The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Things That Are Pissing Me Off - Part 3 (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_661)

00:00:00.000 another installment of the things that are pissing me off all right so where do we start

00:00:06.940 let me just okay i think we can start now uh i'm not taking sorry i'm not taking any requests from

00:00:13.500 people it's uh it's difficult for me to manage it uh usually what i've done in the past i mean i

00:00:20.560 have opened it up for everyone in the general session but i usually take q a's for my subscribers

00:00:27.320 so if you want a more uh intimate uh one-on-one or not one-on-one but to ask questions then please

00:00:35.620 subscribe for what amounts to be a latte so for one month of uh exclusive content you can uh support

00:00:46.900 people who are putting things on the line okay let's start with number one i didn't know who this

00:00:52.040 guy was until he started some people started tagging him saying tagging me saying oh my god

00:01:00.080 you have an egyptian twin and so then i looked into the guy uh saw him on pierce morgan saw him more

00:01:09.420 recently on trigonometry uh i'm talking about basim yusuf who is apparently an egyptian uh

00:01:20.020 i think television host or stand-up comic or something like that who uh as i said i didn't

00:01:29.600 know much about him but then i saw him on pierce morgan he started pissing me off

00:01:35.220 and then i said okay well let me really dig in here and give the guy a chance because i don't i

00:01:42.720 don't want to criticize someone obviously if i haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to him

00:01:48.340 and so i actually so that you don't have to go through the pain i sat through i think it was an

00:01:55.600 hour and two minutes of a quilt chat between the two guys from trigonometry whom i really appreciate

00:02:03.580 they've invited me on their show a few times and uh constantine kissin has been on my show

00:02:08.760 great guys their platform has grown but they got nowhere because to summarize and by the way some

00:02:17.920 of you may have seen the satirical piece that i did yesterday whereby i pretended that i was

00:02:24.040 interviewing basim but really in both instances it was me and the only way that you would know that

00:02:29.940 it wasn't me that it was him is when he was lifting weights i was kind of lifting my wife's uh

00:02:37.020 what do you call it kettle kettle bill uh and basically to summarize his position

00:02:43.400 israelis are genocidal maniacs they've been engaged in the daily genocide for the past 75 plus years 0.99

00:02:51.260 they've kept palestinians in an open concentration camp and that's it there is nothing else to be 0.99

00:02:59.700 discussed october 7th from october 7th yes maybe there might have been a bit of bad play on the

00:03:06.500 palestinian part but it's totally understandable because the israelis have been committing a daily

00:03:11.740 genocide and so on and so forth the reason why a guy like that pisses me off because that's that's

00:03:17.760 exactly why you can't have productive conversations with these types of folks right uh because i mean i'm

00:03:25.440 hardly one to invoke quote nuance in all contexts there are there are cases where there's there is

00:03:33.780 no nuance when it comes to theory of evolution the evidence is unassailable there's 150 plus years of

00:03:39.820 evidence in support of the theory of evolution and uh yes we can still debate specific elements of i mean

00:03:48.040 there are all kinds of very uh valuable debates that take place within the field of evolution

00:03:54.560 but i don't debate uh creationists i don't debate folks from intelligent design not because

00:04:02.280 i'm arrogant and they're beneath me it's because i know for a fact that no amount of evidence that i can

00:04:08.880 ever offer you would get you to even consider the evidence right so if some of you are familiar with

00:04:17.020 my work and certainly are familiar with chapter seven of the parasitic mind i talk about the building

00:04:22.960 of nomological networks of cumulative evidence which is an epistemological technique whereby you collect

00:04:28.740 evidence you know from across many cultures many eras many species many methodologies many theoretical

00:04:38.920 frameworks all of which triangulate to demonstrate that your position is the vertical one well if someone

00:04:44.500 is never going to grant you the courtesy of listening to that information then then no amount of mind

00:04:49.420 vaccine is going to alter their positions and this is why some of you may have heard me recently say

00:04:55.520 that i was i was recently asked on a show uh hosted by a british psychiatrist what what is the thing that

00:05:03.480 i have found most surprising about human nature or about human you know human behavior or human cognition

00:05:10.160 in my 30 years as a professor and so i thought for a minute and i said well the inability of people to

00:05:16.980 change their minds once they are deeply anchored in a position and so the problem with someone like 0.94

00:05:22.480 basem yusuf beyond being a profoundly lobotomized moron is that he doesn't have any epistemic humility 0.96

00:05:30.800 right there's there's no capacity for him saying well you know what you you know you may have some 0.97

00:05:34.860 valuable uh viewpoints that you can hopefully present and okay let's have a good conversation

00:05:40.860 he's got three four points which he just keeps repeating the israelis the juice the juice

00:05:47.480 uh egyptians don't say you know juice juice they say juice the juice or the the bibel right there's no p

