March 22, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Alright. While I wait for your next question, I want to talk about the wealthy. | |
| I want to talk about the wealthy. | |
| I'm not talking about any particular wealth. | |
| I'll get to your question after, but I just gave you one. | |
| So, I will tell you something interesting about the wealthy. | |
| So, when you continually exploit and trash-talk people, it's kind of a weird thing. | |
| People will continually exploit and trash-talk people, and then they're shocked when it bounces back in any way, shape, or form. | |
| Now, it's important to look at the world through the eyes of a billionaire. | |
| I know this sounds a bit odd, but, you know, be patient with me for a sec. | |
| So, it's important to talk about, or to look at the society through the eyes of a billionaire. | |
| So, what a billionaire, and it could be super rich or whatever, right? | |
| But what a billionaire sees as a whole is a billionaire sees A whole bunch of greedy, dysfunctional people constantly demanding that society steal from the billionaires in order to fund their own often retarded lifestyles. | |
| From the point of view of a billionaire who's probably a genius, right? | |
| What do they see? | |
| Well, they're constantly getting blamed. | |
| They're constantly getting attacked. | |
| And society And the people as a whole, particularly in democracies, society is constantly hating on them and wanting to take away their property and their rights and their savings. | |
| Now, I myself, probably because I got into Austrian economics in my mid-teens, cool guy that I was, I was always grateful that There were restaurants I could work with, there were newspapers I could deliver, | |
| there were bookstores I could work in, there were hardware stores I could work in, the people made messes so I could go into the offices and clean them up at night. | |
| I was always grateful for that stuff. | |
| I wasn't creating my own jobs when I was 11. I went to work in a bookstore, putting the New York Times together on Sundays and other various tasks in the bookstore. | |
| I was grateful. | |
| Thank goodness somebody built a restaurant because me carrying food around in the desert won't make me any money at all. | |
| I was always very happy that there were businesses and, you know, I was happy that people had started stuff up and made the sacrifices and so on. | |
| So, rather than saying to the billionaires, wow, thank you guys so much for creating all these jobs, all these businesses, all these companies, giving me a place to work because I can't create that myself, instead of there being any gratitude, they're like, oh, the rich are predatory assholes and we should tax them for everything they're worth. | |
| So, I mean, to me, it's kind of funny that you can just continually attack and insult people without ever imagining what that's going to do to your relationship. | |
| With them. | |
| What's that going to do? | |
| How are the billionaires, who, by the by, have a lot more influence than the average person, including you and me, how are the billionaires going to feel about a society that blames them for everything and wants to pray on them for all of their success? | |
| Never give them a moment's thanks. | |
| I mean, this is what Elon Musk, I'm not including him in this at all, right? | |
| I'm just saying that Elon Musk was saying that he paid the most taxes of any human being in history. | |
| Didn't even get a thank you note, right? | |
| Instead, everybody's just attacking and brutalizing him. | |
| Because people only ever think, do I like billionaires or am I resentful and want to tax them and control them and take away their property and steal from the inheritance they want to give to their kids and just hate on them and so on, right? | |
| You know, the idea that you can just hate on Billionaires or the wealthy forever and ever are men, and the billionaires are never going to have any incentives or thoughts or motives of their own in response to that is a wild thought to me. | |
| And it's part of sort of the narcissism of those who are less successful. | |
| I mean, you become, again, free market stuff, I get that there's exceptions, but you become a billionaire because you have empathy to what the market wants and needs, right? | |
| And you are helping. | |
| To provide what the market wants and needs. | |
| My wife surprised me with a test drive of a Tesla. | |
| Not that I'm buying a Tesla, obviously, right? | |
| But I was talking about how I thought the sort of self-driving stuff was incredibly cool. | |
| My wife surprised me with a test drive of a Tesla, which was a lot of fun. | |
| And it blew my mind. | |
| It absolutely blew my mind. | |
| How good that car is. | |
| I mean, I'm driving an eight-year-old second-hand car, so it's not exactly like I can trade that in for anything useful, but it was absolutely incredible. | |
| Absolutely incredible. | |
| Whisper quiet, self-driving, went everywhere, did everything, did everything right, even in the rain. | |
| Unbelievable. Absolutely, staggeringly incredible technology. | |
| Beyond belief. | |
| belief | |
| Halliburton didn't get rich providing society with things they wanted. | |
| So you don't listen, right? | |
| I said, I'm talking about free market stuff. | |
| Yeah, I'm talking about free market stuff. | |
| You must listen! | |
| If you don't listen, no one's going to want to talk to you, my friend. | |
| One of the key points of being in a relationship is to listen. | |
| So when I specifically say I'm talking about free market stuff and you bring up the military industrial complex, you're not listening. | |
| Hal Burton is not at all free market, for the most part, right? | |
| So... Do they rely on government power and do they get funded from taxation? | |
| You know, those are some basic hints. | |
| Like, if you want to start talking about the free market, you need to have a definition of the free market, which means not fundamentally dependent upon government power and fundamentally funded by involuntary tax dollars. | |
| Oh, boy, oh, boy. | |
| It's wild, man. | |
| It's exhausting, and I'm not going to engage with this guy. | |
| Honestly, it's exhausting when you put your caveats in and people are like, well, what if you don't even know, Steph, you don't even understand the free market, man. | |
| All wealthy people are warmongers. |
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