:46I quite like having a nice coffee.
00:49I quite like being able to talk to people about philosophy using technology.
00:54And there's a lot of nice stuff about all of that.
00:59So, I do not have a fantasy that the natural life,
01:04the life unfretted by technology and comforts, is better.
01:07So, I think it's worth staying to participate.
01:12Now, personally, I do not believe that there is a philosophical solution
01:18to the problems that are coming.
01:21And I say this having spent 44 years trying to tell people how to live with reason,
01:28how to make better moral decisions, how to not be propagandized,
01:32how to think from first principles.
01:34I've done all of that for, I mean, gosh, 44 years.
01:40I have some knowledge, I suppose, whereof I speak.
01:44And there's an old saying, it is impossible to get a man to understand something
01:50when his income depends upon him not understanding it.
01:53Really, since the post-Second World War period, since the 1960s in particular,
01:58people, there's no politics.
02:00There's no political discussion.
02:02There's no political debate.
02:03There's just bribery.
02:06Trillions of dollars poured into voters who vote for more and more government.
02:10And trying to talk people out of taking government benefits
02:15is like trying to convince someone who just found a half a million dollar lottery ticket,
02:22winning lottery ticket on the road, to not cash it in.
02:27You can't do that.
02:29People will go and cash in that lottery ticket.
02:31We are wired for free stuff.
02:33Sure.
02:33I mean, it's why we have all this technology, right?
02:35So we can, you know, when I was a kid,
02:36you actually had to get up and change the channel.
02:38You can do it remotely.
02:40First, it was wired.
02:40Now it's wireless.
02:42So we are so wired to get free stuff
02:46that when governments have the power to offer trillions of dollars worth of free stuff
02:52to the world population every year,
02:55people will take that free stuff
02:57and they will fight almost to the death to keep it.
03:04So, I mean, this is called the welfare cliff, right?
03:06So a woman in America who has two children and is taking government benefits
03:11would have to earn a hundred thousand dollars in income
03:15just to match the free stuff she gets from the government.
03:18It's a staggering amount of money.
03:20It's incomprehensible how much money goes to the poor.
03:24And of course, the problem of poverty is not solved.
03:28The problem of poverty is worse now than before these government programs began
03:33because you have people who now for three or four generations
03:36are dependent on the government, have lost all economic and labor skills.
03:41Education has gotten worse.
03:44And because of massive amounts of foreign aid
03:47and dumping food into the third world,
03:51dumping money into the third world,
03:52which destroys local farmers,
03:55of course, we now have more people dependent on aid
03:58that cannot possibly last.
03:59Now, it's a drug, right?
04:01Free stuff is a drug.
04:03It makes you dependent.
04:05It hollers you out.
04:06It makes you manipulative as hell.
04:09And then it destroys you.
04:11That's what addictions do.
04:13And the addiction to violence and exploitation is just that.
04:17It's just an addiction to free stuff,
04:19to the fruits and products of violence.
04:22And, of course, deficits, debts, and unfunded liabilities
04:26have made the system for which people have become dependent on now
04:29for several generations utterly unsustainable.
04:33And so the amount of, like, debt is just deferred cruelty.
04:36Deferred and escalated cruelty, right?
04:39If you borrow, then you can work less now,
04:42but you've simply extended and extrapolated the suffering down the road
04:47when you have to cut back on more in order to pay off the debt.
04:50So the system has no solution outside of collapse,
04:57which is a great shame, honestly.
04:59I mean, there's no words large or powerful enough to encapsulate
05:05what a great and terrible shame this is.
05:07But, of course, people are not wired for honor, for truth,
05:14for integrity, for morality.
05:16People are wired to get the maximum resources
05:20with the least amount of effort.
05:23I mean, all animals, to get the maximum resources
05:26for the least amount of effort.
05:28Now, going into the voting booth once every couple of years
05:32to check off a ballot to ensure that $100,000 worth of free stuff
05:37comes slowing your way is, in all of human history,
05:41there has never been this amount of reward
05:44for this tiny amount of effort.
05:47You've got to get off your butt.
05:49You don't even have to, but, you know,
05:51ideally you get off your butt,
05:52you waddle down to the voting booth,
05:56and you check off the free stuff party,
05:59and you go back and you get another couple of years
06:02of $7,500,000 worth of free stuff every year.
06:08You can't beat that, right?
06:10And it's funny, you know,
06:11because there was somebody on X, this politician,
06:14who's like, oh, it was a stunning,
06:15I achieved a stunning electoral victory.
06:20Well, it's not really that stunning an electoral victory
06:23if you happen to be tall and good-looking
06:25and offer mostly female voters mostly free stuff
06:29taken from mostly male voters.
06:32It's like saying, well, I'm a great,
06:35I'm a great sportsman in some subjective sport, right?
06:40I'm a great sportsman because I've bribed the judges.
06:45No, you just bribe people, that's all.
06:48Like, you can't say you're innocent if you bribe the judge.
06:50I mean, you'll say it, of course,
06:51that's why you bribe the judge,
06:52but if you bribe the judge to rule in your favor,
06:54then you're guilty of two crimes
06:56probably rather than one or zero.
07:00So, to understand the welfare cliff another way,
07:03you would see that a woman who has two kids,
07:07who works, is taxed at 100%
07:10until she starts making over $100,000
07:13and then she is taxed really 100%
07:21on all the money up to $100,000.
07:23So, if she makes $110,000,
07:27then she's taxed at some crazy percentage.
07:31If you make $10,000,
07:32you're probably not taxed at all or not much,
07:35but if you make $110,000
07:37and you give up $100,000 worth of free stuff
07:40from the government,
07:40then you're taxed on the $10,000
07:42that you're getting
07:44over and above
07:45the money you lost from welfare,
07:48but you're taxed at a much higher tax rate
07:49because it's $10,000
07:51sitting on top of $100,000.
07:54So, let's say that the tax rate is 40%.
07:56Let's say you don't get taxed on $10,000,
07:58but
07:59at $110,000,
08:02you're taxed at 40%.
08:04So, you're actually only making $6,000
08:07for working a difficult, challenging job
08:10and
08:11being required to put $110,000
08:14worth of value into
08:15an employer's pocket,
08:16you make a grand total
08:17of $6,000.
