 Someone asked me if I'm on the left or on the right and I presume they mean politically speaking, so I'm gonna risk alienating a few people and tell you what I think We should be able to have these conversations with people getting upset though So even if you totally disagree with me, this is just what I think. It's not what I think you need to think So I'm just gonna spill it so Generally speaking, I'm not for any groups. I'm for individuals. So I'm not for a left or a right I think Individuals are where it's at and that statement is gonna require some explanation So as far as I can tell right now the left and the right and this isn't just like you know people down the street I mean people in leadership positions who need a position because they're not real leaders You couldn't lead without an official position that says to the leader anyway The left and the right are doing the same thing Which is basically trying to rule over everyone and in the process Sucking the motivation out of everyone Okay, so let's start with the left on the left. They want socialism and I'm generalizing here There's a lot more to it, but I'm not gonna make this a 14-hour video. So on the left. They want socialism which basically means they They take the stuff from everyone and spread it out evenly amongst everyone To kind of make sure that everyone has the same amount of stuff And one of the problems with this is the only way to really make sure everyone has the same amount of stuff Is to make sure everyone has nothing because then everyone has the same amount of stuff But what is what is the The real basic problem with this entire premise It is let me give you an example. I'll try to come up with a simple one. Okay. Say say you work in a wheat field and You go every day and you work hard and you work hard all day tending the field Getting sweaty and tired and at the end of the day Oh, you just wiped out sweating the wipe in the sweat off your brow and you walk home And you see a group of people lounging around with dozens of donuts and there are stuff in the donuts in their face and they're just Filled with donuts and they're dropping donuts on the ground and they're covered with donuts and you're looking at them Thinking this is this is your wheat that you've been slaving away for Just so they can kill themselves and that's so demotivated So the next day you go to work Feeling a little less motivated about making this wheat that someone's just gonna take away from you and give to other people And that's that's the big problem is there's a huge incentive to do nothing Because the less you do in a in a socialist society the more you get the more you do the more is taken away from you So it just sets up this this this this incentive That says do as little as possible as little as you can get away with Now on the right they do things very differently they try to set up this Competition between everyone and everyone has to fight everyone's always fighting to get the next step up So you get everyone lined up in their pecking order and you crap on the person below you And you have to do what the person above you says But then you keep fighting everyone's fighting all the time to get a big to get a higher spot Now everyone's so busy fighting they don't have time to do anything and The people who are doing things don't have time to get into this fight of dominance They're too busy feeding everyone and making the cars and doing the real stuff and The people who are doing stuff end up at the bottom of this ridiculous hierarchy because They're just not in the fight. They're like I'm too busy Making it so we can all live to get in your arguments and fights and do all this garbage So Again, you have a huge incentive to not do things but instead to waste your time talking You know trying to try to sound official and speak with a with a dominating voice and and get physically Dominating and stuff and you know just take from other people and push them down and try to get up the hierarchy and again, it's just People just end up not motivated to do things So what a nutshell You know on the right they walk up to you and punch you in the face on the left They sneak around behind you and stab you in the back But they're doing basically the same thing just tearing people down Now the left often complains about the rights capitalism And then the right says This is so I'm so tired of hearing this but the right says Well the people with all the money they're the ones who've earned it and Let me give you a little a little story a little anecdote about this I've had some dealings with the business world most recently when I was working in the toy industry and I was an inventor so I would come up with products and I would end up in meetings with a big Wig CEOs of huge stores stores. You definitely heard of So I be in these meetings with these CEOs and they would just come in to try to like get us to make certain type certain types of things And then the meetings always went the same every every one of these big stores The person would start suggesting things that I knew nobody wanted. It's just junk Garbage and then I tried to nudge the back like a way. Why don't we make some some kind of cool stuff? And then they try to nudge back. No make crap Now one day I'm sitting in a in a meeting Having this back and forth. They're trying to push this way. I'm trying to push this way And the guy says okay look I Don't think you're getting it which is ironic because I totally got it. I don't think he got it But anyway, I don't think you get what's going on here. Look. I'm just gonna spell it out for you We need you to make garbage Because we can sell garbage all day Because what we're really selling is a promise a promise that this is a beautiful amazing product and you're gonna love it It's gonna be amazing But then the kid gets at home and it's terrible and they end up with this empty feeling It's just total dissatisfaction. So what do they do they wander wind to their parents to go back to the store and buy another thing The problem is if you give them something if you sell them something they like They're too busy at home playing with it to come buy more stuff guys very very passionate about this so we make Billions of dollars off this premise of we promise something good We don't deliver and they just keep coming back and buying and buying and buying And I'm just sitting there trying not to throw up in my mouth the whole time So and this was not an isolated incident. This was this was just the way the way it went every one of these meetings so No, the the people with all the money are not doing are not They don't have all the money because they're doing the best stuff Usually they're lying cheating and stealing to get it What the left and the right are talking about when they say Capitalism is different things and and people will use the term capitalism like two times in a sentence with different meanings each time So let me just give a definition right here that I'm going to use capitalism is when you Define the value of everything in capital every in dollars So you get some everything is valued in some number with a