00:05:56.080 in arabic so the palestinian bibel are being killed by the juice and so it's impossible to talk to 0.84

00:06:03.840 that like that and so i was kind of pissed off because i thought i i understand the whole idea of

00:06:08.200 believe me i've had guests on my show that i thought you know were were less than uh honest

00:06:14.520 interlocutors and and because of the the norm of hospitality you know i've i've been very nice to

00:06:23.580 them and polite so i don't i don't put on my full honey badger mindset when i host someone because i

00:06:29.540 understand that if you're inviting someone to be your guest you know you have to be i mean you

00:06:34.900 could challenge them but you you know there has to be a certain decorum so i get that but i don't

00:06:40.360 think that that means that you give someone a complete carte blanche in terms of allowing them 1.00

00:06:46.860 to repeatedly just spew like a completely robotomized idiot you know the jewish they're 1.00

00:06:53.000 killing the palestinian bibel okay i mean okay we got it right the jews are evil the palestinians are 1.00

00:06:59.440 noble there is absolutely nothing that the palestinians have ever done other than you know 1.00

00:07:03.600 repeatedly seek to eradicate uh the juice from the middle east via five uh military uh wars started 0.87

00:07:14.960 by arabs to eradicate to exterminate the jews the juice but uh in any case so that's number one 1.00

00:07:22.800 now that relates to something that i've also talked about elsewhere the cult of faux niceness okay

00:07:28.900 uh some of you who have read my latest book on happiness in one of the chapters this is the sad

00:07:38.200 truth about happiness in one of the chapters i talk about the universal law of optimal flourishing

00:07:45.540 i argue it's the the inverted you right too little of something is not good too much of something is

00:07:51.200 not good and the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle which of course maimonides the jewish 0.99

00:07:56.540 philosopher knew of course aristotle knew via his golden mean and the nicomachean ethics he talks about

00:08:04.580 you know if a soldier is too cowardly that's not good if he's too reckless in his bravery then he

00:08:11.980 becomes a martyr and so the optimal point is somewhere in the middle and in the chapter i i really hope

00:08:17.340 by the way the book is is coming out on paperback on may 14th please consider pre-ordering it it really

00:08:23.620 is a fun book ancient wisdoms coupled with contemporary science and my personal trajectory of happiness put it

00:08:32.040 all together in a in a stew and you get i think a really fun positive book so please consider

00:08:37.980 pre-ordering it it'll be out on may 14th any case in the in the in that chapter on the inverted you

00:08:44.620 i demonstrate that the inverted you applies across a bewildering number of situations right so for

00:08:53.680 example i talk about how perfectionism which is a personality trait follows the inverted you if you're not

00:09:00.220 at all perfectionist then your work will suffer because you don't have any attention to details

00:09:04.400 on the other hand if you're too perfectionist as i am then you end up spending way too much time

00:09:11.000 rechecking your work to make sure that there isn't a comma that's out of place some of you even see

00:09:16.120 when i go back and correct i mean now i've got the edit function with my tweets but in the past i would

00:09:22.660 always put you know a asterisk because there's some typo or something it totally freaks me out

00:09:30.040 and so like most things in life uh the inverted you explains that sweet spot now why am i saying all

00:09:37.620 this because when it comes to what i call the cult of faux niceness i mean yes being nice is beautiful i

00:09:44.520 mean i'm if i may speak of myself i'm someone who's very warm very affectionate very nice but i can also be a

00:09:50.560 honey badger i can also be combative i can right everything should be tempered everything should

00:09:56.520 be at the sweet spot right so infinite niceness across all situations can't be the optimal way to

00:10:03.960 live right so for example what if you're a pacifist under all circumstances right there is no context

00:10:10.300 under which i'm going to pick up arms because you know i believe that we should raise cucumbers with

00:10:17.100 love and we should you know hug tomatoes so that they could be maximally juicy and you know peace 0.97

00:10:24.080 through reggae and so if i'm a maximal pacifist and then here comes the nazis coming to to rape uh our

00:10:30.960 you know our tribe well then maybe pacifism is not such a great thing right the history of the world is

00:10:37.120 shaped by people on both sides of the river who were willing to fight for whatever resource that

00:10:44.900 we're going to fight for if one group was pacifist while the other one was uh you know warmonger then

00:10:50.820 the dynamic is pretty you don't need to be a fancy evolutionist to get that and so the reason why i

00:10:56.540 despise the cult of faux niceness is because a lot of people think here i'm going to talk about someone

00:11:03.180 that i for a very brief period of time several months ago came on my radar and until i was preparing for

00:11:10.380 today's session you know he he hadn't been much on my radar anymore this guy lex friedman some of you

00:11:18.320 know uh he exemplifies that mentality no matter what oh he invites the reason i thought of him is

00:11:25.480 because basem yusuf the guy that i mentioned under item one of what's pissing me off these days 0.51

