1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Mark Mos Show, 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: where of course we talk about each and every week 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: the way the world is changing through what I call 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: the decentralized revolution. 5 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 2: Of course, we're talking about a. 6 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: World of centralization, central control, central planning into a decentralized world, 7 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: a multipolar world, if you want to call it. That 8 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: from like a geopolitical picture. And really the thing that 9 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: we like to look at is the intersection of politics, finance, 10 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: and technology. Of course, it's always technology that changes the world, 11 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: that changes the way we communicate, organize, and of course 12 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: today we are seeing this change of technology and that 13 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: is the decentralized technology of bitcoin that's changing every aspect 14 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: of the world. I want to have a big show today, 15 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: as always, I have a very ambitious schedule, see how 16 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:39,279 Speaker 1: which I can get through. 17 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 2: And I want to talk about how they stole your. 18 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: Life and you didn't even notice. Now what does that 19 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: even mean? Well, it means a lot of things. We're 20 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: going to talk about how your life has actually been stolen. 21 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about your freedoms, how they've been stolen, 22 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: your freedom of expression, your property, you know, the freedom 23 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: of expression, the ability to trains, act and whole private property. 24 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about legalization questions and so much more. 25 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: There's lots of covers we're going to get into this. 26 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: If you miss any of this, don't worry. 27 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: I got you back. 28 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: Just check me out on the podcast. Just search Mark 29 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: mah Show on your favorite podcast player and you can 30 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: find all of the archives there. Go ahead and feel 31 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: free to listen to them if you want. And if 32 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind just doing one small, simple favor, and 33 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: that would be just to comment and share the episode. 34 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: If you did that, that'd be amazing trying to get 35 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: more people to see these and so any type of 36 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: feedback can give me on the podcast app would be greatly, 37 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. So we talk about stealing your life. I 38 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: know that sounds like a really big thing, and it is. 39 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: And I want to go just philosophical with you for 40 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: a second and then we'll get a little bit more tactical. 41 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: But you have to understand that the law of energy 42 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: states that energy can't be created, energy can only be transferred, 43 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: all right, So in order for you and I to 44 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: stay alive, we must consume calories. Calories are a unit 45 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: of energy, right, So I need food, which gives me energy. 46 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: That energy allows me to think and work to do 47 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,399 Speaker 1: more things. Now that energy that I got in those 48 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: calories wasn't created. It came from the from what I ate, 49 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: Like the animal, the cow. I like to eat steak, 50 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: So that cow, I like to say that I'm a 51 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna say it, but the cow 52 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: eats grass, right, So I'm a plant based I'm on 53 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: a plant based diet. My cows eat plants. I eat 54 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: the cows. But you know, you have soil on the earth. 55 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: The plant grows up. There's energy in that. The cow 56 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: eats that. There's proteins in the grass. The cow goes big. 57 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: I eat the steak. 58 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: I get the proteins from the steak the calories, and 59 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: then I have calories units of energy that I can 60 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: now think to talk to you about subjects like this, 61 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: or I can go work, build a fence, or dig 62 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: a hole, whatever that may be. Now, if you understand 63 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: that core premise that, then my life I need calories. 64 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: I need energy to come into them in order to 65 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: stay alive. Now let's say that I have to dig 66 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 1: a hole for four hours a day to earn enough 67 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: for me to live those four hours that I work 68 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: provides me with enough food and supplies where I can 69 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: get shelter for the day. But let's say that I 70 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: decide to work an extra four hours that day, so 71 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: I work eight hours. Well, those extra four hours I 72 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: don't need that today. I don't need that food. 73 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 2: So what do I do. Well? 74 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: I can store that wealth in money, and then tomorrow 75 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: I could choose not to work or expend energy, and 76 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: I could then use that money to then provide me 77 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: sustenance for that day, So that money becomes like a 78 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: battery for me. It's like a life battery, just like 79 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: fat on your body as a life battery. 80 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: Let's say if you had. 81 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: Like a real rare form of like diabetes, where you 82 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: couldn't keep fat on, but then you have to be 83 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 1: eating constantly to keep calories coming in, otherwise you die. 84 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: But we store fat on our bodies which allows us 85 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: to live for weeks or over a month without eating 86 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: because we can tap into that. That fat on your 87 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: body is like a battery for your life. 88 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: If you don't eat, you can continue to run. 89 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: But again, if I have money, that money is also 90 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: an extension of my life. I expended energy and now 91 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: that what I buy with that, that extra food or 92 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: whatever is like a battery for me. Let's say that 93 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: I save up enough and I buy a goat. Well, 94 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: now that goat is like a battery. If I don't 95 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: work for a few weeks, I could kill the goat. 96 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: I could eat it. 97 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: So's it's like an extension. You know, I buy a 98 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: piece of land, I start growing crops, I have a garden. 99 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 2: A field, whatever. 