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May 29, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
16:40
WHY ONLY 6 TRILLION? WHERE ARE YOUR BALLS?
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Did you guys, did you notice what the Biden spending plan is that he just signed off on?
Did you see?
Give me a number. Give me a number of billion.
A number of billions that the federal government is going to spend this fiscal year coming up.
So it's six trillion dollars.
Six trillion dollars of spending.
Because they've got the magic wand called, we're just going to use this to achieve equality.
So it's totally fine that Chinese bankers now own your children's kidneys going forward.
So it's $6 trillion and all I can say is, Joe, you fucking chicken.
What are you doing? You chicken?
$6 trillion? You call that a budget?
Come on, man!
$7 trillion, $8 trillion, $10 trillion, $20 trillion, $50 trillion.
Now you're talking about a budget.
What the hell are you monkeying around?
Down at the level 6.
My God, what's the matter with you?
Have some gumption behind your addiction to Keynesian monetary theory, to modern monetary theory, to MMT. I'm debating that this weekend on the show.
Yeah, like, what's the matter with you?
If you can just create wealth by creating money, why on earth would you stop at six trillion dollars?
That's like, you go to the lottery, you win a lottery ticket, and it's type whatever you want.
You've won whatever you want.
Type whatever you want.
Into your lottery ticket winnings.
Type anything, man.
Anything you want. And you type $12?
Yeah, $12 should get me a cab ride home.
That's it. You write $12 or $6.
What is the matter with you?
I mean, if you are in a Disney movie and you come across a lamp and you rub the lamp.
I'm sure that's going to be on the OnlyFans channel, too.
You rub the lamp. And a genie pops out and says, I can grant you three wishes and ixnay on the wishing for more wishes.
Three wishes. And you say, well, I don't know.
Three wishes. Boy, that's a lot.
I wish for only one wish and that wish is that it snows a little on the North Pole tomorrow for 20 minutes.
Like, wish big, man.
Dream big. Believe in yourself.
Believe in your dreams.
Believe in your fantasies, man.
It should be $60 trillion.
What is the matter with you?
Why are you thinking so small, so constrained, so anal?
Is your imagination constipated?
Do you need to, like, blow it out with some Imodium or something like that?
Like, what happened to me when I lived in a frat house?
Wasn't part of the frat, lived in a frat house, and they thought it was really funny to spice everybody's food with it.
Laxatives. So, yeah, I'm just like, what is the matter?
I don't understand these Democrats.
Like, dream big, man.
Go big or go home. Like, why would you stick with six trillion?
See, they say, oh, my God.
Oh, and by the way, when they announced six trillion, Bitcoin went down.
What is it, cooking around 43K? Canadian at the moment, which just shows you what kind of blowback we're going to get over time with regards to Bitcoin.
Oh my God.
So they're announcing a $6 trillion budget.
The economy has been crippled.
The middle class and the small business owners have been gutted like Gollum with a herring.
And people are like, oh, yeah, massive budget, way more than they're taking in taxes, massive overextending, massive hyperspending.
Yeah, we should probably sell some Bitcoin.
Oh, my God.
What is the matter? I don't understand.
Like, just good.
Well, first of all, it's good that they're starting at six.
But man, I got to challenge you on this.
You got to raise that. You got to get those are rookie numbers, man.
You got to get those numbers up there.
You've got to believe in yourself.
You've got to believe in your theory.
Gay Keynes was right.
Just go full tilt, man.
You don't even need to print.
Printing press is going, no, you just type whatever you want.
They won the lottery called Central Banking and they're only typing $6 trillion into their own bank account.
What is the matter with you?
Just go! Do it!
Do it! Stop screwing around.
And start spending some real money.
Real... I mean, not real money.
You know what I mean. But some serious money.
Start spending some serious money.
It's like... The economy is...
Michelle Pfeiffer in her prime.
And you're taking her to fucking Arby's?
Are you kidding me?
She's like... We're talking Michelle Pfeiffer.
Pre-Ladyhawk arrow in the shoulder.
1987. Michelle Pfeiffer in her absolute alabaster goddess prime.
And you finally get a date with her.
And you're going to take her to Peter Pit.
Actually, I like Peter Pit.
Arby's. Arby's. Popeye's is a restaurant that I could never quite get behind.
