The Number 1 PROBLEM With America Today
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss why women don t get the respect they deserve from their male counterparts, and why they should focus on family over work. We also discuss depression and how to deal with it, and how it can be prevented.
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But my point is that average men that allow us to do what we do deserve respect.
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And too many times I see people become successful and get to a certain point
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and they don't respect the average men that run this country.
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Not everybody's going to become a top 5, 10% earner.
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And quite frankly, we couldn't have, like, the country would not function if everybody did.
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Men do not get the respect they deserve in that regard on a macro level.
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On a micro level, I think that you have personal responsibility, individual decisions.
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Prior to the 1980s, 1950s, however far you want to go,
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women weren't necessarily in the workforce, right?
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So, you could be at a small town in Des Moines, Iowa, or Jacksonville, Florida, or, you know,
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And the point is, you could get, as an average man, you can get a normal girl.
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An average income could support a family of two.
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Normal guy, normal girl, marriage, family, boom.
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But as women have been empowered, gone to school, made more money, now they've developed a,
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I'm only going to go out with a guy that makes more than me.
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So, is it because women have made more money, they don't necessarily need that man as a provider?
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And is that the biggest reason that they don't get the respect from the women?
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Actually, I would say they do it through child support, alimony, and government benefits,
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In order to get married, a guy has to fall in love and make that decision.
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You don't need to get, you just need to trap the guy.
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You just need, like, the wrong, get the wrong woman pregnant.
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But women used to, it used to be, everything was more family-oriented before.
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So, women would work, they would just work, like, if a guy had a farm, the woman would work on the farm.
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So, they would just be working together, typically.
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Yeah, but how many people are working on farms these days, Pearl?
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But you were talking about, like, I'm saying it's not correct, this idea that, like, women didn't, like, work and contribute to society.
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But I'm saying, in the past, like, come on, a woman from the 1850s, life was a million times harder than a chick working today.
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I think we're just, we're disagreeing on nuance.
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You know, the world is so much better, and this is the problem in America today.
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The world is so much better than it's ever been, especially Western society, so much better.
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The poverty levels are minuscule compared to where they were 20, 40, 50, 100 years ago.
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We're passing out antidepressants like it's, you know, popcorn, whereas life is actually pretty good, right?
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And women, they're capitalizing on modern society.
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Should women, you know, dumb it down and not capitalize and just focus on marriage and kids?
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Or should women be like, yeah, let me go get my money, too.
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Well, I would say society would be a lot better if women focused on family and especially family over themselves.
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I would say I actually disagree with one thing you said there.
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I actually don't think that this depression, anxiety, all that stuff, I really don't think it's made up.
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I think it comes from selfish mothers choosing themselves over their family.
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And I think that kind of messes you up in the head.
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A lot of times for life, some people can overcome it, but a lot of times.
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Okay, so you actually, you've said something about being selfish, actually, a perfect segue.
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You said a modern female mentality is me before the family, right?
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Women filed a divorce, we all know this, what, 70 to 80% of the time, especially if they're college educated.
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Yeah, except for Will Smith, I'll give him one.
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So other than Will Smith, when do you condone divorce?
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I think if they're beating each other, they should work it out.
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They should just both figure out how to not hit.
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But yeah, one-sided abuse, I'll give you a divorce.
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But, you know, maybe if he gets another chick pregnant, I might give you a divorce.
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The church used to, like, you'd have to, like, give your case to the church, and then they would say yes or no.
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I don't think you're going to have a problem with that.
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Why are they the ones filing for divorce the vast majority of the time?
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What is it that they're just willing to just cast away their kids, their family, and just succumb to their emotions?
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No, I mean, women file 70% to 80% of the time, and a lot of times I think it's because they think the grass is greener on the other side.
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And a lot of times, again, the media tells us we're so special and awesome and amazing, and you're going to find better.
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I think only it's like 15% actually get a guy to remarry them, 22% get a guy to live with them again.
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So the majority of single mothers do not have happy endings.
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I think that's a great point and a great stat you just made.
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There was a couple single mothers on the panel.
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And uniformly, they're like, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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And then the women with kids obviously stated their case.
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That's like, nah, like a real man needs to step up.
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But you said that only 15% of single mothers remarry?
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I don't remember if it's, it's like a roughly 15.
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Gotcha, but I think that's an important stat to point out.
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Because if that's the objective to get married,
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Yeah, and then 22% get a guy to live with them.
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But again, that means the majority do not have happy endings.
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You know, another stat, if you hit 30 and you're not in a relationship,
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you're more likely to not have kids than to have them.
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Well, actually, if you, if you had 35 as a guy,
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you only have a 15% chance of getting married over,