100 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: That's a battery for me and I can live off 101 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: of that, and so all of that becomes an extension 102 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: of my life. And the reason why I want to 103 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: break it down to the philosophical level is because what 104 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: we're talking about today where they're stealing your life, and 105 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: I don't mean like you know, putting you in prison, 106 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: but literally as they steal your property or your ability 107 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 1: to earn property, or literally steal the value from what 108 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: you've created, that's literally still in your life. So I'm 109 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: going to break that down for you. So let's talk 110 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: about this. So you know, if we start again staying 111 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: high sort of high level on this sort of philosophical level, 112 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: if we think about it from a multiple levels, we 113 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: can think about it just as my life as a 114 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: human being. One thing that separates human beings from animals 115 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: is that we can communicate, we can speak, we can think, 116 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: we can ide eight, we can speak, and so that 117 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: is something that's super important. 118 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 2: It's unique to us as humans. 119 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: That's a characteristic of it, and it's our life to 120 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: be able to do that. If they want to restrict 121 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: your ability to speak or your ability to express yourself, 122 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: then they're stealing that from you. I know that's a 123 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: little bit philosophical, but that's the way it Lerk works. Now. 124 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: We know, you know, we have famous quotes from our 125 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: founding fathers. These guys were so smart. The Founding fathers 126 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: were so smart for a number of reasons, and I 127 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: think we probably won't ever have people as smart as 128 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: them because we have TikTok now. But you know, they 129 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: sat around and just read books and they studied history. 130 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: They read the books and they discuss these ideas. One 131 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: of my favorite authors f A. Hayek. It's a Nobel 132 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: Prize winner in economics. He wrote a bunch of great books, 133 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: one of which is a highly highly highly recommend everybody 134 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: put on your list, which is the road to serf him. 135 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: If you haven't read that book, don't pass. Go open 136 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: up Amazon on your app and buy that book right now. 137 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: Road to serf him his seminal book, which is called 138 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: The Constitution of Liberty. And in that book it had 139 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: I believe, nineteen hundred citations in nine different languages. 140 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: Like whoa, nineteen hundred citations. 141 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: It's amazing, Like nobody's ever going to be that smart again, 142 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: because now we're distracted by all these things. Anyway, final 143 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: fathers are very smart, and they gave us a lot 144 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: of warnings. And if you read these warnings you can 145 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: see how relative they are for today. So for example, 146 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin, it's attributed to him or Jefferson, We're not 147 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: quite sure, but he says, those who give up essential 148 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: liberty in exchange for a little bit of temporary safety 149 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: deserve neither deserve neither liberty or safety. And we see 150 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: that all all the time, Right, everybody is giving up liberty. Fine, 151 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: I'll accept the lockdown. 152 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 2: If you keep me safe. Right, we see that all 153 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: the time. 154 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: So we've been given all types of warnings like that, 155 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: But what does that mean? 156 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: Like what is freedom? Well, you can define it different ways. 157 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: I've asked a lot of people these questions and I 158 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: get a lot of different answers to me. I would 159 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: like to go back to Fai x book The Constitution 160 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: of Liberty, and I think about liberty because freedom is 161 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: typically free from something. So I like to think about liberty, 162 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: which could be kind of interchangeable. But I think about 163 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: freedom being the freedom from coercion. And coercion is when 164 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: somebody forces me to take one of their options. So 165 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: you believe you have the option to choose, but the 166 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: reality is either choice that you make leads to their end. 167 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: So, for example, take the job or lose your job. Well, 168 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: I have a choice. 169 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: I can lose my job or take the jab. But 170 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: either way, either one of those options that I am 171 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: choosing now lead to your ends. See, I want to 172 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: be freedom. I want to be free to choose the 173 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: option that leads to my own ends, free from coercion. 174 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: So that's how we define that. Now, when you understand 175 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: how freedom works, ability to be free from coercion, freedom 176 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: isn't anything. Freedom isn't I can't just go slap you 177 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: in the face, and I can't harm another person. I 178 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: should just be free from coercion so I could direct 179 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: my life as I see fit. So I can choose 180 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: what I want to do, and really, at the end 181 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: of the day, it's always your choices. 182 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 2: That's why you see. 183 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: Twins born in the same family, the same neighborhood, same economics, 184 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: same school, same friends, same parents, same gene, same everything, 185 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: end up in two different places because along the way 186 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: they made different choices. Now it's pretty interesting today they 187 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: want to talk about how we all need to be equal, 188 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: not equal as opportunity, but equal on outcome. How can 189 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: we be equal on outcome if we can have different choices, 190 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: And there you have it. If we can just limit 191 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: everyone's choices, then maybe. 192 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 2: We can get everybody to an equal outcome. 193 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark 194 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: Ma Show, we're talking about the decentralized Revolution. We're talking 195 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: about how they stole your life. Start from a philosophical level, 196 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: we're going to take it down into something more, much 197 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: more tactical, so you can understand how this is impacting 198 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: your life and of course, what we can do about it. 199 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: I got to take a quick break though, we're gone 200 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: just for a second. Don't go away. 201 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: I'll be right back, all right, Welcome back. If you're 202 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Mas Show 203 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: and we are talking about how they stole your life. 204 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: And again we tarted from a very philosophical level. We're 205 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: diving down. 206 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 2: In deep to practical applications. 