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June 18, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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The Communist Manifesto for Kids - Part 1!

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	So I have a debate coming up this Sunday with a guy named Rausch.
	Okay, that's a cool name.
	R-A-U-S-H. I thought it's sort of like smog, smog, smee-ee-smoogie.
	Anyway, it's Rausch apparently. What the heck?
	Rausch, his name is.
	Yeah. And it's about communism.
	Now, there was a book that came out, I guess about 150 years ago, which we're going to have a quick go through.
	Called the manifesto.
	Now a manifesto is a declaration of everything that you intend to do.
	Right? So like in the mornings I wake up.
	I come downstairs.
	I express my daily manifesto.
	Which is to be in charge of everything.
	To be the boss of everyone.
	To rule everyone and everything.
	And get everything I want.
	Yeah. Like steal all my allowance.
	Cancels that too. That's usually the middle of the night.
	Yeah. So that's my manifesto.
	No, your manifesto is probably drink some coffee, eat some toast, do a show, maybe play some Rocket League, which is a video game we play sometimes.
	Good game, too. Very good game.
	I recommend it to anybody who plays and has another player or whatever.
	I recommend it if you want to see your child surpass your skill set, much like a rocket car going past a guy on a bicycle.
	Well, it's true. I must admit, he was better for the first while, but I think I've just passed him a tiny bit.
	Yes, a tiny bit. A tiny bit.
	All right. Let's get back with the story.
	So this is the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
	Now, communism is a very popular belief system.
	It's not one that I'm a huge fan of.
	I'll sort of tell you that up front. We'll go sort of why.
	But this is the book.
	Look, if you go to university, this is a book that almost for sure you're going to have to read.
	Oh, God. So, yeah. No kidding.
	Poisoning the young children's minds.
	Maybe. Maybe. All right.
	So, this was written by a guy named Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
	And we can talk about Marx perhaps at the end.
	I don't want to talk about him ahead of time because it might sort of prejudice you against this, so we'll talk about him afterwards.
	But this is how it goes, right?
	A specter is haunting Europe.
	What is a specter?
	A specter is a sort of sinister ghost.
	Oh, okay. A mean ghost.
	The specter of communism with a capital C. Communism.
	All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter.
	Do you know what exorcise is? Like get a demon out of something?
	Yeah, you cast a demon out, right?
	Pope and Tsar.
	Now the Pope is the head of the Catholic Church.
	The Tsar was the ruler of Russia before the communists took over.
	Metronik and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.
	So just a grab bag of everyone who's in opposition.
	So I don't agree with the ideology, but these guys are good writers.
	Because I'm already like, it sounds like a spy novel.
	It sounds like really exciting, right?
	Yeah. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power?
	What does decried mean?
	Sorry for interrupting. Decried means...
	To attack negatively, like using language, you know, like you call someone a racist or whatever.
	It's just to give a negative label to someone rather than to address their arguments.
	Oh, okay. We're the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism against the more advanced opposition parties.
	As well as against its reactionary adversaries.
	Okay, that's a little bit dense there, but we'll sort of break it out.
	Okay. So, hurled back the branding reproach of communism, so that basically everyone's calling each other communists because it's considered to be the most negative label around.
	Oh, okay. As well as against its reactionary adversaries.
	Now, that's interesting, and you'll see this should you ever end up on this, the joyful human landscape known as Twitter.
	Oh, I will probably end up on it.
	Right. So, if you can give people the impression that other people are reacting to you in highly emotional ways, it makes your argument look better and other people look worse.
	That kind of makes sense, right? It's called being triggered or something like that.
	Okay. So, two things result from this fact.
	One, communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself.
	A power. Now, have we had any arguments yet?
	No. So I call this positioning, which is, so when people start reading about communism, the first thing that they want to do, rather than talk about the actual arguments, is they want to make it look cool and dangerous and opposed by people in power because it makes it exciting, right? Yeah. So they're doing all of that at the beginning, which is, you know, a smart thing to do if you want to get people interested in your philosophy, right?
	Yeah. Two, it is high time that communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the specter of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
	I'm sorry, this is a nursery tale?
	No, he's saying that communism is just bad and evil and nasty is like a nursery tale.
	It's like a story for kids. Oh, okay.
	So he wants to get the facts. I was confused.
	I'm like, how are they calling, like, exorcism and stuff a nursery tale for kids?
	I was a bit confused. It would be a bit of an odd nursery tale.
	Yeah, maybe it'd be for somebody who was addicted to, like, Billie Eilish music videos, but...
	That's right, that's right. It may be helpful.
	Yeah. So he says, to this end, communists of various nationalities have assembled in London...
	And sketch the following manifesto to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish, and Danish languages.
	There's a bunch of different languages. Yeah.
	So this is the intro.
	It's a pretty short intro. What have we got there?
	That's like two pages less than, right?
	Depends on what size you have on your Kindle, right?
	Yeah. So, two words we're going to need to know.
	One, bourgeois.
	I have no idea what that means.
	A bourgeois and proletarians.
	Okay, so now that we've explained those, we'll just go on with...
	I'm sorry, we didn't even... Okay, so if you want to talk a bourgeois means, usually it means middle class, like not poor, not super rich, just kind of in the middle.
	And it also can mean people who own the means of production.
	Okay, so these are my glasses, right?
	Yes. And we go to a store to buy the glasses.
	Yes. But the store doesn't make the glasses usually, right?
	The frames and the lenses, they're all usually made somewhere else, right?
	Yes. So the store is where we go to buy stuff.
	And the means of production, owning the means of production, is stuff that sells to other businesses, not to consumers, right?
	Right. So let's say we go to a restaurant.
	The restaurant gives us, like serves us what?
	I don't know, some pasta maybe.
	Some pasta, right? And they serve it on plates and they get cutlery and all of that, right?
	And napkins. Yeah, now do they make all that stuff?
	No. Well, they make one of them.
	Yes. Well, no, they may not even make the pasta.
	They might just boil it or something.
	They cook the pasta. No, you're right.
	They're probably not making the food from scratch.
	Some bakeries do, though, right? Yeah, I think some bakeries make bread from scratch.
	Oh, when we were in Florida, we went to the Disney store?
	Sure. And they were making...
	Behind the glass, do you remember?
	Oh, um... There was that store with the Goofy on the front, right?
	And we went in. Oh, the candies.
	They were making candies. Candy.
	Apples. Yeah. And they were making...
	But they didn't grow the apples from scratch.
	I'm not going to go. That's true. They were making Rice Krispies squares with the big...