08:20Right?
08:21I mean, that's
08:22that's completely
08:24insane, right?
08:25I mean, you can't
08:26nobody will do that.
08:27Nobody will work hard,
08:28give up time with their children,
08:30time to relax,
08:31time to watch TV,
08:32read,
08:33go for walks,
08:34maybe even go to the gym.
08:35Nobody's going to give up
08:36that, right?
08:38For
08:38$6,000 a year.
08:41Right?
08:43That is
08:43quite
08:45mad.
08:46That is
08:47about
08:49$3 an hour.
08:51Who is going to work
08:52crazy hard for
08:53$2.88 an hour?
08:55Right?
08:56So, you have to provide
08:58well more than
08:59$110,000 of value
09:00for
09:01your employer.
09:03You have to probably provide
09:04quarter of a million dollars
09:05worth of value to
09:06her employer
09:06in return for
09:08$2.88 an hour.
09:10So, people aren't going to do that.
09:12So, there's no
09:12solution.
09:13You can't talk people
09:14out of that.
09:15You can't convince them
09:16to not do that.
09:17And people have already
09:18made their decisions
09:19in life based upon
09:20there being free stuff.
09:21So, women,
09:22single moms
09:23have had their children
09:24and have been,
09:25you know,
09:26probably fairly horrible
09:28to the fathers
09:29of their children
09:30because, like,
09:31most men want to be happy.
09:32They want to be in
09:33stable relationships.
09:34They want to be fathers.
09:35They want to be married.
09:36And so,
09:37to drive
09:38a man away,
09:40the single
09:41mother has to usually
09:42be fairly horrible.
09:43Right?
09:44But she can afford
09:45to be fairly horrible.
09:46She can indulge
09:46in her most negative
09:47instincts
09:48because
09:49the government
09:50is coming to
09:51catch her
09:51and make sure
09:52that she gets
09:53massive amounts of money
09:54so she can be married
09:55to the state
09:55rather than
09:57to her husband
09:59and
10:00what that does,
10:02of course,
10:02is that is
10:02sacrificing the children
10:04for the sake of
10:05material greed
10:06because the children
10:07need a father.
10:08They don't need a check
10:09from the government.
10:09They need a father.
10:11And so,
10:12the woman
10:12is basically selling
10:14the future happiness
10:15and stability
10:16of her children
10:17in return for free stuff
10:19from the government
10:19because she marries
10:20the government
10:20which gives her more money
10:22rather than
10:22a husband
10:24who gives her children
10:24a much better future.
10:26it's a child sacrifice.
10:28It's an old
10:28it's an old trope,
10:30right?
10:30In human history
10:31it's kind of the default
10:32and the normal human history.
10:34So,
10:35there is no political solution
10:37to our troubled evolution.
10:39So,
10:39yeah,
10:40there's,
10:40I mean,
10:41what we are doing
10:42is,
10:43I mean,
10:44to be frank,
10:45what we are doing,
10:46all we are doing
10:47is documenting
10:49the decline
10:51so that
10:53it is vivid
10:53and available
10:54and,
10:55I mean,
10:56really all I'm doing,
10:57like one of the reasons
10:58I withdrew from politics
10:59is
11:00that
11:02it was
11:03becoming
11:04extremely
11:05tiresome
11:06and often annoying
11:08being so far
11:09ahead of the curve.
11:10And,
11:11I mean,
11:11look,
11:11I have my strengths
11:12and weaknesses
11:12but
11:13one of my strengths
11:14is that
11:14I'm
11:15a pretty good
11:16prognosticator,
11:17right?
11:17The Cassandra complex
11:18that she warns
11:19everyone of danger
11:19but nobody listens to her
11:20and that's the torment,
11:22right?
11:22I mean,
11:23the discussions
11:24that are being
11:24had now
11:25on social media
11:26were getting people
11:28nuked and banned
11:29and death threats
11:30and doxed
11:31and all of that
11:32and now
11:33not so much,
11:34right?
11:34So,
11:34like I just saw
11:35this one on
11:36this show on,
11:38well,
11:38I did a show
11:39on tattoos,
11:40I think,
11:41I don't know,
11:4110 or 15
11:42years ago
11:43about how there are
11:44signs of
11:44mental illness
11:46and
11:46now the studies
11:48are out,
11:48not only are there
11:49signs of mental illness,
11:50their dose dependent,
11:50the more there are tattoos,
11:51the more the mental illness
11:52in general.
11:53So,
11:54of course,
11:55everybody lost their minds
11:5610 or 15 years ago.
11:58It's just kind of dull
11:59being too far
12:00ahead of the curve
12:02and
12:03there's really not much
12:04reward to it.
12:06There's really not much
12:06reward to it.
12:08What's the benefit
12:08of being ahead
12:10of the curve?
12:11You get
12:12all the arrows
12:13in your back
12:13and
12:15I suppose
12:16you get the glorious
12:17vista of
12:17relatively
12:19uncharted territory
12:20but
12:20it's really,
12:21it's not worth it,
12:22right?