207 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: You can understand we're talking about we start talking about 208 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: taking away your freedom, which is part of your human 209 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: ability to express express yourself. Now, the one thing I 210 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: want to draw back to is that we have the 211 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: ability uniquely as humans to communicate. And so if you 212 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: pass laws that prevent me from communicating, that's taking away 213 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: part of my life. Now I can't think properly, or 214 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: I can't speak properly, I can't express myself properly. I'd 215 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: like to add that, you know, Benjamin Franklin said that 216 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: the freedom of speech, freedom of communication, freedom of speech 217 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: is the foundation upon all other freedoms are built. I 218 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: would actually say that I believe that the freedom to 219 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: transact is the foundation of all others. Now, you could 220 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: say that communication is a transaction, right, we're communicating value 221 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: to each other. But I would say, specifically, the freedom 222 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: to transact is the foundation of all others. So, for example, 223 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: the First Amendment in the Constitution guarantees us the freedom 224 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: of speech guarantees. Is that, however, if I don't have 225 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: money to buy a phone to go on social media, 226 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: or a computer to go on social media, or to 227 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: print flyers, or to build a website or write a blog, 228 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 1: do I really have the ability to speak? We're guaranteed 229 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: the freedom of assembly, But if I can't pay to 230 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: put gas in my truck to drive to the assembly, 231 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: or I can't pay for food when I get there, 232 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: I can't pay to get a hotel room, then do 233 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: I really have the freedom to assemble? Right? And so 234 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: without the freedom to transact, all of that falls apart. 235 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: You know, we've seen this been infringed in the number 236 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: of ways, and these things do get messy, and freedom 237 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: is messy, you know where we see cases like so 238 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: for example, where the Supreme Court ruled about this Colorado 239 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: case where they didn't want to bake a cake. They 240 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: don't want to make a cake for a certain group 241 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: of people. Now you could look at that and say 242 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: that they were the company that refused to bake the 243 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: cake was infringing on the other people's rights to receive 244 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: a cake. But the problem is, in my opinion, and 245 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: I believe this to be a priori truth, not just 246 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: an opinion, but you can decide for yourself. Is that 247 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: we have in a label of rights that have been 248 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: given to us by our creator. The Constitution has protected 249 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: those rights, but those rights can't infringe on your rights. 250 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: So I have a right to pursue my life as 251 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: I see fit, as I told you, free from coercion. 252 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: But I don't have a right to health care. I 253 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: have a right to free. 254 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 2: Speech, that's my right. 255 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 1: I don't have a right to healthcare. And the reason 256 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: why I don't have a right to healthcare is because 257 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: that means a doctor has to provide that to me. 258 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: But how can I have a right to your labor? 259 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 2: I can't. I can't have a right. 260 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: And so in this case, for example, if they said 261 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: that this cake shop must make a cake for this couple, 262 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: how can this couple have a right to those people's labor. 263 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: If someone has a right to my labor, if I 264 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: have to somehow the court forces me to work for free, 265 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: to provide health care or to make a cake or 266 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: whatever for you, then I'm a slave. Now my freedoms 267 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: have now been taken away. And so that's where the 268 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: line is drawn in my opinion. Now you could argue that, well, 269 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: you have to make the cake because those people have 270 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: a right to receive a cake. 271 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: Well they don't. 272 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: You can't have a right to receive a cake because 273 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: that requires someone else's labor. Now you should have the 274 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: right to bake a cake if you see fit, certainly, 275 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: but you can't have a right to have someone else 276 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: make a cake for you. But I'd love to hear 277 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: what your thought on that. Feel free hit me up 278 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: on social media at one Mark Moss let me know 279 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: what you think. I'd love to get some feedback from 280 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: you on that. We can see numerous examples of this 281 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: freedom of expression. So, for example, we've seen schools like 282 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: in New Jersey ban the use of religious clothing and 283 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: things like that. They've banned, you know, wearing Maga hats 284 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: for example. They've banned you know, American flags in some cases. 285 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: So where do those rights infringe on other people's You know, 286 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: I would argue that hanging a flag doesn't necessarily infringe 287 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: on my right. You might hang something that I don't 288 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: agree with. As a matter of fact, to one of 289 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: my properties I own in Texas, the neighbors hang some 290 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: flags that I don't agree with. Out there but that's 291 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: their right to hang them. It's also my right to 292 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: not to look at them if I don't want to. 293 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: But then you know, in you know, let's say gated 294 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: neighborhoods like homewords associations, for example, they could of course 295 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: pass rules of the Homewaners Association that. 296 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: You're not allowed to hang flags. 