Based Camp - Why Do More Rights Make Women Less Happy？

00:00:00.000 So the question is, why is it that as women get more rights, they become less happy, their well-being decreases, and they are less satisfied with the treatment of women in society?

00:00:10.840 This episode, what do we call it?

00:00:13.300 Feminism has led to a rise in imposter syndrome. 1.00

00:00:16.220 Guess why?

00:00:18.900 Ouch.

00:00:20.480 Ouch.

00:00:21.280 We have an increasing pandemic of imposters in our society.

00:00:25.180 And yet our society isn't allowed to say, no, you are genuinely incompetent, and you got where you were due to the scales being tipped in your favor.

00:00:33.120 Would you like to know more?

00:00:34.700 So this morning I sent you and some of the family this insane graph.

00:00:39.340 I'd love if you described it.

00:00:41.180 Yeah.

00:00:42.160 For the podcast listeners who aren't on YouTube, I'll put it on the screen for those on YouTube.

00:00:45.960 Thank you.

00:00:46.480 Yes.

00:00:46.940 So this is a graph that shows satisfaction with the treatment of women in society.

00:00:52.080 It's a gallop hole.

00:00:53.020 So this is a pretty mainstream U.S.-based polling company that theoretically has rigorous methods.

00:00:59.820 And they asked U.S. adults, both men and women, are you very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied with the way women are treated in society?

00:01:10.860 This poll went from 2001 to 2021.

00:01:13.780 And if we're looking at men, the rate of satisfaction with female treatment went from 80% in, this is very or somewhat satisfied. 0.98

00:01:23.660 So basically any level of satisfaction went from 80% to 61% from 2001 to 2021.

00:01:30.560 For women, it went from 61% to 44%. 0.95

00:01:35.780 So fewer than half of women in the United States now are satisfied with the way that women are treated. 1.00

00:01:43.040 In 2001, it was kind of low at 61%.

00:01:45.860 It actually went up to 69%.

00:01:47.780 And you actually see this with other things.

00:01:51.080 There's a well-being index.

00:01:52.520 You see a similar thing.

00:01:53.560 Actually, there was a study, like a meta-study, that looked at a lot of studies on things like happiness ratings of women and stuff like that.

00:01:59.500 And a quote from this study was,

00:02:01.500 Women have traditionally reported higher levels of happiness than men, but they are now reporting happiness levels that are similar to or even lower than those of men.

00:02:09.280 The relative decline in well-being holds across various data sets and holds whether one asks about happiness or life satisfaction.

00:02:15.960 Yeah, and I'm not going to go around like defining feminism or talking about where we are in feminism because I'm not an expert in feminism. 1.00

00:02:22.320 And I frankly don't really care that much how we're going to like talk about it or what academics are saying because that's not reality.

00:02:28.080 But I would say, and I think it's like most people would agree, that at least in the United States where this poll took place,

00:02:34.500 there are more privileges for women in society and more preferences in terms of hiring, in terms of university, in terms of political favoritism, et cetera, than ever before. 1.00

00:02:46.540 Like we are at an all-time high.

00:02:49.360 Well, I mean, look at the rate of women in college compared to the rate of men in college. 0.87

00:02:52.140 Look at the grades that women are getting in high school, middle school, kindergarten. 1.00

00:02:57.260 So the question is, why is it that as women get more rights, they become less happy? 0.87

00:03:03.200 Their well-being decreases, and they are less satisfied with the treatment of women in society.

00:03:08.380 I have a hot take.

00:03:10.020 So I think I'm correct.

00:03:12.420 Proved me that I'm wrong because I also love being proven wrong.

00:03:14.980 I don't think this is about rights.

00:03:17.180 And remember, this is a question about treatment and not rights.

00:03:20.160 I think that we reached a level of equal rights, like statutorily speaking, legally speaking, a long time ago, way before this survey ever started.

00:03:29.160 So we're not even looking at women's rights being affected. 0.57

00:03:32.580 What we're looking at is how women are treated. 1.00

00:03:34.440 And what we have seen change over the period of this study, from 2001 to 2021, is a change in female favoritism. 1.00

00:03:44.000 And I think that is the toxic thing.

