 Hmm All right, it's got to be going by now, right? All right last week I Was doing a live and someone asked the question I didn't really have time to answer it answer it right then cuz I was getting Toward the end and kind of wrapping things up. So I Saved the question for net for right now. It was one of those questions that you know, you can't answer in like 30 seconds and the question was Basically This is gonna be paraphrased of course Basically, hey, Jamie. How is our lives in first-world countries? dependent on slaves in other countries, okay so there's a lot of stuff that Certain people are not gonna want to hear you in this and If you don't want to hear any of it the thing is you're not gonna hear it It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if I give you all the information If you don't want to hear you're not gonna hear so let's let's start with Let's start with how you are enslaved how you and I are enslaved, you know Say you say you live in a first-world country. I don't I don't live in a first-world country anymore But whatever let's talk about how just the average everyday person living in the suburbs is enslaved Ask yourself this question What percentage of my time is spent doing things that I'm only doing For money that I'm only doing because I'm getting paid and maybe Maybe half your time is spent doing things that you're only doing because you're getting paid And you know if you weren't getting paid to do them you wouldn't do them That means you are you are doing things that you would not normally do for For this money now if the money was something that wasn't just Instantly createable like it was something that had some sort of like intrinsic value or It was something that that wasn't just easy to to produce That would be one thing that wouldn't be nearly as bad But the money that people are talking about today Let's take a large portion of the world right now The money is just printed at the Federal Reserve in the United States They just they don't they don't have to do anything to get this money. All they have to do is say okay we need Four million hours worth of people doing what we want Okay, how much money we print out for that? Okay, let's print that and then There you go so You when you when you have this when you have this these people and that the scariest thing is the Federal Reserve is not even It's not even part of the government. It's not even like elected people. It's a private bank Which is a whole other issue. I'm not going to get into but say You're you're a person and there's another person and that person can just make Magic tickets and give them to you and make you do anything they want That's what's going on here. That's that's the system. That's the that's the basic system in you know first-world countries and The more time you spend Doing things specifically for money the more enslaved you are right Now if you can't accept that and look at that like Objectively none you might as well just turn this off and go do something else none of the rest of it's gonna mean anything anyway, all right, so How is our life in our enslaved lives Like maybe I shouldn't say myself because I don't live in a first-world country anymore, but whatever I'm gonna say our lives. Okay. How how are how is our how are our lives? dependent on slave labor in other countries Well, it took me a really long time to figure out the keywords to look this up It was like at least 24 25 seconds. It took me On the internet, but if you look up Economic hitman economic hitman just just put that in the internet see what comes up. You're gonna find some videos lots of stuff to read You look at you look around the in the rabbit hole for like 10 minutes you'll get the picture Now basically what's happening if you if you I'm good I'm not good You know if you want if you want all the specific details just just go look at that in the internet Go go down the rabbit hole. Okay, but I'm just gonna give you a real basic gist of what's going on here so Say you've got a company that's in the United States and they're like, hey man, we want we want more money. I mean, that's like every company. We just want more money and So they're like well, we got all this competition here in the United States There's all these other businesses. There's not enough to go around so let's let's go to some other country We want we want other people to we need we need more people to be customers and do what we want and stuff like that So they go to some some little country that has no money They're they just don't have a lot of money But they have some kind of resources or something like like labor or something something that we can use as a company If we could just convince them to do what we want so we send some guys over to this country and Convince them that all they need to make their country better is one of our factories And I tell you it is not that hard to do is convincing Especially when if they don't go along with this kind of stuff the CIA kind of comes and causes some accidents, you know Not that I know anything about this, but you go you go look up Economic hit man and you will learn some stuff anyway But usually it doesn't have to come down to any any sort of threats of violence It's just like hey, man, you know your country is poised It's right on the brink of you know joining the first world nations And you know if you just had you know some some more Technological growth in your country It would it would it would just fill in those gaps and you could really join the rest of the rest of the upscale World, you know, yeah, so they get they get specialists to go in and convince people of this and It's not really that hard to do a lot of the time because a lot of the times the people in charge of these other countries They just want money. So if you promise them, hey money money's gonna come along with it They're like, okay, I'll take the money. I don't know if this is gonna be good for my country or whatever But I'm getting money. So yeah, yeah, and I can I can pass it off as yeah This is gonna be good for our country, right? I mean all of these experts told me are they all these facts and figures? Oh, yeah, this is gonna be great. So The problem is that country can't build the factory they can't pay for any of this stuff or if it's a if it's Whatever it is, maybe they maybe you've convinced the country. They need a bridge or factory or Utility or whatever you convince them they they can't actually build it themselves So what do you do you get for an aid loaned to them? So they get all this money and then they're like, yeah, we got this money But the money doesn't actually go to that country this poor country The money just goes right back to the company who's gonna make the factory. We're using a factory as an example So they make the factory and then people have jobs Yeah, except the jobs aren't that good So, I mean maybe maybe the pay would start out okay at the beginning, but the hours are gonna get longer the pay is gonna get shorter So people are gonna really want to work there because it's a miserable situation except Now this country owes all