Unify Action - October 15, 2025


They Thought Elon Musk Was TOO RICH - But Ended Up AGREEING With Me!


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31

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In this episode, we discuss the concept of wealth redistribution and whether or not it is a good or bad thing in the long-term. We discuss the pros and cons of government intervention in the economy and the role of the rich in society.

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00:00:00.000 You don't think, you don't think there's, when you say wealth redistribution is a complete scam,
00:00:04.600 you don't think there is some positive tangible benefit to having a feedback loop where
00:00:07.880 you apportion wealth to some extent to those who, like my mom, weren't given that opportunity,
00:00:13.640 who can then provide tangible benefit to Canadian society after they're given those opportunities?
00:00:22.120 Like in a taxis society, obviously, you know, there's, and everybody eats what they kill,
00:00:27.280 I'm not advocating for a net tackle society at all
00:00:31.880 no there is
00:00:33.460 there's got to be a way for someone
00:00:35.740 when they get that loan to pay it back
00:00:37.680 in the future
00:00:39.360 through like their benefit
00:00:41.580 to society
00:00:42.360 I haven't thought it through
00:00:45.740 enough to like how you could possibly
00:00:47.760 get someone to do that
00:00:49.000 but it should be
00:00:51.620 investment in
00:00:53.760 them
00:00:54.240 but
00:00:56.580 not one that involuntarily takes from someone else it should be kind of their money i guess
00:01:03.680 paying forward okay i i kind of get what you mean i just like i'm just thinking of like
00:01:10.480 people like even like elon musk or jeff bezos who like relative to their peers you know apportion
00:01:18.000 far less of their wealth to the benefit of society like warren buffett for example is
00:01:23.360 giving away 99.9 percent of his net worth yes that is a good thing yeah but like voluntary but
00:01:29.780 like you don't think like you know like you have a guy worth half a trillion dollars now
00:01:33.740 you don't think it there should be some degree where there's some degree of like forcing the
00:01:38.600 hand to like approaching his his wealth is at work he doesn't it's not like floating around
00:01:43.700 he's like i he's probably at least a billion dollars probably yeah maybe yeah but he is using
00:01:51.140 that well he's not it's not for his own personal gain as far as i can see like from what i've seen
00:01:55.680 he's living in like a mobile home so i actually worked in this sector this summer like i worked
00:02:00.680 in like a space infrastructure okay uh like on the finance side i can tell you like yes it does
00:02:08.340 seem altruistic to an extent but let's not forget like there is huge economic benefit for him for
00:02:12.560 being like the first person to like you know establish like living on mars the first person
00:02:17.620 to develop these telecom companies.
00:02:20.400 There will be benefit to other people as well.
00:02:23.820 It would be opportunity for everyone.
00:02:26.140 The way he's doing it, as far as trying to, say,
00:02:30.380 accelerate the transition to sustainable energy
00:02:32.400 and doing his rockets,
00:02:36.320 there's benefit for everyone in what he's doing.
00:02:40.780 I don't see him not benefiting society through his wealth.
00:02:45.200 Well, I don't disagree.
00:02:46.260 For real, I think there's definitely better ways to force the capital.
00:02:48.700 I'll be honest, like, with a billion dollars,
00:02:50.820 there's a lot better ways to benefit society much further
00:02:53.720 than how he could possibly, like, how he is possibly.
00:02:57.360 I'd rather kids in Africa get water than build another Falcon 9, for example,
00:03:00.820 to be honest. 1.00
00:03:01.560 Yeah.
00:03:02.120 Yeah, but we can't force him to do that, though.
00:03:05.200 That is his money.
00:03:07.300 Yeah, and again, to an extent, I agree, like,
00:03:09.220 you should have some autonomy over your money,
00:03:10.940 but, like, I just, like, don't know, like, where do you draw the line?
00:03:14.340 because like they're obviously like i don't personally think there has to be a hard number
00:03:18.560 dollars like there has to be a number where the line is drawn there has to be a percentage where
00:03:23.140 the line is drawn i think like in a it's very quantitative in a in a productive society there
00:03:28.160 needs to be some realization that like when you live in a group of people you do have to contribute
00:03:33.020 to an extent to the well-being of others to have a successful society right like in my opinion
00:03:37.780 obviously like canada as a whole culturally it's less individualist than the united states
00:03:42.420 But I think, like, when you, like, force people to relinquish some of their income, I just think, like, again, you force the people like Elon Musk to actually give away some of their money.