12:23And I've done my time,
12:24I've done my 40 years
12:25like this,
12:25all these people
12:26on AirX
12:27and other social media
12:28platforms
12:28complaining about
12:30the price of
12:31a health insurance
12:31in America
12:33which is lunatic
12:34and horrible
12:34and terrible
12:35and I was
12:37talking,
12:38I don't know,
12:3920 years ago
12:39about how bad
12:40government run
12:41healthcare is
12:42and how it's both
12:44immoral
12:44and impractical
12:45but everybody
12:47wanted to feel
12:48like a
12:48good little
12:50person for
12:52voting in
12:52Barack Obama
12:53to heal
12:54America's
12:55history of
12:56racism
12:56and so on
12:57and they
12:57didn't want
12:57to feel good
12:58they weren't
12:58evaluating
12:59anything other
13:00than wanting
13:01to virtue signal
13:02and
13:03I mean the bill
13:04is due
13:05I mean
13:06the bill
13:06is coming due
13:07and it's been
13:08coming due
13:08for a while
13:08but it's
13:09particularly more
13:10true
13:10so yeah
13:11you can
13:12virtue signal
13:13you can
13:13do the
13:14appearance
13:15of the good
13:15and right
13:15thing
13:16you can
13:16get the
13:16pat-pat
13:17of being
13:18a good
13:20little
13:20conciliatory
13:22diversity
13:22person
13:23and
13:24you can
13:24get your
13:25approval
13:25from the
13:26media
13:26and from
13:27the powers
13:27that be
13:28and pat-pat
13:29and all your
13:29friends
13:29oh so
13:30progressive
13:30oh so
13:31wonderful
13:31oh he's
13:31the one
13:32and
13:33okay
13:33you can
13:34get all
13:34of that
13:34and that
13:34feels good
13:35right
13:35that feels
13:36good
13:36it feels
13:36good to
13:36do the
13:37right
13:37thing
13:37quote
13:37as
13:38it's
13:38called
13:38and it
13:39feels
13:39good
13:39to get
13:39everyone's
13:40approval
13:40and it
13:40feels
13:41good
13:41and
13:42it feels
13:45to be praised
13:45for conformity
13:46it does
13:47I mean
13:47otherwise
13:48we wouldn't
13:48do it
13:48right
13:48it feels
13:49good to
13:49be praised
13:50for conformity
13:50and then
13:51you um
13:52well
13:53you
13:53you have
13:55to pay
13:55the price
13:56for that
13:56you have
13:57to pay
13:57the price
13:58and
14:00the bill
14:00is due
14:01and
14:01people are
14:02mad
14:03and they
14:04don't
14:04make the
14:05connection
14:05very often
14:06they don't
14:06see the
14:06connection
14:07but
14:07yeah so
14:08I don't
14:09want to
14:10leave
14:10why should
14:10I be
14:10driven away
14:11from
14:11civilization
14:11by the
14:12uncivilized
14:12but
14:13yeah
14:14certainly
14:14um
14:15some
14:16prepping
14:16some
14:16preparation
14:17and in
14:17particular
14:17having
14:18good
14:18people
14:18around
14:18you
14:19who
14:19will
14:19have
14:19your
14:19back
14:19should
14:20things
14:21get a little
14:21hairy
14:22would be
14:22excellent
14:23so
14:25no
14:26I understand
14:27but yeah
14:28I'm staying
14:29to
14:29to cement
14:31my reputation
14:31in the future
14:32that's
14:32that's the
14:33goal
14:33at the
14:33moment
14:33all right
14:35next question
14:35if most of
14:36your life
14:36was a
14:37psychological
14:37operation
14:38how would
14:38you logically
14:39assess the
14:39moral
14:39and strategic
14:40response
14:41once it
14:41all
14:42unravels
14:43I do
14:44not
14:44understand
14:44that
14:44question
14:45please
14:45refrain
14:45next
14:47question
14:47when is
14:47it right
14:48to speak
14:48about
14:49an issue
14:49well
14:51what you
14:52have to
14:53remember
14:53of course
14:54is that
14:55people are
14:58dangerously
14:59programmed
15:00they're
15:01programmed
15:01to react
15:02like
15:03an antibody
15:03so the
15:04purpose of
15:04propaganda
15:05is to
15:06weaponize
15:07people's
15:08desire to
15:09feel good
15:10rather than
15:10do good
15:11by turning
15:12them into
15:12attack dogs
15:14or antibodies
15:14on the
15:16truth
15:16so the
15:17purpose of
15:18propaganda
15:18is to
15:19program
15:19people
15:20to reward
15:21lies
15:21and punish
15:22and attack
15:23the truth
15:23tellers
15:24propaganda
15:25is an
15:26autoimmune
15:26disorder
15:27in the
15:28social and
15:29political
15:29body
15:30corpus
15:30of course
15:31your body
15:32is supposed
15:32to recognize
15:33foreign
15:34elements
15:34that are
15:34dangerous
15:35to it
15:36and attack
15:37those but
15:38leave the
15:38healthy cells
15:38alone
15:39propaganda
15:40of course
15:41reverses this
15:41into an
15:42autoimmune
15:42self-attack
15:43disorder
15:43where
15:44your immune
15:45system
15:45ignores
15:47the dangerous
15:48attack
15:49viruses
15:50bacteria
15:50or cancers
15:51and instead
15:53attacks the
15:53healthy cells
15:54the myelin
15:55sheath
15:55and all
15:56other sorts
15:56of stuff
15:57and so the
15:58purpose of
15:58propaganda
15:59is to
16:00turn people's
16:01desire to
16:02get something
16:02for nothing
16:03and in this
16:03case it's
16:04the feeling
16:05of being
16:05virtuous
16:05without actually
16:06being virtuous
16:06to bribe
16:08people with
16:08approval
16:09rather than
16:10challenge them
16:11to be
16:11virtuous
16:12and because
16:13people want
16:14stuff for
16:15free
16:15then once
16:17they get
16:17addicted to
16:18being praised
16:18rather than
16:19being good
16:19then the
16:22praise and
16:22the punishment
16:23turns from
16:24praising the
16:25truth and
16:26punishing
16:26falsehood to
16:27praising falsehood
16:28and punishing
16:28the truth
16:29so you are
16:30in a
16:32dangerous
16:33environment
16:34where people
16:35have been
16:36propagandized
16:37and seduced
16:39by the
16:39devilish
16:40forces in
16:41the human
16:41mind and
16:43world
16:43they have
16:44been programmed
16:44to attack
16:45the truth
16:46and to
16:47reward
16:47liars
16:48right so
16:49this is the
16:50old argument
16:50from Socrates
16:51right that if
16:52you have a
16:52in a
16:53democracy
16:53if you have
16:54someone a
16:55politician
16:56who says
16:57eat your
16:58vegetables
16:58he is going
16:59to be
17:00losing
17:01he is always
17:01going to
17:02lose to
17:02the
17:02politician
17:02who says
17:03free
17:04consequence
17:05free candy
17:05free and
17:06consequence
17:06free candy
17:07and so
17:09a politician
17:10who says
17:11we are going
17:11to have to
17:11tighten our
17:12belts and
17:13cut our
17:13spending
17:13is going
17:14to lose
17:15to the
17:16politician
17:17who says
17:17we can
17:18tackle all
17:19of these
17:19issues
17:19and we
17:20can fix
17:20everything
17:21and everything
17:22will be
17:22wonderful
17:22and perfect
17:23and we
17:24can tax
17:24other people
17:25it is not
17:25going to
