 You know they always say that when you're on your deathbed You'll certainly regret the fact that you didn't spend enough time with your family. You wish you could have spent more That's nearly certainly true. I think everyone will regret that even people who say they hate my parents They especially will regret that But I think there's another regret that people will not have okay No one when they get to their deathbed will say oh jeez I really feel stupid for like standing up for my principles So many times I'm like I could I could have really had some better opportunities if I made Concessions to things that I knew were wrong man. I I could be richer. I could have like this cushy or job I could have blah blah blah like no one in the world Like at the end of their life is gonna be like wow I feel so happy that I cooked so hard No one's gonna feel like that okay if anything the regrets you have are gonna be I knew that this thing was right And I didn't want to take the risk of following through on it that those are the regrets you're gonna have all right now I say this because You know I get all these emails and questions about this kind of stuff where it's like people Often people let's say just to give some examples who are in work where they're They're writing software that they know isn't really right or it's like monitoring people or doing something sort of evil Or they're working for some company or working for like some military that is doing things that are bad Or you know people especially nowadays people will be like dude my job They want me to get the Vaxarino. How do I resist it? And you know my my reaction to people in that situation is always like you shouldn't even be in this position Like you should have you know took in a stand way back when Whereas easier to take a stand. That's one people that you know one thing that people don't I think think about If you're in kind of an evil system, right, you know, so I worked in universities for a while. Okay, they're very evil systems Okay, it's not just that they want you to do this and that and the other but they like your Subservience is something they are constantly extracting more from okay, and that's how a lot of jobs are especially nowadays everything like You know NGOs universities big corporations They're all like all like giant cults and they're constantly doing absurd things and making you do absurd things To to kind of make sure that you are loyal to them, right? That's what a lot of this kind of HR stuff is That's why they have all these you know vaccine mandates It's not just about the vaccine or anything like that But like in general they want you they want to tell you to jump and they want you to ask how high, okay? Now when you're in that system, it is very convenient. Okay, if you're getting paid You know a hundred thousand dollars a year to do some nominal work or oh, maybe some company paid You know even more than that to you know to you're working somewhere in China or somewhere in Singapore I don't know like you got this like nice sounding job with all these benefits the thing about it Is that they are only gonna ask more from you? Okay, you like the way I look at things This is always how I've looked at things and even since I was a kid I think I mentioned this in a video a little bit before but you know I've always thought of life as sort of minimizing Like minimizing your liabilities, okay? And a lot of times when you're getting rich when you're ensconced in some kind of system now I'm not against being rich. I'm not one of these like being poor is like somehow noble or something stupid like that Well, I mean there you could make a case for that, but I'm absolutely not one of those people But if you're like in the kind of normie a corporate structure or like the bureaucracy or the cathedral or something like that Like you're always the the richer you are the more enslaved you are the more tethered you are to this particular job and this particular thing You've learned how to do and it might seem like oh, I'm advancing in my career because I'm making more money I have bigger responsibilities But really you're you're learning how to do something that is very much tied into where you are and you don't necessarily know other things Okay, you know, it's especially on my channel when I talk about technology stuff like let's say systems administration Which I talk a lot about okay, you know, how do you? Maintain a Linux server and do this and that and a whole bunch of stuff on it You know one weird thing and I've talked about this is a lot of people if they see something They don't know how to do they will automatically just be like oh don't just let's shoot that down because like I don't want to feel Like I don't know how to do something especially if it's basic You know what I mean, and I've always been the kind of guy you have to be You have to be flexible in terms of what you know, you know You have to be flexible and what you're letting learn willing to learn and one of the big things that like a normie job Like a big job like that where you get a lot of money and you have big responsibilities and very specific specialization is that you That absorbs so much of your time that you might think of yourself as knowing a lot about you know technology in general But there are a lot of really basic things that you go without and you can't really function Outside like you are a piece that has been chiseled precisely for the jigsaw puzzle that you've been placed in and you don't really fit Anywhere else that's the big problem. So, you know my view on things is again and not against making money or anything like that You should absolutely make lots of money however It's best to do that in an independent fashion. Okay, like if you make You know if you make twenty thousand dollars a year on your own like internet Presence or doing stuff like you writing your own software that is in that twenty thousand dollars is infinitely more valuable than $200,000 You know if you're waging for some kind of company, okay, because that twenty thousand dollars isn't tethered to anything else It's not like oh, I have to I have to you know follow through on this or something like that Now as I said, you're never gonna regret You're never gonna regret like not or you know following your principles and you know I definitely see you know, I made a bunch of sacrifices many times. Okay, the Sun is right in my face Okay, let's let's do this. Let's okay. I'm trying to get behind a tree. Okay. There we go you know, I my life is like full of You know sacrifice sacrifice that actually actually sounds a little egocentrical But what I mean is there have been many times in my life where I've basically left everything Which sounds you know, actually that sounds a little irresponsible. So we'll go with that that that's more humble Because oh well, I'm not you know me being a professor that is a life of like slavery. Okay, especially nowadays It's really like humiliating slavery. It's actually I got a bunch of hilarious stories about that, but that's for another video But like I always feel I've done videos on this before it's important to be independent But also most of the time when people email me about like questions like this Oh, my job wants me to do this my job wants me to freaking take the Vax or like Bomb Middle Eastern people. I don't know like people email me as if it's my fault They're not just like following their principles, you know, like that that's the thing to me that's just like I You already know what's right to do. I don't know if you want me to tell you I think that's stupid like I think the concept of You know self-help is self-refuting because it's mostly not people self-helping It's people asking other people what to do and it's just stupid because most of the time It's just people who are cowardly and don't want to follow their principles It's like they don't want to do what they know was right, you know what I mean They're too afraid to make those risks But that actually is why you know risk, you know thing is it does require risk-taking. That's why When things bad happen in your life like when you know Things at work are bad There are all these pressures on you you should always view that as a good thing because it's encouraging you to make risks with your life It's encouraging you to say oh well Maybe I'll do this because you know do something else because it's totally stupid. Oh my job wants me to get the freaking Vax Okay, well, maybe this is a signal I mean if they want you to get some freaking injection It's only gonna get worse like the things they're gonna demand. They're already in requiring you to put something in your body Okay, you have already lost bodily autonomy So it's just a question of how many other things in the future that we can't even foresee like five years ago No one expected this COVID-19 Meme of every happening, but imagine what's gonna happen in five more years or ten more years What are they gonna require from you? What kind of hilarious concessions? What kind of hilarious hoops do they want you to jump through like a freaking wagey dog like that? That's the thing that I don't know so anyway Yeah, that's the point of the video. I don't know I talked about different things But just like stand up for yourself like seriously. I'm not gonna do it for you Like I can't that would be embarrassing anyway if you had to have someone out anyway. That's it