00:03:54.300 Have it tangibly used.
00:03:55.320 Even if it's, like, a governmental bureaucracy where, like, you're wasting tons of money, it's still better, far better than, like, having them burn billions of dollars in your own money.
00:04:06.600 Yeah.
00:04:08.700 There's different ways of looking at taxation and government.
00:04:12.420 Uh, you could say that the government is us accomplishing together what we couldn't do separately.
00:04:20.280 Um, and I guess what we're trying to figure out is how much money, how much we're entitled to other people's money and to like the rich money, right?
00:04:31.820 Like they did earn that. He came here with literally nothing. So he's earned every dollar that he has gained, right?
00:04:38.180 so it is his personal possession and to figure out how much belongs to everyone else is a really
00:04:50.380 tough thing to do right yeah i see again like i just don't know like because like obviously
00:04:54.980 it is yeah at the end of the day it's like his like money but like there are our country and
00:05:01.520 like the united states too where he ultimately benefits from like lives off the labor off the
00:05:06.640 backs of like people who are willing to work a lot more for a lot less if I'm being like really 0.99
00:05:11.220 honest like you think of how many people oh shit what's up man like you gotta think about how many 1.00
00:05:17.580 people like for example like immigrants who are willing to work janitorial services or willing to 0.98
00:05:24.700 do food delivery things of that these things need to be done but like the fact that they
00:05:31.560 like exist is like a testament to how like even though ultimately yeah it's like elon musk's
00:05:37.860 money he still got there because he utilized the labor of other people on the way there and other
00:05:43.740 people who weren't necessarily given the same advantages to begin with who could then obviously
00:05:48.820 get that same level of success okay so
00:05:52.980 i feel like i'm hearing a little bit of carl marx coming out i'm not i'm not i don't know
00:06:01.000 i don't know it's just like what i'm hearing um to each his own um one of marx's ideas was that
00:06:08.540 yeah um one of his ideas was that the worker should have the entirety of what profit he makes
00:06:22.040 for his employer um instead of just like a portion of the wage that they're given
00:06:30.220 that that was his idea but the trouble with that is that the worker wouldn't have that
00:06:36.480 opportunity to make that money if it weren't for the employer and so the employer theoretically
00:06:44.380 you could say the employer is entitled to some amount of money for giving them the opportunity
00:06:49.540 to do that i guess yeah when you're providing the infrastructure right yeah i agree so that's like
00:06:55.560 that's my biggest beef with this like with marxist ideas is that he thought the employee
00:07:04.320 should have everything yeah no i i don't agree with that either like for sure i agree that like
00:07:09.780 you know excess profit doesn't necessarily have to be distributed in its entirety to the employer
00:07:14.800 i just i don't know i feel like we agree a little more than yeah i think on like what yeah
00:07:20.180 Because it's a scam.
00:07:21.360 Yeah.
00:07:22.540 Do you guys have any other stats?
00:07:25.440 No, I think you covered a lot of them.
00:07:27.080 I think, to an extent, society does need a little bit of socialism.
00:07:32.180 It also needs a little bit of capitalism.
00:07:34.760 There needs to be a governing balance.
00:07:38.480 And maybe the government should have a lot less power and say 0.69
00:07:41.720 than what they do right now.
00:07:43.300 I think so, yeah.
00:07:44.720 But I think, to an extent, they do need to stay in some of these fields.
00:07:48.520 because if not the people who are currently at the top of those fields that are controlling it
00:07:55.960 wouldn't do a lot of things to benefit society there's a lot of people out there like like they
00:08:01.900 always say money changes people and it's true for the most part like money does change a lot
00:08:06.520 of people i'm like i know a guy who's won the lottery and he completely switched up on everyone
00:08:11.660 like it's it's really it's important but it's also like scary and we need one entity to trust
00:08:18.600 and i think the government we should be able to trust the government a lot more than the current
00:08:23.040 people do but i also think the government is way too involved in everything i don't know if we
00:08:30.600 changed your mind but maybe yeah some common ground yeah i think we found some common ground
00:08:34.960 i just i don't quite trust the government on everything because they are at the end of the
00:08:40.860 day they are imperfect human beings right like the same as everyone else that it's it's more like
00:08:48.000 how much power are we willing to give them and can we trust them with all the power that we are
00:08:52.960 giving them