July 11, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, is that enough for you to at least be open to the possibility that there are some significant benefits to men in getting married? | |
| I'm open to the possibility, otherwise, I wouldn't have asked, but I don't find those convincing, and I can tell you why. | |
| Okay. | |
| Number one, none of the things you mentioned, and you mentioned a few, are a problem as far as I'm aware. | |
| Like, men and single men specifically don't have a problem of, you know, stress and anxiety to the levels that women have, as far as I'm aware. | |
| I'm not comparing men to women, though. | |
| No, but I'm going to interrupt you because you're strawmanning me. | |
| You're moving the goalposts and you're not responding to what I just said. | |
| You're saying, well, but single men are less stressed than women. | |
| That's not what I'm talking about. | |
| So why don't you talk about that? | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| That's not what I'm talking about. | |
| That's not what I'm talking about. | |
| What I'm talking about is that none of no, no. | |
| I was driving to the point that none of these issues are a problem for men. | |
| Single men don't need to earn more money and they can spend the money they earn for themselves. | |
| Married men need to earn more money. | |
| I accept the fact that they make more money, but they don't spend that money. | |
| So it's not liberating. | |
| It's not empowering at all. | |
| So how is it? | |
| Hang on. | |
| So how is it then that married men end up with four times the assets of single men? | |
| Because they make money, they put it aside, they invest it for their family and their kids. | |
| I thought you said they spend it all. | |
| No, the opposite. | |
| They don't spend it. | |
| The single men spend it for themselves, which is empowering. | |
| So you're saying that single men spend more money than married men? | |
| No, no, listen. | |
| Married men make more money, and I accept that, but they don't spend it. | |
| Single men make less money because they don't need as much money for themselves. | |
| They make the money they need for themselves, and they spend it for themselves. | |
| It's much more empowering, so it's not a plus. | |
| It's not a positive. | |
| And have you yourself ever been married? | |
| I've got close to it, but I've never been married. | |
| Okay. | |
| I mean, as a married man, I can just tell you that you spend more money as a married man because you have a household to take care of. | |
| That's my thought. | |
| Oh, so married men spend more and also save more than 50%. | |
| This is just propaganda. | |
| This is just nonsense and propaganda because you just find yourself. | |
| You haven't followed. | |
| You haven't followed. | |
| Once again, married men make more money, but they don't spend it for themselves. | |
| Oh, so they do spend more money than single men? | |
| Yeah, for the family, not for themselves. | |
| But they still end up with four times the assets of single men. | |
| Yeah, because they make more money, they put it aside for the family, not for themselves. | |
| Okay. | |
| So they still end up wealthier. | |
| For the family. | |
| Well, no, because by the time you retire, like you don't spend the, you don't spend money on your family your whole life, right? | |
| It's just for the 20 years that you're raising your kids, right? | |
| So when you get older, you have a lot more money and you can enjoy your retirement a lot better as a married man. | |
| As a man, you want to leave something to your, you know, your people, right? | |
| Or not? | |
| Well, I mean, but you have that choice, right? | |
| So you're going to have more money. | |
| You can enjoy your retirement more. |
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