17:25harm you
17:26all that
17:26kind of
17:26stuff
17:27right
17:27so when
17:28is it right
17:29to speak
17:29about an
17:29issue
17:29well when
17:30you're
17:31around
17:31reasonable
17:32people
17:32and you
17:33can do
17:33little
17:33probes
17:34for this
17:34right
17:34when you're
17:35in
17:36when you
17:36think you're
17:36in enemy
17:37territory
17:37or you
17:38are in
17:38enemy
17:38territory
17:39which is
17:39generally
17:39the case
17:40when you're
17:40out in
17:41society
17:41you are
17:42in
17:42conquered
17:43territory
17:43right
17:44you are
17:44a spy
17:45you are
17:45a scout
17:46at best
17:47you are
17:48in enemy
17:49territory
17:49you are
17:51among the
17:51zombies
17:51you are
17:52among the
17:53volatile
17:53mob
17:54and
17:55you are
17:56in enemy
17:57territory
17:58when you're
17:58out there
17:58in society
17:59you're in
18:00conquered
18:00territory
18:00so in the same way that
18:03spies used to have their secret handshakes
18:05and their secret signals to identify each other
18:07you need to put out these little probes
18:09to see and find out
18:11if people have the capacity
18:12to think
18:14to reason
18:15to be curious
18:16to go against the narrative
18:18or are they
18:19conquer territory
18:20who have no choice
18:22but to be an NPC
18:23attack
18:24agent
18:25for
18:26their propaganda masters
18:28so
18:30it's like being in the resistance
18:32in Germany
18:34under Hitler
18:34or being in the resistance in France
18:36under the Vichy regime
18:37the Hitler
18:38or the Nazi regime
18:39so
18:40you are in enemy territory
18:42and
18:44you need to be very cautious
18:45you need to be very careful
18:46those people who you trust
18:48bind them to you with hoops of steel
18:50those people you don't know
18:51you know
18:52you just put out very minor things
18:53very minor things
18:55and
18:57see how they respond
18:58I see how
19:00how they respond
19:01and
19:03you know
19:03if
19:04if
19:04you knock on the door
19:06and there's a big
19:08deep
19:08barking and growling
19:10and stuff coming from inside the house
19:12don't open the door
19:13I mean
19:14if it's someone you know
19:15right
19:15or
19:15so
19:16you
19:17you put out these little
19:19you scout right
19:20you send out these little scouts
19:21and
19:23if you are
19:24in Germany
19:26in
19:27in the second world war
19:28and you
19:28hate the
19:29Hitler regime
19:30then
19:32you have to kind of
19:34hide your views
19:35until you
19:36come across people
19:37who
19:37you think might
19:38and then you
19:39you will both
19:40test each other's
19:41you know
19:41you'll say something
19:42mildly
19:43mildly
19:43oh
19:44there was
19:45there was things I liked
19:46before the war
19:46or whatever right
19:47oh yeah me too right
19:48so then you just put out
19:49these little scouts
19:50to see if
19:51this person has been primed
19:53into an attack
19:53NPC
19:54an anti-antibody
19:56right
19:56a
19:57antibody disorder
19:58an autoimmune disorder
19:59and you find out
20:00if the person
20:01is receptive to the truth
20:02or just another
20:03NPC attack robot
20:05and then
20:06I don't
20:07I don't bother talking
20:08to people who are
20:10programmed to attack the truth
20:11I don't
20:13I don't see the point
20:14I don't view them as having
20:16they have abandoned
20:17their free will
20:18for the sake of
20:20pat on the head
20:21pretend do goodery
20:22virtue signals right
20:24so I mean
20:25there's a couple of things
20:26you can do
20:26to find out
20:27say oh
20:27it's interesting
20:28somebody puts out
20:30something you know
20:31very sort of pro
20:32general
20:33brainless narratives
20:35say oh that's interesting
20:36have you ever read
20:38anything that disagrees
20:39with that
20:39ah that might be too far
20:40right
20:40or you know
20:43what are the downsides
20:44of that
20:44are there any downsides
20:46like this is a really
20:46important question
20:47you can ask that
20:48I think
20:48oh are there
20:49any downsides
20:50let's say oh
20:51you know
20:52we should take
20:52all the migrants
20:54in the world
20:54right
20:55say oh
20:55are there any
20:55how many migrants
20:57do you think there are
20:58billions right
20:58would there be any
21:00downsides to that
21:00I don't know
21:01I'm concerned about
21:02downsides
21:02I sometimes wonder
21:03about downsides
21:04and if the person
21:05is like
21:06no there's no
21:06downsides
21:07we can do it
21:07it's like
21:07then
21:08anybody who's not
21:09willing to recognize
21:10that there are costs
21:10and benefits
21:11there are trade-offs
21:12bleh
21:12so
21:13it's right to speak
21:15about issues
21:16when you're in the
21:17presence of people
21:17who are willing to think
21:19and if people
21:20aren't willing to think
21:21like I had a debate
21:22I think it was
21:24Friday night
21:24with a fellow
21:25and I was sort of
21:27pointing out
21:28that this current
21:29system is unsustainable
21:30and he said
21:31no there'll be
21:31new technology
21:32that will allow us
21:32to pay off the debt
21:33and I said
21:34well of course
21:35there's been
21:36massive amounts
21:36of new technology
21:37since the 1970s
21:38which have been
21:40incredibly economically
21:40productive
21:41and the debt
21:42the deficit
21:44the debt
21:45and the unfunded
21:45liabilities
21:46have been climbing
21:47exponentially
21:48so if you're
21:50going to say
21:51if we look at
21:51the last 50 years
21:52and say
21:54massive amounts
21:55of new technology
21:56have only caused
21:57the debt
21:57to increase
21:58it's not logical
21:59to say
21:59but in the future
22:00there'll be new
22:00technology
22:01that allows us
22:01to pay off the debt
22:02right
22:03that's not
22:03it's not a rational
22:04perspective
22:05and he couldn't
22:06of course
22:06explain what
22:07the technology
22:07was
22:07and I said
22:08well you
22:08you can't
22:09just insert
22:09magic
22:10to solve a problem
22:11he's like
22:11it's not magic
22:12it's technology
22:13well if it's
22:14going to somehow
22:15reverse the entire
22:15cause and effect
22:16of political life
22:17then it is magic
22:18so
22:19anyway
22:20it's just not
22:21and then I just
22:22stopped debating
22:22all right
22:23next question
22:24how does the
22:24phenomenon
22:25of working
22:26yourself out
22:26of a job
22:27fit into a
22:27logical capitalist
22:28system
22:28a logical
22:29and moral
22:30capitalist
22:31system
22:31rewards
22:31productivity
22:32and innovation
22:32a crony
22:34capitalist
22:34system
22:35punishes
22:35productivity
