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Speaker 1 (00:09):
If you stand up and do something correctly, people who
care about that sort of thing will notice. They will notice,
and they will open doors for you. That's how the
world works. Don't underestimate the utility of proper action. The
goal for young people is to turn themselves into someone.
(00:31):
For each person to turn themselves into a person who
stands up straight and who pays attention, and who can
think and who can speak, and who can act in
relationship to the highest good they can conceive of. And
that I believe that that's a way of being that's
noble enough so that if it's enacted, it also takes
(00:51):
the sting out of the tragedy of life. There's something
noble about bearing up under a heavy load, and human
beings have a heavy load, there's no doubt about it. Now,
the question is, can you build yourself up into something
that's strong enough to lift that without complaint and without corruption. Well,
(01:12):
that's a noble goal. That's what young people should be doing.
They should have a conception of who they could be,
and that conception should be something like, if I could
be like that, everything would be worthwhile. That's what you
want to aim at, because you want to make everything worthwhile,
and so do it. Money has done as much for
(01:35):
you as it can do by the time you can
pay your bills. It's like, well, define wealth, all right,
that's easy heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer,
running water right, reliable shelter, and the provision of high
quality food. Once you've got those, and then we could
add to that access to all the world's information. Everyone
(02:01):
has that virtually unless you've fallen right out of society.
Maybe we could add reasonable access to healthcare to that,
although for most people, especially if they're young and healthy,
that's irrelevant. But once you have those first six things
indoor plumbing, for example, you're already overwhelmingly rich by historical
and even worldwide standards. You're already in the top one
(02:24):
tenth of one percent of all the human beings that
have ever lived. And incremental movement past that just doesn't
make that much difference, you know. So maybe you have
a ten year old Hayundi Sonata. I have one of those.
It's like, well, I could have a McLaren. But the
incremental difference when we're stuck in a traffic jam is zero.
(02:48):
So the radical left is overestimate the utility of wealth
in relationship to its capacity to solve the fundamental problems
that beset human beings. Rich people get cancer, rich people
get divorced. Rich people get estranged from their children. They
develop drug and alcohol problems, like they're sued constantly for
(03:11):
what they're doing, they're engaged in legal battles, and their
lives tend to be extraordinarily complex because it's not easy
to handle money. It disappears, man, if you don't keep
an eye on it, if you're not watching it and
monitoring it and earning it, generally speaking, it disappears. And
that most family fortunes disappear in three generations, and most
Fortune five hundred companies only last thirty years. And there
(03:32):
is a one percent, but it churns. You know, the
one percent ten years ago, they're not the same people
that are the one percent now. People don't understand very
well because they don't look into it at all. Is
that most of the people who are in the one
percent are old. So what do you want to be?
You want to be young and poor, old and rich.
You know, like what happens is if you're lucky, as
(03:53):
you move through life, you trade your youth for security
roughly speaking, but you know you're seventy five and you
have five million dollars. Well, yeah, okay, you're seventy five.
And of course the amount of wealth people have accumulates
as they get older. Well, you know, if the person
is fortunate and sensible, because they save up their money
(04:15):
and they've had much more time to work. And so
most of these things are multivariate problems, right, Why is
there a one percent? Well, because the patriarchy is oppressive.
It's like, yeah, okay, that accounts for five percent of
the variants, or ten percent of the variance if you
want to really like push your argument. But then all
sorts of other things kick in. Health is a good one,
(04:36):
and intellectual power and conscientiousness and good luck and social
network and well and timing is a huge part of it.
And a lot of that's just random. There's endless numbers
of contributors to wealth disparity, not the oppression of the patriarchy. Jesus.
