Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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In this episode, I explore the tech industry's paradox of rising hiring demands alongside AI advancements, emphasizing the need for skilled programmers to manage legacy systems. I reflect on personal growth, family values, and the importance of nurturing immediate relationships over external validation.

I discuss gender roles in STEM, questioning whether historical disparities stem from systemic issues or societal evolution. Additionally, I highlight the decline of meaningful relationships in our digital age and stress the importance of community engagement.

Through anecdotes and humor, I tackle serious themes like mental health and generational differences in dealing with political discourse. This episode provides a concise exploration of technology, personal choices, and the complexities of modern relationships.

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00:00Yeah good money everybody have been doing well seven million you from free domain and.
00:07Will stop at a couple of do a couple of social media stuff and this is interesting.
00:12So the question is out there which is if.
00:17I so powerful and it's helping everybody code so much better why are there still tech hiring.
00:23Well of course is always legacy code although it would be interesting to see how well i could clear up legacy code it probably is a little bit away from that because so much testing would be necessary but i'm sure i will be able to.
00:34Clean up legacy code and then at some point i will be able to upgrade legacy code rights as i mentioned.
00:40That i was once involved in a major project on tandem to upgrade millions of lines of code from cobalt seventy four to cobalt eighty five and that was.
00:51What i actually i had to write code to manipulate the code to upgrade it to the new compilation.
00:59Metrics so it was really quite something so there's a lot of legacy code out there and there's of course a lot of code that existing that needs to be legacy code needs to be maintained but sometimes you know programmers are always quitting and then you gotta bring programmers in to figure out the code base so.
01:16Where it's gonna be a problem though is a new new hires right and so you can see job postings relative to first quarter of twenty twenty one.
01:28And they are went up and now they're going down now again it's not.
01:33Catastrophic right although this is yet this is a hundred percent so the data in ninety one seventy five sixty six sixty five.
01:40Percent so it is in some places between nine tenths and two thirds of what it used to be so.
01:50I was i was a somewhat of a pioneer in the tech world in writing code to change code and writing code.
01:58To change programs and so i'm a little bit aware of should probably quite aware of how much i can do since i did it by hand i know how much i can do with this kind of stuff so it looks like tech is not gonna do particularly well.
02:10You know i just saw.
02:15So men men's dream this is this is important right i mean.
02:21I just saw that to tim pool is stepping back from his sixteen hour days.
02:29And he is now going to have a have a kid i don't know if he's married or not if he's getting married having a kid and you know for what it's worth to him like good for you like great decision great call.
02:40You can't sacrifice your entire life for the sake of an external cause that is not.
02:47Ideal you want to be able to raise your kids you know pass along your line raise your kids and transfer your values that way.
02:54As opposed to being a flash in the pan that changes a few people's minds and then you know often they'll change their minds whatever comes along who slightly more persuasive so it's a good cause good.
03:03Job and just look at this right this is what this is what you want in life and what you want to look at this.
03:08My dad comes it's down there watching something and his son gravitates to him right.
03:17And this age in particular where the kids are cuddly and it's just it's so it's such a beautiful time.
03:24And you want to have that kind of comfort with your kids and you want to just enjoy them enjoying your company so.
03:34That's the starting point playing this a little fast I didn't notice.
03:38Okay i probably want to change that for videos coming up so yeah remember that.
03:44Byron's daughter.
03:46Ada Lovelace was a great mathematician world's first computer programmer and so on and.
03:53It doesn't seem to be the case right it doesn't seem to be the case so you can read this you can pause and read this if you want.
04:03But there is and it's the same thing with the kind of the name of the woman who was supposedly programming the.
04:12Apollo missions and so on so it's a huge battle it's a huge ideological battle it's really really interesting and the ideological battle is something like this.
04:23Whether all of these great female mathematical and scientific geniuses throughout human history who would just suppressed and and cast aside.