22:36and innovation
22:36over my
22:37many
22:37years
22:38of work
22:39I've lost
22:39track of how
22:40many times
22:40I was told
22:41to don't
22:41work yourself
22:42out of a
22:42job
22:42or had
22:43bosses
22:43steal ideas
22:44or even
22:44claim work
22:44done as their
22:45own
22:45that was
22:45done by
22:46another
22:46make it
22:47work
22:48philosophically
22:49the last
22:51frontier
22:51was not
22:51peaceful
22:52parenting
22:52that was
22:53the second
22:53last frontier
22:54the last frontier
22:55is private
22:55sector ethics
22:56which is the
22:56only path
22:57towards a real
22:57capitalist
22:58capitalistic
22:59society
22:59yeah you know
23:01it's funny how
23:01people talk about
23:02like the logic
23:03of the capitalist
23:03system or the
23:04inevitable products
23:05of the capitalist
23:05system like it's
23:06some machinery
23:07so the capitalist
23:11system is just
23:11well don't
23:12don't do evil
23:13right don't
23:13don't use force
23:14to take other
23:15people's property
23:15respect property
23:16rights
23:17right I mean
23:19if you were to
23:20say like as I
23:22was in charge
23:23of well I was
23:24in co-charge
23:25of you know
23:2525 to 30 kids
23:27aged 5 to 10
23:27when I worked
23:28in a daycare
23:28for a couple
23:29of years
23:29and of course
23:30what to be
23:31said to the
23:31kids don't
23:32hit don't
23:32steal
23:33right and
23:35that's what we
23:35would try and
23:36get the kids
23:36and you know
23:36I think for the
23:37most part it
23:37was pretty
23:37successful I
23:38sort of
23:38explained why
23:39and all of
23:40that so if
23:42you've got a
23:42bunch of kids
23:43right let's say
23:44you've got I
23:44don't know five
23:45kids and you
23:45say to your
23:46kids I don't
23:47hit don't
23:48steal don't
23:48take stuff from
23:49each other and
23:49don't hit each
23:50other which is I
23:52mean oh look
23:53do you not have
23:54a capitalistic
23:54society now if
23:56you were to say
23:57to your kids or
23:58if you were to
23:58say about your
23:59kids saying to
24:00your kids don't
24:01hit don't steal
24:01means that they
24:03are now in a
24:04capitalistic system
24:05that results
24:06inevitably in blah
24:07blah blah blah
24:07it's like well
24:08no you're just
24:09all you're doing
24:10is telling them
24:10not to hit and
24:11not to steal
24:11that's all you're
24:12doing so the
24:14logical capitalist
24:15system don't hit
24:16don't steal I
24:17mean when you
24:18end slavery in
24:20the world when you
24:20end slavery you're
24:22not locking people
24:23into some inexorable
24:25system of blah blah
24:26blah blah blah
24:27right so I'm not
24:29I'm not sure when
24:30people say the
24:31logic of the
24:31capitalist system
24:32so a logical and
24:34moral capitalist
24:35system rewards
24:36productivity and
24:37innovation no
24:38absolutely not
24:40absolutely not I
24:42disagree with that
24:43entirely let's say
24:46that you were a
24:46movie maker and
24:48Brad Pitt appears to
24:49star in your movie
24:50he agrees to star in
24:51your movie and he
24:53will take only a
24:54dollar in pay would
24:56you take that deal
24:56well of course you
24:58would if Brad Pitt
24:59agrees to star in
25:00your movie taking
25:01only a dollar of
25:03pay and there
25:04have been times you
25:05know was it
25:06Steven Soderbergh
25:07when he was doing
25:08Ocean's Eleven got a
25:10bunch of movie stars
25:10saying you know
25:11there used to be all
25:11these old movies with
25:12lots of movie stars in
25:14them and so let's do
25:15that again and he got
25:16a bunch of people to
25:17take reduced pay to
25:19star with each other
25:20which is how he got
25:22so many big stars to
25:23do a movie together
25:24which was kind of fun
25:25right so let's say
25:27that Brad Pitt loves
25:29your movie idea so
25:30much it's something
25:32not written by
25:32Angelina Jolie
25:33right so he loves
25:34your movie idea so
25:36much that he says I
25:38will only take a
25:39dollar to star in
25:41your movie well you
25:42would you would take
25:43that deal right now
25:44you may want to give
25:45him some points on
25:46the other side or
25:47whatever but you
25:48would take that deal
25:48and then he would get
25:51to work on a great
25:51project that he really
25:52liked and you would
25:54get a world famous
25:57movie star to open
25:58your movie and so on
25:59right so the point
26:02of this story is
26:03that capitalism
26:04doesn't reward
26:06productivity and
26:07innovation you get
26:09what you negotiate
26:11you get what you
26:13negotiate I don't
26:14know who's a world
26:15famous singer I
26:16don't know Michael
26:17Buble or that
26:18puppy dog eye guy
26:19Josh Groban or
26:20Andrea Bocelli or
26:22something like that
26:23some world famous
26:24singer knocks on
26:26your door and says
26:27hey I hear you're a
26:28songwriter I'd love to
26:29sing your songs for
26:30free would you take
26:31that deal well of
26:32course you would
26:33because you would get
26:34automatic plays you
26:36would get automatic
26:36interest in your music
26:38and you know maybe
26:39they love your songs
26:40they'd get to sing your
26:41songs which they would
26:41really enjoy and you
26:44get what you negotiate
26:45for those of you who
26:47don't know Michael
26:49Buble if my memory
26:50serves me right he was
26:51a wedding singer and
26:52did he sing at brown
26:53malronies kids wedding or
26:54something like that but
26:56they sort of he sang at
26:59some famous person's
27:00wedding and they helped
27:01him sort of move up in
27:02the world to go from
27:03wedding singer to sort
27:04of worldwide put in
27:06face superstar who still
27:08couldn't hit George
27:09Michael's notes on
27:09kissing a fool but
27:10that's another matter who
27:12could right so I don't
27:15know about this it seems
27:17weird to me when people
27:18say there's machine
27:18there's this machinery
27:19that's going to reward
27:21me if I'm innovative and
27:23productive nope no the
27:26system will not
27:27automatically reward you
27:28there is no system that
27:29will automatically reward
27:30you it's not a
27:31conveyor belt it's not a
27:32machinery I mean crops
27:34will grow if you treat
27:36them well you've got a
27:38green thumb you do the
27:38right amount of manure
27:39and sunlight and rain or
27:41whatever irrigation and
27:43then they will generally
27:43grow sure but in a
27:47capitalistic system you
27:49get what you negotiate
27:51so and particularly for
27:54men right so if you say
27:55well I'm I'm gonna work
27:57out I'm gonna get a nice
