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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6164 Billie Eilish Economics!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux discusses the relationship between wealth creation, economic education, and societal perceptions of billionaires. He critiques public schooling for failing to promote true economic understanding and challenges the narrative that billionaires hoard wealth, using Jeff Bezos as an example of positive economic impact through job creation. Stefan emphasizes the dangers of impulsive wealth distribution and stresses the need for sustainable investment over consumer spending. Stefan concludes with a call for educational reform, advocating for teaching economic principles to empower individuals and benefit society.

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0:00.0

So of course the government isn't going to teach you anything that is going to make it possible

0:06.9

for you to succeed and universities are going to constantly rail against any improvements

0:11.9

in regular school, public school because they need public schools to suck so they have

0:20.7

something to offer.

0:23.1

But the level of economic education, like, you know, I mean Billy Eilish, right?

0:29.4

I mean, what are you going to say?

0:30.7

Good singer and all that, but kind of demonic in her tastes.

0:35.7

But she's like, oh, just give away, give away your billions.

0:42.0

If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? Give your money away, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to make

0:46.3

some bird hands here. And of course, she wouldn't have learned anything intelligent about

0:51.3

any of this stuff in government schools. Government schools are run on communistic principles, which is why communism continually spreads

0:59.5

the moment you hand over your children to the state.

1:02.9

You know, it's the old argument that don't be shocked.

1:05.6

Don't be shocked if you send your kids to be educated by Caesar and they come back as Romans.

1:13.6

So I just wanted to lay out to you why it's a generally bad idea.

1:17.6

Now, of course, there are those who become wealthy because of the government and money printing and central banking and war.

1:24.6

So all of that, that's fine, but you don't put billionaires in the same category.

1:31.2

And yes, everybody has to make their compromises with the system that is. But I'm talking about

1:36.8

the billionaires who have earned their money in the general free market. So you can only earn billions by creating

1:48.0

trillions in value. Trillions of dollars worth of goods and services, efficiency, efficiency,

1:54.0

and jobs. It'd be nice if I could say the word efficiently, efficiently. So if you're worth billions, it's because you've created

2:01.9

trillions in economic value. How have you done that by serving people's needs and preferences

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