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Don’t Confuse The Symptoms with The Problems – Epi-3689

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Most people get fired up about problems without ever asking if what they are looking at is actually the problem or just a symptom of something deeper. It is easier to get mad at what is visible than to trace it back to the cause. But if you are always treating symptoms, all you are really doing is staying sick in a slightly more comfortable way. In this episode, I walk through three examples that almost everyone is familiar with. Healthcare, college, and housing. These are not the only places this shows up, they are just easy to see. The Continue reading →

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0:00.0

and we're a better way to do this

0:05.6

let me show you a better way

0:12.5

and we are live welcome folks to episode 3,689 of the survival podcast.

0:26.3

This is Tuesday, June the 17th, 2025.

0:30.0

And today we're actually, I don't want to say redoing.

0:34.4

We're modernizing and revisiting a topic that the last time we dug into very,

0:40.3

very deeply, though this has been a running theme for the whole 17 years of the show, but the last

0:46.0

time we really like hardcore dug in deep to this subject as a standalone thing, 2012.

0:55.0

Don't confuse symptoms with problems.

0:59.3

And I don't actually mean your physical health, though it can apply to that, but it comes

1:04.2

off.

1:04.5

That's analogy, right?

1:06.6

What I mean is things like the idea that home prices are too expensive.

1:12.6

Yes, that's a symptom.

1:14.6

The boomers stole it and that's why you can't afford a house when you're 27 is asinine.

1:20.6

And I'll show it today how asinine it is.

1:24.6

It's I hurt and I want something to blame and there's dozens of things like this.

1:31.4

We're going to go into specifically three of them today, but we could make a list of 80.

1:38.9

Things that are wrong in society and most of it, at least in some piece or apart, comes back to, you guessed it, Fiat money. Fiat money creates Fiat things. Fiat things are not designed last, right? And Fiat things, by the very nature of Fiat, go up in price and not based on simply supply and demand. In fact, supply and demand is wrecked. Everything

2:02.2

begins to fall apart. Why are we doing this today? Because if you want to cure an illness,

2:08.0

the symptoms can in fact lead you to a cause. But if you treat the symptoms without identifying

2:15.0

the cause, then what happens? You feel better, but you don't get better.

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