27:58tan or whatever you're
28:00gonna do to make yourself
28:01get teeth white and make
28:02yourself more attractive
28:03then women should fall into
28:05my lap nope no you've got
28:08to go ask women out and
28:09even if they'll fall in
28:11your lap you've got to get
28:12them to keep wanting to
28:12date you which means you've
28:13got to have qualities of
28:14character and you get what
28:15you negotiate right the
28:18world doesn't owe you a
28:19raise it doesn't owe you a
28:20living it's not something
28:20that happens automatically
28:22and so the the real
28:23danger of this well
28:25there's a machinery called
28:27capitalism that is
28:28supposed to reward my
28:29productivity nope there is
28:32no machinery called
28:33capitalism sorry don't
28:34mean to laugh but there
28:35is no machinery called
28:36capitalism that is going
28:37to reward your
28:39productivity I believe I
28:41have the best show in
28:43human history I will tell
28:44you that straight up
28:44that's what I aim for
28:45that's what I'm working
28:46to try and achieve at all
28:47times does that mean I
28:49have the most views does
28:50that mean I make the
28:50most money hell to the
28:52no of course not I'm
28:54focused on providing the
28:56best value relative to
28:58philosophy that I
28:58possibly can but there
29:00are many many many many
29:02many many many many shows
29:03with far more income and
29:06viewer interest and so
29:07on right so just because I
29:10think I'm doing the best
29:11show in human history and
29:15again that's not because I'm
29:16the best guy it's just
29:17because the technology has
29:18just come along at the
29:19right time as my abilities
29:20came along at the right
29:22time it's a happy
29:22coincidence so if and so
29:26if I'm aiming to do the
29:27best show and I genuinely
29:28believe I'm always trying to
29:30improve obviously but yeah I
29:32mean this is what what what
29:34the band says let's go out
29:35and do the best show let's
29:36go out and do the greatest
29:37show yeah of course aim high
29:39and you'll you'll get there
29:41maybe if you don't and aim
29:42high you won't get there for
29:44sure but there's no
29:46machinery by which me
29:48doing great philosophical
29:50shows dumps viewers and
29:53income into my lap so if
29:56you think that you're going
29:57to be automatically rewarded
29:59for how did you how did you
30:02put it rewards productivity
30:04and innovation nope nope
30:06nope nope so if you're highly
30:10productive and innovative then
30:12you need to let everyone
30:15know and you need to be aware
30:19of your market value and you
30:20need to negotiate your raises
30:22you get what you negotiate
30:24there's no conveyor belt or
30:25machinery or logic of the
30:28system that is going to give
30:29you raises and status and
30:32anything like that and it is
30:34nobody's job like when you're a
30:36kid it's your parents job to
30:38negotiate on your behalf when
30:40you're a kid when you're an
30:42adult it's no one I mean I
30:44guess if you're in a union
30:45but it doesn't sound like you're
30:46in a union but as a sort of
30:49white-collar worker as a
30:50salaried worker it is your job
30:52to negotiate on your behalf so
30:54the boss is not going to
30:56automatically give you raises I
30:58mean there may be some cost of
30:59living raise or three or five
31:00percent or six percent or
31:01whatever but you get what you
31:02negotiate and the boss
31:04prefers it if you don't
31:06negotiate the boss prefers it if
31:08you don't negotiate for
31:09yourself and the only reason you
31:11wouldn't understand that is if
31:13you've never been a boss so if
31:16you have five programmers or five
31:20accountants or whatever it is
31:21right say five accountants you've
31:23got five accountants and one of
31:25them is twice as productive as the
31:26others as a boss you have very
31:30little incentive all other things
31:32being equal in fact you have a
31:33negative incentive you have a a
31:35negative incentive to pay the twice
31:39as productive accountant more for
31:41for why why why would you not want
31:43to pay the twice as good as the
31:44accountant twice as good accountant
31:46more because if the other
31:48accountants find out about that and
31:49they probably will then they're
31:52going to get resentful like I mean
31:54if you they've got an accountant
31:56that's twice as productive so you
31:57give him a 50 percent raise right
31:59a 50 percent raise well then he's
32:03going to maybe upgrade his car he's
32:05going to buy a cottage and then
32:06he's going to come to work in his
32:07new car and maybe he's going to
32:10say hey I bought a cottage or you
32:12know and then all of the other
32:13accountants you know especially
32:14being accountants they're going to
32:15be like huh I wonder how I wonder
32:19how this guy is affording how is how
32:22is he able to afford this new car
32:25this new boat this cottage because
32:27they don't know immediately of course
32:30that I mean they say they get their
32:31raises so they get a six percent
32:33raise right so they go to $106,000
32:36or so and but but twice as
32:39productive accountant got himself a
32:4350 percent raise so he went from
32:44$100,000 to $150,000 a year which
32:47gives him all the extra money to buy
32:49the car the boat the cottage or
32:50whatever right not all but you know
32:52some so there'll be resentment and
32:55then the other guys are going to be
32:57like hey how come how come Bob got
33:00seems to have got this big raise and
33:03you know maybe there's a woman
33:04running payroll who mentioned
33:06something who knows right supposed to
33:07be secret maybe it's not maybe you
33:08have an open salary policy so then
33:12what happens is the accountant who's
33:14twice as productive relative to the
33:17other four accountants well the other
33:20four accountants get annoyed get
33:22resentful they slow down their work
33:25they're complaining they're bitching
33:29with each other they start looking
33:30for other work and so maybe you lose
33:3425 percent productivity from the other
33:38four accountants because they're
33:41demotivated because they think it's
33:43unfair that someone got a $50,000
33:45raise and they only got a $6,000 raise
33:47so then you've got an accountant who's
33:49twice as productive but because you gave
33:52him a raise you lose an equal amount of
33:54productivity right four accountants at 25
33:56percent right so you lose so you you're
34:00not you don't gain anything and maybe
