Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - Realism About the Poor
Aired: 2024-11-29
Duration: 04:27


=== Thoughts On The Poor (01:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Evening, everybody.
[00:00:00]  Welcome to your...
[00:00:02]  Oh, yes, you are.
[00:00:03]  Friday Night Live.
[00:00:04]  Yes, 22nd of November 2024. 221124. Sounds like a cha-cha-cha step.
[00:00:15]  And have I seen the South Korean film Parasite?
[00:00:18]  What are your thoughts?
[00:00:19]  It's a good film.
[00:00:20]  Actually, it was a good film.
[00:00:21]  Memorable, surprising, interesting, good writing, great acting.
[00:00:25]  And it is one of the films that's realistic about the poor.
[00:00:32]  I mean, let me ask you your experience.
[00:00:34]  If you've spent much time, and Lord knows I have, if you've spent much time around the poor, What are your thoughts?
[00:00:46]  What are your thoughts on the poor as a whole?
[00:00:48]  And I'm not just, I'm not talking about the people who have a hard time making men's meat.
[00:00:52]  I'm like really poor, like no car, rent control, apartment, squeezing together every thin dime.
[00:01:03]  What are your thoughts if you spend significant time around the poor?
[00:01:07]  I'm not talking about the voluntary poor, right?
[00:01:10]  I'm not talking about the people who are all going to write the great Canadian novels, so I'm going to take my time off from working, but the poor.
[00:01:19]  What has been your experience of the poor as a whole?
[00:01:29]  I'm curious.
[00:01:30]  I have some thoughts, but it is, of course, a show for which I would love to hear your thoughts.
[00:01:44]  A lot of the poor are just lazy, they don't listen either, very hedonistic.
[00:01:50]  I was thinking about your assessment of the poor in your last podcast.

=== Thinking About Poverty (02:34) ===

[00:01:53]  I must say I agree.
[00:01:53]  Many I grew up around and spent time with were into drugs, unable to hold down jobs, and hated their landlords.
[00:01:58]  They are into instant gratification.
[00:02:01]  And it's not just an IQ thing, but it certainly has something to do with it.
[00:02:05]  Of course, nothing's a just-one-exclamation thing, right?
[00:02:09]  They have friends with bad habits that they don't want to say no to.
[00:02:12]  Most poor people are suffering consequences of their past actions.
[00:02:20]  I have in passing, says someone.
[00:02:21]  I do some volunteer work in soup kitchens.
[00:02:23]  There's some serious dysfunctional people.
[00:02:25]  my last volunteer day, a guy was dragged out by the cops for being simply crazy.
[00:02:30]  Right.
[00:02:31]  You want to know the biggest difference between the poor and the wealthy?
[00:02:41]  you Thank you.
[00:02:46]  It is one word only.
[00:02:49]  What is the difference between the poor and the wealthy?
[00:03:00]  And I say this having had brutal decades of experience in this manner.
[00:03:06]  Responsibility?
[00:03:07]  I don't think so.
[00:03:09]  Accountability?
[00:03:10]  Mm-mm.
[00:03:12]  Mm-mm.
[00:03:15]  Somebody says, you have to adopt everything they believe, at least outwardly, otherwise they view you as an enemy.
[00:03:20]  You must like rap, hate the rich, assume all upward mobility is luck, and they will be unlucky, so better off just doing drugs.
[00:03:31]  I tell you why my family was poor when I was a kid.
[00:03:34]  My parents gambled and took out a ton of loans and leases on cars.
[00:03:40]  Someone says, I let a poor comedian live with me for a year, giving him cheap rent.
[00:03:44]  He was alright until I wanted to get serious about starting a family with my girlfriend and began to disrespect every rule of the house and I was forced to kick him out.
[00:03:51]  The wealthy by lobbyists.
[00:03:53]  Now, what's the words you're thinking?
[00:03:56]  Discipline, agency, arrogance, tenacity, sacrifice, the rich are sensitive to shunning.
[00:04:04]  Ah, what's the one thing the poor people will always say when you begin to, oh, you just think you're too good for us now?
[00:04:11]  Oh, you just think you're too good for us now?
[00:04:15]  Yeah.
[00:04:16]  So, I will tell you, and I, this is a, um, This is a thesis that I will stand by.
[00:04:25]  It doesn't mean that I'm right.