297 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: But that's not infringing to my right because I could 298 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: leave that neighborhood. I used to live in a gated 299 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: neighborhood and they did things that I felt I didn't 300 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: agree with, and so I left and I moved to 301 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: a neighborhood without an association, and now I can do 302 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: those things. Other examples of this, you know, freedom of 303 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: speech that we see or freedom of expression that we 304 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: see all the time. We could see many examples. So 305 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: for example, Jason al Dean recently, he's been sort of well, 306 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: depends on which side of the al you're on. He's 307 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: either been demonized or he's been celebrated for making a 308 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: song talking about like try that in a small town. 309 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: And you know, he talks about this song like you 310 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to get away with these types of 311 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: things in a small town. And he was basically saying, 312 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: what's been going on in the big cities. You couldn't 313 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: do that in a small town because the small town 314 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: has culture and has a community, and people have duties 315 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: and responsibilities to that community, and they value that community, 316 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: and they wouldn't allow you to get away. 317 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: With those types of things that you see in these 318 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 2: big cities. 319 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: Somehow that became a big problem, and now cancel culture 320 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: has come out in full force to try to cancel 321 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: him for that song. Now, never mind all these other 322 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: songs you hear about, you know, killing people and robbing 323 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: people and selling drugs to people. Never Mind all those songs. 324 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: Those are all okay. But if you talk about community 325 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: and sense of duty and responsibility, that's the problem. So 326 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: he got canceled for that. But that takes away his 327 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: freedom of expression, but also it takes away my ability. 328 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 2: To hear. 329 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: Interesting. So these are things, you know. Of course, we 330 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: see this happening through the Twitter files. It's been exposed 331 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: pretty well now that Elon must bought that and kind 332 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: of exposed it. They don't want you to see that 333 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: that they're doing that, and so they've been now trying to. 334 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 2: Get that hit in. They've deleted some records. 335 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: A judge basically said the Biden administration can no longer 336 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: reach out and use Twitter coerce Twitter to change that. 337 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: And of course the Bide administration doesn't like that, and 338 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: so they've even filed an appeal. Wait a minute, court 339 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: would a minute, No, no, no, you can't take away right. 340 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 2: You have to allow us to do that. 341 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: And so again they want to continue to take away 342 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: that right. Now, what about your property? As I kind 343 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: of set up before the commercial break, I was talking 344 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: about how really all property comes from our labor, which 345 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: is my life, meaning I have to expend my life force, 346 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: my life energy and the time. Time is the most 347 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: scarce ass that we have. I have to expend those 348 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: two resources my life in order to gain property. John 349 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: Locke he says that the right to property is the 350 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: most sacred of all rights of man, the right to 351 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: own property. Man owns property. That's the way it works 352 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: in the Bible. In the Ten Commandments, the eighth commandment 353 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: is that thou shalt not steal. Well, by saying thou 354 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: shalt not steal, that means that I can't steal, which 355 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: means I can't take away someone else's property, which means 356 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: that those property rights are given in the Bible. 357 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 2: By that. 358 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: Now, it's interesting to look at the opposite of this, 359 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: where Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto to summarize 360 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: communism in one statement, is the abolition. 361 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 2: Of private property. It's the exact opposite. 362 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: So you got thinkers like John Locke, you got the 363 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: Bible talking about having strong property rights and the problems 364 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: that break down in society when people steal that property 365 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: from you. And then of course you have Karl Marx 366 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: and communism over here saying no, it's all about abolishing 367 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: private property. 368 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 2: Let's get rid of that. 369 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: Now. We can talk about that from a many different 370 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: reasons of why that is a bad thing in my mind. 371 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: We'll come back to that in a little bit. But 372 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: if you're just tune in you're listening to the Mark 373 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: Maus show, we're talking about how they are still in 374 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: your life. Things in your life, like your freedoms, things 375 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: like freedom of expression, things like your property, which is 376 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: I said, is an extension of your life. 377 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 2: And it gets worse. Don't worry. 378 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the tactics here coming up next, 379 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: and of course, things that you could do to protect 380 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: yourself against that, So don't go away, because I'm going 381 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: to be right back. All right, welcome back if you're 382 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,239 Speaker 1: just tuning any listening to the Mark Maus Show. We're 383 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: talking about how they are still in your life, which 384 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: sounds like a big title and it is. We started 385 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: from the philosophical level of how your private property is 386 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: your life now that it's. 387 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 2: Being taken from you in a number of ways. 388 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: Of course, we talked about like sort of like the 389 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: most direct way, which is you know, taking your private property. 390 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: And we see that, you know, we actually really saw 391 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: that happen throughout the pandemic when we start having massive 392 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: protests all over the world, or really all over the world, 393 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 1: but yes in the United States. And what you saw 394 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,719 Speaker 1: which was very disturbing to me, was that when anybody 395 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: would try to defend their private property, they became like 396 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: a target. So you saw a couple examples of this. 397 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: So for example, you'd see people mobbing down the street, 398 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: and if a shopkeeper was out there trying to like 399 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: stand there so their windows wouldn't get broken, then they 400 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: became the target. We saw this in Missouri. A couple, 401 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: an elderly couple walked out on their porch and they 402 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: held guns because the mob had not only come into 403 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: the neighborhood, had gone onto their private property. They came 404 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: out and stood on a porch with guns trying to 405 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: defend their property, and they were criminalized. Not the people 406 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: that had trespassed threatening to whatever, do whoever they can 407 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: to do their house, but the people that protected it, 408 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: just like the houses armside the business try to protect it. 409 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: Even Kay, what was the case where the kid shot 410 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: had the gun and he shot those people? Writtenhouse, Kyle rittenhouse, right. 