You know, people who think that should be embarrassed at
their stupidity. And the reason I'm saying that is because
(04:59):
you don't really start talking that way till you've been
educated a little bit. But to turn everything into a
univariate problem like a one variable problem. Is it's the
hallmark of a tremendously ignorant and weak mind because things
are complicated and so are the solutions. Man, things are
complicated enough, but the solutions are even worse. Money has
(05:22):
its utility primarily as a tool for doing things. Really,
you know, you can think about it as a means
for obtaining luxury items, but that gets dull pretty quickly
for most people that have any sense. It's like, I've
been to the houses of very wealthy people, and some
of them are quite remarkable, but most of them because
they're creative people. But most of the time I remember
(05:43):
going to a gated community, for example, in California, and
it was a huge house. It was probably ten thousand
square feet, but it was no different than a two
thousand square foot house. It was just bigger, Like the
stoves were bigger, the fridge was bigger, the wine cellar
was bigger, the rooms were bigger. Who cares, it's more
to take care of. It's not helpful for anything unless
you're using it for a creative purpose. And you know,
(06:04):
they also lived in a gated community, and you can
hardly imagine anything duller than that. You know, like there's
nothing there. There's no bars, there's no nightlife, there's no
night clubs, there's no there's no corner stores, there's no churches,
there's nowhere for people to hang out. There's not even
any sidewalks. So so who cares. Males who occupy positions
(06:27):
of power are much more attractive to women. So there's
a famous Canadian psychologists team of Canadian coologists Margot Wilson
and Martin Daly who worked out at Hamilton at McMaster,
Canada's most outstanding evolutionary psychologists, did a study at one
(06:48):
point showing that first of all, they established the relationship
between inequality and male aggression. The correlation is like point eight.
It's off the charts, man, It's like it's one of
maybe it might be the most powerful relationship between two
hypothetically independent variables that psychologists or social scientists have ever discovered.
(07:09):
It's off the charts. So inequality fosters male on male violence,
and it's because of competition for scarce resources, and it's
driven by sexual selection pressures. Roughly speaking. One of the
things that Dalian Wilson did, and I believe this was
in Chicago as well. They did an ethnological anthropological study
(07:30):
of the consequence of interracial murder in the gang setting
in Chicago. So basically, what would happen is two gangs
were vying for territorial dominance, let's say, and there was
some kind of violent exchange, so let's call it a fight. Well,
the thing is, if you're in one gang and I'm
in another, and we engage in a violent altercation, one
(07:52):
of us perhaps might die, But who's going to die
is a toss up, right, So that means that I
can plead self defense if I'm involved in that altercation. Well,
and so generally what happened was that the plea was
self defense, the charge was plea bargained down to involuntary
manslaughter or to manslaughter. The person was thrown in jail
(08:13):
for or sentenced for perhaps three years and served something
like eighteen months. And then when they re entered the fray,
they were back on the streets. Their credibility had increased substantially,
and so had their probability of success. So the left's
concern with inequality is a justifiable concern. The problem is
(08:33):
we don't know what to do with it. We don't
know what to do about it. It's very difficult to
shovel money and other resources, because it isn't only money
that this sort of process applies to. It's very difficult
to shovel resources from the pile at the top down
to the many at the bottom who were hovering around zero.
So it's something that has to be taken into account
(08:56):
because well, first it's not good for everybody to be
stacking up at zero, and second it destabilizes the society itself.
But that doesn't mean we know what to do about it.
That's the critical thing. It also doesn't mean that the
reason that the people at the top have most of
the resources, regardless of what those resources are, it doesn't
mean that the reason they have them is because they're
(09:17):
exploiting the people at the bottom. Now, there is an
element of exploitation in any complex productive system, always because
they don't operate completely fairly. Right. So, yeah, suffering is
built into the fabric of human existence, and so you
are vulnerable and you will die and you can you know,
(09:39):
that's harsh, that's tragic, I would say, And tragedy is
built into being. And so to the degree that you
partake in that tragedy. You could consider yourself, although I
think it's the wrong way of conceptualizing it. You could
consider yourself as a victim among the universality of victimhood.
I think that's not a helpful way of looking at it,
(10:01):
because it leads to despair. But to think of yourself
as a particular victim, or to think of yourself as
a victim among the privilege, I think that gets dangerous,
extraordinarily rapidly.