00:03:46.000 I think that favoritism or privilege creates entitlement, and entitlement breeds dissatisfaction.

00:03:53.460 And I think we can see similar things with other social justice arenas, where we've gone past technical legal rights and gone to, okay, now we're going to give you outright favoritism and bias in your favor, which leads people to feel entitled, which then leads people to feel disappointed.

00:04:10.580 And like entitlement, of course, like I've probably gone over this a billion times before, but there's nothing that triggers me more than entitlement.

00:04:16.720 Like when someone becomes entitled, they are dead to me. 1.00

00:04:19.580 I want them dead. 0.99

00:04:20.960 Like I can't, I just get so angry. 1.00

00:04:22.600 When you spend time with them, you just immediately cut them out of your life.

00:04:24.600 And I agree with that.

00:04:25.820 You know, I like this take.

00:04:26.980 This really aligns with some of the other studies we've covered and other videos that we've done, like, you know, the trauma video, where we show that individuals, when they looked at individuals who reported symptoms of trauma, and then they went through court filings, first, they found that the symptoms of trauma correlated with the amount of trauma that the person reported experiencing.

00:04:46.420 And not their actual trauma experienced.

00:04:48.220 It did not correlate with the amount of actual trauma experienced from historical documents, like court records and stuff like that.

00:04:54.580 So people who didn't actually experience trauma in their childhood, but believed they did, would have all of the symptoms of extreme trauma.

00:05:00.740 People who didn't experience trauma in their childhood, but, or who did experience trauma in their childhood, but didn't believe they did, had very little trauma response.

00:05:08.180 And I think that you, you might be right here.

00:05:10.680 So much of our mental states is a reflection of our internal self-narratives and not the things that are actually happening to us.

00:05:22.540 Right.

00:05:22.660 And we know that women from the AILA study, which was just absolutely fantastic, where women reported within a equivalent data set to men as growing up in a less advantaged socioeconomic environment and being spanked more, when basically we know that neither of those things are true.

00:05:37.440 They just have memories of worse things happening to them.

00:05:39.780 Right.

00:05:40.320 So part of this is likely that women are being rewarded psychologically within our society more and more for taking on this victim mindset, this trauma mindset. 0.90

00:05:50.700 Yeah, no, there's a strong correlation between this level of entitlement, entitlement in general, and an external locus of control.

00:05:56.640 Like, if things don't go well for me, it's because I wasn't treated the way that I was supposed to be treated, because I should always be treated better.

00:06:04.460 Yeah.

00:06:05.080 Well, I think you're right about this.

00:06:07.540 But although I do think that the other things at play, and I'd even ask you this, okay?

00:06:11.920 Do you think that you would be significantly less happy if we lived in the past and it was just expected that, like, you wouldn't work or be as educated?

00:06:22.240 If you had a husband who supported you, like, you know, with the founding fathers and stuff like that, where you would make an impact on the world through their work, like Abigail Adams or something.

00:06:32.020 Like, would you be happier or less happy in that world?

00:06:34.280 I would probably be less happy.

00:06:36.800 I think about also, like, in modern contexts, people we know who were raised in environments where they were told, like, you know, you're going to be a housewife and you'll be impactful through how you teach your children and, you know, how you support your husband.

00:06:48.660 That would be hard to think that that's sort of your only option.

00:06:52.220 I think, yeah, but I don't – I think the bigger issue isn't that.

00:07:00.160 And, again, like, I think we have to separate this from female rights because, again, this graph does not cover meaningful changes in women's rights at all.

00:07:07.000 Well, so this actually goes back as you go further back.

00:07:10.260 So if you go back to, like, the 70s, the trends continue.

00:07:14.280 But does it go back to, like – I want to see the 19 – like, I want to see 1890, then I want to see –

00:07:21.580 I think it actually goes up during that period.

00:07:22.960 So I think you're right.

00:07:23.660 Like, if you go, like, 1920s to 70s – now, I haven't looked at this, but this is my intuition – it probably goes up during that period.

