Sept. 7, 2022 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So there's of course some movie coming out, Don't Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde. | |
| And it's the usual typical, I mean, communists have this allergic horror to the 50s, you know, when capitalism was functioning fairly well because government was much smaller and more free trade and a man could afford a house and gaggle the kids and the car and all of that on one guy's salary and so on. | |
| So, you know, you always have to go back and hammer at the 50s. | |
| And so it's this usual, oh, the 50s, it seems like a paradise, but it's deeply sinister deep down. | |
| Anyway, so the movie, of course, is going to be boring and predictable and who cares, right? | |
| But in it, there's a character played by Chris Pine, who I assume or they claim is based on Jordan Peterson. | |
| King of the incels, they say in there. | |
| A woman, Olivia Wilde says, you know, the incels, they're just entitled guys who think that a woman owes them sexuality and so on, right? | |
| And of course, nobody owes anyone anything. | |
| It's one of the great secrets of actually becoming an adult is not expecting other people to fulfill your particular preferences. | |
| And women, of course, as you know, they rate 80% of men as unattractive. | |
| For men, it's 50-50, middle of the bell curve. | |
| For women, they rate 80% of men as less than average attractiveness. | |
| And what that means, of course, is that a huge number of women are chasing the top 10% of guys, top 20% of guys. | |
| And again, that's fine. | |
| You can make all the choices that you want, but philosophy, if not economics, is just here to tell you that choices have their consequences, right? | |
| So, I mean, this function of going to work and just doing the bare minimum, soft quitting or something like that, you know, just doing enough to get by, well... | |
| That's most of human history. | |
| And that's why we were at a subsistence level of our survival. | |
| You know, you need 2500 calories a day and you were lucky if you got 2500 and one, right? | |
| Which is why human populations were so low. | |
| For women, it's like, yeah, date whoever you want, but if you scorn and despise and reject 80% of the men, again, perfectly within your rights, then that's a fine thing to do, but there's going to be consequences. | |
| And the consequence is that you won't be able to get your government benefits in the long run, right? | |
| See, government benefits are produced To a large degree, by men working very, very hard. | |
| And why do men work very, very hard? | |
| Well, we work very, very hard because we have wives and children. | |
| And a man needs ten times the income to have a wife and kids than he needs to have if he's like a single guy living in a room or a tiny apartment or whatever. | |
| I mean, when I was a student, I rented a room and a house and was quite comfortable there for $275 a month. | |
| You get a wife and kids, you can't do that. | |
| So men work very hard and produce a lot of excess wealth because of wife and kids. | |
| Now, that excess wealth disproportionately goes into funding social programs. | |
| So if you're just going to turn your backs on 80% of the men, again, perfectly fine, perfectly free to do so. | |
| But the consequence is that men will stop working, tax base will collapse, and you won't get your benefits. | |
| I wish the system were different, but I'm just sort of pointing you out the cause and effect of the system. | |
| That is, make your choices by all means, but making choices in the absence of knowing what the consequences are is usually not a very productive scenario. |
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