00:11:31.220 uh he went on his show and rather than and lex friedman as far as i know is jewish but of course

00:11:38.080 lex friedman operates on a plane that's above all of you cretins and plebs and miscreants and 1.00

00:11:45.940 deplorables and the great unwashed he's just so nice he's just so kind love is love love will conquer

00:11:53.540 all you know we really need to find a way to spread more love now in some banal grade three kind of

00:12:01.080 way yes of course love is love and and of course as a default value be kind until someone comes

00:12:07.400 to do harm to your child until some until someone comes to rape your wife until someone comes to steal 0.58

00:12:14.540 your belonging in which case you shouldn't be nice right and so we have what's called behavioral 0.95

00:12:21.220 plasticity we can change our behavior depending on the situational demands at play in a given moment

00:12:28.000 i can tuck my children to bed and hence be very loving as a father but i can also be violent if 1.00

00:12:34.980 you attack me in an alley to rape me right so the love and love bullshit that this degenerate keeps 0.99

00:12:42.740 spreading i i can't understand why it is that he's built it it's a mystery by the way i've had many many 1.00

00:12:49.160 very well-known people write to me privately and say god what's what's the scam that's going on that

00:12:56.540 this guy's been able to build such a platform and i don't know the answer to that because if you try

00:13:01.880 to listen to him it i've tried to listen and i can't get past you know 30 seconds before i think

00:13:10.060 about going into a murderous jihad because it's you know love is love and who are we to judge and i love

00:13:18.260 you and you love me and we should love the palestinians and the jews should be loved and 1.00

00:13:23.840 the nazis deserve loving and we're all here to love one another you're a moron 1.00

00:13:29.800 come live in my childhood for five seconds in the middle east and then spread this bullshit 1.00

00:13:36.700 so it's either that he is profoundly idiotic like he literally has the brain of a three-year-old 1.00

00:13:44.800 or it's just a shtick you know i believe in spreading love now by the way he says i i want to 1.00

00:13:51.140 talk to everybody i'm willing to have a conversation with everybody the minute that i had challenged him 0.90

00:13:56.820 a few months ago when he had said some insanely idiotic thing on his tweets and i did it reasonably 0.81

00:14:03.620 politely with some spice with some gad spice but you know polite i don't i didn't swear at him or 0.94

00:14:09.320 didn't call him any name he blocked me forevermore so basem yusuf is pissing me off the cult of faux 0.83

00:14:17.240 niceness is pissing me off now let's come to another topic which i did discuss in the parasitic mind

00:14:23.380 related to what we're talking about here this ethos of i don't judge who are we to judge how should we 0.99

00:14:30.680 judge who am i to judge motherfucker judge okay right there is a field called judgment and decision 0.93

00:14:39.200 making right we judge when we go out on dates we judge between the different people that we're going 0.98

00:14:46.480 to potentially marry when we are choosing between candidates to hire at a company we judge so the

00:14:54.300 prescription of don't judge that you see and i discuss all this in in a lot of details in the

00:15:01.280 parasitic mind this prescription of you know uh don't judge yes you know ye be judged it comes from

00:15:09.520 the idea of moral hypocrisy it comes from the idea of you know clean your house before you go out and 0.97

00:15:16.380 cast judgment on others right don't be a moral hypocrite that's what that prescription means it means 0.83

00:15:22.980 don't be a hypocrite in criticizing others when you know it's the old you know don't cast don't throw 0.94

00:15:30.160 stones you know in a glass house and so on it doesn't it's not a deontological prescription of 0.98

00:15:37.340 don't ever judge right which by the way relates to another idea pathogen in the parasitic mind that i

00:15:44.900 talk about which is cultural relativism who are we to judge what other cultures do that's cultural 0.99

00:15:51.120 imperialism no no no no no no cutting off the clitorises of five-year-old girls is not a good 1.00

00:15:57.960 thing and i'm going to judge you asshole okay so again that's a form of weak effeminate castration 1.00

00:16:07.420 whereby you say i don't have a sufficient moral spine to cast judgment on reprehensible behaviors 0.99

00:16:17.940 that others commit who am i to judge again it's correlated to this cult of faux niceness all of

00:16:25.200 which will be addressed fully in what likely might be my next book which is a book on suicidal empathy

00:16:34.580 right empathy again is a is a is an emotion that has evolved for very clear adaptive reasons but it's

00:16:42.500 only adaptive when it is invoked in the right manner at the right place to the right target when it becomes

00:16:53.180 hyperactive it becomes a form of suicidal empathy when it is hyperactive in ways that will result in

00:17:01.320 the death of your society that's why it's called suicidal empathy empathy and uh elon musk was kind

00:17:08.340 enough to to retweet several of my uh my tweets a couple of weeks ago where i was talking about

