They Want You To Own Nothing
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Summary
Is it possible to own nothing but have everything? Only in the fantasies of a green neo-communist, only in the dreams of a communist utopia. Can you own nothing, but be happy and be free?
Transcript
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Can you own nothing but have everything and be happy?
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Imagine a world where the richer you are, the less you own.
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A world where a fancy car, a large house, and expensive clothes
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cease to be a status symbol and become a burden,
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while experiences replace belongings as what we cherish the most.
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Is it possible to own nothing but have everything?
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Only in the fantasies of a green neo-communist, but we can do it right this time.
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We'll make it so expensive that you can't have anything and have to borrow everything.
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While they want you to own nothing, someone else will own everything.
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By the way, the woman in this TED Talk claiming that possessions are a thing of the past
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and will be displaced by services is living large in Tel Aviv.
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She was on Forbes Israel's 30 under 30 list in 2019.
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Pretty sure the world's richest dual citizens aren't going to give up all their
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But the thing is, slave, you won't have everything, only the things they say you can.
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Why would you even want to own a car when what you really need is to get from point A to B?
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It appears within minutes, takes me wherever I need to go, and then disappears, like magic.
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In many ways, that is a better arrangement than having to own a car.
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What used to be a car is transforming into a riding service.
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Some day soon, personal cars may be banned in cities, replaced with an autonomous vehicle service.
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Pretty sure wealthy folks and elites pushing this crap won't be selling their fine German cars to take an Uber instead.
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Being dependent on someone else to come pick you up is not liberating.
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Not knowing how to fix or maintain a vehicle is also not liberating.
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This crap is being pushed on people who already don't own much to try and convince them it's better this way.
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We'll ban your car, which gives you freedom to go wherever you want to, when you want,
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and then replace it with a vehicle service where we control every movement.
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In the past, newlyweds would go ahead and buy a house, secure a mortgage, compare real estate,
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buy a ton of furniture, and spend long hours on upkeep and renovation once in a while.
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While I make all these commitments, life is full of surprises, especially these days.
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Over the past few years, I have lived and traveled to more than 30 countries across five continents.
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With a supercomputer in my pocket and widespread connectivity, I don't need an office.
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Travel has become a way of living, serving as fertile ground for a new generation of nomads.
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And that's when owning stuff really becomes a burden.
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Just become a rootless, cosmopolitan, a digital nomad traveling from one third world warm country
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You don't need a home for your future family or anything to pass down
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because having kids is bad for the environment anyway.
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Being a wandering nomad is going to be great when you're growing old.
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You can request a digital nursing home service where they'll medicate you until you die.
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Meanwhile, someone owns all of it and they can evict you at any time.
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Imagine a world where all the physical products around us transform into digital services.
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With no belongings, no commodities, no wallet, no assets, or property?
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Okay, communists, can I get a digital service to stockpile in case of an emergency?
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How about a service to upkeep my mini homestead so I can be self-reliant?
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It is built into human nature to want to own property.
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It is based on a survival instinct which we've seen all throughout history.
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For you to be free and to flourish and live as you want, land ownership is number one.
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It's power, authority to make one's moral choices on one's own free of others' intrusion.
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The right to property is even recognized in Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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There's no mystery as to why Karl Marx put the abolition of private property at the top of his list,
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Privacy has no place in it, as Marx proclaimed that
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the human essence is the true collectivity of man.
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You can spot a dissenter quicker this way, you see.
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Although a Marxist will tell you that without privacy and private property,
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because everything is the property of everyone all at once.
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They only steal because there has been an unfair distribution.
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By the way, Karl Marx was a freeloader, in constant debt,
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lived in filth, and neglected his children and wife.
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still relevant today because it speaks to human nature.
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In other words, collective ownership leads to the tragedy of the commons.
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The only way to prevent this would be through strict regulations,
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Because not all humans have benevolent motives.
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Therefore, abuses will always, most certainly, without a doubt, happen,
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especially in these days of diversity and multiculturalism,
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which has destroyed any social cohesion we have left.
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Today's self-appointed elites pushing the fake green agenda,
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believe that humans can be indoctrinated at an early age
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ignoring the simple fact of human nature and psychology,
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It's individual sovereignty to do with it as you please
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Let me take you to a day in a life in this kind of future.
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a place with everything I need to live, work, and play.
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because of the round-the-clock services they offer.
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Once in a while, I might choose to cook for myself.
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that sends me fresh ingredients from a farmer nearby,
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carefully selected based on my culinary preferences.
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to the premium organic service everybody's talking about,
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I might 3D print a dress designed especially for me
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The material will be recycled into its original state.
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because furniture and decor became services too.