this All this interest on this loan they took to build the factory for this company and How do they pay that off while they tax the they tax the people? And then the people get tax and they're like, we don't have money to pay this tax. Well, go work in the factory go work in the factory or you go to jail and One of the goals of companies who go around doing this stuff is to get countries so deep in debt They can never pay it off and Then they're just totally enslaved, right? and then you know we get to have Cheap stuff because if you ever go to the store and wonder how can they make this this Complex thing for like two to hundred and fifty cents. It's crazy Well, they can do that if they set up a factory in another country where they can pay people a dollar fifty a day And they can those people are living in poverty, but who cares we get free stuff, right now It's real easy To overlook that because you just want the the cheap stuff, right? Because we got all these benefits people think oh I'm getting all this benefit because because I get more stuff the problem is The more you turn a blind eye to someone else Being enslaved the more you ignore it the more the more you overlook it the more you accept someone else being enslaved The easier it is to enslave you That's it. All right. What are we going on here? Jamie I hope you're doing well. It's nepsy changed my name. Oh, how's it going man? Debt is the vehicle of enslavement as that's totally what it is. Yeah Yeah, if you if you owe money, you're not free I mean you were much you're not you're not gonna be totally free even if you pay off all your debts or whatever But you were going to be Significantly more free once you owe money Your life is not yours. You you have to do stuff to pay it off I hope you got something good out of it because it probably wasn't worth it. Anyway Sacrifice incarnation into phenomena of being in order to serve as debts that was Humans are farmed enslaved by YouTube forcing us to watch advertisements. Yeah Ryan use brave would children do chores if it wasn't a form of barter for food and shelter that isn't for money But they were probably wished to be doing something else Mmm, that's that's a different thing man. If you're if you are okay Sam at home and I I do some work and I build a house and I live in the house Even if I didn't want to do the work to build the house. I'm still getting the benefit for it I'm doing I'm working for myself That's not enslavement I'm doing the work even if it's work. I didn't want to do If I'm doing it for myself and I'm creating value for myself That's that's not enslavement. That's that's a free person improving his life Now your children you have to teach them that and if if they're if you if you if you have children and they're And you make them help out around the house first That's making your home better. Although a lot of times you can actually do it faster without them but but But you're also teaching them. You got it. You got to teach your kids like Values and and how to do work and how to how to push through things that are difficult yet That's part of teaching things this that doesn't make sense at all man The goal of advertising is to make us a slave to capitalism Yeah, I actually really hate marketing because like marketing is Convincing people to get stuff whether or not it's good for them whether or not they want it They're like the the whole goal of marketing at least in the modern world today is just to get you to spend money It doesn't matter if you if the thing you're you're buying is good or bad. It's just it You do you spend the money? We got to convince you and that's it doesn't matter doesn't matter how much How much it's it's it's throwing society down the toilet. Oh There's there's there's so much of this stuff going around. You know what like It's really easy to get sucked into this this stuff and and to lose lose objective like loser lose sight of objective reality Because people can be convincing Here's here's a stupid example What was it a few months ago, I don't know like six months ago or something I Don't know. Maybe it was even not the right time. But anyway at some point not too long ago There were a bunch of people upset that Elon Musk was was Operating on what chimpanzees brains I think and putting the you know the microchips in there and and forcing them to to play these games with their with their implants and basically forcing these chimps to play this game and Elon Musk it was just like No, they want to do it. I mean they they have choice. They're doing it voluntarily They want to do it and people for the most part were like, oh, okay. Yeah Think about that for a second Like like think about the the reality of the situation like don't don't think about how Convincing a speaker. He is and you know, how much you want to believe things. He says think about the reality of that a man is telling you that chimpanzees have given consent To have their brains opened have a microchip stuck in there and be sat in front of a computer to play it to play a video game Even even if you could go out to the jungle Teach a chimpanzee English and you could you could explain it to them. There's no way you could get consent like hey chimpanzee Here's the deal. We want to insert a Microchip into your brain. What into my what I this I like What do you even that none of this doesn't doesn't make any sense at all. This is a tree. That's a banana. What is this micro? brainer what it was So, you know, I guess they were consenting when they were tranquilized and you know, their skull was ripped open then Operated on they there's like it doesn't make any sense at all, right, but people believe stuff because People say it with conviction. Oh, yeah, everything's great. We're doing a good job. Don't lose don't lose Track of objective reality always always question every time everything people say, you know Let's see The goal okay Jamie, do you want that nice induction golf cart motor? Yes or no, I Have no idea what you're talking about Yeah, I have no idea that's it sounds like it sounds like you're asked you've asked me like 20 or 30 times before and I just have been ignoring you or something, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sorry Don't get me started you hit a major nerve with me. Yeah Yeah, I know you know what I'm talking about Mike Ryan the goal of advertising is to persuade and highlight any ism Can use it to make you do and think things without you're being aware of it Well, it's not it can't always make you do and think things without you're being aware of it if you're paying attention you can be aware of it particularly if you're you keep a skeptical mind and An open mind and you know, sometimes people people might think no you have to have a closed mind No, you got to have an open mind because when someone tells you some BS You have to be open to the fact that it could be true. It could be not true Like when someone tells you something if you don't have good reason to to automatically believe this person You know, like if it's if you're a kid and it's your parent and they've never told you a lie You