04:34Or did society organize itself around evolved specialization between men and women and while there are of course are always exceptions to these specializations was it in general the case that.
04:47Society evolved to maximize resource production security and protection around the different sexes particular specialties.
05:01So in other words if you have an all male scientific college is that because it is much more efficient for society especially when resources are scarce to have an all male.
05:13A college because if you have been females then you've been of course are taking the most intelligent women often out of the.
05:21Dating marriage and reproduction pool but also then you have to create a separate dorms you have to create separate bathrooms you have to have accommodations there's going to be the inevitable problems of students having affairs and getting pregnant and so then you need to get married but if they get married again to drop out of the program and right so if you just have an all male scientific college is it because well you know society just hates.
05:42All of these female scientists and mathematical geniuses and so on they just hate them or is it well that in particular the time is scarce resources is that the most.
05:54Effective and intelligent way to maximize your scarce resources so whether all of these say wonderful let's say doctors right so if the town can only afford one doctor.
06:04If the town can only afford one doctor should it be a male or a female well if it's a female doctor either the female gives up on having children completely.
06:13And particularly in a time when birth control was not the common or effective she's most likely going to have an affair have sex get pregnant what people do.
06:24And so if you can only afford one doctor in the town do you want to make that doctor a male or a female what are the odds that people are going to get health care more or less.
06:36If it's a doctor is a male or a female same thing with an architect people need architecture.
06:42People that they want stained glass they is it that society said well because women are going to get pregnant a lot we can't have them in these essential roles.
06:51So this is the worst society rationally organized against differently evolved skills of males and females or males and females interchangeable and all differences.
07:02In opportunities and outcomes with the result of rank misogyny and so on right this is the big the big question.
07:08Now we know the answer and we know the answer based on evolution which is that society organize itself and was there oppression absolutely for sure but society organized itself.
07:19Around the evolved skills of males and females as a whole and there are of course there are no exceptions i wrote an entire novel about a brilliant woman in a.
07:3118th century a village in the middle of nowhere so i'm totally down with those exceptions but this is a political power system and.
07:43So yeah it's really really important i don't think that society because if it's if there was lots of untapped skills among women societies that tapped into those skills would do far better.
07:53So let's say that half of the female population are as great at science as the male population like just let's just say that well then if you didn't harness and tap into that brilliance.
08:05You would be way behind on the invention of gunpowder and crop rotation and muskets and bows and arrows and and all other kinds of technology and then you would outstrip.
08:16The other societies so yeah it's just it's really and it's just it's just there to set men and women against each other.
08:24So this one is interesting now it's almost certain this is not true yeah so i mean there's lots of ways that you can figure out if things are true or not.
08:32Which is it's just a picture of bono looking like.
08:36Getty leaves wasted and but it's probably not because no link to anything here right but bonus driver's car of a cliff with donald trump wins the twenty twenty four election so i don't come here for the truth but i come here for the lols.
08:49So is he gonna drive over the edge he should live stream.
08:56The tapes of that bad bono what did you do oh yeah this is the idea that everyone's blackmail promise.
09:02A favorite bonus story he was at the charity concert for african aids and got up on the stage slowly clapping his hands together while saying every time i clap my hands a child in africa dies of aids.
09:10Guy in the front row yes well stop fucking doing it in dark humor dark humor i didn't know he was still alive.
09:17One man drove in the name of trump one man without a vote one man suffering tds one man over the edge in the name of trump.
09:27Take your music catalog with you it's been a while since they've had a hit right.
09:31Don't people already have enough reasons to vote for him great news we accept the offer dear bono your terms are acceptable oh that's great.
09:41Finally the philanthropist or something philanthropic.
09:45Oh it's hot when we did all these celebrities and how can pay for trump now again it's probably not true i get that but it's pretty i just thought the um.
09:57No he's not british he's pretty he's looking more like susan surrendered every year i don't know kind of funny all right so probably not true but but the comments are funny.