00:07:29.540 And then this twisted feminism, like, after feminism began to become eaten by the virus and be used to try to remove all pain instead of promote genuine equality. 1.00

00:07:39.720 Right.

00:07:40.020 Or try to remove personal responsibility from individuals.

00:07:43.020 That is when it began doing this psychological damage.

00:07:46.160 Well, and the danger is – and, you know, like, it's giving anyone entitlement. 0.99

00:07:50.300 So, like, before – like, I think before women's rights were adequately covered, men were entitled and men were being assholes. 0.83

00:07:58.140 And I think also men were, like, not – probably not as happy because they were being disappointed after assuming that they deserved everything and were mistreating people and were taking on things that they weren't good at because they were taking too much. 0.70

00:08:11.140 I think a big source of dissatisfaction, too, and this is probably going to be a fairly spicy take, is that in modern society now, women are being given positions that, frankly, they can't take on.

00:08:22.440 And this is something that we've seen, like, in off-the-record meetings we've gone to with various leaders talking about, like, hey, you know, I work in this governmental department or I work in this large corporation.

00:08:31.700 And there are women who are being hired into positions that, frankly, are not qualified for those positions. 1.00

00:08:36.040 And I have no trouble – like, these are otherwise very qualified women, but they're not qualified to do this position they got hired for. 1.00

00:08:42.620 They'd be really qualified in something else, but not for this.

00:08:45.860 And so I think maybe a lot of what's also happening – I wonder if there are graphs or there's research on imposter syndrome and people –

00:08:53.860 Oh, yeah, everyone's always complaining about imposter syndrome these days.

00:08:56.360 Because they're imposter. 0.99

00:08:58.040 And it could be because our system is systemically structured to allow imposter to exist.

00:09:03.860 Right, because when you create –

00:09:06.040 Yeah, there's this unfair bias, right?

00:09:08.520 It's not that they have imposter syndrome.

00:09:10.180 It's that we have an increasing pandemic of imposters in our society.

00:09:14.160 And yet our society isn't allowed to say, no, you are genuinely incompetent and you got where you were due to the scales being tipped in your favor.

00:09:21.380 But, like, you know, even so if everyone were just to set aside the damage done by putting unqualified people into positions, I think it even hurts the unqualified people.

00:09:31.380 And I think this graph is kind of showing this subtly that even those who are given these privileges kind of know that they're not doing a really good job.

00:09:43.320 It doesn't feel good to not do a good job.

00:09:45.900 And I'm not saying this means that women need to go back to the kitchen where they belong, although I love – I just baked bread with the boys yesterday.

00:09:54.320 It was so fun.

00:09:55.460 But then I love stopping baking bread and going up and doing business deals and having M&A calls.

00:10:01.700 And, like, I'm sorry.

00:10:02.960 You don't love that stuff.

00:10:04.160 You hate all that stuff.

00:10:04.960 You complain all the time.

00:10:06.560 I complain also about the kids.

00:10:08.280 It is my job to complain.

00:10:09.740 I am annoying.

00:10:11.460 She doesn't actually complain that much, I should say.

00:10:13.540 But she does make it known that she does find some of this stuff trying.

00:10:16.800 There are elements of our work that I really, really hate.

00:10:19.960 And there are elements that –

00:10:20.640 This is really interesting.

00:10:21.600 And this is a life satisfaction thing.

00:10:23.200 I think the issue is, you know, you cannot like doing – you cannot like the responsibilities that you're burdened with.

00:10:29.140 Like, they can challenge you in a way that is trying, but you still have a better self-image because you are the type of person who are entrusted with these challenges, which improves your perceived life quality.

00:10:40.520 Well, I like playing a meaningful role in our income.

00:10:43.180 I like, you know, feeling like I'm pitching in in a meaningful way.

00:10:47.820 Like, I bet a lot of people didn't exactly enjoy going out into the fields and doing backbreaking farm work, but I'm sure they really enjoyed having stores of wheat for their family all winter and having dried meats.

00:10:58.360 You know, they didn't enjoy butchering the cow, but they, you know, had a blast.

