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Jan. 13, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
06:16
When the Boomers Default, How Will They React?
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Alright, let's get to your questions, comments, very interesting stuff.
When the unfunded liabilities default, how do you think boomers will react?
Oh, that's as predictable as sunrise.
So, when the unfunded liabilities run out, the boomers will descend like guilty, frothy-haired waves of manipulative guilt, and all of the kids that they dumped in daycares and ignored to go on cruises, and the grandchildren that they've ignored, Suddenly, the boomers will morph into absolutely devoted family members that you owe massive amounts of obligations and resource and time and care and attention and shelter to.
They will drop down off the necks of their kids like a bunch of Winnie Mandela necklaces.
So they are going to come.
I always think of that.
With the boomers, there's a scene in The Wall, the movie The Wall, where there's this great creepy song called The Trial.
The mother sort of comes screaming in.
Oh, my baby!
And it's a really great and terrifying song.
I actually analyzed it when I was in high school for a teacher.
And they'll just come screaming in.
They'll just come screaming in.
You owe us.
Family is everything.
We need you.
How dare you even...
They'll just come in and manipulate, right?
They'll come in and guilt and manipulate and bully and that kind of stuff, right?
Somebody asks, Eric, is 26 male and 18 to 19-year-old female too much of an age gap?
I got my life together and I'm ready for a girlfriend, but girls online, 21 and over, are feminist, ran through and just repellent.
I'm afraid I missed the boat.
No, I don't think it particularly matters.
I mean, I think that there are some age groups that, the age differences that probably are pretty big, but no.
I mean, if you had a tough childhood, then you generally mature a little later.
Mature.
I always sound like mature.
That's Kevin Samuels.
Kids.
You got kids.
Kids.
No.
K-Y-E-E-D-Z. So, yeah, I mean, if you get along, right?
If you get along, great.
10% to the big guy.
Thank you, Eric.
I appreciate the tip.
That's very kind.
Very kind.
All right.
Sorry, I missed a bunch of questions because I was yapping, as my daughter would say, and yapping.
Eric says, my good friend's mother has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
They have a treatment plan, but their family does not have the money to cover the deductible portion of the cost.
I do have money available for this first round of treatment.
If I pay for this round, I'm sure I would be looked to for further treatment payments.
I would feel the pressure of all their family then looking to me to pay, rather than my moment of generosity of the first payment.
How do I navigate this to help?
I mean, it's very thoughtful and very kind of you to figure this out.
I have a bit of trouble understanding this as a whole.
And I smell manipulation.
Could be wrong.
Probably am wrong.
I'm just telling you.
Smells like boomers.
So, what do you mean they don't have money?
My good friend's mother...
Okay, so let's say she's in her 50s, right?
So what do you mean she doesn't have money?
That's incomprehensible to me.
Say, well, you know, but she doesn't have a lot of money in the bank account, so I don't follow.
Nobody in the family has any assets?
Nobody in the family has any assets.
They're all just living in cardboard boxes in a van down by the river.
Like, what does that mean?
Do they have a car they can sell?
Do they have a house they can sell?
Do they have any annuities?
Do they have any insurance policies they could not cash in, but you can sell them sometimes or get maybe not insurance.
Do they have no disability insurance?
Do they have no health?
Insurance, right?
I don't understand how you can get into your 50s, have a family, and have no assets.
Does nobody in the family have any assets?
It's incomprehensible.
Why are they coming to you?
Don't have the money to cover.
Bullshit.
I call bullshit.
Sell your house.
There's no point in having a house if you're dead.
There's no point in having...
You should have people in your life.
Who will do anything to keep you alive?
Why doesn't she have people in her life who will do anything to keep you alive?
To keep her alive.
Why not?
You should provide enough good and value to the world that people will move heaven and earth to keep you alive.
Where's her husband?
Oh, did she get divorced?
There are consequences.
Right?
I mean, the number of women who were going to get old and be broke, I mean, this is where social security came in to begin with, right?
Because they were like, well, I don't need no man!
I'm a strong, independent woman!
It's funny, you know, I've been paying my own bills since I was 15 years old.
I've never once thought of myself as a strong, independent man, because that would be embarrassing.
I'm just an adult.
Maybe adulthood came a little bit early for me, but that's fine.
So, I don't understand why it's landing on you.
The fuck is wrong with the family?
That there aren't people stepping up?
To pay the bills.
Maybe she's estranged everyone.
Maybe she's been really mean or bad or nasty or whatever, right?
And it's like, well, then you've got to go mend your fences.
Now you're in a situation of need.
You're in a situation of scarcity.
Like, we have relationships based on scarcity.
We can't see behind us.
We've got our eyes in front like all predators because people have to watch our back.
So we have a scarcity of vision behind us.
We're not like chameleons with those big bulbous eyes floating around like Mickey Mouse ears.
We can't see behind us because people are supposed to watch their back.
So we have a deficiency.
We don't see ourselves that well because other people are supposed to give us feedback.
So why does she have a deficiency?
She has a deficiency because she has a deficiency in her relationships.
Why are people not stepping up and say, oh, so-and-so is ill.
Come on, everybody.
Let's band together.
You know, sell what you gotta sell.
Have a garage sale.
Sell your house.
Sell your cars.
So-and-so's ill, and they are what matter.
That person is what matter.
We do anything we can to keep that person alive.
We'll hold an online drive.
We'll ask for charitable donations.
Where's her congregation?
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