10:05And this is this is this one i find kind of true in in life right so this woman writes me making fun of your crop rotation idea and that by holding our people back another five thousand years.
10:15Jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao right.
10:19You see this a lot people coming in with this sort of i know she's marking this right there midway takes and just making fun and rolling their eyes and all that kind of stuff.
10:30That is very funny stuff.
10:33So pregnancy announcement video it took me a moment because i didn't have the sound off.
10:39Let's kick it.
10:42Ice cream.
10:45It's a little lame okay this i thought was pretty funny i've spent a lot of time at the gym over the years.
10:51Okay this i thought was pretty funny uh i've spent a lot of time at the gym over the years.
10:57Gym times by personnel group 5 a.m psychopaths i'm not saying they're wrong 6 to 7 a.m normal
11:05people 8 a.m people who are late for work 9 to 10 a.m you don't have a job stay at home mothers
11:1111 a.m bottle girls bartenders nurses okay so i guess they're working late right 1 p.m weird
11:17post-lunch workout guy 3 p.m you work in tech sales oh that's so true 5 to 6 p.m normal people
11:24but no kids 7 p.m weirdly dead 8 p.m two a day people for round two 9 p.m dudes who got dumped
11:31recently or people with multiple kids oh yeah get back to the gym right oh that is funny that is
11:38funny weird post-lunch workout guy checking in that's great yes i just like 5 a.m psychopaths
11:48uh okay from the serious to the not so serious sorry from the not so serious to serious
11:55uh the indian government killed more indians between independence and 1970
12:01than the british killed throughout the entire period of the rush which is like 150 years
12:05right so um but as long as it's you know your government killing you i guess it's better right
12:11liam payne a singer rose to prominence through some simon cowell singing show and uh it's really
12:22tragic i mean this guy had severe mental health issues i think had suicidality uh in the past and
12:28you know great looking guy uh very wealthy uh famous uh talented uh and all of that a lot of
12:35charisma and uh according to this right i assume this is true um you know obviously i've not seen
12:41the report so uh take take all of this with a a grain of salt but he also had a seven-year-old
12:50son which is terrible so he had all of these drugs in his system and it just goes to show
12:54you you know looks talent fame wealth uh whatever um accolades everyone loves you
13:01you can do anything you want in life does not solve the demons right there is no external
13:06solution to the problem of insecurity uh this is really really good the the description of elon's
13:13very first hands-on meeting all hands meeting with twitter staff is insane they thought he was a moron
13:18after right leslie berlin twitter's chief marketing officer eat musk east musk into the q a with a
13:24softball why do you love twitter well let's see i find it like i learn a lot from what i read on
13:28twitter and what i see in the pictures video texts and memes that people create i also find
13:31it's a great way to get a message out over the phone when i want to say something and make an
13:34announcement i think twitter is the best way to do that he continued to ramble joking that
13:40some people use their hair to express themselves i use twitter employees were growing concerned i
13:45actually turned to a stranger in the comments and said what is happening right now one employee
13:48recalls wasn't this guy supposed to be a genius so um i don't know whether this is people i mean
13:57i doubt this was recorded right so this is people just reactions right and when somebody is as
14:04unbelievably brilliant as elon musk and by the by elon musk is a guy who made the right decision
14:11with hair transplants i mean he made the right decision with hair transplants he i don't think
14:15he would look as good or maybe be as as popular without hair but so what is he saying what do
14:22you love about twitter well i learn a lot from what i read on twitter and so he's saying it's
14:27a source of news and it has turned out that twitter is the number one source of news get a
14:31message out of the phone make an announcement that's the twitter is the best way to do that
14:34right so you receive news and you provide news and announcements so it's a news and information
14:39exchange medium and that's important he doesn't say well i like seeing my family's um vacation
14:46pictures uh he doesn't say it's a great way to eat women he's saying that it's used to exchange
14:52important information which tells you that he's not going to be into censorship right so people
14:58are like i don't understand this guy and therefore he's an idiot right that's the midwit phenomenon
15:03right berlin asked musk how twitter employers could earn his trust and how we plan to earn