411 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: I mean they were there to protect he had been 412 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: asked by somebody, his neighbor, to help protect that piece 413 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: of property. 414 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 2: I think it was like a car dealership. I forget 415 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 2: the details. That wasn't the details. 416 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: But then they got singled out and they got attacked, 417 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: so over and over and over we can see trying 418 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: to defend your property becomes a problem. And of course 419 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: then you start running this whole campaign about defunding the police, 420 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: which strangely enough, I've sort of agreed with, but not 421 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: for maybe the reasons why you think so. You know, 422 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 1: this whole campaign that ran off of that of defunding 423 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: the police really was about, in my opinion, shutting the 424 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: police down and like lowering, you know, charges against crimes 425 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: and things like that. I haven't been a fan of 426 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: the police budgets blowing up because they've been militarizing, which 427 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: has been a really big problem. As a matter of fact, 428 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: we can see from nineteen seventy seven to twenty nineteen 429 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: police budgets grew from forty four billion to one hundred 430 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: and twenty three billion. You know, I believe in the 431 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: rule of law. I believe that we need a strong 432 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: rule of law. Nobody wants to be terrorized in their house. 433 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: And we can see over and over and over examples 434 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: of countries, but even the United States cities where the 435 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: rule of law falls down, where crimes aren't you know, 436 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: disciplined and enforced. When when laws aren't enforced, the town 437 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: breaks down. A good example of that, if you ever 438 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: want to give a good read, I've talked about it 439 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: here on the show before, is in Detroit. 440 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: It was named as a. 441 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: Model city, and the more they did to try to 442 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: make that a model city, the more it broke down, 443 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: and part of it was not really cracking down on crime. 444 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to live in an area with high crime, 445 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what level of socioeconomic status you're at. Doesn't 446 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: matter what race or gender you are. Nobody wants to 447 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: live in terror. And so while I don't want to 448 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: get rid of the police, because that is a problem there, 449 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: but I also don't want the police to become militarized 450 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: because I don't believe the best way to handle those 451 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: types of conflicts is through escalation. 452 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: It's really through de escalation. 453 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: And so anyway, that's a whole another topic. But we 454 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: can see that one hundred and eighteen billion was spent 455 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: funding police forces in the US in twenty eighteen, and 456 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: just to put that number into perspective for you what 457 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,479 Speaker 1: that means. We can see American police forces have the 458 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: world's third most expensive military organization, American police forces. Now America, 459 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, three hundred and thirty ish million people, small country, 460 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: but it's also not the biggest. But yet we have 461 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: the third most expensive military organization in the police, after 462 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: of course the US's official armed forces, and then China, 463 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: so China has four times the amount of people, but 464 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,719 Speaker 1: yet we spend more money. So I respect our police officers. 465 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: I certainly don't want to get rid of the police officers. 466 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of them driving tanks and 467 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: shooting first, I'm not a fan of that. What else 468 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: some other things that we can see though, is that 469 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: when they did run these you know, defund the police 470 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 1: campaigns in some of the big cities like New York City, 471 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Minneapolis, things like that, it's sort of backfired 472 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: and we saw crimes starting to explode in those areas. 473 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: And again because without the threat of jail, without the 474 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: enforcement of that, then people do more of it. So, 475 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: for example, I'm in California here, and of course I'm 476 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: sure you're well aware of the story of how San 477 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: Francisco basically fell into the pit of despair, really led 478 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: by Gascon who was the district attorney there. Well, then 479 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: LA thought that San Francisco fell so hard that why 480 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't LA want to do it? So they brought gas 481 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: Gone down to be the District attorney of Los Angeles, 482 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: and he came in and put all kinds of crazy 483 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: policies in place, including deciding to not criminalize and not 484 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: punish certain types of crimes, crimes like, for example, underage drinking. 485 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: So if you don't punish that, do you think more 486 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: underage kids drink? Things like driving without a license. Well, 487 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: if that's not a crime, do you think more people 488 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: without a license drive things like resisting arrest? If you 489 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: don't punish people resisting arrest, don't you think people would 490 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: resist arrest? I mean, why would I want to get 491 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: arrested if I could just resist it and not be punished. 492 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 2: But yet that we did. 493 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: And I advise you not to go to downtown LA 494 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: and take a look, but if you do, you'll see 495 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: exactly what happens from that. But it's also led to 496 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: massive amounts of polarization. Now, of course, in some schools, 497 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: even running the blue line flag, which is like the 498 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: I support the police, has become like a symbol of hate. 499 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: It's really created this massive amount of polarization. A lot 500 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: of it's driven by the media, of course. It's almost 501 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: like it's almost like you're living in two different worlds 502 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: depending on which new source you're living in. If you're 503 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: watching Fox, you're hearing all about the Biden crime family. 