If you stand up and do something correctly, people who
care about that sort of thing will notice. They will notice,
and they will open doors for you. That's how the
world works. Don't underestimate the utility of proper action. The
goal for young people is to turn themselves into someone.
(00:31):
For each person to turn themselves into a person who
stands up straight and who pays attention, and who can
think and who can speak, and who can act in
relationship to the highest good they can conceive of. And
that I believe that that's a way of being that's
noble enough so that if it's enacted, it also takes
(00:51):
the sting out of the tragedy of life. There's something
noble about bearing up under a heavy load, and human
beings have a heavy load, there's no doubt about it. Now,
the question is, can you build yourself up into something
that's strong enough to lift that without complaint and without corruption. Well,
(01:12):
that's a noble goal. That's what young people should be doing.
They should have a conception of who they could be,
and that conception should be something like, if I could
be like that, everything would be worthwhile. That's what you
want to aim at, because you want to make everything worthwhile,
and so do it. Money has done as much for
(01:35):
you as it can do by the time you can
pay your bills. It's like, well, define wealth, all right,
that's easy heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer,
running water right, reliable shelter, and the provision of high
quality food. Once you've got those, and then we could
add to that access to all the world's information. Everyone
(02:01):
has that virtually unless you've fallen right out of society.
Maybe we could add reasonable access to healthcare to that,
although for most people, especially if they're young and healthy,
that's irrelevant. But once you have those first six things
indoor plumbing, for example, you're already overwhelmingly rich by historical
and even worldwide standards. You're already in the top one
(02:24):
tenth of one percent of all the human beings that
have ever lived. And incremental movement past that just doesn't
make that much difference, you know. So maybe you have
a ten year old Hayundi Sonata. I have one of those.
It's like, well, I could have a McLaren. But the
incremental difference when we're stuck in a traffic jam is zero.
(02:48):
So the radical left is overestimate the utility of wealth
in relationship to its capacity to solve the fundamental problems
that beset human beings. Rich people get cancer, rich people
get divorced. Rich people get estranged from their children. They
develop drug and alcohol problems, like they're sued constantly for
(03:11):
what they're doing, they're engaged in legal battles, and their
lives tend to be extraordinarily complex because it's not easy
to handle money. It disappears, man, if you don't keep
an eye on it, if you're not watching it and
monitoring it and earning it, generally speaking, it disappears. And
that most family fortunes disappear in three generations, and most
Fortune five hundred companies only last thirty years. And there
(03:32):
is a one percent, but it churns. You know, the
one percent ten years ago, they're not the same people
that are the one percent now. People don't understand very
well because they don't look into it at all. Is
that most of the people who are in the one
percent are old. So what do you want to be?
You want to be young and poor, old and rich.
You know, like what happens is if you're lucky, as
(03:53):
you move through life, you trade your youth for security
roughly speaking, but you know you're seventy five and you
have five million dollars. Well, yeah, okay, you're seventy five.
And of course the amount of wealth people have accumulates
as they get older. Well, you know, if the person
is fortunate and sensible, because they save up their money
(04:15):
and they've had much more time to work. And so
most of these things are multivariate problems, right, Why is
there a one percent? Well, because the patriarchy is oppressive.
It's like, yeah, okay, that accounts for five percent of
the variants, or ten percent of the variance if you
want to really like push your argument. But then all
sorts of other things kick in. Health is a good one,
(04:36):
and intellectual power and conscientiousness and good luck and social
network and well and timing is a huge part of it.
And a lot of that's just random. There's endless numbers
of contributors to wealth disparity, not the oppression of the patriarchy. Jesus.
