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June 14, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
07:22
Free Speech on Capitalism
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Any other liquid doesn't do it.
Jolt cola doesn't do it.
Fish don't do it.
Chicken tendies don't do it.
If you want chicken tendies, you know, somebody's going to have to have some chickens and then kill some chickens and slice up some chickens and package some chickens and ship it.
All of that's going to have to happen.
So, you have to produce in order to consume.
If you don't want to produce and other people don't want to produce for you, you're kind of in trouble.
But the fact that human beings require calories and air and water, to lay that at the feet of an economic system is abso-freaking-lutely incomprehensible to me.
You know, it's true, I'm half Irish and half German.
That's right.
Half Irish and half German.
But it's the capitalist system.
That causes me to get sunburned after a winter of no sun.
That's sunism.
It's just a conspiracy, you know?
Sunism is the doctrine that causes the sun to give me sunburns just so these evil sunnest capitalists can sell me.
sunscreen!
One of the only...
unlocked goods in stores these days.
How do you know when somebody is completely propagandized and hasn't thought about a goddamn thing in their entire innocent, smooth-brained life?
Just think about what you're doing.
I refuse to be a hypocrite.
I like new stuff.
I've had to learn new skills over the course of my life on a regular basis.
Yes, yes, yes.
I started off, I don't know, I won't bore you by going through the list of all of the occupations that I've had over the course of my life, but suffice to say, I've had to learn a lot of new stuff over the course of my life.
I mean, even when I was a waiter, stuff went from manual to automated in terms of digital.
I had to learn all that sort of stuff, right?
I had to learn dangerous new technology to go panning for gold.
I, of course, in the computer field, I had to learn a bunch of new skills to be an actor and a writer, and I took Canada's premier writing course and did very well.
I had to learn, of course, new technology all the time.
When I was a chief technical officer and head of the research and development, I had to learn sales skills, and I had to learn podcasting.
I had to learn all of this stuff, right?
Public speaking.
I took classes in improv and comedy so that I could be a little funny from time to time.
I think, perhaps.
If you don't want to learn new skills, you can go to some place like Sub-Saharan Africa.
Or, here's another thing, if you don't want to learn new skills, you can join the Pygmies.
I mean, they'll probably worship you as a knee-high to a grasshopper god for them, but just go to the Pygmies.
They've been doing the same shit for 40,000 years.
You'll learn how to hunt with a rickety bow, and you'll learn how to climb a tree with rope between your legs, and you'll learn how to get fruit, and that's it, man.
You won't have to learn anything new.
So it's fine.
Oh, you want to stay in the modern economy where things progress and you get better medical treatments and you get better technology and you get better cars and you get safer, you name it, right?
Oh, you want all that?
Well, then you've got to accept a little fucking progress, you know?
And progress means obsolescence.
Otherwise, we would be doing what I did way back in the day when I wrote my manifesto.
You can get that at freedomainnft.com.
It's an NFT.
When I wrote my manifesto, when I was 23, I put an ad out.
Anybody who wanted to get it, I would mail it to them, and I mailed it to people, and I had a dozen people I was going back and forth with by mail, arguing and refining the arguments.
That's how we did it back in the day.
It was not super efficient.
Now you can just post it on a forum and get comments.
So, when people don't start with the empiricism of what they're actually doing in the world, when people don't start with the empiricism of what they're actually doing, I don't care what they say.
I literally, this, where do you even start?
Going on government welfare is coercion.
Well, Yeah, government welfare is coercion.
Yeah, no question.
And you should just learn a new way to survive the economy or die!
Like, I'm inflicting death on him if he doesn't produce.
Right?
You can't breathe underwater.
Somebody goes to try and breathe underwater, and they die, and it's like, that's on you, Steph!
It's like, well, what are you talking about?
Being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own.
Well, It's just a sophistic language, right?
The people who were really good at making rotary dial telephones, were they pushed out of their industry?
Nope.
Nobody pushed them.
Just people didn't want to buy from them.
People didn't want to buy from them.
It's like if you talk, if you end up gaining 100 pounds, like you go from 200 pounds to 300 pounds, and nobody wants to date you.
Say, I've been pushed out of the dating market.
Nope.
Just nobody wants to date you.
Right?
Being pushed out of an industry through no fault of your own.
But it's everyone's fault that people are pushed out of industries because everybody wants the new stuff.
Nobody has a rotary dial phone ever anymore.
Nobody.
I'm just, like, in practical terms.
So if you want to upgrade stuff, and you do, I mean, I'm talking from the 80s or the 1880s or the 1680s if you want.
Go join the Amish.
They don't have to learn a lot of new skills other than dealing with regulatory agencies these days.
So, through no fault of your own, I have no sympathy for people in decaying industries if they have upgraded their stuff.
Hey, quick question.
Do you think Benjamin Franklin had access to air conditioning?
No.
Do you know that, I mean, what about the slave fans, the people who had the big palm fronds and they would fan the emperors and the kings and the queens in the hot climates, right?
Where are their jobs?
Oh, do you prefer a table fan?
Oh, do you prefer air conditioning?
So you upgrade.
So you've made all of the people who made fans.
I mean, there are still people who use fans, of course, but all the people who...
Well, their jobs was diminished.
What about all the people who used to shovel the shit that came out of the ass end of horses and the front end of Gavin Newsom?
What about all of those people?
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