00:17:14.520 suicidal empathy and i think they got something obviously because elon has such a huge platform it

00:17:20.580 got something like i don't know 60 million views or something and so i definitely think that there is a

00:17:26.240 real market for uh such a book it really would be a if you like a natural sequel to the parasitic mind and

00:17:33.240 and the tweets that i had put out had been uh really well received so much so that a a executive

00:17:41.200 editor of one of the major publishers wrote to me privately and said there is your next book let's

00:17:47.540 talk and so i'm putting together a a short book prospectus uh that would that will hopefully uh you

00:17:57.140 know serve as the uh the roadmap for my next book so stay tuned for that another book that i was

00:18:02.560 hoping to write which which might lead us to segue to the next thing that's pissing me off it's

00:18:07.180 something that's been pissing me off for a few years now taxes so i had written a tweet a while ago

00:18:12.660 saying look i i've been wanting to write a book on parasitic taxation and another bigger book on

00:18:20.000 the parasitic state which book do you think i should write and elon had written right right back and said

00:18:26.780 both and so i already actually got an offer to write the book i mean i got a book deal to write

00:18:34.320 the parasitic state book which would include a section on parasitic taxation now why am i talking

00:18:41.940 about this today well first of all i know that april 15th is tax day in the u.s in canada it's a

00:18:48.780 slightly different schedule but some of you may have seen earlier today there was an announcement that

00:18:55.180 uh the castrato in chief justine trudeau uh has uh increased uh capital gains tax uh i think over

00:19:06.280 250 000 to 67 has increased by just by 67 percent or something something to that effect now by the way

00:19:13.960 you know i don't i don't make capital gains that is the order of a quarter of a million dollars so if

00:19:18.940 i'm pissed it's certainly because it's not because that particular increase in tax affects me personally

00:19:26.660 but again it's it's the principle how much can you and i i know some of the economic arguments so it's

00:19:34.980 in a sense it's it's a more philosophical question how much can you actually go and tax people

00:19:44.340 before they have the very moral obligation to take you out into the street and execute you for being

00:19:52.880 just a

00:19:54.760 i don't have the word i mean the level of institutionalized criminality

00:20:02.040 whereby so just to give you a sense some of you may have heard me mention this before in in quebec

00:20:08.480 the highest marginal tax rate is at 25 percent of your income and at the federal level it's 33

00:20:19.380 percent so now and you know both are taxed so you could be so if you're making over a certain amount

00:20:25.160 you you're taxed well into the high 50 percent 58 okay as a marginal tax rate okay now whatever money

00:20:34.100 is left for you which means you know let's go with about 40 percent 42 percent 44 percent of what you

00:20:42.200 started off making there are two sales tax in canada there is a quebec a provincial sales tax and then there

00:20:51.800 is a federal sales tax so if i've made ten dollars and you've taxed me 58 i'm left with 42

00:21:04.840 dollars now like at that point i could say hey you've taken more than 50 percent of what i've earned

00:21:11.440 and in my case my earnings my big earnings don't come from my salary as a professor they come from

00:21:18.160 stuff that i've done beyond being a professor writing books giving talks and so on creating

00:21:23.820 content and all of that very very private right i mean private in the sense that it's coming straight

00:21:32.980 out of my neuron it's coming it's you're taxing my mind you're taxing my words you're taxing my

00:21:40.000 personal history that i described from my days in lebanon that doesn't belong to me 58 percent

00:21:47.520 of that belongs to you now you would say at that point you know what we've taxed this person enough

00:21:53.160 we can't tax anymore no the 42 percent that you're left with if you go out and spend money

00:22:01.920 that's taxed at 15 percent there are two taxes in in canada sales taxes there's a provincial and a

00:22:10.280 federal one so now add 15 percent on the money that you were left with after they took away

00:22:16.100 much more than 50 percent of your income okay but it doesn't stop there how about property tax

00:22:22.420 how about school tax how about now the carbon tax which now justin trudeau has increased now you add

00:22:29.980 you're increasing the capital gain so somebody goes out invests in real estate makes a lot of money

00:22:36.580 they've already given you tons and tons of money more money than 10 000 canadians will together

00:22:44.440 doesn't matter doesn't matter now we'll tax you at an increased rate of 67 percent right so the reason

00:22:52.520 why that system can never go away because it's a it's the ultimate ponzi scheme because for that system

00:23:01.220 to operate you need very few people to fund the parasitic socialist unicornia for all other people so if

00:23:13.880 95 percent of people in canada benefit from this brutal criminal taxation system they're never going 1.00

00:23:24.120 to stand up and say hey stop this this is this is morally wrong what will they say fuck that jew 1.00

00:23:32.040 gatzad tax him more that asshole with his fancy books he doesn't pay enough sure he pays more than 1.00

00:23:40.200 1 000 canadian families by the way if you saw the income that i made from all my stuff and then what 0.99