So, yeah. It's just...
It's just very, very sad.
It's very sad that they don't believe in their own theories enough.
Look, you know what I want to see?
I want to see a budget with a sideways fucking number eight on.
I want just infinity. I want to see a budget that has scientific notation to it.
You know when you jam up your 12-digit calculator with way too many multiplications and it just gives you the E plus shit?
I just want to see...
The kind of budget where they say, total fucking wish list, no means of paying, whatever we want, candy magic land.
That's what I want to see. That's what I want to see.
I just, I don't want to see any of this.
Well, we're going to stop at six trillion.
It's such bullshit. Just go, man.
Go. So.
What they say, of course, they want to spend all this money on.
What do they want to spend all this money on?
Oh, yeah, if you can share the live stream, I'd appreciate it.
So what they'll spend the money on is equality.
So they want to get to equality.
Because, you see, bribery of the incompetence is two obvious statements.
They go say equality, right?
Equality. And which means that the people who didn't do as well should get more resources from the people who did better.
the people who didn't do as well should get resources from the people who did better.
You know, the way that, because that's a principle, right?
So the way that the Republicans, like the Democrats said to the Republicans, oh, you didn't get enough votes, we'll give you some because you did poorly and therefore you should get the resources that we got through doing better.
Now, of course, they would never think of donating their votes to the Republicans, but they can think of donating everybody's money to the incompetence in society, right?
And by incompetence, I don't just mean the poor.
People who run the military-industrial complex and profit on that become fundamentally incompetent, too.
Asian countries are doing better for now, while the West F's up.
Well, what is the birth rate in Japan and South Korea?
Like, 1.1 children per couple?
By the way, in certain parts of West Africa, it's almost eight.
Ah, society.
Remember when I was watching 2001 the other day, Space Odyssey?
Pretty good movie. Well paced.
And I remember watching that as a kid.
It came out, I didn't watch it in the theaters when it first came out because I was too young, but I watched it in the 70s.
And man, did I love science fiction back then because I fantasized, or we were sort of taught that we'd all, you know, get space stations and moon boots and suborbital passenger ships and all of that.
And what did we get? Massive debt.
Single mothers and mass immigration.
Instead of that, we can't reach for the stars because we're being dragged down in the quicksand of incompetence as a whole.
It's really, really tragic. So they want inequality.
I'll tell you something about inequality.
Inequality fucking rocks.
You like this show, right?
You love this show. You love this conversation.
You love philosophy. Now, do you know why I'm so hungry.
Why I'm so passionate. Why I'm willing to take so many risks.
Why I love doing this show and frying bacon in the nude, which you'll also get to see on my OnlyFans channel.
Just kidding, you won't. There won't be any bacon.
It's because I started so ridiculously far back from the starting line that I just muscled my way forward like you wouldn't believe.
There is nothing wrong...
In starting way behind the starting line.
Man, does that ever make you hungry.
Man, does that ever make you good.
Man, does that ever give you ambition.
You know, if you grow up in a middle class, upper middle class household, and I know this from most of my friends.
Most of my friends when I was younger who grew up in middle class, upper middle class households, frankly, they're basic and boring and bumbling, right?
They're just, I mean, you know, they've had some professional success.
Some of them became professors. Boring.
Boring! Boring! You know, one of them became a manager of quality control at a software company, and, you know, they all did pretty well-ish.
One became an architect, but still bikes around with his little fanny pack full of tiny little renovation shit.
So, they just didn't have the hunger!
You know, the hungriest guy is the best hunter.
He's got the most motive.
Guy who just had a meal, is lurching around, burping and farting.
He doesn't really care about getting food.
To start off broke, poor, welfare, trashy, single mother, crap, bottom, Dante-esque layer of social dysfunctional hell is fantastic.
It's fucking great for your ambition.
Imagine you're in an archery contest, right?
And one guy can only pull his bow back one inch, but you can pull your bow back as far as you want.
Right to that trembling edge of...
Right? Who's going to win the archery contest?
The guy who's like...
Or the guy who's going...
Off it goes, right?
Off it goes. The greater the gravity, the greater the fuel.
The greater the resistance, the greater the muscle.
The further back you start, Like a bow, like a slingshot, the further ahead you can get.
So the idea that people would say to me, well it's just so wrong, so wrong, that you started off so far back and that, that you see is just terrible.