00:11:02.480 Well, and they enjoyed allowing their family to thrive and being the self-narrative of the protector and everything like that because these self-narratives are really what creates our happiness.

00:11:10.780 Now, self-narratives are malleable, but they become – when a person is just like an NPC, they are easily modified by like social wins like this modern and twisted feminism we live with today. 0.98

00:11:21.260 And this brings me to a really interesting point that you made, which is men might be better off in a way because society is so rigged against them right now in that the mothering of a group imparts mental fortitude to that group, which in the end may help with life satisfaction.

00:11:42.460 Now, I disagree.

00:11:44.260 I'll push back, but finish your point.

00:11:45.460 Well, so long – this is what I'm thinking is I'm thinking of stories I've read about, you know, for example, like Jews, for example, in areas where they were clearly not super welcomed in society at the time but that weren't in full-on like pogrom or holocaust mode yet.

00:11:59.080 The challenges that they went through made all of their successes feel like truly meaningful and made them feel more distinct and unique from society and also helped with community within that group.

00:12:11.720 If you look at men's communities, I mean, I think this is something that's been growing significantly right now.

00:12:17.820 You know, right now we can pitch Exit Group, Kevin Dolan's organization.

00:12:20.540 I mean, like ask your typical guy kind of anywhere, and he is fairly likely to be in some kind of private society because they're just figuring it out on their own.

00:12:29.080 Well, I mean, so there was a long period of male private societies, and we'll do an episode on this one day, like why they existed and what purpose they served in society.

00:12:35.180 But they were openly known.

00:12:36.580 They were openly known, you know, like the Rotary Club and the Elks Club and the Society of Odd Fellows and the Freemasons.

00:12:44.480 But those have largely collapsed, and there was this period without them.

00:12:47.880 And I think what caused them to collapse was that the audience that they were serving was in such a dominant position within society for so long.

00:12:55.340 And now we see organizations reforming that have similar goals.

00:13:01.720 Yeah.

00:13:01.960 And frankly, it's nice that I think these are coming out and they're different because they are more agile.

00:13:07.660 They're more grassroots.

00:13:08.660 They're more authentic and real instead of bureaucratic and large and kind of pointless.

00:13:12.800 But so here's my argument.

00:13:14.040 Yes, from a larger scheme of things, giant painting of history, the disadvantaged groups are benefited because only the strongest survive. 0.99

00:13:25.640 So, like, when we look at sort of the inverse of what's happening, like, to men, like, especially if you are a cis, white, middle to upper class male, but we are hearing this from young men.

00:13:39.680 Like, they're getting, like, leaked notices from employers they're trying to work with that are like, you know, we can't hire any more white men. 0.72

00:13:47.300 And this is, like, really, really discouraging to me.

00:13:48.640 This has come up to me even, and I'm from an older generation where, you know, a job that I had tried for my whole life, I was told, actually, there's a moratorium that you don't know about that's not public information against hiring white men for this job right now.

00:14:01.860 Yeah, well, because, like, I think it's fairly illegal in many cases for people to do that.

00:14:06.020 But, like, you know, off the record, and that's where we're going.

00:14:08.760 See, we've gone beyond rights and we've gone to favoritism, even sort of actually breaking many equal rights rules.

00:14:15.780 So, but what does this mean that those disadvantaged groups or groups subject to bias are doing?

00:14:22.600 Well, that means this is forcing those men who are smart enough, who have enough initiative, et cetera, to actually build new companies, build new empires, and then really own the future, right?

00:14:32.040 Like, they're not some bureaucrat or functionary making a cush job and not making a difference.

00:14:36.220 They have to go out and make their own difference, and in the end, they're going to own 100% of that, which is really meaningful.

00:14:41.440 So, yes, on, like, the larger scale, yes, this benefits the group that is doing life on hard mode.

00:14:49.440 However, the vast majority of people are not going to, like, they're not going to make it through hard mode.

00:14:55.300 They're just going to, like, wash out.

00:14:56.660 And this is what Jonathan Haidt's been looking at a lot with his team is, like, actually young men in the United States are floundering more than young women.