You know, people who think that should be embarrassed at
their stupidity. And the reason I'm saying that is because
(04:59):
you don't really start talking that way till you've been
educated a little bit. But to turn everything into a
univariate problem like a one variable problem. Is it's the
hallmark of a tremendously ignorant and weak mind because things
are complicated and so are the solutions. Man, things are
complicated enough, but the solutions are even worse. Money has
(05:22):
its utility primarily as a tool for doing things. Really,
you know, you can think about it as a means
for obtaining luxury items, but that gets dull pretty quickly
for most people that have any sense. It's like, I've
been to the houses of very wealthy people, and some
of them are quite remarkable, but most of them because
they're creative people. But most of the time I remember
(05:43):
going to a gated community, for example, in California, and
it was a huge house. It was probably ten thousand
square feet, but it was no different than a two
thousand square foot house. It was just bigger, Like the
stoves were bigger, the fridge was bigger, the wine cellar
was bigger, the rooms were bigger. Who cares, it's more
to take care of. It's not helpful for anything unless
you're using it for a creative purpose. And you know,
(06:04):
they also lived in a gated community, and you can
hardly imagine anything duller than that. You know, like there's
nothing there. There's no bars, there's no nightlife, there's no
night clubs, there's no there's no corner stores, there's no churches,
there's nowhere for people to hang out. There's not even
any sidewalks. So so who cares. Males who occupy positions
(06:27):
of power are much more attractive to women. So there's
a famous Canadian psychologists team of Canadian coologists Margot Wilson
and Martin Daly who worked out at Hamilton at McMaster,
Canada's most outstanding evolutionary psychologists, did a study at one
(06:48):
point showing that first of all, they established the relationship
between inequality and male aggression. The correlation is like point eight.
It's off the charts, man, It's like it's one of
maybe it might be the most powerful relationship between two
hypothetically independent variables that psychologists or social scientists have ever discovered.
(07:09):
It's off the charts. So inequality fosters male on male violence,
and it's because of competition for scarce resources, and it's
driven by sexual selection pressures. Roughly speaking. One of the
things that Dalian Wilson did, and I believe this was
in Chicago as well. They did an ethnological anthropological study
(07:30):
of the consequence of interracial murder in the gang setting
in Chicago. So basically, what would happen is two gangs
were vying for territorial dominance, let's say, and there was
some kind of violent exchange, so let's call it a fight. Well,
the thing is, if you're in one gang and I'm
in another, and we engage in a violent altercation, one
(07:52):
of us perhaps might die, But who's going to die
is a toss up, right, So that means that I
can plead self defense if I'm involved in that altercation. Well,
and so generally what happened was that the plea was
self defense, the charge was plea bargained down to involuntary
manslaughter or to manslaughter. The person was thrown in jail
(08:13):
for or sentenced for perhaps three years and served something
like eighteen months. And then when they re entered the fray,
they were back on the streets. Their credibility had increased substantially,
and so had their probability of success. So the left's
concern with inequality is a justifiable concern. The problem is
(08:33):
we don't know what to do with it. We don't
know what to do about it. It's very difficult to
shovel money and other resources, because it isn't only money
that this sort of process applies to. It's very difficult
to shovel resources from the pile at the top down
to the many at the bottom who were hovering around zero.
So it's something that has to be taken into account
(08:56):
because well, first it's not good for everybody to be
stacking up at zero, and second it destabilizes the society itself.
But that doesn't mean we know what to do about it.
That's the critical thing. It also doesn't mean that the
reason that the people at the top have most of
the resources, regardless of what those resources are, it doesn't
mean that the reason they have them is because they're
(09:17):
exploiting the people at the bottom. Now, there is an
element of exploitation in any complex productive system, always because
they don't operate completely fairly. Right. So, yeah, suffering is
built into the fabric of human existence, and so you
are vulnerable and you will die and you can you know,
(09:39):
that's harsh, that's tragic, I would say, And tragedy is
built into being. And so to the degree that you
partake in that tragedy. You could consider yourself, although I
think it's the wrong way of conceptualizing it. You could
consider yourself as a victim among the universality of victimhood.
I think that's not a helpful way of looking at it,
(10:01):
because it leads to despair. But to think of yourself
as a particular victim, or to think of yourself as
a victim among the privilege, I think that gets dangerous,
extraordinarily rapidly.
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