00:23:52.680 i'm left with at the end of the year you'd say it's absolutely impossible there's no way you're lying

00:23:59.000 gatzad because you would say oh my god my goodness you really are in the top one percent and then and then

00:24:04.760 you'd say so what's the net thing how much at the end of the year you have a few children uh you know

00:24:11.560 however much that guy so what are you left with my goodness you you must be you must be lebanese elon

00:24:18.280 musk and then you go oh boy what you're left with a couple of thousand dollars well yeah if think of it

00:24:25.720 another way some of you may may like this uh this other way of thinking about taxes so imagine if you

00:24:34.120 lived in a place where there was zero percent tax that means all the money that you make from january

00:24:39.000 1st to december 31st is yours okay another way to look let's say the government takes 50 percent of

00:24:46.360 your income that means from june 1st to end of i mean january 1st to end of june you work for the

00:24:54.200 government the first six months and then only the seventh month you start keeping your money

00:25:00.200 is it normal that in canada i start making money around august around september so in other words

00:25:11.400 if we use the very ugly reality of slavery where you're 100 percent taxed right you have no right to

00:25:19.560 any remuneration you're a slave that means from january 1st to december 31st your labor is owned by

00:25:26.600 someone else you're a slave it's your it's your master who owns you well canada i am only a quote free

00:25:35.160 man beginning in august is that a fair system so frankly while i always want to say oh well thank you

00:25:45.240 canada for letting us come into your country when we were escaping the lebanese civil war how much of

00:25:51.880 my money and my my children's future wealth should i pay you as a thank you for having let us in in 1975

00:26:02.120 and by the way 40 percent of canadians don't pay the i can't remember if it's the federal taxes or any taxes

00:26:11.160 it it really is i mean if you look at the the the the percentage of people who don't pay any taxes

00:26:17.160 versus the the percentage of the total tax load that is paid by say the the five percent of the population

00:26:25.720 it is astounding it's criminal it's immoral it's unethical but again you can't fight it because how could you 0.94

00:26:35.160 fight something that benefits 95 of the people so you're the sucker that funds everybody else by the way

00:26:40.760 oh the healthcare system in canada my wife who's lived in canada since 1979 who's paid taxes who's

00:26:48.760 been a productive can't get a personal physician doesn't can't get one it took me a while because i i

00:26:56.920 didn't like my former physician for me to find another one took forever and it's only through

00:27:02.120 connections because one of my former mba students is himself physician that i was able to get to switch to

00:27:09.320 another physician uh in the us you have this romantic vision of free healthcare in canada there's

00:27:17.400 nothing free about it it's free to the person who doesn't pay taxes but i pay for 10 000 canadians for

00:27:28.840 their free healthcare i'm the one who subsidizes it so i write a book you steal all the royalties

00:27:37.320 to give you the free healthcare why is it that i should pay for example mark cuban a few days ago

00:27:44.600 i suppose he did it proudly said well here is the bill that i just paid i don't know what it was 288

00:27:51.960 million dollars to the irs some people got upset and they said well you just sold your shares in the

00:27:58.120 dallas mavericks for 3.5 billion so you you paid something like eight percent on it well okay we can we

00:28:05.480 can discuss whether he should have paid more than eight percent or not but really an individual should

00:28:15.000 pay 288 million dollars for the right to be an american citizen while millions of other people don't pay a

00:28:27.640 cent what's the deontological principle that says that that's ethical there isn't the only way

00:28:35.320 that that's okay is when you believe there is something inherently ontologically unfair about

00:28:43.560 one person being richer wealthier than another person and therefore you redistribute that money

00:28:50.120 it's unfair that one person is a billionaire and another is not and therefore we will take your money

00:28:57.240 so that we create a more equitable society but as eo wilson famously said when asked about socialism

00:29:03.240 and communism remember he's an entomologist who studies social ants he said about communism great idea wrong

00:29:12.120 species right there is nothing moral about one person paying a million times more for the exact same

00:29:23.720 government services does he use the fire department more does he use the health care more does he get more

00:29:30.040 police protection does he get better health care nothing right it's just it's unfair that one right

00:29:37.720 how much what does elon musk pay in terms of taxes i don't know i think it was 11 billion or some crazy

00:29:43.000 number i don't see that as well that's unfair he should be taxed more no elon musk through i mean we

00:29:51.960 some of you may have seen our chat recently we had a chat uh on x spaces elon and i and when i asked

00:29:57.800 them about you know how much of entrepreneurship is is uh nature versus nurture you know he answered it

00:30:04.360 and then he said well a lot of it is just luck which of course is true so whether it be through his

00:30:10.280 brilliance whether it be through his through luck he didn't steal what he achieved he did it because

00:30:16.920 he's a visionary whatever skills that he has yeah yeah maybe some of it is luck but he certainly is an