00:15:05.000 And they originally had not thought that that was the case because, you know, women are like, man, it's so hard.

00:15:12.080 And, like, they report more mental health problems because that's kind of, like, what women do, whereas, like, men kind of are not allowed to do that in the same way.

00:15:18.780 But what they are seeing and where Jonathan Haidt specifically changed his mind about, oh, wait, no, men really are doing poorly in society now is they're just completely opting out of society.

00:15:30.200 They're not working.

00:15:31.360 They're not trying.

00:15:32.680 They're retreating from social scenarios.

00:15:34.880 They're not dating.

00:15:35.540 They're not marrying.

00:15:36.400 They're just lying flat like they're in Japan. 0.94

00:15:38.460 Sorry, in China.

00:15:39.580 I think that this is really important.

00:15:41.280 So it means that we have to, when we're raising our kids, you know, take this into consideration for both our sons and our daughters.

00:15:46.500 If we raise our daughters to become susceptible to this trend where women will perceive themselves as being victims more, where women will take on this victim trauma mindset more often, we are hugely disadvantaging them.

00:16:01.140 And we need to work really, really hard in terms of how we frame things for them.

00:16:05.540 Like, many people say, why do you give your daughters masculine or gender-neutral names?

00:16:08.740 This is why.

00:16:09.700 We do not want them to perceive themselves as female the way our society is currently framing femaleness. 0.61

00:16:16.500 Because I do not think that's helpful.

00:16:18.120 I do not think it's helpful for the women who take on this mindset. 1.00

00:16:22.520 Yeah.

00:16:22.960 And I think we should also tell them imposter syndrome is a sign that you probably aren't qualified for your job.

00:16:28.960 So either get qualified or get out.

00:16:31.480 Yeah, figure yourself out.

00:16:33.180 Yeah.

00:16:33.860 Well, no.

00:16:34.320 So this is, again, like ask yourself, why do you think you're an imposter?

00:16:37.620 Is it because you are less good than the people around you?

00:16:40.620 Yeah.

00:16:40.840 This is really interesting.

00:16:41.940 So Simone constantly underestimates herself vis-a-vis the world population. 0.98

00:16:48.460 And, you know, I've mentioned in the past, like when I got to Cambridge, what I had to ask her to do to like build up her self-esteem is, okay, this is supposed to be where the best of the best are.

00:16:55.700 Every day, ask yourself if you've met anyone that day who is at your level.

00:17:00.280 And it's just every day she'd be like, no, I haven't.

00:17:01.960 So this is really interesting.

00:17:03.400 She had imposter syndrome in that when she went there. 0.99

00:17:06.940 So I would say I didn't have imposter syndrome.

00:17:09.600 I just had everyone is better than me syndrome.

00:17:11.320 But I've never felt in a role like I'm not qualified.

00:17:14.960 And I think what's meaningful here, and I think this is where, like, if we're talking about how do you deal with imposter syndrome, there are two things that you may feel.

00:17:22.660 I mean, one, like basically we figure everything out as we're going along and we openly admit to ourselves, I have no idea what I'm doing.

00:17:29.720 This is all really weird, but we're just going to figure it out.

00:17:32.720 But we have the ability to figure it out.

00:17:34.600 I think imposter syndrome is very different.

00:17:36.960 It is I have no idea what I'm doing, and I don't even have the tool set I need to figure it out.

00:17:42.660 Like it's like it's like showing up is like, you know, you're in a surgery room and your job is to do brain surgery.

00:17:47.520 And you're like, I'm sorry.

00:17:49.180 Like this is not a you figure it out as you go along situation.

00:17:51.840 And I think that's what people with imposter syndrome are going through.

00:17:55.100 Yeah.

00:17:55.460 It's also in part caused by a lack of initiative in that when you say that imposter syndrome is OK, like when you're like it's OK to not know what you're doing

00:18:03.720 or to not feel like you know what you're doing and to not feel like you're qualified for something.

00:18:07.740 If you got into a position and you were like, OK, I'm lacking here, here and here, then you would fix those things like that would be like, OK, I'll just fix it.