know, you can believe them or if you're married to someone and you've built up trust over long period on you can just believe them Right, but if it's coming from some person, you don't know on the internet or the TV or whatever You should always just say, okay, here's some information that may or may not be true Now if it's something that I care about enough Let me look into it. Let me think about it. Does that first Does that make sense and a lot a lot a lot of things a lot of the BS going around in the world Doesn't even make sense So you don't even have to do any fact checking like like the the the brain implants in the monkeys or chimpanzees or whatever it was I don't even know if they're chimpanzees, whatever they were Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't make rational sense at all I don't have to I don't have to look up how they gained this consent or or how they're convinced that these Chimpanzees are voluntarily playing the video game doesn't make any sense It's like saying it's like saying the boat was was driving Through the sky into outer space like that's not what boats do man. That's just not what boats do That's not the that's not reality. It doesn't matter how convincingly you tell me the boat flew into outer space It's just just doesn't work now if you put a rocket on the boat Then it'll be a rocket rocket boat rocket boat me, but just a boat. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense at all All right Been following since wait, I miss that thing. Yeah been following you since I was in middle school Well, that's a long time man. I'm now 23. It's cool watching you still. Thanks, man Live Perkins confessions of an f economic hit man. Yeah, go go look up that guy that guy's done some talks online. I Only I only watched one I watched one earlier today because I was like I want to talk about this thing So let me let me just look up So I watched like 10 maybe 15 minutes of other people talking about this this basic concept Just just to make sure I'm not full of crap Not that there's any guarantee I'm not full of crap, but yeah Confessions of an economic hit man by some Perkins guy Okay, my husband read it I feel that the real failure is is building where there is not the right social level and Infrastructure to match There are a lot of failures Yeah, I mean one of the one of the big failures is is us Like you go to the store and it's okay. Here's here's a perfect example I was at some people's house a while ago and There was a lady there Who was giving giving kids gifts? And she's just she's just jokingly saying here's some crap You don't want her need that you're gonna throw away in a week ha ha ha and While doing it, you know, and it's like well, why don't you just? Why don't you just like listen to what you're saying and do the rational thing instead of just kind of laughing it off And then doing what the advertisement told you to do why don't you say hey You know what these kids are just gonna take this garbage and it's gonna end up in the garbage in a week anyway so instead of making some Slave labor in some other country make this nonsense. That's just Why don't I just not get it and then I save money? I'm not making some people do some useless thing. That's completely meaningless Yeah Okay, the invention of the container ship enabled off-shoring cheap labor our Manufacturing effectively put us out of work the advent of Walmart etc. Essentially mainline the end product Yeah, so another big problem with this is that yeah, like in in the United States and Canada There's like no manufacturing, you know Like the countries have just lost their ability to produce Stuff not that nothing, but like they're not making much And it'll be really really crazy if You know if there's an economic collapse that like a like a worldwide economic collapse at some point because all the countries who all the Poor countries who are making all the stuff They're gonna be in a better position than all the countries who who were just relying on money all the time Except that then they're just gonna use their bombs and guns and everything and you know straighten it out Anyway designing Abundance versus design designing for scarcity. I don't think you have to design for abundance or scarcity just I Mean I get what you're saying though. Yeah, I mean you want it you want to I Know that's that that's a whole other topic that we could get into like a huge thing on That I'm not not sure I'm prepared to do right now, but um, yeah We should we should be designing things that will last Like things that things that actually add value to our lives not just junk We shouldn't just get junk all the times people's houses are full of junk that has no value Yeah, it's just too much junk and like and stuff That's not gonna last like useful things that that should last a hundred years last like three Months now like I know a guy who was saying hey, there's an air fryer. Yeah, my mom buys into one of those every three months And I'm just like what? That's ridiculous like after after the third time you buy one you should just be like, you know what just let's just not air fry anymore Let's just do something else or try a different company or just just anything other than just accepting the fate The old money trap yeah Poor people are required for the American lifestyle. Oh not just poor people slaves and Yeah, I mean the whole American lifestyle is is designed around slavery and everyone's like shoved around in this slavery hierarchy where People are trying to climb on top of the lower slaves to become Higher slaves, but man, you just you just got to get out of that hierarchy. It's it's just it's not good for anyone It's destructive for the person above you and the person below you Yeah, isn't there a natural order where someone is always a slave. No, there isn't a natural order Oh, that's one of the most frustrating things about this, you know One of the biggest excuses one of the one of the videos I watched earlier today about this the guy was saying You know Like people are going to exploit other people It's not a good thing or a bad thing, you know, it's just human nature. Oh god Like, you know how many how many horrible things people do are just kind of played off as human It's just human nature If it was human nature, everyone would be doing that first of all It's not human nature to be evil and to and to trash other people if it was Everyone would be like that and we wouldn't have to go to school for like over a decade to have this beaten into our skulls That you're supposed to just work for money. You're supposed to step on people You're supposed to throw your own Mother under the bus the bus if you can if you can make a few bucks Like all that stuff has to get pounded into our head because it's not human nature Human nature is to care about each other and to take care of each other. We're social creatures, right? I mean people people will say that being evil is is human nature while also saying we're social creatures You can't have both. You don't get both You can't be social creatures while trying to stab everyone around you. No, we're social