00:30:24.360 incredibly talented guy who's amassed this huge fortune guess what he deserves it and no you he

00:30:32.120 shouldn't have to pay billions and billions of dollars because you know fairness he pays more than

00:30:39.960 enough he pays more in a year than the entire country pays i mean so to speak i didn't do the

00:30:47.880 math but you know what i'm saying there's nothing fair about that again the only thing that allows you

00:30:54.360 to invoke the argument of bullshit fairness is if you believe that people should inherently be equal in

00:31:01.640 their outcomes and therefore if one person is worth 200 billion dollars while another person doesn't have

00:31:07.240 enough to eat that's unfair well it's unfair that messi plays soccer better soccer than any person

00:31:15.160 that's ever lived on earth but that's why he gets paid where he gets paid by the way this is why the

00:31:19.960 women's soccer leagues says it is unfair they file a lawsuit how come collectively all of us put together 0.97

00:31:27.880 we don't make the same salary as Lionel Messi well could it be because you suck compared to Lionel Messi

00:31:35.160 there's this little thing called the market realities whereby people are willing to pay huge sums of 0.98

00:31:41.560 money to watch Messi but nobody gives a shit about watching you no that must be because of misogyny 0.98

00:31:48.680 so this mindset is a cancer it's a cancer to innovation it's a cancer to human dignity it's a cancer to 1.00

00:31:56.520 excellence it's a cancer to meritocracy so yeah i'm pissed about taxes it sucks 0.95

00:32:02.680 they're in a right system and you know maybe if i end up writing this book on you know the parasitic

00:32:08.680 state and parasitic taxation i'll expand on this but in my view it's just everybody pays one flat tax

00:32:18.680 not even flat rate not 10 not we all pay 10 percent because 10 percent of a billion is still a lot more

00:32:25.560 than if you make a hundred thousand when you go to a car dealer the car dealership as my facts it's

00:32:32.040 illegal he doesn't say oh show me your tax returns oh you made four million dollars last year the

00:32:39.640 toyota is going to cost you 487 000 dollars oh you only made 37 000 i'll give it to you for 12 bucks

00:32:49.480 right the price is the price so yes we all have to contribute to the collective good we all you know

00:32:57.240 the government can't operate without funds and therefore for the privilege of being canadian or

00:33:03.320 being american or whichever country other country we we live in let's pay ten thousand dollars okay you

00:33:10.520 don't like that idea fine then let's pay a flat rate nine percent five percent ten percent and that's it

00:33:18.440 and by the way there has to be a limit so for example i strongly believe now we can also talk

00:33:24.200 about not not having an income tax but it could be a consumption tax right you pay only when you

00:33:31.480 spend something and and many people have have proposed that argument uh perhaps most famously

00:33:37.960 bob frank who's a economist at my alma mater at cornell but there are many other economists who propose

00:33:43.800 a similar thing uh again there's no reason as to why one person should be paying you know a thousand

00:33:51.880 ten thousand times more than other people most of whom actually pay zero taxes in canada as i said

00:33:57.400 up to 40 percent of people don't pay any taxes that can't be right and again i'd like to think that at

00:34:04.600 some point people will say my goodness how how did we tolerate this okay so that that's that

00:34:09.640 since we're talking about taxes we're talking about canada let me just briefly off the top of my head

00:34:16.520 just reiterate how much i despise justin trudeau he exemplifies every trait that i find defines it 1.00

00:34:32.600 an execrable cretin he's smug he's ignorant he's arrogant he's feminized he's woke he's imbecilic 1.00

00:34:47.720 he's parasitic i mean he's lazy he's entitled his highest professional attainment prior to entering into 1.00

00:34:59.720 politics on the back of his obnoxious daddy's name pierre elio trudeau was that justin trudeau was a 0.94

00:35:10.440 substitute drama teacher not a full-fledged physics and math high school teacher he was a substitute drama

00:35:20.680 teacher and now he decides how much money i keep he decides whether my children have a financially

00:35:31.240 secure future because he knows better because he's rolling up his sleeves and he's doing the hard work

00:35:38.920 for canadians and the way he does that is he sees all those wealthy successful people and he says pay your 0.96

00:35:48.120 fair fair share assholes and by that i mean make sure that everybody is equally destitute 0.99

00:35:54.200 so we can live in equal misery he's vile he's grotesque 1.00

00:36:00.760 he's he's dunning kruger right arrogant in his ignorance he can't put two words together 0.98

00:36:07.080 all right so that's that final thing that's pissing me off life coaches i wrote an article 0.91

00:36:20.920 a few years ago at the time i used to have a an active psychology today uh column i think i wrote in

00:36:29.560 total i began in 2008 my psychology today column and i wrote if i'm not mistaken if i remember the

00:36:38.200 number 311 articles probably over 200 000 words which is the equivalent of maybe i guess three three