money symbol beside it. That's the value of everything The problem there is that some things can't be can't be measured in an amount of money So those things end up becoming irrelevant So your personal honor Your your love for your children and you see this when people send their kids to daycare So they can work for money that doesn't even pay you for the daycare. Oh That's a whole other video worth of stuff anyway, so that's these CEOs They don't care about their personal honor or making customers happy or any of the stuff All they care about is the money and that's the that's capitalism as I'm using the term in this video and The the problem with that system is so obvious Because all the most valuable stuff in the world cannot be measured in money and that stuff ends up becoming the least valuable by perception now the left could point this out Very easily and just tear down this capitalism idea. The problem is They're doing the same thing the left and the right are both capitalists the right are Collecting all the money and the left are saying well, you guys have more money than us just give us the money They're not trying to get rid of the capitalism. They're not saying look at money differently They're just saying no, we just want the capitalism over here and What the right was talking about when they were saying that People who do the best stuff end up with the most money if they're talking about a free market, which is not capitalism you can have it I don't think you can even have a free market with capitalism because once you have money that someone else controls you you don't have free exchange of stuff anymore because The money is controlled by someone is printed by someone every time you transact with it. They take a piece They're controlling the money. They're controlling all the transactions So once you have to use their money in the way they say there is no free market So don't give me this free market crap There should be a free market though people should be free to exchange whatever they want whenever they want as long as both parties are in agreement and the government should say I just want to take everything and skim off the top Okay, so so if I'm so against these things one of my four I am for Individual morality So, you know in a lot of cultures where there've been disasters in the past You can you can go through a whole set of decisions Where individuals made a clearly immoral choice? This guy did it the knock I did it the knock I did it and another person another person and just like So like hundreds thousands hundreds of thousands even millions of people made immoral decisions Because they were part of this group that decided How they should behave they had a code of conduct and all these individuals Instead of thinking about what they thought was right. They decided to go along with what the group said to do But if all those people instead said no, I'm gonna do what I think is right a lot of problems could have been avoided So I've been doing something of an experiment with this over the last I don't know like 20 years with my own life I started just doing what I think is right Disregarding laws to the most to the largest extent that I can without getting thrown in jail or whatever I gotta tell you a lot of things have changed in a really positive direction Like I have an awesome relationship with my kids It is difficult to relate to a lot of normal people because you know, they're they're not individuals, but One of the big things that's changed is the way I think about money So one of the things that you know rules the world today is money money rules the world money makes the world go around you know catch phrases so most people think about objects having a dollar value But it's much more useful to think about money having a Value equivalent to what it does or what it gets so that you're not defining the value of the things with the money You're defining you're defining the value of the money with the things. So here's an example Say you You have five dollars and say you're one of those doughnut loving people I like doughnuts doughnuts are great So you go to the store buy five dollars worth of doughnuts and you go stuff your face with them Basically making yourself sick So what was the value of that five dollars? What was it like? negative ten hit points or whatever Basically, you just made yourself sicker Now rewind a little bit take that same five dollars So you go and buy a hammer and then you use that hammer to build a house and a chair and some other furniture and used to fix Your car and used to smash that horrible bug that's been bothering you and you do all this stuff with it and 40 years later You pass this hammer on to some kid and When you hand over the hammer you remember. Oh, wow, I got this 40 years ago Wow, what was the value of that five dollars? Now some people are gonna say well, you can't get a good hammer for five bucks It's gonna break the first day. Well, this is how you start thinking differently When you start valuing the money based on what it can do instead of just going to the store and buying the first junky hammer You can find you start looking around looking at Classifieds or yard sales and you buy some hammer that some guys already had for 50 years It was built in the in the 50s or the 60s and things indestructible and he sells it to you for a buck 50 Because he says ah, you're gonna get some good use out of this and the guy understands That the money isn't the thing the thing is he's passing value and he knows that you're gonna take that value and increase it in the world You're gonna increase value in the world not just Value everything by this stupid number on a piece of paper. So those two original five dollars One ended up having negative negative value in the world. The other one had massive positive value in the world Just based on how a person used them so Yeah I don't know if this is the you know the right thing to think or the only thing to think but this is what I've been doing And it's working really well So this is the basic gist in a very small nutshell You know, I'm not for the left or the right or any organized group that has a code of conduct and You know tries to socially engineer the world and for individuals Individuals need to have their own morality that is above everything else Because then the world gets a lot better and when you when you start doing what you think is right You start feeling better about yourself and you start doing more of what you think is right and just You get you get so much more motivated to do good in the world. I Know I know someone's gonna mention the Adventure Builders Club. Well, isn't that an organization? No, it's not an organization nothing organized about it. It's just a Philosophy Follow it or not Just kind of a guideline for how to be a better better individual not how to be part of a group When I say organized groups, I don't mean anything against like your bowling Team or something. I mean like groups that are trying to decide how other people should live You know, you kind of have to fill in all those blanks with your own common sense. All right