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June 18, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
07:39
Do People on Welfare Thank You?!?
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All right.
Well, with Canada Post, they don't deliver packages.
They just deliver these.
Sorry we missed you from the depot.
Yeah.
I mean, it used to be that they'd just leave your package.
They would just leave your package on the door.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, C2.
They'd just leave your package on the door, but we live in a low-trust society with porch pirates now, right?
so you can't leave people's stuff on the door.
The amount of...
A low-trust society is just economic decay, waiting for collapse.
It's so expensive.
It's so expensive and time-consuming to live in a low-trust society.
Thank you.
People get resentful when you're generous.
I mean, geez, if not a thanks, at least a minor consideration and respect for me and my responsibilities.
So they get resentful when you're generous?
People get resentful when you're generous.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Like, think of the people on welfare, right?
When was the last time...
When was the last time a single mother went on social media and gave something like the following speech?
I really want to thank...
I really, really appreciate how hard people work to provide me housing and food and health care and education and dental care.
I really, really appreciate the men who get up early, who go to work, and I take the money out of their bank account through the state and work.
I will work as hard as I can to become independent, but I just really want to show my absolute deep, sincere and grateful appreciation for everything that the taxpayers are doing for me to keep me going.
It never happens.
And in fact, it doesn't even cross the mind of most of the people on welfare at all.
What happens is they get entitled.
To it.
And then you get no thanks.
All you get is rage if there's any cuts or interruptions, right?
That's all you get.
When was the last time that women as a whole went on social media and said, and I know it happens, but it's not very common, and said, you know, really want to thank men for all of the hard work they did
If you've ever lived out in the woods, the fact that you can turn a tap and get water without having to boil it or use water purification tablets, I still appreciate it because I spent a year and a half living in the woods.
So all of the amenities of the world make sense.
Women love jewelry.
When was the last time they said, I really want to thank men for doing the hard and dangerous work of mining, which is where we get the gold and the diamonds from?
I really do appreciate it.
And I get to wear these lovely trinkets because men are out in the hot sun or down in the underworld like dwarves getting black lung and hunched backs from all of their mining activities.
Never happens, right?
Never happens.
So, when you give people stuff, particularly through the power of the state, They simply get entitled, and they cannot express gratitude, because expressing gratitude would be to reduce their ability to exploit without a conscience, without being triggered by their conscience.
So when you're exploiting people, you have to dehumanize them, otherwise you feel bad.
And exploitation isn't fun if you feel bad, right?
So they can't express gratitude.
All they can do is say, well, I'm entitled, right?
And then they express rage.
If there's any interruption in the flow of exploited values that come their way.
I mean, there was this video that came out a day or two ago, and it was this morbidly obese woman talking about how much she needs SNAP, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or something like that, how much she needs SNAP food for her four kids.
And she was, of course, playing the victim and half crying and all the other women are like patting her on their arm.
You're okay, honey.
You're doing fine.
You're okay.
And, I mean, it's...
The optics are wild to me that you have a morbidly obese woman saying she needs more food for her family.
And again, her childhood was probably horrible, and I get all of that, but...
It's interesting to see the comments because the comments were like, looks like she's eating all the food, which I thought was a little mean, but I can understand the joke.
And, of course, it was, why would she have four kids if she can't afford to feed them?
You know, just that basic stuff, right?
Now, of course, she was saying, I was working three jobs.
Now, that's kind of tough because if you're working three jobs, who's taking care of your kids?
But she actually was saying that I was working three jobs when she first started having children.
But there's no thanks, right?
She's probably taken, over the course of these four kids' lives, I don't know exactly how old they are, but people on welfare, you know, again, assuming they're getting subsidized healthcare, if not free healthcare, subsidized housing, if not free housing, subsidized food, if not free food.
The schools are paid for by the taxpayers.
The daycare is probably paid for largely by the taxpayers.
So she's probably getting, I mean, it's really hard to say, but I know that you have to earn over $8,200,000 to get the same value.
So let's just say she's getting $60,000 worth of value.
U.S. It's probably a little low when you add all the things up together, but let's say that she's getting $60,000.
That's a huge amount of money, massive amount of money.
I mean, the first $60,000 is the big thing.
You know, get a million, get an extra $60,000 doesn't mean diminishing gains, right?
But she's getting $60,000 a year, right?
So over 20 years, that's $1.2 million, which she doesn't have to pay tax on, so it's actually even more.
She's getting $60,000 worth of value.
She doesn't have to pay tax on it.
So that's probably closer to 80, 90, maybe even 100,000, depending on how you count it.
But we'll just go bare minimum.
So if someone gave you $1.2 million so that you really didn't have to work, what would you say?
Wouldn't you thank them enormously?
Wouldn't you be like in tears with gratitude?
If you had a bunch of kids and then somebody said, we're going to give you $60,000 a year tax-free, wouldn't you be incredibly grateful?
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