504 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: If you're watching CNN, you're hearing about all the charges 505 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: being brought against Trump. Now, both of those things are 506 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: happening at the same time, but one side is continued 507 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: to pound the table on one the other side is 508 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: talking about the other, but they're also talking about it 509 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: from different angles. So, for like example, during the pandemic, 510 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: CNN was like literally running their pandemic ticker at the 511 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: bottom showing how many people were getting affected and how 512 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: many people were dying like. 513 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 2: Fear fear, fear, fear, fear, fear of fear. 514 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: And so when they ran all types of polls, it 515 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: was no wonder that the typical base of CNN, the 516 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: left or the liberals or whatever you want to call it, 517 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: pulled way differently on how they viewed the pandemic and 518 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: what they thought the response should. 519 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 2: Then the side that watched other news sources. 520 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: Now this is not an advocate for censoring what we see, 521 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: but it is showing how these types of things lead 522 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: to massive amounts of a loss of freedom expression when 523 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: they start to control that. Now, a lot of it 524 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: was because people that tried to speak out and provide 525 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: alternative viewpoints were censored, and so while mainstream media pushed 526 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: one narrative, you couldn't really get. 527 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: Both sides of the of the aisle. You couldn't get 528 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 2: both sides of the to understand the issue on both sides. Now, 529 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 2: as that was happening. 530 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: We saw, like I said, not just the media becoming polarized, 531 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: but we also see politics being polarized. One thing that 532 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: you know, I wrote a book called The Uncommunist Manifesto. 533 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: Just shout out plug. 534 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: That if you haven't read it yet, you should just 535 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: go to Amazon and search the Uncommunist Manifesto. 536 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 2: It's like a booklet. 537 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: It's about an hour read, hour and a half readepending 538 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: how fast you read. And it was written sort of 539 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: as a counter to the original book, The Commontist Manifesto, 540 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: which is written by Carl Marx in the late eighteen 541 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: hunds i think eighteen sixty three, which has become one 542 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: of the number one books in both political science and economics, 543 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: which is actually really scary. When I read the book 544 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: for the first time, it was after the twenty twenty, 545 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 1: you know, when we had the twenty twenty riots going on. 546 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: I remember the leaders of BLM they said that they 547 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: were trained Marxist, and so I'm like, well, I believe 548 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: in going back to the source. Let me read directly 549 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: from the source material. So their trained Marxist, what does 550 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: that mean. Let me go back and read Carl Marx. 551 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: And so I read quite a bit of the work 552 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: about him, as well as the work he produced, including 553 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: the Communist Manifesto, And when I read it, I was like, 554 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: has anybody even read this book? Because I can't believe 555 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: people would be okay with this if they did so. 556 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: For example, talking about property, as I already referenced, he 557 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: writes in the book that to summarize communism in one 558 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: statement is the abolition. 559 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 2: Of private property. 560 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: Well, I suppose if you don't have any private property, 561 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,239 Speaker 1: you might think that's a good idea. But really what 562 00:26:54,280 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: the book highlighted was the struggle between two arbitrary classes, 563 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: the rich versus the poor. Now I say arbitrary, because 564 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: what makes you rich in what makes you poor? Is 565 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: it one hundred thousand? Is it two hundred thousands, five 566 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: hundred thousand, and five hundred million? And he says that 567 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: the rich are the oppressors and the poor are the oppressed. 568 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: So if I make an extra dollar, now I'm rich, 569 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: and so I'm automatically an oppressor. 570 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 2: Now, like, how do you divide that up? Right? 571 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: But yet that's what he did. But really it was 572 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: about pitting two groups of people against each other. And 573 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: that's the same playbook that they still do today, which 574 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: is taking any underserved section of the population and trying 575 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: to make them victims. Which that way, of course, you 576 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: need the government to help you. Just tune you're listening 577 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: to the Mark Maus Show. I got to take a 578 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: very quick break and I'll be right back. Don't go away, 579 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: bear back, all right, welcome back. If you're just tune in, 580 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: you're listening to the Mark mash Show. We're talking about 581 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: how they are stealing your life. Now, we've talked about 582 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: it from a very high philosophical level, We've gotten down 583 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: into a little bit more of the tactics. We talked 584 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: about it from a perspective of they're stealing your life, 585 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: such as in your ability or your freedoms. We talked 586 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: about how they're taking away your rights of human expression, 587 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: which are obviously innately unique to humans. And now I 588 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: want to talk about it to a little bit more 589 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: of a tactical way, and we'll talk about it from 590 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: an economic standpoint or your money. 591 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 2: Now, when you think about. 592 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: It, as I kind of set up in the very 593 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: beginning from a philosophical level, that I have to expend 594 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: my life's my life source, my life's energy in order 595 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: to acquire the property. 596 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: Money. 597 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: Money is where I could store that energy so I 598 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: could use it later. So let's say that I work 599 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: those extra four hours digging that hole, I get the money. 