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Jan. 13, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:38
What Is Pretty Privilege?
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So, yeah, the real privilege is pretty privilege and for a woman to pretend that she has a beauty which she doesn't have is fraud.
Absolute fraud.
Absolute fraud.
And pretty privilege also means that you're likely not going to squander.
Because you don't squander your pretty privilege by getting fat or lazy or whatever it is, right?
So you know enough to know how the world works.
It indicates a certain intelligence and looks are related, right?
Intelligence and looks are related, right?
So if a woman has a lot of plastic surgery, she's not just appearing more pretty.
She's not just appearing to have better genetics.
She's appearing to be smarter.
And, um, she also...
You know, I remember watching a Dr. Phil many years ago where a couple lost a lot of weight and they both went on these promiscuity binges because suddenly becoming pretty or handsome through plastic surgery or other things can happen through weight loss as well.
But suddenly getting that means you don't grow up with that kind of power.
You don't grow up learning how to manage and handle that kind of power, that kind of pretty privilege.
So you're more likely to go haywire in the same way that if you grow up with money, Right?
Then your parents help you understand money and help you work with money and help you make sure you don't lose the money and all of that.
And you kind of grow up used to that and you get all of that training and experience.
But then the problem is, what if you grew up dirt poor and then you suddenly inherit a bunch of money?
Well, if you inherit a bunch of money...
You don't have the social environment, you don't have the expertise, you're not used to it, which is why a lot of people who win the lottery go bankrupt and their lives are a real mess.
So if you don't grow up with pretty privilege and learn how to handle and manage it when you're young, but you suddenly you go under the knife and you get pretty privileged later, you won't know how to handle it very well.
So.
It's a big deal.
The pretty privilege stuff.
People don't really like to talk about it.
And how much talent it takes to overcome...
Like, what was it?
Gene Hackman, a famous actor.
He's retired now.
I think he's writing novels.
And he was like, yeah, I mean, I look like a potato.
I mean, how good do I have to be to get any rolls?
All right.
Somebody says, I think there's a real chance the dollar gets dramatically stronger and less inflated.
You said last time I mentioned this that it's impossible, but this is Elon we were talking about.
Elon has no official role in government.
I think he could be speaker constitutionally, but I doubt that's going to happen.
But Elon, it's like saying, I'm so good at math, I can overcome the rules of math, right?
You know, it's like those basketball players, he's defying gravity.
Well, of course not really.
It's just a lot of skill and talent, right?
But no, the dollar is going to keep...
They just blew a 200 billion hole in Social Security last night.
Looking at Malay in Argentina, the economy can be turned over drastically if you fire the whole government.
Sure, of course, I get that.
Yes, yes, that's true.
But that's like, in the course of history, in the course of a country, that's like somebody who remains committed to alcoholism, he's just cutting back on his drinking because he's dying.
Not that he's going to quit drinking, right?
And I'm not talking about Malay.
I know he's an ANCAP, or at least I think he is.
But the society in Argentina, yes, they've gone to an excess of government, so a cutback government is going to generate a lot of wealth.
And then when there's a lot of wealth, people are going to say, well, I guess we should have a whole bunch of social programs back because look at the disparity between rich and poor.
And you just start the whole damn cycle all over again.
Beauty is not only good looking.
Beauty is not only good looking.
Is this how you add value to a conversation?
Is you state blindingly obvious things that nobody's talking about?
I'm talking about pretty privilege in the dating market.
And you say, well, but there's forms of beauty that aren't about just being good-looking.
It's like, and?
Yes, that's true.
You know, this stock is really going up.
You know, there are a bunch of things in this world that aren't going up.
I mean, elevators going down aren't going.
It's like, is this how you add value?
We're not talking about beauty as an abstract concept.
We're talking about pretty privilege in the dating market.
Try to stay with what people are talking about and don't state blindingly obvious things that have nothing to do with the conversation because quality people probably won't want to chat with you very much.
And I think you should have quality people chat with you because if you're here, you're a smart, great person.
Pretty privileged to someone also means you will avoid most of the arrogant, abusive, slash toxic people that have embedded negative relationships.
I don't know about that.
I mean, there's a lot of...
The worst combo is very pretty, but not very smart, because then you get kind of exploited, right?
I mean, what was it, Amaranth?
We talked about this some years ago.
She had a conversation with her husband, kind of go public, and he was just being really mean to her.
There are a lot of...
Pretty.
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