	Yeah. Like, not the bunny ears, but the...
	The Mickey Mouse, right? So there's some there making stuff there, but the means of production.
	So when you go to a restaurant, you sit down, you've got a table and you've got your plates and you've got your cutlery.
	So what do they make there and what do they buy from somewhere else?
	In the restaurant. Well, in the restaurant they would make, they'd boil the pasta or make the pasta.
	Yeah, make the food. Yeah, yeah. Make the food, but they'd buy the plates.
	I'm going to guess in most cases they'd buy the plates anyways, but probably buy the napkins.
	Yeah, they'd buy the plates elsewhere, right? Buy the napkins, they'd buy the cutlery.
	That's right. They'd buy the napkins somewhere else, but they might fold the napkins and put them on the table.
	They wouldn't make the Coke that you could order and stuff like that.
	Yeah, but that's right. They would order the soft drinks, like the pops and all that.
	Really, the only thing they would do is probably the water, unless they bought water, but I know at a lot of places they give you tap water.
	Well, so actually, but getting and purifying all of the water is kind of owning the means of production, right?
	You just turn on a tap and you get it, right?
	So when you think about it, like think of a store in a mall, like Lush, we go to from time to time, right?
	What do they make there? No, what do they make in the store, right?
	I do not know. Not much.
	They make money. They make money.
	Yeah, yeah, they do. But when you think about it, there's very little when you go into a store that you buy that is actually made in the store.
	Yeah. Bakeries probably is the first one that I could think, which is what we thought of, where they make the most of their stuff.
	Like, I think, like in the closest bakery we have, I don't even know what it's called, but...
	Yeah, yeah, they would make it there, right?
	Let's just call it the bakery.
	Right. But they make, I think they make all the cookies and stuff that they put on display and everything.
	Right. But the interesting thing is, they don't grow their own flour, right?
	They wouldn't make their own baking soda.
	So everything, like there's this whole cloud of stuff that's out there that kind of gets either delivered or the last little bits are assembled in the store.
	Yeah. And that's what you buy.
	Well, yeah. And also, like, even example is me.
	Like, I'm... For everybody who's listening, I'm going through a phase of making chocolates.
	Yes. I just make chocolates and then I make my dad all fat.
	Yeah, no kidding. Just because I'm losing weight.
	Yeah, yeah. No. You end up with this, like, most amazing chocolates on the planet.
	I do. I'm just going to say one thing that's important to me.
	I don't even know what I'm saying, but...
	I make...
	I'm doing special orders and my mom ordered a chocolate pizza, basically.
	So, it's a small little...
	Chocolate. Round chocolate.
	Yeah, yeah. It's sliced up basically, and each slice has different cool, nice toppings.
	But it's like the most unhealthy pizza that you could ever possibly imagine.
	But the odd thing is that two of the slices were missing.
	I don't know what happened. I think if two of the slices were missing, I would know some ripped tape, and also that I think it would be more than two.
	Okay, this is a total aside.
	Can we talk about the Gatcha Life video real quick?
	What? The Gatcha Life video real quick.
	Just really quick, because it's the funniest thing that's happened lately.
	Oh, yes. Okay, fine. Let me explain one thing.
	So, there's this app.
	I think it has something like 10 million downloads or something.
	And I saw it through an ad on another app or whatever, but...
	You create these characters, right?
	I create these characters.
	So we have each of our characters.
	You, my mom, and me.
	And I make these insane hysterical videos.
	Like, they're hilarious. Like, I mean, stuff like we can, you know, exploit each other with magic and, like, funny stuff.
	Like, teleport each other out.
	Me being able to, like, I want to do something, but it's like, oh, I just have to go fix something on a show and then problem after problem after problem.
	Oh yeah, I'll just say, so one, it was like, oh sorry, I forgot to turn the recorder on.
	I'm like, okay, whatever. We can go to the mall later.
	And he's like, oh, the microphone wasn't working.
	Oh yeah. And then I'm like, okay.
	And then the next one. Someone's coming out of the wrong ear.
	No, it was, oh, a bird attacked me.
	And instead of saying, oh, are you okay?
	I just said, I was annoyed.
	And I said, well, where are the scars then?
	And then the last one, oh, the roof caved in.
	Yeah, yeah. All of these. So we did.
	So Izzy has a candy shop downstairs.
	Very tiny. So the Gatch Life video starts out with me getting up in the middle of the night, creeping downstairs like a ghost.
	Oh, like a spectra. Oh, let's tie it into the camera.
	Yeah, let's tie it in. Like a spectra.
	I go down like a fog rolling down the stairs.
	Yes, okay, Dad. I think we get it.
	You're not quiet. And I sneak some candy from your candy store without pain.
	You eat it all. And I even took a photo where there was one left that had a couple candy canes.
	He dislikes candy canes, basically any hard candy.
	So I just took a photo and then I added it onto the video.
	Yeah, yeah. So then I go back to bed and go to sleep.
	Yeah. And in the morning you wake up and you say...
	I just think something is wrong.
	Yeah, just as you wake up. I thought it was more of an easy thing, but he laughed so hard.
	I love that idea that you'd wake up and before you're even fully conscious, you're completely aware that your candy store has been altered downstairs.
	No, I didn't even know. I just thought something is wrong.
	Something is wrong. I'm just going to tell you if you're curious what happens with that.
	Yeah. So, what happens is...
	He goes...
	The next... I just kind of start...
	Like, again, I'm going to tie it onto the Rocket League thing I mentioned earlier.
	Like, in Rocket League, I keep bumping him and self-scoring and making him annoyed just because I have this cold anger and I'm angry at him.
	And then later, I do something to the chocolates.
	So I get up at night and say, where are they?
	And then I say, ah, here they are.
	So I put them in where the candy shop is.
	And then I leave. And then he comes in and he sneaks them.
	Oh, no, I think, oh, my gosh, no, he's coming.
	So he comes in, eats the chocolates.
	And then the next morning, he wakes up and his skin is blue.
	That's right. Like the Hong Kong protesters.
	Like I poisoned chocolates or something, but not Dudley or anything.
	Right. So, the bourgeois, they own the factories, they own the means of production, and the proletarian are the people who work there.
	So you think of the waiter, right?
	The waiter doesn't own the restaurant.
	No. Right? Can you think of other examples?
	No. Well, you can just basically any store you go to, like the people...
	Yeah, the store. The people don't, like we go to a cell phone store, they don't own the cell phone store.
	No. And the people who own the cell phone store company don't own the place usually where they make cell phones, and it's a whole big sort of chain of things.
	So he's saying here, the history of all hitherto, which means, hi there, too.
