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00:02:27.680Less than a week ago, as engineers at SpaceX prepared to achieve something that had never been done before in human history,
00:02:35.320a dozen bureaucrats at the California Coastal Commission assembled to do something that's been done many, many times before in human history.
00:02:42.320The commissioners, a group that mostly consists of liberal women, set up a massive regulatory roadblock to impede people who are actually doing real, important work.
00:02:51.140And these commissioners established this roadblock in a way that made it extremely obvious to everyone that the root of their frustration was their own jealousy and bitterness.
00:03:00.280Now, the clips I'm about to play come from a meeting of the California Coastal Commission to consider SpaceX's plans to launch as many as 50 rockets every year from the Vandenberg Space Force base,
00:03:11.360which is located in Southern California, Santa Barbara County.
00:03:13.800This is a plan that was formally proposed by the Air Force and the Space Force because SpaceX is a military contractor and everything SpaceX does either directly benefits the Defense Department or more broadly advances the interests of the country.
00:03:27.440But the California Coastal Commission, in its infinite wisdom, disagrees.
00:03:32.060They voted down the proposal for more launches.
00:08:45.300But here we're dealing with a company that does not, that is the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race
00:08:58.360and made it clear what his point of view is, and he's managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom
00:11:13.500So what she's saying, in other words, he's exercised his First Amendment rights in a way that the California Coastal Commission doesn't approve of.
00:11:19.380He has political opinions that this woman doesn't like.
00:11:24.040Therefore, he's not allowed to launch a rocket.
00:11:28.120For good measure, Carol Hart also complains that Musk has, quote, managed the company in a way that's very disturbing.
00:11:35.740Now, it's hard to know exactly what that's a reference to.
00:11:38.640Maybe she's complaining about that lawsuit by some former SpaceX employees, which accuses Musk of posting insensitive memes on X.
00:11:45.940Those memes were allegedly very traumatizing to these employees, particularly the meme that depicted Bill Gates as a pregnant man.
00:11:58.060Or maybe she's referring to how SpaceX was fined several hundred thousand dollars because of alleged launch license violations last year.
00:12:04.140Even though those launch license violations wouldn't have been violations at all if the FAA had responded to SpaceX's various applications in time.
00:12:11.940So maybe that's what the commissioner finds disturbing.
00:12:14.220Or maybe she's talking about how SpaceX is doing things that no one has ever done before in all of human history.
00:12:37.720Maybe she doesn't see any benefit to reusable rockets or colonizing Mars or rapidly deploying satellites to provide internet access to millions of people.
00:12:45.740Maybe the idea of human progress itself upsets this particular bureaucrat.
00:12:52.900Now you can go through the whole hearing and you won't find a serious explanation for the commission's ultimate vote, which was to deny SpaceX the additional launches.
00:13:11.000The first clip is a commissioner named Dana Bochko who announced that the Air Force and Space Force are wrong and that really SpaceX has nothing to do with our national defense.
00:13:21.120She just comes out and unilaterally declares that SpaceX doesn't benefit the government in any way.
00:13:25.580She knows more than the Pentagon and all of the engineers on this point.
00:13:40.320And the reason I am is that I do believe that the Space Force has failed to establish that SpaceX is a part of the federal government, part of our defense necessary to be decided under a federal consistency rather than a CDP.
00:14:02.200I was on the Channel Islands in August when a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Vandenberg.
00:14:08.840The sonic boom was terrifying to everyone that was present and sleeping.
00:14:16.280They woke up terrified in the morning, not knowing what the loud explosion was.
00:14:43.120So there's all sorts of back and forth on this sonic boom issue.
00:14:47.400SpaceX disagrees on how many of these booms are audible in populated areas and how loud they are and so on.
00:14:53.260Let's just put all that aside for a moment.
00:14:54.620Let's concede for the purposes of the argument that every now and then there's briefly a loud noise from a SpaceX launch and that some people can hear it for a second or two.
00:15:04.500In what universe does this justify denying SpaceX the ability to launch rockets at all?
00:15:10.340I mean, this would be like denying construction crews the ability to work at all at any time ever.
00:15:16.340Imagine if people like this had their way during any other significant moment in this country's history.
00:15:21.520Imagine if somebody like that lady was bothered by all the noise they were making in Los Alamos and had the Manhattan Project shut down.
00:15:30.620Imagine being the kind of person who hears a couple seconds of a sonic boom and feels terrified as a result.
00:15:36.580Especially when you know what it's from.
00:16:06.320I mean, the rocket makes a loud noise.
00:16:08.520And that's reason number 10,000 to shut down SpaceX, apparently.
00:16:12.060You know, if we're going to, yeah, advancing human civilization is great and all, but if it makes a loud noise that bothers me once every six and a half weeks, well, then never mind.
00:16:26.840Can you quiet down with all your civilizational advancement over there?
00:16:32.740I haven't even gotten into the DOJ's lawsuit against SpaceX for not hiring enough asylum seekers, which is what they're calling illegal aliens now.
00:16:42.260And, of course, the European Union has about a million of their own reasons and their own issues with SpaceX as well.
00:16:47.140The only positive thing to come out of this pathetic meeting at the California Coastal Commission is that established by sheer contrast how useless all of these regulators and bureaucrats and critics really are.