creatures We want to take care of each other. That's our that's our instinct. We're born with we don't want to we don't want to Just compete constantly with each other. We learn that, you know, and now someone's gonna say, oh, yeah, my kid They're always fighting though. Yeah, well wrestling around whatever if it really comes down to it Your kids will save each other's lives though until you teach them otherwise Unless of course, they're just born a psychopath, which happens, you know Not nearly as often as some people will pretend though anyway Isn't there a natural order where someone is always a slave? No No, absolutely not and the the other problem with that statement is it is it implies that in any Interaction someone wins and someone loses. This is the problem with Just the whole competitive mindset Anytime two people interact you should be getting mutual benefit If you're not getting mutual benefit then then why why are you even you're not adding any value to the world? If I win and you lose Then then I'm probably taking value out of the world and it would have been better if we just didn't interact at all No, anytime two people Anytime two people work together they should be working together For their mutual benefit Yeah It's just it's just so crazy like how the how the world is upside down Like everything that's valuable is considered trash and everything that's trash is considered value It's just the value of everything's upside down right now I've uh just as I love listening to these things about the world Not in a doom gloom way but to understand World and wonder about how to make it better. Yes. That is the way to think about it. Yeah so one of the problems with with One of the problems with problems that this is one of the problems with problems Is that people don't want to think about the problem? Because it it turns into doom and gloom like you're saying But also like you're saying The what you should be doing Is not not avoiding problems because you don't want to think about oh sad bad things You should be thinking about okay Let's find the problems so we can improve them because the more problems we can improve the better the world gets right And uh, I mean that's the whole point of my original monologue which was to say, you know Be careful of enslaving other people because you're also enslaved The more you participate in that system pushing people down the other the easier it is For other people to push you down because you are you are giving them license to do it by doing it yourself to someone else But if you refuse to do it to other people it changes the way it is and you can start resisting The enslavement that other people put upon you, you know Tony Simmons. Hello checks the position of Photos of 19th century American city infrastructure with the parking lots and highway system that replaced them Common craftsmen can't build those brick stone buildings anymore Yeah walkable good mass transit great rail system Hmm This is a very then this This is a very stupid perspective And ilan musk is not a capitalist or businessman. He's a government employee Is what's a very stupid perspective perspective? I don't know what you're saying is a very stupid perspective what i'm saying is stupid perspective You got to be more specific Especially if you're going to insult me. You got to make sure I know I agree with you musk incorporation brain implants robot workers internet satellites brain implants super gross Yeah, I don't want the brain implant. I will skip it. I would I think I was saying this last week like I would rather go on a different branch Of the evolutionary treaty You know have have people go along with the brain implants and the robots are going to do everything for them And the people can sit in the chairs and just drink their life away and do nothing I want to go on the neanderthal branch the ones who are like now i'm going to maintain my My uh My strength i'm going to do things i'm going to actually do things and and risk my life and and do what I consider to be living you know Uh And you know those other people can just go the other way and they'll probably just fade away and disappear and be replaced by robots It's a funny thing if the robots aren't just going to keep taking care of you forever they're going to eventually be like these these Slabs aren't worth taking care of Or people will get so weak. They'll just start dying Like if you get if you if you get to a point where the robots are doing everything And so people can just just chill. I mean who's even going to have kids people are just like Lounging around doing nothing Of course the argument there is yes, but with all the people's free time They'll they'll be doing all this art and amazing creative things like I didn't know I don't I'm not buying it. We need we need resistance in our lives I don't I don't want robots doing everything for me I want to I want to struggle. I want to have to fight for it My first job fresh out of high school was a rude awakening I learned right away that employers treat like crap and made sure you know it well It depends on the employer a bad employer, which there are a lot of yes, they will totally do that, but they're Yeah, when you when you work for someone cool, it's awesome I I can think of a guy There was an artist that I worked for once That guy was that that guy was an amazing guy. He was a really great guy Um, but yeah, I've had plenty of jobs that just sucked Which is why I started always just working for myself You know made my own contracting company and did a bunch of other things I don't know. I did a lot of different jobs where I was just doing it for myself If you open your mind too much your brain will fall out very funny. Have you seen? Uh Have you seen they have grown rat neurons in a dish and trained it to fly a plane Oh, that's great All right spin fuse. I don't know what you're saying. Are you saying I'm a jerk? You gotta be more specific Um Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what you're going on going on about Um, was that the same guy who asked me about the golf cart motor or something? I don't know anything about Man people get angry, but I don't know I just bought my son robots Cool, but used nice Uh, bro here in Canada the average Canadian is making just enough to pay for rent and food We are all becoming indentured servants Yeah, and part of the part of the problem there With people living paycheck to paycheck Is you have to under you have to you have to look objectively At the idea that your expenses are exactly matching your income because it's Statistically extremely unlikely like more often people are kind of Offered a certain lifestyle and if you take the lifestyle It it comes close to maxing out your Your budget, you know what what you make and then you know you waste the rest on you know Chocobars and coffee and you know just silly little things that don't matter And then end up completely tapped out by the end of the week and then the next week, you know you do the same thing Um to break out of that. It's really not that hard first Stop stop wasting money on on things you just