00:36:48.280 full-length books uh originally i i started writing psychology today because in 2008 when i was starting

00:36:56.280 to think you know i'd like to write for you know the the masses uh my first couple of books you know

00:37:04.920 were academic books academic books that doesn't mean textbook academic books means you're writing it for

00:37:11.080 other academics these are you know technical books and so for example my first book the evolutionary

00:37:15.560 basis of consumption was a hardcore technical book academic book where i was trying to demonstrate

00:37:21.560 how you could apply evolutionary psychology in you know consumer behavior uh and then i edited a

00:37:29.000 book called evolutionary psychology in the business sciences which was also an academic book but then

00:37:33.720 my first trade book was the consuming instinct which was meant to be a book you know a trade book to be

00:37:39.400 read by the masses and so in 2008 a few years before my first trade book came out i wanted to start

00:37:45.720 writing for the masses because you know when you write scientific papers that doesn't mean that

00:37:54.440 your voice will resonate as well with the i mean i i had a i had a healthy dose of self-confidence about

00:38:02.040 my being able to reach the masses but i thought you know what if i if i maybe accept the invitation of

00:38:08.200 psychology today to start writing for them well that's a wonderful way to to gauge whether i'm writing in a

00:38:15.080 style that appeals to people which is that's because psychology today is read by the masses

00:38:20.440 and so one of the articles that i had written of those 311 articles was an article where i actually

00:38:26.760 critiqued life coaches and the the reason that came up by the way some of you may be thinking oh but

00:38:34.440 wait a minute you you just wrote a happiness book uh isn't isn't that a form of you know life coaching

00:38:39.960 no not at all because in the first of all i've got the credentials uh to back up what i'm saying my book

00:38:48.200 is taking ancient wisdoms taking contemporary science taking my uh long personal history and

00:38:57.880 saying hey here are some prescriptions that could augment the probability of you being happy in other

00:39:04.600 words i'm very epistemically humble in what i promise i don't say here are the six ways to give 0.81

00:39:11.400 your wife an orgasm every time you touch her right every single of these uh self-help books usually 0.97

00:39:18.600 promises you the world right you know how to reverse aging how to be the best lover in the world how to 1.00

00:39:26.760 make millions the secret right the visualization board it's all bullshit i talk about it and the 0.89

00:39:32.760 consuming instinct i have a whole chapter on uh you know peddling hope right that's that's what you do 0.99

00:39:39.480 so so life coaches i'm not i'm not implying that every life coach is full of shit but well 99 are 0.97

00:39:47.560 unlike say clinical psychology or psychiatry where you have to go through a very very long 0.94

00:39:54.760 process of getting credentials right if you're a psychiatrist you're getting a

00:39:58.200 an undergraduate degree then you're getting a medical degree then you're training as a

00:40:02.680 psychiatrist if you want to become a clinical psychologist you're getting an undergrad a

00:40:07.560 master's a phd in clinical psychology you're doing a an internship in a hospital and so on

00:40:13.880 it's going to take you 10 plus years to to get the right training to to even pretend to be able to

00:40:21.240 offer advice to people by the way that was one of the reasons why i was a bit hesitant to write the

00:40:26.360 happiness book because i thought well wait a minute i mean how to live the good life is probably the

00:40:33.320 topic that has been most written about by philosophers am i going to be able to offer something unique

00:40:39.160 insightful powerful and i'd like to think that i have hopefully you read it you'll let me know

00:40:45.960 but you know i was very cognizant of that fact and i wanted to make sure that any advice that i give you

00:40:51.640 is going to be uh contextualized as a probabilistic statement right if you do xyz the likelihood of

00:41:01.000 you finding a right spouse increases but life is stochastic right there is nothing guaranteed i can

00:41:08.680 offer you know so i can tell you you know between birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract

00:41:15.400 when it comes to mate choice the research shows that overwhelmingly it's birds of a feather flock

00:41:21.640 together that is operative meaning that if you find a spouse with whom you share the foundational values

00:41:28.920 and beliefs similar life goals mindsets that's going to much more increase your chances of being so

00:41:35.560 again it's a probabilistic statement so everything that i wrote in this book is well documented by ancient

00:41:43.560 wisdoms by contemporary science and many different disciplines by my vast personal experience so i'm

00:41:49.480 humble about what i can offer you life coaches all right i'm 498 pounds i can't tie my shoes 0.87

00:41:59.640 but i'm a life coach of nutrition and health how the fuck did that happen well because there is 0.73

00:42:06.680 no credentials to be a life coach everybody's a life coach the squirrel in my backyard is a life coach 0.53

00:42:13.080 right i've already been divorced 18 times but i'm a relationship coach okay i filed for 18 personal

00:42:22.760 bankruptcies but i am a personal finances coach right so in a sense everybody is a coach right it's like

