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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6031 AI vs the Poor - UBI?!? Twitter/X Space

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday Night Twitter/X Space - 23 July 2025

This episode examines societal views on poverty, challenging prevailing narratives about wealth redistribution and government assistance like Universal Basic Income (UBI). Drawing from personal experiences, I argue that ineffective welfare systems perpetuate poverty and stress the importance of individual responsibility. I highlight three key steps to personal empowerment: completing high school, delaying parenthood until after marriage, and maintaining stable employment. Through listener calls, we discuss the complexities of charitable support and the need for accountability in decision-making. The conversation ultimately encourages a reevaluation of poverty and our roles in fostering societal change.

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0:00.0

All righty, good evening, everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain at Freedomain.com slash donate.

0:08.2

Would super love your help in supporting philosophy, freedomain.com slash donate.

0:13.8

And we are here to talk philosophy.

0:17.5

My wife came back from a farmer's market and brought me a cup, for those of you, shamefully,

0:24.4

ignoring the glorious forehead, and just listening, it says, caution, no filter.

0:30.4

Get it, coffee, and me, no filter.

0:34.4

Sometimes it was you had one, glad that I don't at the moment.

0:37.4

So, I'm happy, of course, to take your calls, overjoyed to take your calls. This is what the earbud is for, my friend. But, but failing the earbud and the callers, I certainly do have a speech of my own to make.

0:54.8

And I just forewarned is forearmed.

0:59.8

It's going to be a little spicy.

1:03.6

Going to be a little bit spicy.

1:04.9

All right.

1:05.3

So just while I'll wait for the listener call queue to fuel up.

1:11.8

I want to start with my little speech.

1:15.1

Welcome to my little friend called my esophagus.

1:18.3

Um, right.

1:22.8

So, uh, Tau Rogan was, there was a quote where he was talking about UBI, UBI.

1:32.0

And yes, let's ask the indigenous population of the United States and Canada, how the old UBI is working out for them.

1:38.8

For those of you who haven't heard this story, after high school I worked for a year and a half up in northern Ontario, way northern

1:47.8

Ontario, like where the tree line thins out, up north of McKina. And one night I was coming back

1:53.3

from town where I had a shower shite and shave, as we used to call it. And there was a woman

1:58.2

about two o'clock in the morning, because I had been to the bar and chatted with some people and I was driving back to the camp in the frozen woods and there was a

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