34:03the accountant who's twice as
34:04productive now because he's got a
34:06cottage spends more time away from his
34:09desk and maybe instead of being twice
34:11as productive he's only 50 percent more
34:12productive but the other guys are down
34:15100 percent so now you're minus 50
34:17percent because you gave a guy a raise
34:19it's complicated and again if you're a
34:22manager you want to reward people's good
34:25performance but when you reward people's
34:26good performance other people get
34:29annoyed and resentful I mean I remember
34:32this when I worked up north I worked with
34:35a friend of mine and I found that my
34:40friend was making $200 more a month than I
34:45was and the reason for that was that the
34:48company who hired us paid $100 a month
34:51extra for every year of university you
34:53had completed and I had not gone to
34:55university at this point and he had
34:56completed two years of a degree so he's
35:00making $200 a month more and honestly like
35:05this is way back in the day right this
35:07isn't the 80s that was a good chunk of
35:09change and it was I mean we were doing the
35:12exact same work but because he had these
35:14degrees which didn't make a damn better
35:16difference to the work we were doing he
35:19got paid more and that burned that
35:22bothered me that annoyed me so your boss
35:26doesn't have much incentive to pay you
35:31more based upon your productivity now if
35:34it's tips that's one thing that's not the
35:36boss that's the customer paying if you're
35:39on piecework that's different right then
35:42it's easy like if you do 50% more work
35:45then you get paid more because you're
35:48producing 50% more widgets and the other
35:49guys are only producing 6% more widgets
35:51so hey it's just piecework man this is
35:53what he's producing if you want to make
35:54his money just produce as much and you'll
35:55be fine I mean I remember my father
35:58telling me a story many years ago my
36:01late father about how he was put in
36:02charge of a mine in South America and he
36:07was charged with increasing the
36:08productivity of that mine so he switched
36:12to piecework so that people were paid
36:14obviously by the amount of valuable
36:17material that they produced let's say it
36:19was gold or something like that but he
36:22found that they had no incentive even
36:24with that right so he's Protestant work
36:26ethic right sort of that's a different
36:28mindset oh if I work extra I can make
36:31more money but they didn't they worked the
36:33exact same amount of hours went home with
36:34the exact same pay and almost none of
36:37them did any more work that's because
36:39they all socialized and there was a lot
36:40of social pressure to not be more
36:42productive now the other reason why
36:45being more productive is punished is
36:46because other workers might resent you
36:49this is very common in factory work
36:52slow down man you're gonna you're making
36:55this look bad if you're really
36:57productive in factory work then what the
37:01other factory workers can resent you and if
37:07they resent you if they're producing 10
37:10widgets an hour and you start producing
37:1120 widgets an hour they'll get mad at
37:13you because they're concerned that you are
37:18going to change the standard that they're
37:21going to say oh wow look this guy can
37:23produce 20 widgets an hour and they'll
37:25start demanding that other people produce
37:26more so they was oh slow down yeah slow
37:29down slow down I remember when I was
37:32coding I was very serious stayed late
37:35wrote code to change code all this kind
37:37of heavy productivity stuff and I remember
37:41the guy the team leader like hey man you
37:44take work way too seriously you need to
37:45slow down because he didn't want the new
37:48guy being more productive than the old
37:50guys the new the old guys right so it's
37:54very tough to get ahead if you're in a
37:57factory environment and other people
38:00choose to shun you because you're being
38:01too productive they can make your life
38:03pretty uncomfortable right they can not
38:05talk to you during lunch and breaks they
38:09can accidentally eat your lunch you know
38:12things that no they cannot let you take a
38:15break the foreman cannot let you take a
38:16break if the foreman has to please you
38:18have to please the majority of your workers
38:20now of course if you are a really
38:23productive worker and you document it and
38:25you make your case and you say to your
38:28boss you know I'm I really need a raise
38:31that reflects my productivity then the
38:34boss might grudgingly if he can find a
38:36way then he might grudgingly give you an
38:38extra raise or an extra bonus but it's
38:41complicated for the boss every time you
38:44reward one employee you get everyone else
38:47coming into your office to complain and
38:50not always but often right so yeah I mean
38:54there were guys I would stay weekends and
38:56work I remember one day I stayed up for
38:59three days to finish a system and there
39:02were the often the women not no complaints
39:04but they had kids at home so they you know
39:06459 they're packing up and they can't come
39:09in on weekends because they've got kids so
39:11what do you do what do you do especially if
39:15the men and it was the young single men we'd
39:18stay and we'd play unreal tournament or
39:20quake or something like that and then we'd
39:23go out for dinner and we'd be talking work
39:25and and so on and and so it was half work
39:28half socializing half play and look at me
39:31with 150 percent again and the women almost
39:35never joined us for that but that's where a
39:37lot of productivity gains a lot of great
39:39ideas were shared and so on but the problem
39:40is if the men are working harder than the
39:43women and you end up paying the may the men
39:45more than the women in order to retain
39:47them well then you look sexist because
39:51your male payroll is higher than your
39:53female payroll and that can cause you
39:56significant problems so then if you raise
39:58the wages of the men because they're so
40:01productive but you also have to raise the
40:02wages of the women then the men get
40:04demotivated as they say well hang on I
40:08just worked all weekend on this project I
40:11remember one project that a fellow worked
40:15quite a bit on was how to get reports from
40:18an access database to be recreated in
40:21RTF because we couldn't run access on a
40:24server but we could run a DLL to read the