00:42:33.000 saying you know everybody is a aspiring filmmaker everybody is an aspiring author you know they just

00:42:41.080 haven't gone through the trouble of writing the book but you know there's i'm an author everybody's

00:42:46.840 an author i'm a poet okay so life coaches one big racket now again that doesn't mean that every single

00:42:57.240 quote by the way why is it called life coach not psychologist because oh wait a minute

00:43:03.720 psychologist requires me going to university for 10 years 12 years oh psychiatrist requires me going to

00:43:12.760 school for many years life coach i just sign up in my local how to hug cucumbers seminar at the local

00:43:21.320 ramamagish school and i become a relationship life coach i become a sex life coach i become a nutrition

00:43:29.400 a nutrition life coach not a nutritionist once i put the words life coach then all bets are off no need 0.75

00:43:37.320 for credentials right so it's a scam it's bullshit okay so what are so let's recap what are the things that 0.97

00:43:44.840 have pissed me off today basem yusuf the balestinian bibl are killed are being killed by the juice 0.98

00:43:54.360 okay the cult of faux niceness i'm okay you're okay we're all in love there would no longer be war

00:44:01.720 if we all treat each other with kindness exactly the reason why the middle east has been mired in endless

00:44:08.280 wars is because they haven't listened to lex friedman's pontifications about niceness if only the 0.85

00:44:14.440 palestinians and israelis would really delve into his podcast then the mid-east would be resolved because i'm

00:44:22.040 okay you're okay the i don't the judge cult is full of judge that's okay it's healthy to judge i will

00:44:30.920 judge you that's why by the way by the way you know who are the most interesting people in the world

00:44:36.840 people who are opinionated people who judge imagine if i were to always go who am i to judge all religions

00:44:45.640 are equal who am i to say i don't know anything i'm a fence sitter the world is not shaped by fence

00:44:52.120 sitters the world is shaped by people who take unequivocal positions not uninformed positions

00:44:58.440 but positions that they could defend right christopher hitchens is christopher hitchens

00:45:03.720 because he was an eloquent honey badger he took positions you agreed with him you disagree with him

00:45:10.520 but he took positions even the biggest diabolical monsters throughout human history are not fence

00:45:18.280 sitters they may have diabolical positions but they're not fence sitters winston churchill is not

00:45:25.000 a fence sitter chamberlain is a castrated fence sitter maybe if i just spread love to hitler maybe he won't

00:45:33.320 attack anyone maybe if i give him a deep tissue massage while we listen hitler and i to lex friedman

00:45:41.880 pontificating about love is love i don't judge biological sex i only want to know if you're a good human 1.00

00:45:50.440 yeah fuck off how about that okay so judge it's natural to judge and then taxes is parasitic it's evil it's 1.00

00:46:02.120 diabolical it's institutionalized criminality hey by the way the mafia 1.00

00:46:09.800 it engages in illegal extortion because it comes to your store your retail store and says hey hey johnny

00:46:20.280 in order for there not to be an unfortunate fire in your restaurant how about you give us a three to six

00:46:26.840 percent uh protection tax that's illegal you see that was illegal even if they do provide you that

00:46:35.640 service even if they make sure that the neighborhood is safe and no one's going to commit crimes against

00:46:40.440 you because the mafia is running the show that's illegal but if justin trudeau and the quebec government

00:46:47.960 come and say how about you give me 58 percent of your book royalties all of which were made not in 0.94

00:46:56.920 canada because it's a us publisher that i have but i'm a moron who declares everything and doesn't

00:47:04.120 protect it in some some place in the cayman and then i go oops what happened to all my book royalties

00:47:11.240 how come i don't have any money well because when the government takes it it's legal when the mafia takes

00:47:20.600 one twentieth of that amount that's illegal got that and then finally i said that life coaches are largely 0.96

00:47:30.920 full of shit and that's true oof i feel maybe a bit of catharsis maybe a bit feeling a bit better guys 0.93

00:47:41.400 if you wish to have conversations where i take your q a please consider uh subscribing again i think i 0.99

00:47:51.160 don't know if it's five or six dollars oh by the way the six dollars that you pay to subscribe to my

00:47:56.280 exclusive content before we talk about taxes apple and the rest of the fees they take fifty percent

00:48:03.960 so you give me six dollars i'm only left with three of the three dollars justin trudeau and francois

00:48:11.880 take most of it so out of the six dollars you give me i'm probably left with about 75 cents so i'm

00:48:18.600 hardly going to get elon musk rich and you subscribe to the content but at least it could monetize some of

00:48:24.840 my time and expertise hope you had a good time i usually what i do after this is i eventually post

00:48:32.440 these i mean the recording is is up on the web on you know on x but then i will also post them on my youtube

00:48:40.520 channel and on uh my uh podcast thanks everybody for listening thank you for coming i understand that this

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