July 14, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hello, old people! | |
| This is a message from, if not the young, at least the younger. | |
| There's no money for your retirement. | |
| There is no money for your retirement. | |
| This is particularly true in the US, though it's true elsewhere as well. | |
| There's no money for your retirement. | |
| What is sitting in the Social Security vaults is a series of dusty, moth-eaten, decrepit IOUs from past governments that have blown your money on useless statist garbage. | |
| So there's no money. | |
| And what that means is that you are now dependent, like Blanche Dubois, on the kindness of strangers. | |
| What it means is that you, who are statistically the wealthiest generation in the history of the world, out of six billion years of evolution, of life, of planets, you have the greatest amount of money and assets of any generation that has ever lived in the past. | |
| And what it means is that you must now use the government to take, to steal, to appropriate, to tax, but I repeat myself, money from the young. | |
| You who are the richest generation must now use the government to steal from the young because the system that stole from you has blown the money as you would expect any immoral system to do. | |
| The young have much higher taxation than you ever did, have much fewer opportunities than you ever did, cannot get their leg up in the manufacturing sector, is not going to get hired into the public sector because those jobs are falling away, and so they have far fewer opportunities economically than you ever did, they have far fewer assets than you have accumulated, and they are supposed to pay for you now. | |
| Well, I'm going to make you an offer. | |
| I speak for nobody but myself and anyone who agrees with me, but I'm going to make you an offer, and let me tell you what it is, and hopefully you will mull it over in your gray paints. | |
| You know, when I was a kid, six or seven years old, I forgot a test. | |
| I forgot that there was a test, and I had to sit down and write a test anyway, because forgetting, not knowing, was not an excuse. | |
| It was not an excuse, according to my teachers. | |
| If I went to the fun fair, as we called it in England back in the day, I went to the fun fair, and I threw my coconuts at the bottles, and I did not knock them over, I was told, well, You played your game, you lost, and too bad for you. | |
| You have to accept the consequences of your decisions. | |
| So, when I was six or seven years old, these moral rules were inflicted upon me. | |
| I'm not saying they're bad moral rules. | |
| Maybe I was a little young, but they're not bad moral rules. | |
| Ignorance Of something that you can reasonably be expected to know, like when there's a test. | |
| Ignorance of the rules is no excuse, and you have to accept the consequences of your actions. | |
| Now, I think that we can all agree, fundamentally, that it is not very fair to inflict moral rules on a six or seven-year-old kid, but not on a 65-year-old adult. | |
| I think we can at least, even if we're relativists, even if ethics is just a fortune cookie to us, I think we can at least agree that if we're going to inflict moral rules on a seven-year-old, that they can be inflicted on a 65-year-old. | |
| I think we can say that for sure. | |
| And so you are faced with a challenge, my friends. | |
| And I'm not saying you're my enemies. | |
| That depends on how you take this video. | |
| But you are faced with a challenge. | |
| You say you've paid into the system and therefore you're owed. | |
| Well, the system has blown your money. | |
| And it has been entirely clear to anybody with access to a newspaper or a congressman or the internet or any form of political communication, it has been entirely clear for many decades that the money is gone. | |
| That there is no money whatsoever. | |
| And just as when I was six or seven years old, ignorance of the rules was no excuse when I forgot about a test, ignorance of the fact that there is no money and hasn't been for many, many years is no excuse. | |
| You don't get to say, well, I paid into the money and therefore I deserve the money, because the money is long gone. | |
| And this has been public knowledge for many, many, many years. | |
| And so if you didn't do anything about it, That's your business. | |
| That's your issue. | |
| That's your fault. That's your responsibility, just as it was for me when I was six or seven years old. | |
| It is your responsibility for not understanding the immoralities of the political system that you live under. | |
| If you didn't learn about it, if you learned about it but didn't act on it, that's your issue. | |
| It is not something you can shovel down the generational tree to start picking the pockets of the young because you failed to To take action in the political system that was leading you into this corner where you'd have to prey on the young. | |
| Ignorance of reality, ignorance of the rules is no excuse. | |
| It wasn't for me when I was 6 or 7. | |
| It ain't for you when you're 60 or 65. | |
| That's number one. Number two, consequences of your actions. | |
| If you bought into a system and did not fight against the immoral predations of that system, the bank account is empty because you did nothing. | |
| The bank account is empty because you did nothing. | |
| The consequences of your inaction, the consequences of your lack of respect for and responsibility for the generation coming after you who was going to have to pay for you, that's your business. | |
| That's your responsibility. | |
| You can't chuck that off onto the young. | |
| Because moral rules that we apply to 6 or 7 year olds can morally be applied to 65 to 7 year olds. | |
| But, Let me make you a little bit of an offer because I think that we are in a very challenging but exciting crossroads in our society. | |
| Let me make you a bit of an offer and see if it tickles your ears. | |
| I, for one, will be more than happy To shovel over my scant money as a philosopher to you, to help you with your retirement. | |
| I will be happy to shield you from the consequences Of your own lack of initiative, lack of understanding, lack of activism, or activism in the other direction, if you were involved in that. | |
| I will be more than happy to take the bullets for your political incompetence and foolishness. | |
| I will be happy to pay for you, through the notes, should it need to come to that. | |
| I will be happy to pay for you. | |
| I only ask one little thing in return. | |
| One little thing in return. | |
| You have to admit, you have to admit, as the honorable and wise elders, you have to admit that you had no control over the political system. | |
| You had no control over the political system. | |
| Because if you did have control over the political system, then you have to live with the consequences of that. | |
| If you had control over the political system that has resulted in no money for your retirement, then you have to live with no state money for your retirement and live off your assets and live off your friends and live off your children or whatever. | |
| Live off your churches, live off your charities. | |
| You have to do that because if you were responsible for the political system, then you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. | |
| Not the young who weren't voting during all of this time, who probably weren't even born during all of this time. | |
| If you were in control of the political system, then you have to accept the responsibility for the consequences of that which you controlled. | |
| If I'm in control of the car and I crash the car, nobody else can pay for it except me. | |
| Because I was in control, disasters happened, therefore it's my responsibility. | |
| Surely you will accept that moral rule, since you inflicted it upon children from the ages of 6 or 7 and upwards, when you had power over children. | |
| However, it is my belief that you are not responsible for this catastrophe. | |
| It is my belief... | |
| That you were not in control of the political system. | |
| It is my belief that the political system cannot be controlled by mere voters. | |
| That it is special interests and politicians and they bribing their friends and punishing their enemies and it's an immoral, corrupt and violent system as a whole. | |
| So you get to have the money, my money, for your retirement. | |
| As long as you accept and admit that you were not in control of the political system, that the decisions were made outside your sphere of influence. | |
| Because the moment that we understand and accept that we cannot control This rolling clusterfrag of a political system, then we will be that much closer to coming up with something that we can control. | |
| Something non-political, something voluntary, something peaceful, something respectful to human dignity and voluntary interactions. | |
| So you can have my money, but the price of my money is accepting and admitting that That the consequences of this political system had nothing to do with your choices. | |
| Then you're not responsible. | |
| Then you were possessed by space aliens when the car crashed. | |
| I will accept that. |
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