Jan. 15, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| It's tough to spend. | |
| It's tough to spend. | |
| I'm not quite the guy, you know, that we used to make fun of when we played D&D and we'd order pizza. | |
| Like, mothballs and dust coming out of his wallet, which he rarely opens. | |
| This is the guy who didn't donate any money to the pizza but put in a coupon, which we had a very robust debate about. | |
| And I finally found a computer that I think works and is productive and good for what I want to do. | |
| And then they wanted $49 shipping. | |
| First of all, I go and check. | |
| God help me. | |
| God help me if there's a coupon code. | |
| I know you can automate this, although those never seem to work. | |
| God help me. | |
| I've probably wasted at least three lifetimes on coupon codes. | |
| Oh, is there a coffee shop I go to twice a year? | |
| I must get a card stamp. | |
| It's sad. | |
| But, you know, I can only fight my nature to a certain amount. | |
| God help me if there's a coupon code. | |
| I could try. | |
| I could get three bucks off. | |
| Right? | |
| So anyway, and there was a coupon code for $100 off the computer, and I was trying to find a way. | |
| And then I order it, and it's like $49.95 for shipping. | |
| And it's like, and there's no option. | |
| And it's like, I don't pay shipping. | |
| I will order $4,000 worth of stuff to avoid shipping. | |
| Actually, I don't do, but you know what I mean? | |
| So I finally managed, and I wrestled. | |
| I finally managed to get the $100 coupon, and I found a way to get three shipping, as long as I'm willing to take it a week later. | |
| I'm fine. | |
| It's become this sort of weird compulsive game. | |
| I'm like, I would actually have twice my natural lifespan if there was some web add-in that hid coupon codes from me. | |
| It would be great. | |
| It would be great. | |
| So, yeah, I mean, I have no problem with materialism. | |
| I spent a fair amount of money on this microphone and the setup and all of that because, for me, the audio quality is important and it means something and all of that. | |
| So, I have no problem with materialism, but it's all going to get thrown out. | |
| A friend of mine with his birth family and found he... | |
| Oh no, he had a sister and the sister... | |
| No, this is a different guy. | |
| Different guy. | |
| Forget birth family guy. | |
| Different guy. | |
| He had a sister and they inherited some money from the death of a parent and she bought a whole bunch of crap online. | |
| It was delivered to her house. | |
| She ended up dying. | |
| Half of it was unopened. | |
| Right? | |
| Right? | |
| Half of it was unopened. | |
| Think of all the great stuff you ordered that's sitting in a drawer. | |
| Oh, this phone is the best thing ever. | |
| It's been sitting in a drawer for five years. | |
| It's the same thing with this obsession of videoing and photographing everything. | |
| I mean, for me, maybe it's got some importance because maybe my life will be of interest to people in the future, but for, you know, 99.9% of the population, whoever is going to look back, right? | |
| Maybe a sunset or two. | |
| Videos of fireworks. | |
| Videos of concerts. | |
| Nobody cares. | |
| You're never going to go back. | |
| Never going to look at it. | |
| No one else is ever going to look at it. | |
| It's going to be on some hard drive in the basement that might never boot up again. | |
| And you want to see these videos of the cleaners who go into older people, particularly if nobody cares about their stuff, either they didn't have kids or their kids don't care. | |
| You want to watch these videos of people going in and all the stupid shit. | |
| All the stupid shit that people have. | |
| All the photos. | |
| All the photo albums. | |
| I mean, it just gets thrown out, gets thrown in the trash all that time. | |
| Created little scrapbooks, and I have for this. | |
| Or, like, LP collections. | |
| The devil take your stereo and your record collection. | |
| It was an embarrassing amount of time it took for me to figure out that Adam Ant was adamant. | |
| You know, hyper-makeup, girl-boy from the 80s. | |
| Some good songs, though. | |
| But, standard deliverer. | |
| So... | |
| What does that mean? | |
| Like, Gen X is full of rage. | |
| I'm Gen X, right? | |
| Gen X is full of rage because we bought singles, then we bought LP albums, then we bought CDs, and now we have to rebuy everything in digital. | |
| And now we have to pay a subscription, all for the same fucking songs. | |
| Rage, right? | |
| But you should be, if you show a photo of the album, you should get the songs for free. | |
| So, although the convenience is unmatched, right? | |
| And it's really not that expensive, but... |
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