	No. It means hitherto in the past.
	The history of all past existing societies is a history of class struggles.
	Okay. Now...
	I'm confused. Let's go back to when you don't take allowance anymore, right?
	No. You made that choice.
	You said, listen, I want to start working and I want to start doing chores and stuff like that.
	I was bored of it. I mean, sometimes I... Let's say I'm not the best at doing chores, so I'm like, that's not fair.
	They give me allowance and I barely...
	I'm not barely. I mean, I'm not doing...
	But it wasn't tied in, right? I'm not doing as much as I was supposed to be.
	So I'm just like, okay, this is unfair.
	So I'm like, I won't take any more allowance, but I'll do stuff like...
	The drawings, I'll give drawings to my dad to post on Twitter and I'll get him money for a certain amount of views and stuff.
	And some of our shows too, right? Impressions and our shows, like a certain amount of views and stuff.
	So when we negotiate for that, I have the money, you want the money, and we have kind of, it's not a conflict, but we don't have exactly the same idea.
	You'd like more money, and I'd like to pay you less.
	Well, I mean, I don't exactly want more money.
	That's the thing. I'm just like, I'm okay.
	I'm a bit of a saver.
	A bit? Okay, a lot.
	You're like the people who you open their door and they have like magazines from 30 years ago.
	Well, I'm just kidding. You're not a whore.
	No, I'm not a whore. Oh my goodness.
	I'm just gonna say an example with my money.
	I will freak out over spending three dollars.
	Oh, yeah. Oh, that's interesting because we were actually just in a store the other day.
	You bought a notebook and you also like a paper notebook cover and you wanted a pen.
	And I said, okay, I'll pay for this.
	You pay for the pen. And then there was this long pause.
	Wait, wait, what? No, I didn't.
	I will pay for the pen. No, stop.
	The pen is going back! And you set fire to the pen.
	We ran out of the store. Okay.
	Listen. What? I thought I was going to pay for the pen.
	I didn't exactly look at the price.
	I mean, there's... Oh, you didn't know the price.
	In Staples, I just thought...
	Like, you know in Staples, whoever goes to Staples, there's this thing where they have a bunch of pens and they're different kinds.
	So I just glanced at a couple and like, oh, $2 or $2.50 or whatever.
	So I guess they're all around that.
	So I took the pen thinking it was $2 or something like that.
	And I'm like, okay, I can live.
	Okay. Whatever. And then I realized when Dad said, oh, it's like $3 or $3.50 or something.
	Too much, right? Then you're saying you don't want to.
	I'm like, no, it's a buck extra. I thought it was $2 or $2.50, but now it's $3 or $3.50.
	That's a buck, maybe, or a buck fifty more.
	Now, Staples would like to sell you that pen for how much, ideally?
	Like $400. Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, they would sell you, like, if you went in and said, I want to pay...
	I don't know like like whatever it is right like and and they would say oh yeah sounds great you know good right yeah so they want to charge more you want to pay less and he's saying this is the big conflict the people who are selling you stuff We're good to go.
	When the Roman Empire collapsed, for a variety of reasons we can talk about another time, things went kind of crazy.
	Like, the social order collapsed and it was kind of just fight and fight and fight.
	Now what happened was...
	That sounds really bad.
	Oh yeah, it was not a lot of fun for sure.
	It's called the Dark Ages, although some people disagree, but anyway.
	So what happened was, there were all of these farmers and there were these crazy guys who would just roam around on horseback and they'd get hungry and you know what they'd do?
	They'd just go up to a farmer and they'd say what?
	Give me your food or I'm going to fight you or something.
	No, they would say, like, rock, paper, scissors, thumb wars.
	Just kidding, no. Like, I'm going to thump you.
	No, they would just go up and say, give us your food, right?
	And they weren't... They didn't think ahead too much.
	So they'd come and they'd say, you know, they'd bring 20 of their friends and they'd say, you know, kill your cows or we're going to take your cows, cook the cows for us, and we're just going to eat it all.
	But then the problem is, of course, if it's winter, they kind of need the cows for the milk over the winter and all that.
	So basically what happened was they were called the warlords.
	It's just a bunch of roving gangs roaming around and attacking the farmers.
	So what happened was the farmers kind of gave up making food.
	Yeah. Which makes sense, right?
	I mean, why would you bother saving if, you know, people just kept taking your money, right?
	Yeah. So the farmers kind of gave up and then everybody started starving and everyone was like, oh, this is really not good.
	Yeah. So then some of the warlords, this is real simplified, but some of the warlords said, okay...
	I'm going to be the local lord.
	I'm going to get all my friends together.
	We're going to protect the farmers.
	Because if we don't have the food, we can't make it through the winter.
	So we're going to protect the farmers.
	And the farmers are like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, right?
	Yes. But if you're the lord, you're not going to protect the farmers for free.
	That's dangerous, right? So what do you want in return?
	Food. That's right.
	So they would get food.
	Now, the lords also had their own land.
	And in return for protecting them from all the warlords, the lords would say, you've got to work my land.
	I'm going to protect you, but you've got to give me your taxes.
	And also, I don't want you running off.
	Because what happened was, there was this kind of competition.
	So give me the name of two lords.
	Tom and Bob. Okay, so Tom is here on the left.
	Bob is here on the right, right?
	Yeah. Now, Tom has a bunch of serfs, right?
	The people who are working his land, and they have their own land, and it's kind of going along.
	But Bob wants people to come and work on his land.
	So what's he going to do? Instead of taking half their food, what's he going to offer?
	All their food? No, he says, if this guy's taking half their food, yeah, he says, listen, I'll take only 40% or 30% and then the people go, they leave this guy and they go to this guy, right?
	So there's this competition for everyone, right?
	Oh, and then the other guy will be like, oh, I'll take 20% or something.
	Right, but see, they don't want, they want to keep more.
	So what they did was they said, you have to stay on your land.
	That's how they avoided competing with each other for the serfs.
	Now this is particularly true after like the 14th century, like 600 years ago and change, right?
	700 years ago, there was this terrible plague called the Black Death.
	I've heard of it. I don't know exactly what it is, though.
	So, it's considered to have come on the backs of little ticks on the backs of rats that came.
	It's called the Silk Road. They came from China and Asia and so on.
	It was brutal. Like, six out of ten people across Europe and various places died.
	Oh, my goodness. But what this meant was that they could start negotiating because there were so few workers and the Lord still needed everyone to work on their land.
	So this whole system broke down and they were able to compete with each other and they'd say, they'd play Tom and Bob off against each other and say, hey man, this guy's only going to take 40% of my food.