600 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: I can save that money so tomorrow I don't have 601 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: to work four hours. I can then deploy that money 602 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: to get the resources that I need. And so that's 603 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: the way that you can look at money like a 604 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: storage source of value, a storage source of energy. But 605 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: what happens is, as you're probably well aware, at least 606 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: if you tune into my show on a regular basis, 607 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: is that when they inflate the money supply, when they 608 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: increase more money, that means the existing money buys less 609 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: goods and services. So when you see prices going up, 610 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: it's not that prices are going up, it's that the 611 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: value the purchasing power of the dollars have gone down, 612 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: so it takes more dollars to buy those So the 613 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: reason why it's important to understand is because if I 614 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: put one hundred thousand dollars in the bank account ten 615 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: years ago, I was going to buy a house ten 616 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: years ago, but I thought the market's going to crash, 617 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: so I'll put one hundred thousand dollars in the bank, 618 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: and now ten years later, I want to deploy those 619 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: hundred thousand buy a house. But the problem is it 620 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: will buy me about half of the house that would 621 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: have bought me before. I still have the same one 622 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: hundred thousand currency units, but the value of those currency 623 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: units have been stolen away, stolen away by the money printer, 624 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: which is theft. So when you think about that, through inflation, 625 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: through money printing, they're stealing the value directly from my 626 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: bank without taking my currency units. They just take the 627 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: value away. But it's a way that they actually steal 628 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: my life. So for example, you hear about inflation, it's 629 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: come back down and a little bit. 630 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 2: It's down to about I. 631 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: Think the latest reading shows three point two percent, up 632 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: a little bit from the last reading. Put this into perspective, 633 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: what does that mean. That means they want to steal 634 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: only three percent of your life per year. Now the 635 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: Fed's target is two percent, so they only want to 636 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: steal two percent of your life per year, So you know, 637 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: only ten percent of your life over five years. No 638 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: big deal, right, Well, if we put that into some calculations, 639 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: think about it at eight percent inflation, this is the 640 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: last time I ran the calculations, but just for illustrations purposes, 641 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: at eight percent inflation, that puts the average income earner 642 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: in the United States, that puts that increases their cost 643 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: by about three hundred and twenty four dollars a month 644 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: just to have the same quality of life that before. 645 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 2: So with the quality of life you. 646 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: Had today, how many times you got to eat, how 647 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: much clothes you buy, you know, if you're eating steak 648 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: or whatever it is to maintain that same quality of life, 649 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: it went up by three hundred and twenty four dollars. Well, 650 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: if you make thirty two dollars an hour, that means 651 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: you now have to work ten hours more just to 652 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: have the exact same quality. 653 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 2: Of life that you had the month before. 654 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: Now, when I talk about stealing your life, if it's 655 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: because that's ten extra hours you have to live, I'm 656 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: sorry it worked to have that same quality of life. 657 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: That's ten extra hours of your life that you could 658 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: spend in a way that you see fit, to learn 659 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: a new skill, to start a new business, to spend 660 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: time with your wife so you have a good relationship, 661 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: or with your kids so you have a good relationship, 662 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: or in the gym for your own health or whatever 663 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: it may be. 664 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 2: It's your life. 665 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: You should be able to spend it as you see fit. 666 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: But now the government has stolen that from you, because 667 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: now you're forced to work those extra hours just to 668 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: maintain the life. Now you could not work those extra hours, 669 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: and then you could just have a lower quality of life. 670 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: Either way, your life has been stolen. I don't have 671 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: the data in front of me. I've used it many, many, 672 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: many times, but you can see, like the average hours 673 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: of work it required to buy the median home in 674 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy versus the average hours of work it takes 675 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: to buy the meeting home today, the car et cetera, 676 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: one share of the Dow et cetera, and over and 677 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: over and over. You can see that your life is 678 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: literally being stolen. 679 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 2: Now. 680 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: It hasn't always been the case. As a matter of fact, 681 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: these taxes aren't aren't super new now. Of course, if 682 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: you understand how America was founded, you know that, of course, 683 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: taxes have always been part of the rub. 684 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: Right. 685 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: There's the Great Boston Tea Party, where the United States 686 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: revolted against paying taxes to Britain. Didn't want to pay tax, 687 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: no taxation without representation. The amount of taxes they paid 688 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: were minuscule compared to what we paid today. But really 689 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: where taxes really got their hold, We saw them in 690 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: the Civil War in the eighteen sixties. They imposed a 691 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 1: at tax, a three percent income tax for the war, 692 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: and then. 693 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 2: After the war was over they dropped it. 694 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: But really where the income taxes got ratified where it 695 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: was in nineteen thirteen. And what's important to understand about 696 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen is why what else happened in nineteen thirteen. Well, 697 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: we saw the creation of both the IRS and the 698 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: Federal Reserve. So the Federal Reserve gold had been money 699 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: for all of history, and now the Federal Reserve went 700 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: to create fake paper counterfeit money out of thin air. 701 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: But why the heck would anybody want to use fake 702 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 1: paper money? Like imagine today someone says, hey, you should 703 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: start using this monopoly money here. You're like, no, why 704 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,239 Speaker 1: would I use monopoly money. I'm not going to do that. 705 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened. The Federal Reserve said, hey, 706 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: we printed this fake monopoly money, everyone should use it. 707 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 2: And everyone's like, well, we ain't going to use that. 708 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 2: So of course they had to come up with a reason. 