really don't need stop eating out Because you you cook at home it costs like 10 of what a restaurant costs So cook your own damn food Don't buy the the frills the chocobars the coffee that make coffee at home Don't buy the five dollar coffee and then say oh i'm broke Get rid of the expensive phone plan. You don't need to be on your phone all day Get rid of all all the nonsense that Really doesn't matter And people say oh my god. You don't even have a this or a that and you just No, I don't need that And you don't and that's that's how you break out of that You know paycheck to paycheck lifestyle You just have to stop doing the stuff that everyone expects you to do which is spend every cent you have And It's kind of important to do that When you can like if you're in a position where you're living paycheck to paycheck that means you have a paycheck Which isn't guaranteed because any job you have you can lose at any time Whether you're working for someone whether you have your own business you never know what's going to happen COVID-19 could show up and and derail your entire business. You know who knows what's going to happen So when you are in a situation where you're getting a paycheck of these slave dollars Save it and get ahead Because getting ahead and and when you save and get ahead don't try to climb the slave ladder Start wiggling your way out because the because if you get ahead on money You can kind of wheel your way out and kind of buy your way out of the system by you know There are a lot of different ways to do this And you know as long as you're on the planet you're never totally out of the system But like the way I did it was I saved enough money to buy some land Where I could build a house and then you know, I'm doing all the stuff and my cost of living keeps going down Like the more stuff I do And that's why I can live off, you know youtube revenue revenue when it's actually really low Anyway Did you just step into the set of 1984 I did this is the set of 1984 Oh god Spin fuse won't be watching any of your videos again Okay I mean you don't have to slam the door on your way out. I always tell people this You know, if you want to leave you can just leave you don't have to tell anybody. You don't have to tell me That's ridiculous I mean, we're not we're not four years old, right? You you can just leave quietly You don't have to like make a big big deal about it and just for the record. I have no idea what you're upset about so You just step into the set of 1984, yeah It's funny, um, you know the movie 1984 that I guess it was a book first But I didn't read the book. I only saw the movie But uh, yeah 1984 is all about, you know, big big brother watching you and there were cameras all over They had no idea what the internet was going to do. I mean I mean, there are there are cameras everywhere now like like all here's one. I'm looking at one right now Yeah, there's cameras everywhere But the cameras aren't even that important because there are tracking devices in all your your equipment Any anything you look at on the internet someone's tracking it's crazy the the amount of surveillance that goes on today When when that dude wrote the book 1984 he he he had no clue How far it could go I am living in a so-called third world country. So am I And I'm not scared that people go nuts in case of some emergencies Yeah, one of the cool things about being in a place that has less money is that You know when there's a crisis or whatever A lot like a lot of people living around me Don't even really notice like it'll be a week like like when the quarantine happened Like a week went by and I had no clue and like people living around me had no clue A lot of people around here just grow their own food and And have animals and everything and you know, I we we buy Meat from from some neighbors who who slaughter a pig now and then or a cow or whatever and um Yeah, the only time I would notice is when I actually wanted to go to town to get supplies And a lot of people around here. They don't even they don't go to town to get supplies They're just like I don't I mean maybe like a couple times a year But I have basically everything I need here and this this is This is the value of living poor And then the funny thing is there I don't see the people who live around here who don't use money as poor at all I'd see them as like extremely wealthy I think people who just have money they're they're the real poor ones It's just they can use the money to get stuff, you know So they so it feels it feels like you're really rich when you have this money and all this power But it can just evaporate at any point, you know The government can decide wow, we're gonna print about a bunch of money And then you just lost half the value of your dollars. It's it's inflation in case no one's heard of it But yeah, wait if you if you have the ability to grow your own food though that doesn't just Disappear because there's some financial crisis on the other side of the planet Okay, design things that last oh about designing things that last silicone valley brands their stuff With a veneer of minimalism and simplicity these things are complex and non durable difficult to repair Promotes reliance. Yeah, and they're yeah, and they always break and they build in all this planned obsolescence, so silicone valley is all like the computer stuff, right? And you know why you keep getting a new operating system They keep making new operating systems that don't do anything more than the previous operating system It just uses more computer resources, so you need to get a faster computer every few years Even if your computer's totally fine Super annoying And then they make it so you can't repair these things and stuff like this tablet right in front of me There's no way to get into it. I mean there's a way to get into it, but it's not it's not apparent Mike says one of my favorite memories is quitting a torturous job going home and spending the entire summer picking garbage Making cool stuff out of it riding my bicycle instead of a car. It was great. Oh, man I was I would totally take a bicycle over a car any day. Oh Yeah, when you People think they're getting all this freedom when they have a car because you can go faster But the problem is it increases your overhead, you know it increases your expenses I'd rather go one quarter of the speed on a bike Not be paying anything extra plus then you don't need gym membership, right? And this this is one of the funny things about often I've often had conversations with people who say they live paycheck to paycheck And I'll be like, well, what are your expenses? There's no way it totally matches up like your paycheck exactly matches your expense Oh, yeah, it's like exact like right down to the penny I'm all all tapped out at the end of the week every two weeks. Okay. What are your expenses? And you know, there'll be the things they they need But then it's like it'll be like gym membership Gas and I'm like, wait, wait, wait Gas to drive to the gym to spend money to exercise. Why don't you just stay home not spend the gas go for a run Without go let go