Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - LADIES: CHOICES EQUALS CONSEQUENCES!
Aired: 2022-09-07
Duration: 03:23


=== Men's Hard Work and Benefits (03:23) ===

[00:00:00]  So there's of course some movie coming out, Don't Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde.
[00:00:05]  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.
[00:00:23]  So, you know, you always have to go back and hammer at the 50s.
[00:00:26]  And so it's this usual, oh, the 50s, it seems like a paradise, but it's deeply sinister deep down.
[00:00:31]  Anyway, so the movie, of course, is going to be boring and predictable and who cares, right?
[00:00:35]  But in it, there's a character played by Chris Pine, who I assume or they claim is based on Jordan Peterson.
[00:00:42]  King of the incels, they say in there.
[00:00:44]  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?
[00:00:52]  And of course, nobody owes anyone anything.
[00:00:54]  It's one of the great secrets of actually becoming an adult is not expecting other people to fulfill your particular preferences.
[00:01:00]  And women, of course, as you know, they rate 80% of men as unattractive.
[00:01:04]  For men, it's 50-50, middle of the bell curve.
[00:01:06]  For women, they rate 80% of men as less than average attractiveness.
[00:01:10]  And what that means, of course, is that a huge number of women are chasing the top 10% of guys, top 20% of guys.
[00:01:18]  And again, that's fine.
[00:01:20]  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?
[00:01:27]  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...
[00:01:37]  That's most of human history.
[00:01:39]  And that's why we were at a subsistence level of our survival.
[00:01:43]  You know, you need 2500 calories a day and you were lucky if you got 2500 and one, right?
[00:01:51]  Which is why human populations were so low.
[00:01:55]  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.
[00:02:07]  And the consequence is that you won't be able to get your government benefits in the long run, right?
[00:02:13]  See, government benefits are produced To a large degree, by men working very, very hard.
[00:02:17]  And why do men work very, very hard?
[00:02:19]  Well, we work very, very hard because we have wives and children.
[00:02:23]  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.
[00:02:33]  I mean, when I was a student, I rented a room and a house and was quite comfortable there for $275 a month.
[00:02:39]  You get a wife and kids, you can't do that.
[00:02:42]  So men work very hard and produce a lot of excess wealth because of wife and kids.
[00:02:49]  Now, that excess wealth disproportionately goes into funding social programs.
[00:02:53]  So if you're just going to turn your backs on 80% of the men, again, perfectly fine, perfectly free to do so.
[00:02:59]  But the consequence is that men will stop working, tax base will collapse, and you won't get your benefits.
[00:03:08]  I wish the system were different, but I'm just sort of pointing you out the cause and effect of the system.
[00:03:13]  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.