15:07theirs in return musk demurred see this that's a that's a girl question right how do how do we how
15:12do we share trust musk demurred it's like if someone's getting useful things done then that's
15:17great but if they're not getting useful things done then i'm like okay why are they at the company
15:23so the the guy might have hoped this meeting would come for twitter workers but must seem
15:27to have no interest in doing that of course not he's he's an engineer he's a productivity guy
15:33it's just important to give us trust and comfort it's like the only the only trust and comfort
15:37that you have at a job is producing significantly more than you consume like that's all that's all
15:43it is if you uh if you are paid a hundred thousand dollars and you produce two hundred thousand
15:48dollars you're probably okay so so that's it right uh so he's unifying philosophy uh we should take
15:58the set of actions most likely to extend the scope scale and lifespan of consciousness as we know it
16:02what sort of actions improve things at a civilizational level and improve the probable
16:05lifespan of civilization civilization will come to an end at some point but let's try to make it
16:10last as long as possible right and it would be great to understand more about the nature of the
16:13universe why we're here meaning of life where things where are things going where we come from
16:17can we travel to other star systems and see if there are alien civilizations there might be a
16:21whole bunch of long dead one planet civilizations out there that existed 500 million years ago think
16:26about the span of human civilization for the end of the first writ writing it's only about 5 000
16:30years many employees are stunned this is someone who is either quite stupid or hasn't given this
16:36much thought a former engineer said a former but either way he is not taking this seriously
16:42it holds the company and product and us the employees in contempt another employee manager
16:47left the meeting and told his team that if they ever ran a meeting like that they'd be fired
16:51he did not land the plane yeah so you know you're a bit smart uh elon is an idiot and uh right
17:01ah we should take the set of actions most likely to extend the scope scale and lifespan of
17:05consciousness as we know it right so that's free speech so it means that he's really really into
17:09free speech as uh you know as white males tend to be so oh that's funny that's funny
17:18oh yeah do a leap why is it that uh you have to be a stripper to be a singer these days
17:23i guess it's just i don't know and day civilizational stuff and all that
17:28uh now uh pearl davis said i went through the same challenge tim cost is going through right now i
17:33really do feel for him i had to cut 80 of my staff because i just couldn't do it anymore
17:37i'm not sure exactly what she's referring to um i think tim pool um i think he said he has like 30
17:44employees and 10 contractors and they were just having technical issues didn't get like swatted
17:4913 or 15 times and uh it's it's really brutal and i think he's involved in a lawsuit now against
17:56kamala harris's campaign and so on so it's a lot it's a lot so um godspeed why would a woman in
18:04her 20s want to date a man who says women in their 30s are old and ugly you do know that
18:08the women in her 20s is going to be 30s one day uh yes uh that that is right uh but um
18:16he says that women in her 30s are older and i mean nobody really says that women in their 30s are
18:22ugly uh but the reason that you want to date a woman in her 20s is so that you're not rushed
18:27when it comes to having children i mean it's really that simple right you're just not rushed
18:32for having children and i mean i felt this uh i dated an older woman when i was in my early 30s
18:39and um that clock was just tick tick that metronome was just going on in my brain
18:43it's just going on in my brain which is you just don't have time everything's got to be a rush
18:48so um it's not that uh this is quite funny uh this is as the woman says when i start panicking
18:56because i created a sequel schedule in my head and people are being too laid back and straying
18:59from the timeline the face is perfect and the you know the perfect makeup and the perfect it's
19:06really really good this happens and how much do we create our own stress with these secret timelines
19:13oh fraud just continues like wildfire through the scientific community it's brutal the punishment
19:20for science misconduct is according to elizabeth bick nothing all these men are still running
19:24lab paid professors um so and to me if if if it is true that alzheimer's researchers
19:32committed fraud uh then they condemned untold numbers of people to potential mental decline
19:39absolutely appalling absolutely appalling uh college women admit they only vote for kamala
