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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So exhibit lot 6, 6, 7, ladies and gentlemen, on why you should talk to your parents about issues that you had with them when you were a child. |
| 0:13.2 | And all parents have this. |
| 0:15.3 | I said this in the show the other day. |
| 0:16.7 | Even if you're a perfect parent, then your children are maladapted to a crazy world, |
| 0:21.8 | so they're going to have some challenges and some criticisms. |
| 0:25.2 | And that's all, you know, fair and right and valid and good. |
| 0:28.0 | But so another reason why, though, it's important to talk to your parents is that it helps |
| 0:37.0 | avoid the scarcity mentality. So scarcity mentality is left-wing |
| 0:43.7 | thinking, it's middle of the winter running out of food thinking, it is zero-sum thinking, |
| 0:48.9 | if someone has more, someone automatically has to have less, it's childish thinking, it's immature thinking, right? |
| 0:56.7 | If there's two cookies and your brother gets two, then you get none, right? |
| 1:02.0 | So there's that aspect of things. |
| 1:06.6 | And it is primitive, and it is when you have non-cultivated or fixed resources, it's very easy to fall into that kind of thinking. |
| 1:17.2 | So if you live in the tropics, there's a banana tree, it is produced 10 bananas, then if somebody takes the 10 bananas, you have no bananas. |
| 1:27.2 | It is not capitalistic. It is not self-generated. then if somebody takes the 10 bananas, you have no bananas. |
| 1:29.5 | It is not capitalistic. |
| 1:31.9 | It is not self-generative. |
| 1:38.3 | And it in particular does not take into account things like intellectual labor, right? |
| 1:41.3 | If I write a book, I haven't stolen a book from you. |
| 1:49.8 | If I write a song, then that song has not been stolen from anyone else. |
| 1:56.3 | So when there is a fixed amount of assets, generally because they're found assets, |
| 2:03.5 | then you have a scarcity mentality. So of course, if you think of two tribes that are hunting in the same area, |
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