	What are you going to take? This guy, I only have to work two days a week on his land.
	What are you going to offer? And they began to break free of the land, which was a huge deal and made things much more productive and all that.
	Anyway, so he's saying that there's this competition between the people who own the land and the people who work the land.
	Between the people who own the factories and the people who work in the factories, right?
	Right. He said, Ah, that's interesting.
	Now, when you're talking lord and serfs, it kind of is.
	They're tied to the land. But on the other hand, what's their choice?
	This is kind of the best situation because you don't want to go back to just warlords coming around.
	You know, they might kidnap your wife.
	They're going to take your food.
	They might, you know, I don't know, play soccer with your children or something.
	You know, not with them, but with them, you know.
	And so it was a very, very tough situation as a whole, right?
	So he said... These two forces, they stand in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, in other words, changing everything, right?
	Or the common ruin of the contending classes.
	So when the serfs want to break free, and the lords want to keep them on the land, either they just both destroy each other, Or...
	There's some radical change in society.
	And so it happens either way.
	So remember this is way back ago.
	We talked about the book Crime and Punishment.
	About the guy who kills the old woman, right?
	Anyway, so this guy, his name is Dostoevsky.
	He was a terrible gambling addict.
	But his father was incredibly mean.
	He owned a whole bunch of land and he had these serfs in Russia.
	And he was a drunk.
	And he would beat up the serfs.
	Do you remember how they killed him?
	Oh yes, by drowning him in beer, basically.
	Yeah, they poured alcohol down his throat until he died.
	Because he was drunk.
	He was a drunk. He was a mean drunk, right?
	He's like, hey, you'll die happy.
	Yeah, you like to drink? Here we go.
	So he's saying there's this battle between the people who own stuff and the people who work on it, and sometimes it changes society, sometimes they just destroy each other.
	Right. In that case, that was a destroy each other.
	Well, I don't know what happened to the serfs, but the guy was definitely not there, right?
	Not there. Yes, he was gone.
	In the earlier epochs, so history you can divide, like there's the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages.
	So there's just epochs, there's just ways that we divide history up to sort of make sense of it.
	We find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank, Which means some people are just slaves, some people are head slaves, so they're a little higher up, and then there are poor people who are kind of free but tied to the land, people who are more free, so there's this whole layer of different levels of social rank.
	In ancient Rome, we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves, these are all just various categories.
	In the Middle Ages, then he goes on, a feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs, blah, blah, blah.
	All of this. I won't go into all of these.
	Lords we know. Vassals are the knights who work for the lords.
	Guildmasters are people, they used to divide, like, you know how there are plumbers and electricians and all that.
	These guys used to be in charge of all of those.
	So then he says the modern bourgeois society.
	So bourgeois society that he's talking about is you've got people who own factories, people who own mines.
	And I think he would include people who own a lot of land in that.
	But the mines and the factories and this whole class of people who own what he called the means of production.
	That's kind of new.
	So he says the modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society.
	Feudal is that the lord and and serf thing has not done away with class antagonisms.
	So class, we used to like classes in schools and stuff like that.
	He means the owners and the workers.
	It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
	Our epoch, like our time in history.
	The epoch of the bourgeoisie possesses, however, this distinctive feature.
	It has simplified the class antagonisms.
	Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.
	Bourgeoisie and proletariat.
	We'll do another page. May I finish this chapter?
	I don't like editing.
	Is this interesting stuff?
	Yes, it's very interesting. From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns.
	I know that seems like burghers.
	I know, but it's an H. Oh.
	It's a burghers.
	So the burghers were...
	Let's get the actual sort of technical definition of them because that's a bit of a...
	A citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie.
	So there weren't very many cities in the Dark Ages because cities need food.
	And they need farmers to be so productive that the farmers can sell stuff to the cities.
	And the cities need to be able to offer stuff to the farmers in return, right?
	What would they offer typically to the farmers?
	Money? Maybe for food?
	Okay, so that's a good question, right?
	So if you're in the city...
	So you're in the farm and I mean, you know, we could plant stuff and we do in the garden, right?
	So we could grow our own food, right?
	But there's still things that we would need that's more than just food, right?
	Yeah. So think back like a long time ago.
	You would need a shovel.
	Well, I actually know right now.
	Well, right now I'm using my fingers because I'm planting stuff in pots and I'm growing it.
	But no, I mean like in you need shovels.
	I don't know exactly what they used back then, but they'd have to uproot trees.
	Yeah, or you'd get pick axes.
	You know that from Minecraft, right?
	Yeah. You would need also, like...
	Axes. You'd need axes to chop down the wood, right?
	So you'd need someone, and you wouldn't be building that stuff, because the metal is really hard to put together and all of that, right?
	Oh, yeah. What about...
	It's night time.
	And, you know, in the winter, nighttime is like 5 o'clock in the afternoon, right?
	So, what if you want to read?
	Well, you need books. And what else do you need?
	Light. You need light. So, you're going to need a candle.
	You're going to need a little kerosene lamp or something.
	Or a wood for a fireplace or something.
	Yeah, well, no, the wood, if you've got the axe, the wood you can make yourself, right?
	Yes. From your forest and all that.
	So, there's lots of things that you need from the city.
	Also, you might need a doctor.
	Yeah. Right? And so...
	You probably need a doctor. I mean, you'd get a lot of protection from infections if you, like, basically not lived in the mud, but...
	You'd get kind of immune to stuff, right?
	Yeah. Because you'd be good. So people in the country, I mean, you can survive without all of that stuff, but it's really hard.
	Yeah. Really hard.
	And so the other thing, too, like you might need paint to paint things.
	At some point, you know how with wood, there's all this shiny stuff on top.
	It's called lacquer, and it protects the wood from getting rotten and all that.
	Yeah. So there's a whole bunch of stuff that you need.
	And once you have enough food that people can go into the city, then you can get stores in the city and you can buy your shovels and your candles and all that that make farming life more than just planting and eating, right?
	Yeah. But until they got better at making crops...
	See, when you're tied to the land and you don't get to keep many of your crops, you don't work that hard to produce things, right?
	No. I mean, this is without the profit motive.
	In other words, without being able to make money from planting extra.
	Like, farming is really crazy hard work.
	Oh, yeah. Well, even just this, I mean, I like growing my plants.
	I don't find it too hard, but I'm pretty good with plants.
	Like, if I look at a plant, sometimes I'll think, oh yeah, okay, that's okay, or it doesn't have enough sunlight, or the roots are rotting.