709 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: How could we get people to use it. Someone had 710 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: a bright idea, here's what we're going to do. We're 711 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: going to create the Federal Reserve and we're also going 712 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: to create the IRS at the same time. 713 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 2: And here's what we'll do. 714 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: Since nobody wants to use this fake, counterfeit paper money, 715 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 1: monopoly money, what we'll do is we'll create the IRS. 716 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,239 Speaker 1: And now you have to work all year collecting that 717 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: fake money so you can send it back to us 718 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: at the end of the year. 719 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 2: Ah, that's a good idea. 720 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: So we saw the IRS and the FED put in 721 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: to act at the same time. Now, this is why 722 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: you hear a lot of times something like with bitcoin 723 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: where they're like, well, you know, bitcoin's not note ever 724 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: going to make it because we can't pay taxes in bitcoin. 725 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: And that's where that's where it goes back to really 726 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: creation of that. Now I have seen a few states, 727 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: I believe Colorado, I want to say, maybe Arizona. There's 728 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 1: a handful of states that are now allowing you to 729 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: pay your taxes in bitcoin. Anyway, I don't want to 730 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: go down that path, but we can see over and 731 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: over this is happening. And of course this is part 732 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 1: of what's known as Kensian economics, and really more today 733 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: is more pervasive in what's known as the modern monetary 734 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 1: theory and modern monetary theory theor risk believe they could 735 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: just print an unlimited amount of money, which to most 736 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: of us go but wouldn't that create a lot of inflation? 737 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: And they look at it sort of like think about 738 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: the money supply as like a bathtub where they could 739 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: print as much money as they want, and if the 740 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: water level, or if the monetary level starts getting too high, 741 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 1: then they pull the plug at the bottom, which is 742 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: the taxes, and then they can just tax the money 743 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 1: out of the system, and they can fill it back up, 744 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: and they can tax it back out. And somehow they 745 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: think they can control the entire economy by printing as 746 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: much money as they want and then just imposing taxes arbitrarily. 747 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: Of course, we have hundreds of years of facts that 748 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: show that that doesn't work. As a matter of fact, 749 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: there's been studies that show that regardless of what the 750 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: tax rate is, whether it's two percent, five percent, or 751 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: fifty percent, the percentage of revenue compared to GDP that 752 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: the government receives is always about the same. The reason 753 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: why is because incentives. Here in California, we have legalized marijuana, 754 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 1: and they thought it would be a good idea to 755 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: legalize it, and we'll just tax it and that way 756 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: will be a massive extra revenue source for the government. 757 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 1: The problem is that they got greedy and they put 758 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,839 Speaker 1: a massive tax on it. Now I don't work in 759 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: that industry, so I don't have the exact data, but 760 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: they have put a very very very large tax on it, 761 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: so large in fact, that most of the people involved 762 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: in the legal marijuana trade business can't make a profit. 763 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: So something like sixty percent of the marijuana in California 764 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: is still being sold black market. So if the state 765 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: would have said, hey, we'll just give like a more 766 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: modest tax rate of whatever, five or ten percent, they 767 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: would probably take a much larger share of the revenue 768 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: coming in because everybody would gladly pay five or ten 769 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: percent to be perfectly legal. 770 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 2: But at sixty. 771 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 1: Percent, I'll take my chances, I'll just go black market. 772 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: And so we can see over and over and over again. 773 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: The more that they do that, the more that they 774 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 1: try to steal your life, either through money printing or 775 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: through taxation. The more people revolt and how much it 776 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: backfires on them. Of course, it depends I guess on 777 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,439 Speaker 1: which side of the al you're on, whether you're looking 778 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: at inflation good or bad. At the end of the day, 779 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: what is good or bad? Unfortunately, I think most people 780 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 1: today look at good as something that helps them personally, 781 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: as opposed to like the greater good. I like to 782 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: think of good or bad as good being something that 783 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 1: takes me closer to my goals, and bad being something 784 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: that takes me further away from my goals. But again, 785 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 1: when we think about it from the world, it shouldn't 786 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 1: be your personal goals. 787 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 2: It should be a global goal. 788 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: And we can see that if we allowed people to 789 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,280 Speaker 1: have more of their life, we allowed them to build 790 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 1: into their own life, their families, their relationships, their health, 791 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: the world will be a better place. So I don't 792 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: support the government steal in our lives. But what do 793 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:01,320 Speaker 1: you think I'd love to hear from you? Hit me 794 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 1: up on social media at one Mark Moss, let me know, 795 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,600 Speaker 1: leave a comment of if you're listening to the podcast, 796 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 1: let me know what you think. So I cantinue to 797 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: bring more content like this to you. But that's what 798 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: I got today. 799 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,439 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. Until next time,