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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, it's getting ready to blow your mind again. |
0:03.4 | So let's talk about a question that came up recently online was, |
0:10.5 | why is it that so many communist or hard leftists are trust fund kids, |
0:15.7 | you know, come from sort of a very wealthy background. |
0:18.5 | So I put forward a theory here, you can tell me what you think. |
0:21.4 | Feels true, doesn't mean it is true, feels true. |
0:24.0 | And you can supply to me your thoughts and evidence and rebuttals. |
0:27.2 | So here we go. |
0:29.0 | When you grow up wealthy in wealthy family and a friend of mine actually was sort of instrumental |
0:37.3 | in introducing me to my wife, a friend of mine when I was first as a programmer was saying |
0:41.4 | that he grew up very wealthy, he got everything he wanted, he lost his bike, he got a new bike. |
0:45.8 | But he was desperately lonely and I referred to him as, his name wasn't Mike, |
0:52.0 | but I referred to him as Mike on the moon because he was kind of emotionally inaccessible, |
0:56.0 | very smart, very funny, but kind of emotionally inaccessible in a lot of ways. |
1:00.1 | And that distance and that loneliness and that isolation is kind of characteristic of |
1:03.2 | people who've got a lot of money. |
1:04.8 | Now people who have a lot of money, families who have a lot of money generally, the parents |
1:08.4 | are working very hard. |
1:09.4 | You know, how they're bussing their nuts. |
1:11.4 | And the other thing too is that when you have a lot of money, you have a lot of people |
1:15.8 | who want to spend time with you who tend to be more interesting than babies and toddlers, |
1:19.9 | right? |
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