	I can tell that from the way the leaves look.
	I don't know. My dad and my mom says I have a green thumb.
	I think you do. Say I have a green thumb, I mean.
	I think you do. What does that exactly mean?
	It just means you have a good instinct for taking care of plants.
	Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, that's how I got...
	It said, oh, seven to ten days for the lettuce and the peas to sprout or something.
	It said, like, down in the package, and I got my lettuce to sprout on day four.
	Okay, now, so that's not too hard, but that's a hobby, right?
	Now, imagine if, for some reason, coronavirus, imagine if, for some reason, we needed to grow enough food to survive on.
	That would be a whole different thing, right?
	That would be a very different thing. Then we'd be nuts, right, how much work we'd have to do and how much risk there would be, right?
	And how much we'd have to plant.
	We'd have to get, like, every single pot or any place we could put a plant in.
	Oh, yeah. And we'd have to plant it all and we'd have to give them lots of water, lots of sunlight.
	Yeah. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And if they were outside, you know, we've got the crows, you've got...
	The snow. You've got rabbits, you've got animals that are going to kind of eat your stuff.
	Like right now, snow. Oh, yeah. Not so bad in the winter, but we can't plant anything.
	Yeah. We can plant turnips, and I think...
	Oh, I know... I don't know about peanuts.
	I mean, oh, peanuts come in their roots.
	I see them on a video online.
	I see. Don't you need a warmer climate to grow peanuts?
	I always think that. I have no idea.
	I don't know. I thought they came in like some bush or plant, but no, it's the roots.
	They come in plastic bags, on shelves.
	Okay, no, no. I'm tickling him.
	No, no, no, no. Focus.
	Focus. Yes. Just for anybody who ever meets him, he has a very vulnerable tickle spot on his stomach.
	That's right. That's right. Above the belly button.
	Sorry. Off topic.
	Back to topic. The discovery of America.
	The rounding of the Cape.
	So that's...
	The Cape of Good Hope is right on the tip of South Africa.
	And when you can go around, they finally found a way to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which is kind of important.
	The East Indian and Chinese markets, the colonization of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange, and in commodities generally.
	Commodities are...
	Usually things that end users will end up using.
	Commodities could be like soap, candles.
	It could be lumber, which you use to build things and all that.
	Gave rise... And gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby to the revolutionary elements in the tottering feudal society of rapid development.
	That is a lot of words I do not know right there.
	That's a lot of words. That's a lot of words that don't exactly make sense to me right now.
	Well, you know, again, he's not necessarily writing for an 11-year-old.
	Yeah. Okay, so what he's talking about here is kind of interesting.
	So when you think about it, you're not really interested in saving.
	You're interested in storing up buying.
	In other words, if your money for some reason became valueless, like nobody would take it, you wouldn't bother saving anymore, right?
	No. And this happened, we talked about this in Germany.
	Well, you couldn't really bother saving because if nobody took your money, then...
	You're just holding on to paper or coins, right?
	Which, you know, some people will collect them just for fun, but...
	I do that a little bit, but not really anymore.
	Right. So...
	When you save money, you're saving it because you're going to buy things in the future, right?
	Yeah. And so when there's more things available to buy, you want to save more, right?
	Yeah. Now, most people, when they save, they'll put the money in a bank, right?
	Yes. Now, when...
	You put the money in the bank, the bank is going to pay you interest.
	Now, the money doesn't just sit there and multiply itself like rabbits, right?
	You have to find some way to increase the value of money.
	Wouldn't that be so great if you maybe got a dollar and then the next day you had two and the day after that you had four and then eight and then 16 and then 32 and 64?
	That would be cool. And 128 is after that?
	Yeah. But the problem is, of course, if everyone did that, the value of money would almost evaporate completely, right?
	And you'd need to have like $1,000 to buy coffee or something.
	Well, that's happened before. We talked about that in Germany, right?
	Oh, yeah. Where the guys had to take wheelbarrows of money to go and buy a loaf of bread.
	Oh, yeah. And the guy took out his entire life savings, bought one cup of coffee, and it was all gone.
	Yeah, he was thinking he was saving up for a cottage or something like that.
	Yeah, yeah. He was saving up to retire, and then boom, it just all vanished.
	And that can happen if the government creates way too much money.
	So what he's saying is that a whole bunch of things happened when trade began with America now and other places.
	So in the past, they were really, really controlling about the business.
	Like if I wanted to do a podcast in the Middle Ages, if there was such a thing, I would have to go and apprentice with someone for seven years and never touch a microphone.
	And then after seven years, they might let me do one show a week.
	It's really, really restricted on who can do...
	And that's why he was talking about earlier, he talked about, gosh, guild masters.
	So the guild masters would determine, oh, you want, and the other thing too is if you wanted to be a candle maker, a lot of times you could only do it if your father was a candle maker.
	Why? It was, you know, I hate to say it was just the way it was, but it kind of just was the way it was.
	That's so dumb. So, and no, but if you think about it, if you think about it, let's say that there was a rule.
	I could snap my fingers, make a rule and say nobody else was ever allowed to start podcasting.
	Oh, I like.
	Oh, that's tempting. I'm sorry.
	What about me now? Well, no, but whose father is not a podcaster, right?
	So, like, no, but if you could create a rule that said no one else can podcast from tomorrow, anyone who's not podcasting currently, even if you did in the past, then what I would imagine is that that would make my podcast more valuable.
	Your podcast would get, like, one podcast would take 4 million views or something like that.
	It would be almost as popular as somebody who was creating their very first five-minute video.
	Gruft. Never mind.
	All right. I'm back. Dad lives.
	They have 60 million subscribers.
	On one of their 400 channels.
	No kidding. I like hurting him this way.
	No kidding. Oh, it's painful. I'm evil.
	No, so look.
	If you could ban people from coming into your job, like let's say that you were the only person in the world allowed...
	To make dragon pictures.
	I'd do very well. You would do very well.
	So if you can block people off from coming into your profession, the belief was that you just make more money.
	Now, these rules about no one can do this, no one can do that.
	If your father wasn't this, you couldn't do that.
	You can't change land. You can't change your crops.
	All of those rules got so stifled that eventually, for a variety of reasons, they just all broke apart.
	Oh, thank God. And then you had all of this competition and all of this competition, right?
	I think competition is kind of fun, especially when it comes to business because it's very important to me.
	Well, can you imagine? Can you imagine?
	Like, you know, you love music.
	I love music. Now, can you imagine what would happen if no one new was allowed to make music?
	Oh, that would suck. Well, eventually music would just get bad and people would stop being interested in music, right?
