Why Selfish People Are Better For Society
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Are you selfish or selfless? In this episode, Patrick Bet-David talks about why selfish people are a better net positive for society than selfless people. FaceTime or Ask Patrick any questions on https://minnect.com/ Recommended video: Why Alcohol Almost Ruined My Life & How I Quit: https://youtu.be/WDLFbIHE7-s Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aPEwD4 To reach the Valuetainment team, you can email: info@valuetainment.com
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday we're having a conversation about who's a bigger net positive to society, |
| 0:03.0 | selfish people or selfless people. |
| 0:04.9 | And I wish you were there to listen to where this conversation went because it was so entertaining. |
| 0:09.0 | No way we need more selfless people. There's a lot of selfish people. |
| 0:11.6 | But by the time the conversation was done, everyone said, |
| 0:14.4 | maybe we can't even need more selfish people in the world because the world is revolved around |
| 0:18.9 | selfish people. Hang tight before you judge. Watch the whole thing. I'm going to make the case to you. |
| 0:23.6 | At the end, if you say, pay you have no clothes you're talking about, thumbs down. |
| 0:27.1 | If you say this makes sense, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. Let's get right into it. |
| 0:39.9 | So before I show this chart to you, let me tell you a story about Mario Agito. |
| 0:42.7 | Mario has been with me now for 18 years. Mario just had a wedding. He got married this past weekend. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm my house. Beautiful wedding. We had a great time. But I want to tell you about a conversation |
| 0:50.6 | I had with them five years ago. We're sitting down in the office in Dallas. That's it. |
| 0:53.6 | Mario, why don't you own a car? Cars don't move me. How come you don't want to watch? |
| 0:57.5 | I don't need to have a nice watch. How come you never have money in savings? |
| 1:00.0 | I don't care if I'm money. If I have it, I give it to other people. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm going through like what selfish goals do you have in place? Nothing. |
| 1:06.4 | I said, you realize by you being that way, you're not a positive to the world. This is what he means. |
| 1:12.3 | I said, if you're slightly more driven, other people win. I win. You win. Your family wins. |
| 1:18.5 | Your peers win. Your legacy wins. Your future. Kids win. Everybody wins. |
| 1:22.8 | If you have something, you're going after. The world is a better place. If you're in the hunt |
| 1:28.4 | for some of yourself, this goes. So he sits and he starts thinking about it. This guy's |
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