for a run to the gym and then just go home without going in Then you save the gas and the gym membership and they'll just keep listing all this stuff Oh subscription to this subscription to that there's six like magazine subscriptions and stuff It's crazy what people spend money on when they're broke. What's up? Do you want to put another one on or you guys want to be done? I I put my kids on a movie over there You want to put it? All right, give me give me one minute Not even a minute. Give me. Hey, all right. Can you put a movie on there? All right, hold on. I'll be right back All right. All right Oh Okay, where are we? Oh, that is a good memory quitting a job though. I remember when I first moved off grid The last job I had before I moved off grid was this an art moving business And it was me and this lady and we ran the thing together and She was kind of a feminist and she's getting angry And after we'd been working together for a year and I saved like I must have saved like 95 percent of everything I made that year And she didn't save any of it and then I bought some land And she's like, where'd you get the money from that for that? And I was like Well, we made a bunch of money this year And so I've been saving it I was like, well, how much do you have she's like, I haven't saved anything and after that She was just like angry and resentful like I was a man and I got ahead because I was a man or so I don't know But very quickly after that I had to I had to stop working with her And I was just like, you know what business is yours? I'm out And she got angry and yelled and I've just left and that was it I mean there's a little bit more to it than that but yeah, it was Oh, so nice making a clean break and just getting out of there I have been renovating an old moldy barn. Oh In a wet humid area, it would be much easier to tear it down and start over Yeah, I bet Well, as long as the wood's still good, man, if you get that mold out of there, it'll totally be worth it Except for permitting Permitting is the worst. Okay. Here's what you do Build a new building inside the barn And then one night just knock down the outside and be like, well, I don't know what I'm nothing is What's that happen here? Or even or even or even build a new barn On the outside of that barn and then tear tear out the old moldy barn on the inside. I don't know It's time to start sharing globally rather than competing. How about like just share Locally, let's just start with that. I think we have to stop thinking globally so much. I think that's part of the problem because Like you can't see people. I can't see a person in australia Like if I get something from them, how am I supposed to like Do something nice back But it like in my own community If someone does something nice for me, I can kind of remember that and be like, yeah, I should do next time I have a chance I should next time I have extra bananas. I should bring someone some by that person tells, you know Then you can start actually Helping each other, you know Like do it do it locally Get to know people right around you. Don't worry so much about what's happening globally I think that civilization is in indigenous I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I bet there's a big long explanation Pink Floyd said it well in the song welcome to the machine I can't remember that song But I knew I do know that I like some pink floyd lyrics Have you ever considered making any stuff that flies? Yes, definitely um I mean, I mean I've made like model airplanes before that flew I mean not just paper airplanes, but you know like balsa wood and stuff around it and you know With a motor and a propeller and stuff, but yeah, I do want to make a flying vehicle at some point. Um it's just not It's not that high a priority because I really don't need it like at all But I want to do it The rat thing was on 1980s By the way, imagine what they have grown today creepy. Yeah. Have you ever seen the razor electric pit bike? modding scene razor electric pit bike modding. No, I have not I don't really pay attention to anything. I'm too busy all the time, you know Knowledge about a region is a form of wealth There's all kinds of wealth, you know, I I personally think that health is the highest form of wealth um And I think money is one of the lowest But yeah, knowledge Another hugely valuable piece of wealth. I still I still choose health Over knowledge though because without your health. I mean nothing. I mean you're dead. So um Yeah, your health is the most important thing And if you know, maybe if people thought health was so important Maybe you wouldn't get all these people making these immoral decisions And like, you know dying of heart attacks when they're like 50 and stuff or popping aspirin So they don't die of heart attacks when you're 50, you know Like having a clear conscience so you can be healthy. That's a really valuable thing Oh every new version of android and windows both add new ways for them to track you Yeah, super annoying. I have one of my computers has windows xp on it and I kind of wish I could go back to windows 3.1 That was my favorite operating system out of all the windows. I've used windows 3.1 It was just so simple and never crashed and it worked That was so nice and it came with like all it came with like a video editor and an audio editor It came with all this stuff, you know Now it's like yeah Now you turn the computer on it takes like 15 minutes just to boot up because it's loading nothing It's just like, oh, we need to spin the hard drive four trillion times around Before we'll tell you it's okay to go ahead and do so. Ah, no, wait, wait, wait, wait We're we're gonna load Some more nothing All right. Now you can all ah not so annoying I want a computer Like one of the cool things like windows 3.1 or even DOS like you just turn on the switch. There it is. It's on Ah, that was great Let's see. Where are we? Hi, jamey and chat 49ers are kicking buddy again this year. Oh very good jamey. Do you have? Uh, you ever enjoyed american football? I've played football a little bit but never like in a league just like with friends But uh, yeah, I never really I was never really into watching sports I'd much rather play them Would would it be useful to build a roll on roll off cargo bike, you know, I did I did think about playing football in high school For a while because I was like You know fast because I ran track and field and I was like 200 pounds Of like pure speed. I was like man I can annihilate people on the football field like against high schoolers because they're all like Not that big and stuff and slow um But then I was like, yeah, but if I if I blow out a knee or something It just won't be worth it. So I just yeah, I just didn't get into any contact sports although I played hockey but I I didn't even that was before high school and stuff. Anyway Would it be useful to build a roll on roll off cargo bike? Well, I have but I did build a scooter It's not really a bike because it doesn't have pedals, but um You know, I just kind of get on it and push with my foot and it's huge I mean, it's like the size