	Yeah. So anyway, so that's what he's talking about.
	about all of these changes that happened when all of these rules break down and people were competing with each other so he said the feudal system of industry under which industrial production that's making candles and all that was monopolized by closed guilds monopolized monopolized uh so monopolized means that uh only one person can do it or only one group can do it so if you want to be a candle maker you can't just go and make a candle you're going to be a candle maker You get thrown in prison for that. Yeah.
	Like, you have to go and beg the people maybe to let you, and then they'll say, well, fine, we'll let you, but you've got to pay all this money, and you've got to apprentice, which means you've got to be trained by someone for, like, years and years and years and so on, right?
	Oh, my gosh. To make a candle.
	In California. Okay, you know when we go to the beach sometimes, they braid your hair?
	Yeah. Right? They won't braid mine.
	It's some weird prejudice, but anyway.
	Fuck. I'm sorry. You can't breathe.
	Oh, wait. Maybe a bit in the armpit.
	The armpit hair? Yeah, that's right.
	No one would want to do that, though.
	That'd be like the How to Train Your Dragon Viking beard coming out of my armpit.
	No, I was just going to make a joke.
	Like, I just said...
	Instead of nobody would want to do that.
	It just came out as nobody...
	Yeah, you know, that was close to English.
	It's good enough. So in California, to braid hair on the beach, they were going to say that you had to take 300 hours of training.
	Oh my god! It's a braid!
	No, but for all the people who are doing the braiding, they want that, right?
	Because it means they can charge more.
	But then few people would want to do it.
	Maybe, yeah, but the other thing too, so they charge more.
	And so the funny thing is, if the people who braid charge $20 instead of $10 because nobody else can do it, then it kind of pushes prices up elsewhere.
	Because people who buy that, well, first of all, some people just won't do it, but let's say that you really did.
	Then, in a tiny little way, it pushes up prices.
	Because when the price of something goes up here...
	Artificially, like it's not a real price, then people are like, oh, ooh, I should probably get a little bit more pay because I have to pay for these things.
	And then you charge and then the people...
	So let's say that the price of everything went up 10%, that people would say, hey, man, I need a 20% raise or at least a 10% raise.
	So then the businesses say, okay, here's a 10% raise, but then they got to raise the price of everything that they sell to cover that raise.
	And so it's all... It's bad.
	And you get these little tiny things that have, it's called the ripple effect, right?
	Or there's this thing that's called the butterfly effect, which is, you know, if a butterfly changes its direction in Japan, it could set in motion a whole bunch of events that end up with a big storm out here in Ontario, right?
	How could it do that? Well, the theory goes something like this, and it's kind of impossible to trace.
	So the butterfly changes its course, right?
	Yeah. And that creates a couple of air ripples that would be in one place rather than something else.
	Or maybe a bird that was chasing the butterfly changes its course, right?
	And then that creates even bigger ripples.
	And maybe those ripples then travel somewhere else, cause some other ripples to happen.
	And then maybe some other bird or something gets caught in those ripples and is like, oh, let's just follow this ring card instead.
	And then it goes higher, and then maybe an airplane swerves a little bit to avoid the bird.
	And, you know, like, it just has more and more effects, and then it just eventually ends up with, like, all the dominoes fall.
	Maybe a storm in China.
	It starts in Japan, but it ends in China.
	Right, right. Or something. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of different things, right?
	And then people say, oh, I'm not flying to China today because there's a storm, and then because there are no planes taken off here, it changes the air here.
	Like, there's lots of different ways that...
	It's just a kind of funny little theory about little...
	Changes, making big changes down the road.
	Or like that story we read, The Sound of Thunder, Delicate Sound of Thunder, something like that, The Sound of Thunder, about the guys who went back in time to shoot the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
	Oh, yeah. Remember, they couldn't change anything.
	Because if they step on one butterfly, then the bird that fed on that butterfly might not have any babies.
	And then all of the birds that came from that baby, that bird would not be born, and that could change everything in the future.
	Because then all of the other animals that fed on the bird, the people who fed on those animals, all would have their lives changed.
	Yeah. Alright.
	Almost done. So the feudal system with the closed guilds was now no longer sufficient for the growing wants of the new markets.
	The manufacturing system took its place.
	The guildmasters, the people who controlled all of the candle making, were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class.
	So the people who were just like, hey, if I want to make a candle factory, I'm just going to make a candle factory.
	And you can't stop me.
	And also there was all of these restrictions on trading between...
	Country. So, you know, when you and I, gosh, what we've been looking for, was it the walkie-talkies?
	We went on to Amazon, and we were like, hey, these are pretty cheap.
	And then? Oh, my God.
	Do you remember? There was this, I don't know, it was the Glowdust.
	The first one was Glowdust. The Glowdust, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, like $12 or whatever, right?
	Just to get this little thing, we wanted to try it.
	And, oh, my God.
	So great. Do you remember?
	It was like $12, and then plus shipping was like maybe all told $20.
	And then if we wanted it to arrive in two days, it ended up being $63.
	Because of the taxes. But it ended up arriving, if we wanted it, it was like November or something.
	I think it was November 13th where we wanted it to end.
	Right. With the plus shipping.
	Yeah. With the fast shipping ended at like $64.
	Right. And then the non-fast shipping wasn't like January, but whatever.
	No, but it was mostly the taxes that we had to pay, all called the duties, right?
	Which is taxes you have to pay coming in.
	I think it was like probably 60% was the taxes.
	So the people who make walkie-talkies in Canada are kind of happy that there are these taxes on walkie-talkies from America.
	You mean glow dust. Oh, glow dust.
	Sorry, glow dust, right? It's okay.
	We've had a couple orders. Because they can keep their prices high.
	And it is kind of strange, right?
	And this happens a lot. So people in India, they're willing to work for like $4 an hour, $5 an hour.
	People in Canada, they want $10, $15, $20, $30 an hour, right?
	And so it's really tough for the domestic producers.
	If other people are willing to work and sell for less, then it's really tricky.
	And what they used to do was they used to just say...
	If you make glow dust, if you don't make glow dust in Canada, you can't sell glow dust in Canada.
	But then what happened was people would smuggle it in.
	You know what smuggling is? Yes, stealing.
	It's hiding. So smuggling is, so let's say there's some mean guy and he says, oh man, that glow dust, 60% on glow dust?
	That's crazy. I'm going to bring glow dust in in a hidden compartment at the bottom of my suitcase and I'm going to sell it on the street.
	They used to have this when they would raise the taxes on cigarettes.
