The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - Why Parasitic Socialism Never Dies (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_844)

In this episode, I talk about why socialism and communism are like the phoenix that always rises from the ashes, no matter how many times you demonstrate that it is always doomed to fail. As new people are born and go through their cognitive developmental stage, it becomes a newly intoxicating idea to them. Sharing is scaring.

00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. As some of you know, I am currently working on my forthcoming

00:00:08.300 book, Suicidal Empathy. And in one of the last chapters, I discussed the welfare state

00:00:16.340 and socialism and communism and parasitic taxation, because they are all rooted in a

00:00:24.300 false claim to empathy. It lacks empathy when some people make more money than others. It is unfair

00:00:31.540 when someone makes a hundred times more than you make, right? We should have greater equality amongst

00:00:38.100 all of us, right? The utopians thought that, the radical utopians thought, you know, they wanted

00:00:43.000 to create equality because a well-functioning society should not have great inequality.

00:00:49.360 And it is precisely those sentiments, so a sentiment for fairness, a sentiment, a dark sentiment of envy

00:00:58.240 that makes that parasitic socialism and parasitic communism are akin to the phoenix that always

00:01:05.860 rises from the ashes. It doesn't matter how many times you demonstrate that it is always doomed to

00:01:12.820 fail. As new people are born and go through their cognitive developmental stage, it becomes

00:01:18.740 a newly intoxicating idea to them, right? Sharing is scaring. I discuss all this in Suicidal Empathy.

00:01:26.260 I truly hope that you will get one, two, five, ten copies of it, because I go through all this. Let me give

00:01:32.520 you an example of why it is so difficult to eradicate this ideology. And that's why an imbecile, 1.00

00:01:43.960 an Islamic imbecile, socialist imbecile like Mamdani. I mean, I rue the day that I even know that this 1.00

00:01:51.620 guy's name exists. But the reason why, you know, he comes out of nowhere with his, we will have free

00:01:59.080 supermarkets and free this and free that, is because in a very facile, cognitively undeveloped way,

00:02:05.740 people are drawn to that, right? It's not fair, again, that this other guy makes so much more

00:02:13.200 money than I do. Why does a rookie basketball player make more in a week than I will at this

00:02:20.460 point in my career after 31 years? That's unfair. He should be taxed and his money should be distributed

00:02:27.060 according to what the empathetic, benevolent government thinks it should be distributed.

00:02:32.620 So, first of all, the psychology of envy is always going to be there. That's why,

00:02:38.240 you know, the Ten Commandments have a prescription against covetousness, right? Don't covet,

00:02:45.960 you know, your wife's, your neighbor's wife and so on. That's why in the seven deadly sins, 0.81

00:02:52.920 you have, you know, one of the deadly sins is envy, right? Precisely because that is such a natural

00:03:00.600 sentiment for a hierarchical social species to have. Hierarchical, I said. I didn't say egalitarian,

00:03:07.780 right? Some of us work harder than others. Some of us are taller, shorter, better looking,

00:03:13.660 less better looking, more assertive, less assertive, so that we should end up at the same place makes no

00:03:19.040 sense. But the sentiment of cosmic unfairness is always part of the darkness of the human heart.

00:03:27.620 Therefore, whenever a new imbecile comes along and says, hey, I will create equality and fairness, 1.00

00:03:33.060 it becomes easy for people and certainly lobotomized idiots to be intoxicated by that message, 1.00

00:03:41.020 which leads me to a study that I did way back in 2001. So pay attention. This was a study with one 0.99

00:03:49.420 of my former doctoral students, Tripad Gill. We asked people, would you rather receive a $600

00:03:56.440 salary increase, let's say whatever, per weekly increase, whatever it was, and your equal colleague,

00:04:04.160 like similar colleague, same position, receives $800. So you receive $600 and they receive $800. Or

00:04:11.360 scenario two, you receive $500. So you see what the tension is here. In one case, there'll be less

00:04:22.180 final money in your pocket, $500 instead of $600, but it would be equal to what your colleague is

00:04:30.420 receiving. Or you could receive more money in your pocket, but your colleague receives even more money

00:04:36.240 than you. From a strict axiom of rationality, in this case, income maximization, you should prefer the

00:04:45.040 $600 to $800 scenario. But guess what? People didn't choose that. Many people chose the $500 for me,

00:04:53.380 $500 for him scenario, even though it meant that they would keep less money in their pockets.

00:05:00.340 That's why socialism and communism exists. Because as long as you have a system where there will be

00:05:07.400 winners and losers, and where there are certainly more losers than winners, then a message of existential

00:05:16.360 equality is always going to resonate. So it doesn't matter how much data I give you from how many

00:05:23.800 societies I give you. I can give you ethological data, zoological data, economic data, historical

00:05:30.220 data that proves that this system is doomed to fail, for it is contrary to human nature.

00:05:39.120 As a new generation comes about, Mamdani and other charlatans will come along and say,

00:05:46.500 free tuition, free cars, nothing is free. By free, it simply means free for you on the back of someone

00:05:56.200 else. You literally are a thief. That's why parasitic socialism and parasitic communism never 1.00

00:06:04.020 go away. And this is why it is terribly important to have the proper education so that you can

00:06:12.220 hopefully inoculate your children who eventually will become the political leaders from this kind 0.99

00:06:17.800 of nonsense. Have a great weekend, everybody. Please do me a favor. Go right now and subscribe to the

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00:06:38.600 trying to protect you from parasitic ideas. Take care, everybody.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - June 27, 2025

Why Parasitic Socialism Never Dies (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_844)

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