00:18:16.260 Right.

00:18:16.520 Whereas imposter syndrome is like, I'm not going to or just like, yeah, you know, maybe maybe what?

00:18:23.460 Yeah, what makes them imposters is they actually could if they had initiative.

00:18:28.140 Figure it out as they went along and actually not be imposters, like become the real deal, but they literally lack the initiative.

00:18:34.960 Maybe this is one of those things where like, you know how it turns out that being fat has a big genetic component.

00:18:40.480 Right. And that, you know, it's not it's really not your fault if you get fat, especially modern society.

00:18:45.820 What I think is going on is you lack the inhibitory controls to deal with the addictive elements of hyper processed food in most cases.

00:18:51.900 Like that's why most people in modern times are now hitting this when like before people with these apparent genetic tendencies weren't getting overweight.

00:18:58.640 I think that maybe there may be some like literally like genetic problem that some people have where they like they just don't have the literal like mental nuts and bolts necessary to figure things out as they go along.

00:19:13.280 And it's not their fault, but also that happens to women more often than men.

00:19:17.980 And do you think it's biological or societal?

00:19:19.640 I could see it belonging more to women than men because women have had fewer evolutionary pressures to figure things out as they go along and they have more evolutionary pressures to go along with the group, which does not involve initiative, does not involve figuring things out, right? 0.80

00:19:36.740 But it does allow them to outcompete within bureaucracies.

00:19:39.020 Another interesting thing is that while the scales are being tipped in their favor, they also have a particular or potential biological advantage within these bureaucracies to rise from the bureaucracies.

00:19:52.680 Which was argued by that one guy that we, whose subject we read about, what was it?

00:19:58.120 Population booms who argued that basically like the solution to baby booms is remove a lot of government bureaucracy and social services because that will naturally reduce the rate of women who are employed in a way that stops them from having kids. 0.70

00:20:14.420 Because women have an unfair advantage in bureaucratic systems due to the nature of their biology, which it's an interesting take that I just, you know, like people don't typically present that, but I think he's right. 0.99

00:20:24.580 And I think you're right.

00:20:25.600 Yeah.

00:20:26.040 So what is to be done about this?

00:20:28.760 Like women are not thriving. 1.00

00:20:30.000 Your family.

00:20:30.400 We talked about what we're going to do for our girls.

00:20:31.960 What are we going to do for our boys?

00:20:37.540 I mean, I think you need to raise them accepting and knowing that, you know, they'll have to work 10 times as hard for one ounce of stuff.

00:20:48.320 And that's okay.

00:20:48.860 I mean, groups that have had to do that historically do still produce a lot of successful people.

00:20:53.900 So long as they accept that society is rigged against them.

00:20:57.280 I think bemoaning the unfairness, like expecting a fair society is what causes the pain and what is causing them to give up.

00:21:06.340 And what creates weakness.

00:21:07.180 Understanding that part of who they are and part of the legacy of their position in the world today and the challenges that the agents of Providence have created for them was designed to strengthen them in a way.

00:21:20.980 I think you're absolutely right.

00:21:22.360 Kind of taking like an elite core approach to this.

00:21:25.560 Like you are going to have this on really hard mode.

00:21:28.640 You're going to go through the meat grinder.

00:21:30.400 This is not going to be fun.

00:21:31.260 It's not going to be easy.

00:21:32.300 But you are going to be among the best.

00:21:34.140 It means that when you then take the skill set you built up during this period and you apply it to areas of your life that are more meritocratic intrinsically, like entrepreneurship, you are going to outcompete other individuals who didn't have to deal with the challenges that you're having to go through.

00:21:53.360 And this is one of the really rich thing about a lot of these, you know, putting their fingers on the scale of the system to make it easier for one group or another group is in that disproportionately pushes those groups into jobs that have much lower income caps, i.e. bureaucratic jobs or jobs at large companies.

00:22:10.160 And it pushes the people who are being discriminated against into much more entrepreneurial professions, which have much, you know, they don't have any cap on how much money you can earn.