	People would go to America, buy cigarettes where they were cheaper, and they'd bring them back in hockey bags in the back trunk of their car to Canada, and they'd sell them out of the back of their cars.
	And then the government would say, okay, forget it.
	Like, we're just going to lower the taxes on cigarettes because...
	And then America would come and do the same thing.
	They could, right? They could. And also, like, that one time where I smuggled Snowball into the house one winter when I was, like, seven and I threw it at Mom in the laundry room.
	Yeah. That was the best day ever.
	I remember that. Yeah, that was funny.
	And then I swore I'd do it to you and I haven't done it yet.
	Watch your back, Dad. So the manufacturers, they want to sell everywhere.
	So if you build, like let's say that you're making candles in your house.
	Maybe you can make 20 candles a day, right?
	Yeah. But if you're making candles in a factory, you might be able to make 5,000 candles a day out of the factory.
	Now, if you're making 20 candles a day, do you know how sometimes we go to those little country fairs and they have these tables with all this like local artsy crafty stuff like they have what?
	Jewelry and soap and candles and stuff like that, right?
	We'll have all that stuff. Yeah, yeah.
	So that's people just making stuff locally.
	Yeah. But if you can make, and you can just sell that stuff locally.
	Like my chocolates. Yeah, yeah.
	You can just sell that stuff locally.
	You don't care about, like you don't care that people are making chocolates at home in India, right?
	Yes. Now, if you're making 5,000 candles a day, though, you want to sell everywhere.
	Now, if other people come and say, well, you can't sell here and you can't sell there, you'll run to the government and just say, hey, man, you've got to get rid of all these barriers.
	This is wrong. Yeah.
	Like, this is totally wrong. I want to be able to sell into London.
	I want to be able to sell into France.
	I want to be able to sell everywhere, especially stuff like candles, which you can pack into a box and they don't go bad or anything like that.
	Yeah. A lot of things go bad, like curtains.
	I'm not kidding. No, I mean, it's a little different if you're selling cheese.
	You've got to sell it pretty quick. Yeah.
	I mean, if it's cheese, it really can only be sold locally.
	I cannot talk today. Oh, my gosh.
	No. So because these manufacturing places produced so much, they blew down all of these barriers to trade, right?
	So that changed a lot of things in society.
	So just one more paragraph. Meantime, the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising.
	Even manufacture no longer sufficed, which was no longer enough.
	Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionized industrial production.
	So instead of making things by hand, they got to make things by machines.
	We've seen some of this stuff on YouTube, right, where they have these wild robots.
	That can just do the most amazing things and produce stuff, right?
	Yeah, yeah, we saw some of those, right?
	So, the robots are new, but in the past, there were these...
	Wait, I have one question.
	Was it...
	No, actually, not a question.
	There was this one, Robot Fails, where they tried to get these robots to jump.
	I think they showed an animated video of what they wanted to happen, and then the robot jumped off into this plank, and he just jumped, and then he fell over.
	My favorite one of those is the baby.
	It's the robot that's supposed to be the baby.
	Oh! And it just does not work out.
	I've seen it like 15 times and I still laugh at it.
	So he says, the place of manufacture was taken by the giant modern industry, the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.
	So what he's saying there is that, so in the past, you're so knitting, right?
	Yeah. You're knitting by hand.
	You've done it, right? It's tough, right?
	It's kind of slow. Well, except finger knitting, which is fun.
	But yeah, most of the stuff.
	But still slow, right? Still slow. Very slow.
	Oh my goodness. I remember, sorry, quick interruption.
	I remember I was trying to make a hat and it actually didn't come out too badly, but I ended up using it as a pigeon nest for a pigeon that I caught once.
	That's right, that's right. Which is actually funny.
	Why I brought that up, the reason I brought that up is mainly just because it didn't come out at all as what I expected.
	So if I was trying to sell it as a hat, people would have been, that would have been a good bird nest.
	Not kidding. Right, right. So, but if you can get a machine to do the knitting for you, and there are knitting machines out there.
	Oh, I know that, yeah. Oh my goodness, I see these same person, 5-Minute Crafts, like on her, I find them pretty boring.
	I don't know if it's here, but whatever.
	I find them pretty boring, the knitting hacks anyways, or whatever, like sewing hacks.
	I don't know why. Sewing?
	Sewing hacks. Sewing hacks.
	It's a whole different thing, right?
	No, sewing hacks.
	Sewing hacks. No.
	But, like, they have this machine, and instead of doing the knitting, they show sometimes they do hand knitting, but the machine will literally go, like, it will take five seconds to sew up a, uh, sew?
	Sew up, yeah. Sew up a, um...
	I don't know, like the top of a t-shirt.
	It will take like three seconds. Oh yeah.
	And people used to make clothes by hand and now there's these big giant machines that make them.
	It's so much more efficient.
	But think of it. All the people who developed all of these skills to make stuff by hand, some machine comes along.
	Pour them. And now it's really frustrating.
	It's really annoying because it's like the value of what they did and what they spent.
	And also they may have spent seven years learning, because there are all these restrictions, how to make a candle, how to make soap, how to...
	Oh, and then this... And then this machine comes along and produces, right?
	Yeah, yeah. I don't really know exactly if they're...
	I mean, I'm sure there are, but what candle making and if they are.
	But, I mean, a candle making machine could basically just be a big tub that heats up the wax.
	Yep. Then there can be little containers that go underneath.
	Yep. Pause for a second.
	Fill up. Maybe there's a little weight thing when it gets to this height.
	It stops. Yep. Goes to the next one.
	And then maybe there's another...
	Like, right after that, there's a little thing where it stops.
	They put in that little wax.
	Yep. You know the candlestick that makes it burn.
	Yeah, the wick, sorry.
	And then they just go off and it's ready.
	They just have to wait for it to dry. Yeah, or nails.
	So nails are crazy important for making barns and houses.
	Everything. Everything, right?
	Well, like not everything. And they used to have to make nails by hand, believe it or not.
	Oh my gosh, that would be so hard.
	And so, you know, you get this, it's called a mold, right?
	You pour the hot metal into it and you wait for it to cool.
	But they went from making a couple of hundred nails a day to making a couple of hundred thousand nails a day.
	Oh my gosh. Now that makes nails super cheap, but all the people who were used to making it by hand, their whole skill set has just vanished.
	It's like...
	Now, and here's the funny thing.
	So it's the last thing I'll say. So someone, when I was doing my call-in, my Ask Me Anything on the weekend.
	Yes. Someone called in and they said, automation is going to get, like, you know, self-driving cars and stuff like that.
