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Jan. 10, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
07:19
The Three Major Threats to a Woman's Success in Life
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So, for example, what are the major threats to a woman's success in life?
The major threats are threefold.
One, the father of her child or children abandons her.
That is a massive risk for women and a risk for women and consequently for society as a whole that most societies have worked their fingers to the bone To avoid that as a situation where the man can just bail on the mother of his child, the children.
I'm just going to say children.
I keep repeating the singular plural.
So that she has a baby with a guy who bails.
That's the number one disaster for a woman, right?
Number two is she can't pay for health care.
Women's health care requirements are generally larger than men's.
Other than, I guess, hernias.
But men kind of sail through life.
We're kind of bricks.
We're alive or we're dead.
And that's about it.
But women need these constant tweaks and so on.
So, women's health, she can't afford to pay for health care.
Either for herself or as a consequence of the father of her children bailing, she can't pay for the health care costs of her children.
That's number two.
Number three is destitution in old age.
Destitution in old age.
Those are the three major threats.
The medical one is not quite as big a deal, but having children without a father to provide and or destitution in old age, right?
That is the woman's major risks.
I mean, we could say violence, but men are more susceptible to violence as a whole.
And some, we could say rape.
Of course, yes, but men are raped as well.
And the numbers can be quite shocking even if you exclude prison.
So, women face poor decisions leading to destitution.
And the traditional tragic path for women who had children without a provider was to tumble down the horrifying steps of social ostracism and decay until they became prostitutes.
Which was a brutish and short life as a whole.
So the negative consequences, I'm not, of course, advocating for that, but in general, the negative consequences of a woman having a child out of wedlock is that no good man would marry her.
And because we no longer allow society to fail, we feel we have no need for morality.
Morality, of course, has its ideal ethical goals, but morality is also, don't fuck up.
Don't fuck up.
And when you no longer pay any penalties for fucking up, in fact, when fucking up can reward things in your life, then you have no longer any need for morality.
So women got the awesome power to control the state in general through voting.
And because women outvote men and women live longer than men and women often slightly outnumber men, so women got the awesome power, the astounding power to control the state.
And immediately, politicians began offering them freedom, not of choice, but freedom from consequences.
So, what were the two things that came in pretty early?
Was the welfare state, well, even before the welfare state came, Social Security, which is female protection from destitution or poverty in old age.
That came in right away.
Ida Mae Wells, was it?
Something like that.
But yeah, the initial people who got social security or old age pensions, which happened throughout the West, the people got massive amounts more than they were ever going to pay in.
In fact, you could make one payment and then be set for the next 30 years.
So, why is that important?
Well, if a woman does not have a man in her life, and just talk typical heterosexual tropes, but if a woman doesn't have a man in her life, then Women tend to overspend.
I don't know what it is exactly, this mall-driven, fairly satanic materialism, but the average man spends like 98% of his salary after taxes.
The average woman spends like 112% of her salary after taxes.
So women are spending machines, and that's largely because women's spending of the past would be restrained by the man saying yes or no, based upon his expertise in the finances.
And women couldn't be held accountable for their own debts in the past.
Their husbands were accountable for the woman's debt, so women evolved to expend resources, and that's great, and men evolved to restrain resources, which is why when women get the vote, the national debt goes through the roof, and women don't want to say no to anyone or anything when it comes to spending, because it's mean, it's cruel, you heartless bastards.
So a woman who doesn't have a man and doesn't have children generally does not save nearly enough for her old age.
Nearly enough.
I mean, there was a Kevin Samuels would occasionally ask women who were getting up there, hey, how much do you have saved for retirement?
And they'd be like, 50k?
It was like, so you need over $2 million for your retirement if you're going to live comfortably for 20, 30 years after you retire.
And the women didn't have that.
So what do they do?
What do they do?
Well, they run to the government and they say, well, I don't have savings, I don't have a man to provide for me, I don't have children who want to support me or are willing to support me, but I need to live in comfort in my old age, so I just run to the government, right?
So, women got freedom, and also freedom from consequences, and these two things are diametrically opposed.
Right?
These two things are diametrically opposed.
If you have freedom, then you can't have freedom from consequences because your freedom from consequences is imposed by taking away freedom from other people, like men pay 80% of the taxes, really.
So, that is very foundational and significant.
And I think one of the issues that has occurred with regards to women is to give people freedom from consequences It makes them crazy.
To give people freedom from consequences makes them crazy.
It detaches them from reality.
So we are an incredibly imaginative species, and that's great.
It's positive.
It's wonderful.
It's where my novels and poems and so on come from, so that's really great, and my analogies.
So we're a very creative species.
Now, how is it that we don't go crazy despite being so creative?
Why don't we go insane?
I mean, we go insane every night.
We have psychotic delusions called dreams.
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