Feb. 15, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| It's like, well, I don't have that much money. | |
| It's like, well, you start small, and then you make more and more profit, and then you get bigger and bigger, right? | |
| So, I don't... | |
| It's just people just making noise. | |
| They're just sniffing their own farts, loving the sound of their own voice, and they love sounding smart to stupid people. | |
| They love sounding smart to stupid people. | |
| Oh, yeah, that's true, man. | |
| And you've really thought about these things. | |
| people who haven't thought about anything. | |
| Somebody says, I have great hair, 34. | |
| I'm willing to tell I'm 80. | |
| I waste a lot of time having to do my hair. | |
| What do you mean you have to do your hair? | |
| You don't have to do your hair. | |
| You don't have to do your hair. | |
| All right. | |
| The cat lady recently died. | |
| How do so many women get so addicted to plastic surgery to the point where they end up grotesque monsters? | |
| That's not common, though. | |
| That's not common. | |
| Has your mother watched your channel, do you reckon? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| I don't think so at all. | |
| What would you say to a friend who is dabbling in nihilism, i.e., why do the right thing when you can gain more, not bothering? | |
| Who cares? | |
| Life is meaningless, but is open to virtue. | |
| Why do the right thing when you can gain more from not bothering? | |
| Well, I mean, there's a couple of reasons that you can sell morality to, a couple of ways you can sell morality to practical people, right? | |
| I mean, the moral is the practical, but so in business, why would you do the right thing rather than chisel and scam and steal so that you get a good reputation and your costs of business go down? | |
| If you are known as a guy who always keeps his word, you don't need $50,000 worth of legal fees for every Transaction. | |
| A handshake is great. | |
| So it's very practical from that standpoint. | |
| The reason why you want to have integrity is the only way that you generally gain by cheating is if people believe you have integrity. | |
| I mean, if you go up to someone and you say, hey, I really want to pretend to be honest, but I'm actually going to cheat you, people won't do business with you. | |
| So you have to pretend to be honest in order to exploit people, right? | |
| And so that kind of lying and falsehood is not good for you because you have to pretend to be something you are not, which means that your actual essence is repugnant to others and repugnant to you. | |
| It's not practical. | |
| You can't be authentic. | |
| You can't be genuine. | |
| You have to falsify. | |
| Everything, which means that you're emotionally inaccessible, which means you can't fall in love. | |
| And falling in love is the greatest good in the world, if it's honorable love, which is really the only kind of love that there is. | |
| So, if you have to falsify everything about your existence in order to make all of this profit, because you have to lie to people about who you really are, there's an absolute dichotomy between your public self and your private self, which means nobody can ever get to know you, because those Those manipulative defenses and those falsifications don't just vanish, you know, in the evening. | |
| And so you will be a false manipulative lying person, which means nobody can ever get close to you. | |
| You can never have any genuine human contact. | |
| You can't ever fall in love. | |
| You can't ever lower your defenses. | |
| It's a horrible way to live. | |
| It's really, really unpleasant and really difficult. | |
| And then you end up with a bunch of stuff. | |
| Let's say you get a bunch of stuff, but it's the oldest reality in the world that stuff does not make you happy, right? | |
| Look at all the people who win the lottery. | |
| They end up... | |
| The majority of them end up bankrupt and miserable. | |
| And, of course, the poor people in the world these days are getting more resources than even kings could get a couple of hundred years ago, and they're still often quite poor and miserable and so on, right? | |
| So, that is a sort of fact and reality. | |
| And the other thing, too, if you have kids, and if you are honest with your children, and you say you need to lie, steal, and cheat, and bully, and... | |
| And if your kids won't respect you, you're not going to have any authority with them. | |
| them, if you don't have any authority with them, they'll end up doing terrible things, which you'll be on the hook for, and it will be a miserable existence. | |
| All right. | |
| Somebody says, I joined Blue Sky. | |
| And I've never seen so much hate for expressing conservative views in my life. | |
| Vile replies from leftists, including expletives. | |
| I thought the left was about peace, love, and understanding. | |
| No. | |
| No, that's just a cover, right? | |
| That's like the love bombing of a cult, right? | |
| Who is Steph talking to? | |
| I'm not sure. | |
| Yeah, it's funny because India is now saying, well, you know, all these H-1B visa people who might be coming back to India, it's really bad because they're going to flood the market and lower the price of labor. | |
| Really? |
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