19:44because of abortion uh i won't go through all of this but look at that 49 million views um
19:52that really is something that really is uh something uh the dehumanization of the unborn
19:58is really astounding they just they're just completely not classified as a human beings
20:05why even go to college anymore well so this is what happens when you give people useless busy
20:13work right when you teach people memorization and not how to think how to research how to reason
20:19how to argue how to debate then if you teach people skills that can be easily replaced by
20:24computers then they will use those right i mean it's like the slide rule everybody used to know
20:30how to do a slide rule and all of that and now that's all gone because everybody has a calculator
20:35in their pocket right so philosophy cannot be replaced by computers all right uh sad story uh
20:43this was big six and a half million views somebody says i turned 41 in 30 minutes i've no wife
20:48no kids my father is gone i haven't talked to my mother in nearly 20 years and my relationship
20:51with my sister isn't great i'm not going to pretend i'm happy about any of it and i'm not
20:55sure why i'm telling you guys this maybe it's because i think about these things a lot i'm not
20:59looking for advice or sympathy i guess i'm just getting it off my chest trying to be transparent
21:03with you uh i'm just another guy on the internet whose life hasn't turned out the way i thought it
21:08would thank you all for being here especially those of you i interact with regularly so
21:14um and it's very tough right this so then andrew tate chimes in whose fault is all of this there's
21:23only one correct answer for rectification and he says i'm not blaming anyone dipshit this is why
21:28your brother is cooler than you so this could be why he's having trouble uh finding um finding a
21:35wife because if he reacts to criticism with aggression um then you know my sympathy dries up
21:43a little bit as a whole right uh life hasn't turned out the way i thought it would so that's
21:50kind of passivity now one of the things that you'll notice when people are passive and you
21:55point out their responsibility they get aggressive that to me is the real definition of passive
21:59aggressive is that if you're kind of passive in life and then people point out that you're
22:02responsible for your life you get aggressive as this guy did with uh i'm not blaming anyone dipshit
22:08and uh so and andrew tate i assume is saying whose fault is all of this there's only one
22:15correct answer for rectification yours so i'm not blaming anyone he's like he's asking you to take
22:19responsibility for your life and say i'm not blaming anyone dipshit and uh so that you when
22:25somebody is doing the self-pity thing and then say that well my life just didn't turn out this way
22:29and people say well you're responsible for your life well so and also why have you not talked to
22:36your mother in nearly 20 years right obviously i'm the last guy to say that with any degree of
22:40criticism but why have you not talked to your mother in nearly 20 years uh what happened and
22:45so on right so probably he grew up with a controlling mother made him from powerless
22:49he's drifted through life and he's panicking as you should at that age if you don't have it right
22:54have you ever wished to view the world from a completely new perspective this red and cool
22:58maps is here to blow your mind population density in china so this is i mean it's even bigger in
23:02canada but that's a north-south thing on the 48th population density in china six percent live
23:07in half and 94% live in the other half the world according to fish
23:13uh male female ratio topography of the usa i mean if you haven't noticed this like that's
23:17kind of crazy right i mean it's kind of flat and then you know minecraft vesuvius eruptions over
23:22on the the left side right uh which counts yourself capybaras and all of that the most
23:29western point in china is closer to germany than it is the most eastern point in china
23:33so that is like vancouver to obviously vancouver to toronto or something like that
23:39some somebody was flying from england to toronto and they asked the relatives
23:44of vancouver to meet them there and they said well you should meet them there you're closer
23:47ah kind of strange right so the size of the roman empire at its height compared
23:54to the united states just kind of neat so anyway it's just neat maps neat maps
24:00all right one or two more we care for 1250 elderly people
24:04average age 84.5 roughly 30 of them have not received a single visitor this year
24:11isn't that sad and that's a single visitor this year how many people
24:17are uh getting maybe one visit a year right
24:22so i work in home health care the number has to be even higher at their personal places as well