Well, if that's true, why have I been so more successful Than anybody I grew up with.
Who started off further ahead than I did.
I started pretty much the furthest back.
I mean, I don't want to...
It's not a big contest that I wanted to win or anything, but, you know, in hindsight, it's not something you like at the time, but because you dislike it so much, you put your muscle and your meat and your balls and your jetpack of ambition and mental acuity into propelling yourself the fuck forward.
Propulsion is everything.
Imagine being a baseball pitcher and you could only throw back to your ear.
You can only start your throw at your ear.
You get those weak-deed, gay-armed John Stewart ball throws, right?
But if you can throw, you can bring your arm back as far, the further back you can bring your arm, the more whiplier, the faster you can get the ball, the better you're going to be.
Starting off below the average, starting off On the left-hand side of the bell curve of opportunity is great.
It does not determine where you end at all.
And if you guys look at your adversity in your life and you can learn to love and embrace it and say, God, I was being polished.
Oh, that pressure turned dusty coal into a blinding diamond.
Oh! Being squished down gave me greater momentum to bounce up.
You know, it's like the harder you throw a rubber ball.
You ever done this? You've got kids around, like you throw the rubber ball and it just turns into this bouncing rubber bullet of death, which is going to hit you in the nads sooner or later and thus end your lineage.
Yeah. The further you push it down, the higher it bounces.
The further you trampoline, the further you push it down, the higher it bounces.
So this idea that, oh, some people are starting further back, some people are starting disadvantaged.
Disadvantage is advantaged!
You know why they call it?
Rag sleeves or shirt sleeves are shirt sleeves in three generations.
Your grandfather was in shirt sleeves, your father had a suit, you end up in shirt sleeves.
The churn, the cycle!
Do you want to grow up wealthy and end up poor and depressed or do you want to grow up poor and end up wealthy and happy?
Now, when you're a kid, of course, you want all of the fun stuff.
You don't want to work.
You don't want to have, you know, I had three jobs through high school and shit.
Like, you don't want, I get you don't want any of that, but so what?
You don't want to go to the dentist either, but you do because it's good for you, right?
So this issue, this issue, Of saying, oh my god, these people are so disadvantaged.
What we need to do is just give them money.
Well, it's just bribery.
It's just bribery. Vote for us and we'll give you shit.
It's straight up bribery. It corrupts everybody involved.
Poverty is an opportunity.
And wealth very often is a calamity.
Kim Kardashian, fairly smart, although she just flunked the baby bar exam, but you know, she's a fairly smart woman.
Very attractive woman. Grew up with immense privilege and wealth and beauty.
Was she now getting divorced from Kanye West?
Was that the third or fourth marriage?
Was going to be a single mom with a bunch of kids sailing into her mid-forties?
God-awful. Absolutely God-awful.
What about Scott Adams' trick of saying your goal 15 times a day?
According to Scott, even a crappy artist can become a world-famous cartoonist.
Well, no, but Scott Adams is a brilliant guy.
He had a good childhood, and he's a brilliant guy.
And so, because he doesn't understand where he sits on the bell curve of IQ, he's a very high IQ guy, without a doubt, and a fantastic sense of humor.
And he also says that he's never experienced fear, really, in his life.
Okay? So, he had a very supportive childhood, a very supportive mother.
He's a brilliant guy, great sense of humor, and that's incredibly rare.
And one of the things that happens, it's a very tempting thing.
Have I ever, ever, ever, ever, ever told you guys how to do what I do?
No, of course not.
Of course not. You can benefit from philosophy, you can be philosophers, but you can't do what I do.
Because I'm unique. You can do something that I can't do for sure, but I don't think that I can just sit here and say, here's how to do what I do.
Think until you get great ideas.
It's like Freddie Mercury saying, well, just write songs until you write incredibly great songs.
Can it be reproduced?
No. There is, you know, there's this charisma on command guy who's like, here's how you can be incredibly charismatic.
And he's like a fantastic looking guy.
It's like, yeah, guess what?
You're considered very charismatic if you're a fantastic looking guy.
Anyway, so just this idea that we got to fix, that we have to fix inequality, that people who are starting poor, people who are starting disadvantaged, that's where all the progress comes from.
That's where all the progress in the world comes from.
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