40:27properties of the access reports and then
40:30recreate them in RTF and then send them
40:32to the client it's a big project he had to
40:35learn how to code raw rich text format and
40:38it's a big job and a hugely important job
40:41and he did it in a couple of weeks saved
40:45our butts because we'd sold a big system
40:47with a report generator it turned out that
40:49their policies didn't allow access to run
40:52Microsoft access the database system to
40:55run on their server so we had to come up
40:57with another solution or we would have
40:59been out of compliance with their
41:00standards in the contract and so on and
41:03so he saved our butts should I did I want
41:06to reward them yes yes but it's a problem
41:10it's complicated so again sorry for the
41:12long explanation but the idea that the
41:14capitalist system rewards productivity
41:16innovation no you get you get what you
41:20negotiate your boss doesn't want to pay
41:22you more and the only way you wouldn't
41:24understand that is if you weren't a boss
41:27you hadn't been a boss it's complicated
41:31messy difficult and challenging to pay
41:34employees more so when you say a logical
41:39and moral capitalist system rewards
41:41productivity and innovation a crony
41:42capitalist system punishes productivity
41:44innovation no it's not crony capitalist
41:45system it's a fact that you have to deal
41:49with a lot of petty entitled people in this
41:51world now I exclude myself from that you
41:57know going back to when I worked up north
41:59and my friend got paid $200 more a month
42:01that wasn't petty because he wasn't
42:05working harder or better than me and the
42:07fact that he had a couple of years of
42:08math and physics didn't help in panning
42:10for gold so that was unfair unfair
42:13relative to the work that we were doing
42:15so that's a bit different but yeah a lot
42:18a lot of petty and resentful people and
42:19so on right so you said over my many
42:21years of work I've lost track of how many
42:23times I was told don't work yourself out
42:25of a job or had bosses steal ideas or
42:27even claim work done as their own that
42:28was done by another well what can I tell
42:33you you get what you negotiate if you
42:36are very innovative and very creative and
42:40you don't feel like you're getting
42:42recognition from your boss go start your
42:45own business and I don't mean this like
42:46yeah well if you're so good go right I
42:49hated modern novels I hate modern novels
42:51so I wrote the kind of novels I've always
42:53wanted to read I hate the way philosophy
42:56has been done for almost its entire
42:57history so I worked very hard to create
43:00philosophy in the way that I believe it
43:01should be done from first principles
43:03relevant to people's personal issues and
43:06needs in a way that is actionable and
43:09that produces the most virtue with the
43:12least effort that is the most possible
43:14which is why I talk about child abuse so
43:18yeah you are expecting capitalism to spit
43:21out what you have to negotiate on your
43:24behalf right if you are a tall wealthy
43:28great-looking guy and you like let's say
43:31you're a nine or a ten as a guy right
43:34then you believe that somehow society
43:37should deliver it to you nine or ten
43:39women but if you're willing to date a
43:40three then don't complain about society
43:44being unjust you get what you negotiate
43:47you get what you accept all right what
43:49are your thoughts on meditation have you
43:51ever done it I have done yeah I have
43:52done it I've not I don't sustain it I
43:55find that the best meditative state for
43:56me is doing philosophy in a world where
43:58evil is rewarded and good behavior
44:00punished is evil behavior justified
44:01nope no I have a philosophical question
44:05how should you measure philosophical
44:07principles against real-world outcomes
44:08it seems to me that there needs to be an
44:11objective yardstick to gauge philosophical
44:13theories sure sure so for a
44:16example of this you can go to my oh so
44:20free book called peaceful parenting at
44:24peaceful parenting calm right it's theory
44:26it's practice and it is to measure right
44:30to measure so philosophical principles
44:33against real-world outcomes the further
44:35that you expand property rights and the
44:37further that you enforce and respect
44:38property rights the better outcomes you
44:40should have in society and the most
44:42fundamental violation of property rights
44:43of slavery when slavery was ended society
44:45got a whole lot better on the other hand
44:48communism should economically fail and so
44:51on right so yeah if you don't beat your
44:56children and do ungodly things to your
45:00children if you don't beat your children
45:02then your children should turn out
45:04healthier and happier and better and if
45:08you pray for a cure versus using science
45:12science and medicine then science and
45:14medicine should be superior because it is
45:16more empirical right so there's lots of
45:18ways that you can test the outcome of
45:21philosophical principles
45:21treason does never prosper what's the
45:25reason why if it prosper none dare call it
45:28treason so yes lots of ways you can test
45:30philosophical theories next question a
45:33man can do bad things all his life and
45:34then do one good deed and they say he's
45:35not so bad a good man can do good deed
45:37things all his life and they one day do
45:39one bad deed and they say he's shown his
45:41true colors well that's only if you're
45:43around hypocrites right so don't be
45:45around people who manipulate you that
45:46way does evil exist as a force a demonic
45:50or satanic spirit that possesses individuals
45:51or even groups as a learned behavior evil
45:54exists when people use morality to destroy
45:58morality so for instance if you say
46:01prejudice is bad therefore we can't hire
46:04white males sexism is bad therefore we
46:06can't hire males then you're using morality
46:08in a contradictory fashion we need to help
46:12the poor and therefore we need to give
46:14the government the power to in debt
46:15future generations by bribing voters in
46:17the here and now so that's not helping
46:19right so hypocrisy is the foundation of
46:24evil are you going to answer these
46:26questions I just did thank you everyone
46:29freedom and calm session eight keep the
46:31questions coming always love to hear them
46:33and I will talk to you soon bye
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