00:16:59.000I mean, they could not have picked a worse day for them anyway to hold this meeting because less than a week later, Elon Musk demonstrated that unlike his critics, his companies are actually accomplishing things.
00:17:11.540They are benefiting humanity in very real and tangible ways.
00:17:17.540It's maybe the least flattering juxtaposition in the history of juxtapositions.
00:17:21.000On the one hand, you have useless, bitter, complaining, whining bureaucrats trying to slow human progress for their own political reasons.
00:17:57.200And that's what Elon Musk is doing while these dumb women sit around in their conference rooms and they're having their committee meetings talking about, I'm troubled.
00:44:04.880My wife and I have spent almost two decades leveling up in jobs and careers and are now in our late 30s with two small children in a HCOL state.
00:44:13.720We scraped and suffered to buy a small ranch house and two used larger cars for our family.
00:45:19.780I would give my last dollar to my son to make sure he was more comfortable, to make sure he didn't suffer debt or bad credit as long as he was working.
00:45:26.120Here are our own effing parents sitting on their piles of gold, watching us navigate a new level of effed-up economics and shopping for discounts and raising our children in subpar school districts and for effing what.
00:46:08.940Now, putting these rather over-the-top comments to the side, it is true that our current system, maybe not created by the boomers, but certainly popularized by them,
00:46:18.740is not only backwards, but also very unique to the modern age.
00:46:22.960In most cases, parents should not wait until they're dead to share their wealth with their children, but that is how it goes very often these days.
00:46:32.800You know, you should want your children to have everything that you have and more.
00:46:38.300However, the modern approach, again, emphasis on modern, because this is not at all the traditional way of doing things.
00:46:44.280But the modern way is for the older generation to accrue wealth over the course of many decades, hang on to nearly all of it, blow through a huge portion of it in the final, like, five to ten years of their lives,
00:46:56.800or really the final, like, two or three years of their lives, and then give the rest to their children when their children are in their 50s and their own kids have already moved out of the house.
00:47:06.200And then those kids will hang on to all of that wealth, blow through most of it, and give the remainder to their kids when their kids are in their 50s, and so on and so on and so on.
00:47:16.340Just repeating these steps while the inherited wealth dwindles and each successive generation becomes poorer and poorer.
00:47:48.560But the generation as a whole is leaving behind a poorer country than the one they inherited.
00:47:54.240Their kids are poorer than they are, which means that the generation as a whole has fundamentally failed to do the thing it is supposed to do, which is to create a better world for their children.
00:48:06.480And the scenario that the Redditor describes is emblematic of this.
00:48:10.380It should be a point of shame to be wealthier and living in greater luxury than your children.
00:48:15.900Instead, it's kind of become the new normal with older people hanging on to their wealth with like a vice grip until death pries it from their hands.
00:48:25.640This is a major problem, and it's certainly not the approach that I intend to take with my kids.
00:48:36.960On the other hand, you should also be embarrassed to be in your late 30s with a family of your own and kids of your own and still crying because mommy and daddy won't give you an allowance.
00:48:50.400You especially shouldn't be crying about it on the Internet, even if anonymously.
00:48:54.260It's hard to imagine any scenario where it's appropriate to complain about your family on the Internet.
00:48:59.020But if there is one, this certainly ain't it.
00:49:01.460And no matter the forum, whether on the Internet or anywhere else, this is not the mentality that a grown adult should have.
00:49:07.780It's true that if you're working and struggling and your parents have literally millions of dollars stashed away or even just even only, quote, unquote, hundreds of thousands of dollars, they should help you.
00:49:21.240But you should not feel entitled to their money.
00:54:21.460Because I want my son to be prosperous and comfortable, but even more than that, I want him to be strong and humble and resilient in the face of hardship.
00:54:32.800And I want him to be stoic, stoic enough that he can deal with the hardships without complaining to the whole world about it.
00:54:41.360I don't want him to be the sort of grown man who cries on the Internet because his parents won't give him money.
00:54:45.940And if he is that sort of man, well, we've got a problem to fix that money can't fix.
00:54:52.500In fact, money will only make it worse.
00:54:55.660So this is a thing that millennials in general need to understand.
00:55:01.380You know, we spend a lot of time discussing the flaws of the boomer generation.
00:55:11.740And I would say our greatest flaw of all is that, speaking again generally, this does not apply to all of us, generally, we sit around stewing in our misfortunes and whining about the unfairness of the world instead of accepting the situation, acknowledging the reality for what it is, and working hard to improve it.
00:55:34.240The boomer should have done a better job.
00:55:35.700Okay, we constantly are talking about it.
00:55:39.160Millennials always, constantly, all the time, the boomers that should have done better, look at the world, it should be better, it should be better than it is.
00:55:57.480Still could be a lot worse, by the way.
00:55:58.960Like, it's still pretty damn good in comparison to the world that the majority of the human species lives in or has lived in through history, right?
00:56:10.240Like, you still, I mean, if you could choose any time to live in, maybe you would choose a few decades ago, but you wouldn't choose much further back than that.
00:56:41.780Are we going to waste our whole lives crying about it?
00:56:45.180Are we going to go to our graves whining about the way things should have been and all the things that we should have been given but weren't?
00:56:51.340But it appears to be the plan for many of us.