24:29i'm sometimes one of the only people they talk to that day
24:33yeah so you get see this is the thing like you go from automatic relationships to earned
24:37relationships over the course of your life right so i mean for me when i was a kid i was just at
24:43the tail end of the baby boom and i think it ended in 64 and was born in 66 but i i
24:53obviously had a family when i was growing up had extended family so those were automatic
24:57relationships and then i would be able to go out of the little apartment building that we
25:03lived in on a council estate estate sounds highfalutin but it certainly was not i would
25:07be able to go out and there would always be you know 10 to 20 kids to play with
25:13kids from the neighborhood it was virtually traffic free because it was kind of tucked
25:17away from the main road and kids from the neighborhood and you could always find something
25:21to do you could always find people to hang with right and then of course you're in school you
25:24meet people you're in university you meet people and so you just have this constant like the first
25:29quarter century of your life is about automatic relationships and then after that people don't
25:34care people you meet they have their own automatic relationships i mean i remember this when i
25:40i got out of high school i did summer school so i could get out of high school early
25:44and then to make money for my family of course as you know i went to go on
25:49gold pan and prospect for 18 months in the wilderness and sometimes we were
25:53based in small towns and i spent a couple of months in thunder bay
25:59and i lived with the woman that i worked with and we would go and do our days
26:07gold panning prospecting we would come back have dinner and all of that and
26:12how do you meet people i mean how do you meet people i got a gym membership at the
26:19university of thunder bay lakehead i think it's called i got a gym membership there and i would
26:23chat with the guys you know we'd be in the sauna i'm like hey i'm new to town i want to go see a
26:27movie and of course everyone was like keep your towel wrapped tightly bro and it's tough to meet
26:32people it's tough to break into friend groups it's tough to meet people when you're new in town
26:37and so people have their own lives and you can i'm telling you man you can despawn like that
26:43you can just you can despawn like that and be careful of that man build your relationships
26:49make your sacrifices be there for people help people build a community add value ask for value
26:56because most of your automatic relationships will fade away i mean your parents will die
27:01people move away friends move away they get married and and so you you have to constantly
27:07renew your relationships or all of the automatic crops planted planted when you're young will fade
27:12out the last one here 45 of gen z liberals and 39 of millennial liberals would end a friendship
27:20with someone who expressed an inappropriate political view only 12 of boomer conservatives
27:24and 40 of gen x conservatives would moderates are the most politically tolerant in this survey
27:29so uh you know this is the against me argument right so they'll they'll cut you off for the
27:36sake of politics so they take it seriously they'll cut you off for the sake of politics
27:42that you know like so when i said you know politics are kind of serious and people who
27:46want to use violence against you for peaceful activities on your behalf uh are not your
27:51friends um of course i was called intolerant culty and blah blah that's just because they
27:55wanted to reserve that weapon of ostracism for themselves like when i talked about ostracism as
27:59a force for virtue the bad guys attacked me as being a terrible guy because they want to reserve
28:04the power of ostracism for themselves right they don't want uh people who are interested in
28:09political freedom and free speech they don't want us to have the power of ostracism so they'll call
28:13us intolerant and culty and all of that and so it's just obvious right why i mean they'll do it
28:18obviously they're not against it they know the power of ostracism they just don't want the power
28:22of ostracism to be in the hands of virtuous people so everybody who attacked me and called me bad
28:27and intolerant and culty well y'all got played and handed the world over to the bad guys and uh
28:33well we all know how that's going to play out so uh yeah men with older wives relative to their
28:37own age are more likely to die young men with wives who are younger than them are less likely
28:41to die young so you know cause effect it could be that guys are more healthy and can get younger
28:46wives it's you know correlation is not causation but it's interesting all right i have to go do a
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