	It's going to get rid of taxi drivers and stuff, right?
	Yeah. So they said, automation is terrible, right?
	Yeah. And what I said was, wait a minute, why didn't you hire someone to deliver that message to me?
	Because there's like online stuff.
	Right, but that's interesting. It's like there used to be.
	Yeah, he could have. Why aren't we conducting?
	So way back before the internet, what I did was I put an ad in the newspaper.
	I wrote a manifesto like this one.
	I wrote one of my own called The Rationalist Manifesto.
	I've got a copy of it somewhere.
	And people would write to me about what they thought about it.
	Like handwritten, put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it.
	And I would debate back and forth with people.
	And it would take like...
	A week to get two points back and forth because a couple of days to mail back and forth, right?
	Oh my god! So that was Twitter 1.0.
	So Twitter 0.0 was me mailing back and forth.
	I could put an ad in a newspaper and I bought a P.O. box so I could mail back and forth with people.
	And we employed a lot of people that way because the people who made the paper, the people who made the envelopes and the stamps, the people who delivered all the mail and all that, right?
	And plus paper. It's very heavy and I don't like carrying it out of the staple store.
	It can be heavy, right? It can be very heavy, yeah.
	Because each one is light, right?
	Well, each one is made from wood and then all of them put together as like a stump.
	A wood stump. So, everybody likes...
	To keep their job by not having it be automated.
	But everyone wants everyone else's job to be automated because it's much more efficient, right?
	Yeah. So this person, he's like, oh, he hasn't asked me anything.
	I want to talk to Steph about something.
	And what he did was he just hopped on the computer and spoke to me directly or asked a question, I guess, of the moderator.
	But he didn't... And also, like... Oh my god, I completely lost my thoughts.
	Sorry. There's a show, you were never that interested in it.
	Mom and I watched some of it called Downton Abbey about...
	Oh yeah, I remember that.
	About life long ago. Now they needed like 50 people to keep this house running, right?
	Yeah. And now we've got a furnace, we've got air conditioning, we've got plumbing, we've got electricity, we've got like all of this stuff.
	Our house runs mostly on its own.
	Like the other day, a motor burnt out, it got kind of cold, we got a guy to come fix it.
	But we don't need all of those people to go out and cut wood and make a fireplace for us to keep us warm at night.
	It's just automatic.
	So automation is kind of why we have wealth because we don't need all these people.
	They're free to go up and do other things and produce other things that are valuable.
	So we kind of like all of this automation.
	Can you imagine? We've got hundreds of thousands of people to see your dragon pictures.
	Now what we would have had to do in the past...
	Is we would have had to call a newspaper and say...
	Put an ad in the newspaper, yeah. Put an ad in the newspaper and say, here's the picture.
	And then it would have been less quality because the newspapers don't produce that much quality.
	At least they didn't in the past.
	And then we'd get, I don't know, maybe 5,000, 10,000 people would see or maybe more.
	Depends how much money we wanted to spend.
	Yeah. And that's how we would get people.
	To see my... To see your picture.
	But we wouldn't know if they liked it or not.
	So maybe we'd put a little post office box down there, which is a place people can mail to that's not your home, and we'd say, if you have comments about this picture, please send them to...
	Right? Yeah. And I bet you very...
	Any people will do it. Very few people.
	I mean, maybe a couple of people that you might know might say nice dragon or whatever, right?
	But... All of that work and all of that expense and very little of that feedback and very few fewer people seeing it.
	But if we just, you know, take a photo of the dragon picture.
	Twitter was free too, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah.
	Well, you pay with time through ads, right?
	Yeah. But we take a picture, we put it on Twitter, we put it on other places.
	Hundreds of thousands of people see it, and we get massive amounts of feedback, and almost nobody has to do anything to make that happen.
	Oh my god, they literally can just, if they want, I don't really use voice dictation, but I just, I type a lot, but a lot of people do, I'm going to guess.
	So someone could just click the voice dictation and say, nice dragon, and maybe exclamation mark, and then just click send.
	When we're playing Rocket League, somebody does a nice shot.
	What do you do? I just, I just, I click, not, it kind of, it looks like, it looks like one of those hospital pluses, if you know what I mean.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even know what that's for.
	The track bed? No, that's not it.
	Anyway. Whatever, but it's the not controller that can still do stuff.
	It's the not controller. Controls, they can still do stuff like that.
	You're like an engineer here.
	I think everyone, you know, it's the non-trigger, like not trigger, like that movie thing, joystick that can still sometimes act as a joystick.
	But you go, I go sideways and then top.
	Oh yeah, I got it, remember? It just says nice shot.
	And then if I go sideways and down, maybe someone does a save, it says what a save if I go sideways and down.
	Or I need a boost or whatever.
	Oh, need boost only works on the team and I think it's this and this.
	So that's a little example of automation.
	It's a lot more helpful, right?
	Because it also helps you win the game because you don't have to type stuff in the middle of a game, right?
	Yeah. All right. So, okay, we'll pick this up.
	I really, really appreciate that. This is our introduction to the Communist Manifesto.
	Yes. So far, nothing bad.
	Part one out of four or five or something like that.
	Yeah, we'll finish it up. We don't know.
	Maybe like part one of four or five or whatever.
	What page are we on? Oh, that is a fine question.
	Get it really fast. Where did you put the tablet?
	I gotta tell you. It's right here.
	It's hidden. Yeah, I gotta tell you, because there's a lot of background at the beginning kind of getting the history in, we have 5% of the way through the book.
	Oh my gosh. It's alright. Only 39 minutes left in the book.
	But we have done... Well, at the rate that we're reading...
	Five pages. No, it gets faster after this.
	There's a lot of sort of background, but...
	Yeah, and also I'll know some of these words if he reuses them.
	And... Whoa, what do I always forget?
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	And also, I may convince someone to post a picture of that chocolate pizza I was talking about.
	It's very small. It's not a very big pizza.
	My only concern is that people will eat their phones.
	I think so. Maybe they'll try and eat their phones and then they'll be like, wait, what the heck?
	This does not taste very chocolatey.
	Wait, Mom's already paid for it, right?
	No, she's not bought it yet.
	She ordered it in advance for next time we have guests so that each person could get a slice or something.
	Yeah, I'm the guest that she's talking about.
	I'm sorry. I'm going downstairs right now!
	If you would like to pay $7 for the large thing and the entire bag of chocolate I had to use.
	Not entire bag, a lot of chocolate.
	Okay, I will pay $7 next time I can get a hold of mom's purse, I promise.
	I'm sorry, what not? Okay, thanks everyone.
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