of a bike, but it has giant tires, you know, like the Like big fat like big fat tires. I mean videos of it. I don't know a couple years ago But uh, yeah, sometimes take that to town and drive it around. It's great It has a big basket in the back so I can hold lots of stuff I can't ride my bike to the next town over. Why not is because the roads are terrible. That's what uh Yeah, when I lived in Vermont I I wanted to bike a lot more than I did But I didn't just because of how dangerous it was, you know There's no shoulders on these dirt roads and people drive like 50 miles an hour around corners and stuff Man, you're taking your life in your hands um I built a home on the back of truck with all the comforts my expenses are a quarter what they were It's worked well or it's worked so well. I will never live in a regular house again. No stress. That's pretty sweet, man Yeah, that's really cool. When you just you just do something that you feel like doing And then you probably had a bunch of people like looking at you're like, what are you doing, man? That's crazy But now you're like you just chilling in your truck, you know, it's great. Yeah, that's really cool I also can't get as much work done on days. I have appointments when I have to wait for a bus to get back to work Oh, you're saying why you have a car. Yeah, I'm not saying you should never get a car I mean if you need a car you need a car um High stream attendance today is it? 59 60 So why are some countries more susceptible to becoming Slave labor than others Europeans were enslaved many times throughout history, but managed to become self-sufficient um Well, I mean that's kind of a big question. Why are some countries more susceptible to becoming slave labor? You know it if you're if you're going to talk about history you have to look at a lot of different factors But if you're just talking about today, it's just any country that doesn't have money You know any country that doesn't have a lot of money basically um and even if it's a country that's that's doing very well and Say they they're subsistence farming and and people, you know, no one's starving everyone's everyone's Got their own house their own gardens their own animals like people are doing fine You can go in there And this happens many times. I've seen it actually in Panama a lot You can go in there And start flashing around things. They don't have Like phone I mean you you show a phone to someone who's never seen it one before you might as well just be driving a Ferrari and saying Hey, check it out. You know a phone a phone And people who've never seen a phone the the older people will say uh No, that's just that's just Junk don't don't get involved with that. It's You know, there's going to be a subscription service. It's going to suck you in just But the younger generation they seem to be like Flashy thing. Let's see go go work in the field Or check out this guy's phone and you can go into places like that Get the younger people hooked on On things that they can't grow And once you got them hooked on that it's like Well, you you want to get your own phone Uh, well that guy got a phone I only had to give one phone away to one guy in the village now every every kid in the village wants one Well, you you guys can come work for money and and then you'll be able to buy a phone and A lot of kids will be like Oh, do I go do I go help dad grow the food or do I go Get the money for the phone. Oh, I could get money for food and the phone. Yeah And then next thing you know like once once that Once that cycle is broken once you have a generation That isn't growing food anymore It's not like it's it's not easy to go back Particularly, I mean a lot of times you can go into a place and if you can get enough people to stop being self-sufficient Like one of the big choke points is food if enough people don't plant food that year They're not going to have food the next year. There's not going to be enough food for the next year And they're stuck. They have to go work at the the terrible factory or whatever um, so yeah, I mean just There are a lot of factors, but just a big one of them is just places without money and in particular places with With loose moral codes, you know, or or even places that are very safe Where people won't be afraid of strangers Like just just all the goodness of the world, you know, anywhere anywhere. There's there are good people. They're they're easy prey Which is a terrible thing ah, let's see Do you ever delve into alien conspiracies? No I shouldn't say that I have two neighbors Like two different not not two neighbors who've lived together like a neighbor over there and a neighbor over there Who both tell me they're in contact with aliens like 100% seriously and I have to listen and I have to believe them Oh Yeah, if I could if I could put a camera on one of those guys and they would go on for hours about it it's some interesting stuff Companies became difficult when they had to learn to talk to phones Houses and cars, etc It became difficult when they had to learn to talk to phones houses and cars You know, I think oh computers wait computers became difficult when they had to talk learn to talk to phones houses and cars. Yeah Slave labor is what they have in Beverly Hills dude slave labor is all over the place um and a lot of times people People have certain imagery of what they think slave labor is You know, some people will think it's like you have there has to be a whip involved. Someone has to be getting whipped Some people will think no, it's it's the mexicans hanging out in front of Home Depot You pick up them to go do your yard. That's the slave labor Or you know, there's there's all kinds of ranges of what people imagine as slave labor But if you get rid of just the the superficial thing it's just like anyone anyone working for money Like if you're if you're doing a job that you would not do if you weren't getting paid for it That's that's slave labor And it's mostly because what you're being paid with someone just print it out. Someone just just Made it out of thin air basically um If you were being paid with with stuff of intrinsic value, that would be a little different um You know, there there would be some wiggle room there But the way to not do slave labor is to work for yourself So the more you can work for yourself like directly for yourself or your family or directly for your community The less you're doing slave labor It's not always an easy thing to do, you know, I think stargate hit the nail On the head when it comes to human history stargate is awesome When it comes to human history, yeah, uh, howdy from san diego got here Got here late. So we'll just sit back and listen. Hey, Tom. What's going on? Home planet youtube censored my comment had to call it Slave. Oh youtube censors your comments if you write the word slave Oh I mean, I can't say I'm surprised at all Oh, that's ridiculous Why would people become lazy with strong ai and automating production? Chest players are stronger than ever Today, even though they can't beat the chess engines Okay. Well, you just I kind of want you to go read go back and read your comment and find your own mistake Okay, so chess players got better when the ai was competing against them Which is different than the ai doing everything for you Totally different scenarios. See if you're competing against an ai then you have to improve yourself You have to get better to beat it But if the ai is doing everything for you You don't improve you just sit back and be like, oh go ahead Unless you have some kind of internal motivation and you can say to the ai. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I can handle this one I can wipe my own butt today. It's okay. You know, I can feed myself with my own hands Yeah, totally That was a terrible example, dude. You gotta you gotta work on that I watch your channel because I can relate to your philosophy on life the phrase the less you want The more you have comes to mind Yeah, I mean that's Yeah, you can unpack that statement You just just sit and think about that statement the less you the less you want the more you have Then there's a lot in there. You could think about that for an hour easily Ai ai will be a human enhancement tool. People don't question lathes I disagree The lathe isn't deciding what what it's making, you know, uh like Okay, the idea that that if if a person says one tool is not going to be good for us That means all tools are bad and evil. That doesn't make any sense at all. It makes no sense You know, if The argument doesn't it doesn't make any sense at all Yeah, you you can have a tool that is no good and a tool that is good It's not like just because they're in they're in the same category of tools That they all have to be either all good or all bad. This is just this is a crazy thing to say Slave made me wonder if being able to just work is better than having to lie to people and never be yourself as slave labor What are you guys doing over there? Oh contact like zinu. I want to hear from the alien guys. Yeah Time is the most valuable thing I will ever own so throwing it away For a basic wage has always Looked like a crap deal to me. Yeah, totally and that's I mean time health like the the more health you have time you have so that's that's That's largely the reason that I think health is is your most valuable asset your is the most The most valuable sort the most valuable form of wealth is your health because then you have more time And more ability to do things with that time, you know, if you're healthy Yeah, the censorship on youtube represents the madness Now you can't use a word regardless on on the context intended meaning a dangerous precedent in my opinion. Yeah, it's that's totally crazy to crazy to just censor a word now I can understand censoring, you know swear words fine, but like Censoring a word because it's associated with a touchy topic That's that's a that's not a good thing to do We should be talking about all the touchy topics like as much as possible. So people can work through them and you know figure it out, you know instead of just Forcing everyone to not say anything I try to use AI to learn faster, but try to not use to be lazy I would draw a difference between AI and self-aware general AI Chat gpt is just handy. Yeah, it's all in how you use it um but the idea that that AI Well, you know, it's going to be an interesting time when AI becomes conscious like become smarter than us like Let's just see how it goes. We all we all know the terminator scenario and there's like a million other ways it could go We're probably going to find out, you know Chess players don't compete against chess engine. That was the point Ah, they don't compete against chess engines. Okay. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about Then let's just start spelling slave like slob or something I hate to comment since censored on jimmy's last chat. I had to comment censored on yeah Are my comments not showing up arc 212? I I read some of yours earlier um Can anyone read this? Yes arc. I can read this Sorry if I missed anything earlier. Oh, well now you're saying hello as in like a bunch of comments in a row The thing is i'm always behind on the comments because I give like a you know a 10 15 20 minute monologue at the beginning. So then I got to catch up So then i'm i'm always a little bit behind but that means, you know keeps things going that way I used the word ghetto and jamie didn't read it. Oh, I wonder if it was censored. I bet it was dude I totally bet If you said I wonder if that guy who got really angry at me earlier and said i'm leaving. I wonder if he was Saying something to me that got auto censored and I wasn't reading it and that's why you got angry. Oh, I don't know But yeah, apparently you got to be careful what word to use Ghetto someone type ghetto see if it shows up I've posted comments twice with no reply just checking I guess Okay, so I wonder if you said one of you know one of the censor words Rumor has it that the reason that Ai got fired Oh that al got fired was over a self-aware. Oh Oh rumor has it the reason that ai got fired was over a self-aware discovery Sam altman ha ha no problem if mist just was confused comment One I see comment one colon and then nothing after that Well, t.o. Dave typed ghetto and it was fine. I don't know how this stuff worked. Hey, been following you for years and years Thank you. You inspired me. Well, you're very welcome, man And I think i'm gonna get off here in a second. It looks like i'm at the end of comments 1.2 times 2 5 speed to catch up. Yeah Seems like ai will turn to mud Like sampling too many samples or mixing too many colors together seems like we will always need new original content. Yeah Wow, my comments are totally being deleted. Really? What did you write arc? What are you typing that's being deleted? Tom is caught up now. It's funny that minimum wage go up and pay people Uh The entry level and then everyone up the chain get upset when prices rise. Yeah It's 50 and raining in may wow. It's 50 degrees in main Isn't it it's december now, right? It should be freezing there Uh, I see comments just fine. Yeah arc your comments are disappearing. I don't know why I have no I I have no idea I guess they're being censored Yeah, there's lots of there's too much censorship going on today in my opinion All right I started this late and I should get out of here Because I got some Kids I got to make sure our embed and stuff funny if you type your real name. It censors it Man life is difficult went for the trip Met up in sweden the things didn't work out for her. I guess I have to look for another woman again. Oh, no terrible man I actually just met a lady Recently it's going very well. Although it's only been a few days. So we'll see Um, we don't need artificial stupidity. There's plenty of real stuff. Yeah Um, all right I gotta get out of here because I I think a kid needs me and yeah, I'm at the end of comments now All right, everyone have a have a great day Take care of yourselves Try to try to get out of that slave cycle, you know, anyway, you can And let's all wait and see what a hi does to us Oh Thought button where are you? There's a button. There's a button