I second Joe Rogan and Jimmy Dore.
Would also suggest Ed Dowd.
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Great idea
Peter Boghossian and Whitney Webb have been on
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Rich Dad, Poor Dad” was one of the most influential books I ever read. I read it when I was a young postdoc in 1997. So, yeah, it’s more than 20-25 years old. It played a big part in me becoming a full time entrepreneur rather than an academic.
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Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men let women take over and run everything,
Women create hard times.
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“Bring a new meaning to hard assets…” ?????
Look forward to meetin’ y’all this weekend.
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Robert Malone
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Well said. It brings lots of thoughts to mind. I do believe in balance. I don’t think one size fits all. I do agree these are ideas and guidelines and not absolutes. Black and White. I think that is why we all gravitate to this site. Chris presents in a very grey world, free thought and open to ideas. There are definitely flaws in capitalism. Given the choice to try and fix capitalism or try and fix communism. I definitely choose capitalism. In the not so distant past in this country you can change your family history and legacy in one generation. It’s still possible but much more challenging. That is only possible in a capitalist society. If everything has to be fair and equal then you don’t have that freedom.
I see it as an employer. With 150 employees, they always are saying they want it to be fair an equal unless it’s them on the upside, then it’s ok not to be fair and equal. I did have different pay levels based on performance. Frankly the bickering amongst them was exhausting. They would complain and brag to each other. I was trying to create individualism. I wanted to differentiate based on performance, attitude and effort. I changed it to level pay for each position to the upside and .50 cents an hour increase every 6 months. As soon as I did that I had employees that got a raise and say I been here the longest I should be higher than everyone else. These individuals went up in income and still were able to find fault with it.
It’s impossible for everyone to agree and win. We can still do what’s good for people and right with integrity even if they don’t agree or see it that way.
Ignorance is the enemy.
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Yeonmi Park As Interview Subject
Listening to Mr. Kiyosaki describe the Communist Manifesto (an easy read, BTW) and the influence of the Frankfurt School at Columbia brought to mind the ordeal of Yeonmi Park, who escaped NOrth Korea, made it to the US and enrolled in Columbia.
She might be an interesting person to interview
https://www.yeonmi.com/
Great Interview
Thank you Chris. Robert has been a long term mentor of mine. I was first introduced to his book by my father as a teenager. I enjoy his thinking a thought process as well as his sense of humor. He has been valuable part in helping me achieve financial freedom. You are taking me to new levels of thinking.
Indirectly he is how I found you and started following your work. He led me to Mike Maloney and Mike introduced you in one of his videos BC (before Covid) It makes sense all of you are friends. I really enjoyed that. As always very thought provoking. I love the psychology of it all.
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Also Odyssee ‘cannot find’ the video.
And finally, Rumble is not available in France.
Tough trying to look at this content!
I can understand how you can make a judgement based on this one interview. I have been following Robert for a long time. He has a unique sense of humor which I love. It can be misunderstood but he don’t care.
I would encourage reading some of his books. One of my favorite besides rich dad poor dad is unfair advantage. You will start to see his mind and his heart.
Most of his wealth is being left to charity. Did you know that? He is not only leaving his wealth but his income producing assets. It’s an ongoing charity.
For him money, business and investing is a game. It’s fun for him. There are only so many restaurants you can go to, places you can travel, houses you can buy, cars you can drive. He lives this high lifestyle on less than 10% of his cash flow. The rest gets reinvested.
His passion is education and teaching others. Helping. He loves to teach.
Play his board game cash flow. An amazing game. I have played it 100’s of times with many different people. It’s interesting to see different people’s reactions. You see greed come out. Interesting is when I show people in the game how to create a win win! They get it and shift instead of the mindset someone has to lose for me to win.
It doesn’t have to be that way!
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Funny you mention that interview. I saw it recently. Pretty informative but I got really annoyed by Nate’s interruptions.
Longshot for sure but it would be fascinating
I’ll give you ten to one odds Broadspectrum is some flavor of a “sovereign citizen.” Wait until he gets into the details of his “theory.” ??
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I consider Communists and Socialists out to enslave and/or kill me. Hard to discuss pros and cons with people like that (especially the True Believers, but also to a lesser extent the Useful Idiots). An explicit refusal to participate in imposing slavery or death on the opponents of Communism or Socialism would make such a discussion perhaps possible.
The charts in there are worthy of some serious meditation!
I’ll get Art on here to discuss them.
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His point seemed to be that technology is replacing the musket as a means to domination.
Technocratic serfdom is a form of slavery. If you have no personal agency and no assets, if you are under constant surveillance and must do what your overseers tell you, you are, by definition, a slave.
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The Pursuit Of Happiness
I wonder if we fully appreciate what the founders meant by the pursuit of happiness.
Several key founders were classically educated and versed in the philosophy of the Greco-Roman thinkers.
Aristotle argues that the key to happiness is a commitment to virtue. The term he used for happiness is the Greek, eudamonia, which is difficult to define, but loosely translates to human flourishing. You don’t merely live but you thrive.
His thinking is found in the little volume, Nicomachean Ethics. In brief, the four main substitutes that seduce people but fall short are physical pleasure (hedonism), money, prestige, and power.
By contrast, for Aristotle the key to flourishing is to cultivate virtue, which is a disposition to act with integrity and in accord with what supports the best in human nature.
He argued that there are intellectual virtues, which lead to good judgment, and moral virtues, which lead to right living and good relationships. Virtues are habits that we build by practice, until they becomes an ingrained part of our character. They are a mean between extremes (the sweet spot). Courage, for example, is a virtue between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
John Locke, the British philosopher who influenced the founders, wrote of specifically life, liberty and property. But this philosophy was largely materialist.
Jefferson changed it to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I think Jefferson may have had Aristotle in mind. Without life, there is no liberty; without liberty; there can be no personal agency or freedom to act in accord with one’s conscience, consequently, no happiness.
This is the case in totalitarian systems that engender so much suffering and unhappiness. You may live, but you cannot thrive. Yeonmi Park can certainly speak to this.
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