Live from Sydney, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos join me on stage to discuss capitalism, liberty, personhood, energy policy, Israel and antisemitism and much more. Rough timestamps are here:
00:00 Brett’s welcome and introduction
02:32 Nikos on “What is Capitalism?”
04:21 Yaron on “What is Capitalism?”
07:33 Brett on the relationship between personhood and capitalism.
10:02 Nikos on why progress is not inevitable.
12:06 Yaron on humans vs other animals
15:14 Yaron on why capitalism is retreating in the West.
19:56 Brett on the self similarity of the mind
25:40: Yaron on Israel and her allies
32:33 Brett on protectionism and nationalism
33:17 Nikos on defending your allies and nihilism.
37:01 Yaron on faith, collectivism and nationalism.
42:13 Brett on “concentrated losses, dispersed gains”.
43:50 Yaron on free trade and tarrifs
49:52: Yaron’s iPhone
54:52 Brett invokes Deutsch’s pattern, anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism.
56:01 Nikos on Marx’s role as an antisemitic anticapitalist and “secondhandedness”.
1:02:21 Brett on environmentalism and anti humanism
1:05:22 Nikos on energy policy
1:07:25 Yaron on saving the planet.
1:11:21 Brett on the death trap that is planet Earth
1:13:15 Question 1: What is an Objectivist foreign policy?
1:18:21 Question 2: Is democracy necessary for protecting individual human rights?
1:25:31 Question 3: What explains the anti-ANZAC phenomenon in Australia?
1:30:01 Question 4: Should the government protect individual property rights? Remarks on “the minimum wage”.
1:32:53 Question 5: Should we be pessimistic about “woke”, “DEI” and the state of universities?
1:41:33 Question 6: Has China managed to achieve a beneficial separation of their political and economic systems?
1:47:02 Question 7: What is the role of the Fed in the USA? Is it necessary?
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