00:22:20.780 And ironically, lead to the groups that are being the most discriminated against ending up in the positions of outside success most often, and then with the most influence in society, which is really interesting to me.

00:22:35.900 And these often end up having, I mean, so long as those groups have a level of genuine competence in the way that they are culturally approaching this.

00:22:43.080 If they take the approach that, like, you know, we are just downtrodden, I will not try, then they do not gain these advantages.

00:22:49.160 They need to see all of this as a challenge that was meant to test and improve them.

00:22:54.080 And if they take that approach, it ends up benefiting the group overall and leading them to more power in the long run rather than less power in the long run.

00:23:01.100 And a lot of that comes down to contextualizing it as, you know, essential, good, you know, a test that they must pass that is a good thing and an important part of proving themselves that makes them stronger and sharper, even when they lose, even when they're kicked down.

00:23:14.540 I would just add to that. This doesn't mean that we expect our sons to like back out of every bureaucratic organization.

00:23:22.640 If they, if they, for example, are an amazing, they want to be an amazing particle physicist or whatever, you just have to be the entrepreneur within what everything you enter, meaning that you cannot enter through the I'm going to work my way up way.

00:23:35.540 I'm going to go like, no, you have to instead be like this breakout, you know, at age 14, published, you know, five peer reviewed papers, became world renowned, got a full ride scholarship, sort of like you have to figure out how to surpass the bureaucracy.

00:23:48.180 So you can't enter a bureaucracy, but you have to do so in a way that means that you are in some ways not subject to the rules, right?

00:23:57.480 Yeah, no, I think that that's absolutely right. And teaching them that when they are going down bureaucratic pathways, they need to look for how they can hack the system and be incredibly strategic.

00:24:09.220 But these hardships were designed for them. You know, the agents of Providence don't allow this stuff to happen by accident.

00:24:14.080 All of this was meant to strengthen the individuals who are meant to be strengthened by these unfortunate events, be they men or women.

00:24:22.180 It's just whether or not you have the mental fortitude to either as a woman, ignore all of these calls to, you know, aggrandize yourself to fall for trauma narratives and victim narratives.

00:24:32.140 And as a man to overcome the challenges that society is setting for you.

00:24:36.900 But the current regime, I think, is very damaging to both men and women.

00:24:44.080 And it's interesting, you know, a lot of the red pillars will go out there and they'll be like, well, women set all this up. 0.70

00:24:48.760 It's like, not really. Actually, men set a lot of this like feminist stuff up as well.

00:24:54.160 You can't just blame one group. And a lot of the women who are most affected by this are the ones who buy most into it. 1.00

00:25:01.200 And a lot of men who are most affected by it are the ones who buy most into it.

00:25:04.140 Oh, conspiracy theory, if you want. You could argue that a lot of men who are already in positions of power actually benefit from hiring in inept, corrupt imposters because then who actually has all the power, who actually can get this stuff done, who actually is indisposable.

00:25:21.220 Well, and this is something that is done a lot within companies or more than people think is people are intentionally hired around people that to prevent them from from losing their job.

00:25:31.300 You can't lose your job if the people below you are less competent than you.

00:25:34.400 And we've genuinely seen this. We've genuinely seen both like as third parties and within our own organization, organizations, I should say, people choosing to not hire or trying to fight against hires that they feel could supplant them.

00:25:47.640 So, yeah. And this is why bureaucracies are intrinsically evil, which we talk about in the Pragmatist Guide to Governance. You should check it out.

00:25:53.720 And it has been wonderful chatting with you, Simone.

00:25:56.140 Pleasure as always.

00:25:56.980 Always a pleasure. And, you know, this episode, what do we call it? Feminism has led to a rise in imposter syndrome. Guess why? 1.00

00:26:07.540 Ouch. Ouchie.

00:26:10.060 I love you.

00:26:10.900 I love you, too.

00:26:11.920 It's like Toasty says, that hurt me.

00:26:18.820 Whenever she say, I'm hurt.

00:26:22.980 Toasty.

Based Camp - December 20, 2023

Why Do More Rights Make Women Less Happy？

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