Join the 17k heretics on my mailing list: andrewgoldheretics.com. Here are your timestamps: 0:00 Rob Henderson Highlights 0:52 Luxury Beliefs 1:37 Defund the Police Ridiculousness 3:12 Queers for Palestine 4:07 Luxury Beliefs on the Right 4:52 How Luxury Beliefs Propelled Rob Henderson 6:22 A Woke Agenda 7:52 Social Media vs Legacy Media 9:52 The Weird Spike in Woke Words 12:32 Islam & Mass Immigration 13:52 Robin DiAngelo’s Luxury Beliefs 15:37 How Rob Henderson Has Changed His Mind 18:22 Does Intent Matter? 19:12 Rob’s Homeless Upbringing 20:52 Asian vs Hispanic Oppression Olympics 22:42 Adopted Father Left 24:12 Becoming a Trouble-Maker 25:52 Rebelling Against Academia, Defending Jordan Peterson 27:52 Politeness is Scary / JD Vance 31:22 What Rob’s Old Friends Think of Him Now 32:52 Air Force, Yale & Cambridge University 34:52 The Hypocrisy of Students 37:52 This Student Said THIS was Trauma! 40:52 Feeling Mexican? 44:52 Elite Unis More Likely to Be Pro Hamas 46:32 JD Vance, Trump & Abortion 48:22 The Happiness Lottery (Genetics) 55:22 Mind-Reading Madness 59:02 A Heretic Rob Henderson Admires
This is what I want to know. Most important topic. I think it is far more complicated than a single or few who. Andrew, please look it the fact that the Qatar gov donated FORTY BILLION to US universities in a short time period. WAY higher than any other nation. Followed by the Saudis and other Arab nations.
They found devices that go boosh with a women linked to Antifa and gave her 14 days in prison. She's linked with over 30 riots and her friends attended court faces masked crying 'we love you'. These people are psychopaths.
its always the case, I grew up on a council estate full of drugs and crime, yet I see privileged uni brats screaming about legalizing weed because they smoked a few in their dorms with their mates, they have not got a clue, I think anyone advocating it should be forced to spend 6 months living on a sink estate full of weed heads mugging people for cash and watching their life slide and the dispair of their families, I feel the same way about everything, advocating for more immigration? then spend 6 months in an area where the local council dumps them, spend some time in temp accommodation trying to get permanently housed, and jobs too advocating for gender ideology? spend 6 months volunteering at a womens shelter, see how the court system treats women etc.
Immigration is a HUGE luxury belief here in Canada. Us Canadians have no problem with immigration initially. Our government is so detached from reality that they think its perfectly fine to increase the immigration level faster then our infrastructure can increase. It's a nightmare
It boggles my mind that the Left don't see the huge trauma that immigration is: for the wealthy it may be exciting and adventurous. For those in crises and poverty it is the probable severing of family, community and country, no jetting back and forth for holidays and gorgeous Insta moments. It will be decades of hard grind learning new language and culture, feeling un-moored and insecure and deeply depressed/anxious. To provide support is a no-brainer...to facilitate it in such incredible numbers that providing good support is impossible? Crazy and cruel
So enjoyed this discussion. We grew up poor in the UK, my dad was in prison when I was born, in the late 50s. I had a very dysfunctional, abusive childhood, but decided to raise my children with love and education. My 4 children are all professionals and one of my sons attended the prestigious University of Cambridge, as a mature student, as did Rob Henderson. I loved his story and relate to the difficulties of growing up, without protection.
Well we live within luxury here, but are forbidden to partake unless we are wealthy. So there will always be those who are unwealthy who resent this, and will seek to tear down the system that keeps them poor. SO, rather than help themselves to succeed within the rules of society, they seek to WIN in some other way ...like how a barbarian wins, or an animal wins during a hunt. A visceral victory is what the affluent non-thinkers desire! Something that makes them feel alive and covered in the blood of their fallen foes. Barbarism must inherit the Earth ..and thus some portion of humanity must take to the stars. Bro
There's another term as well - "intellectual decadence." We focus on things that only a decadent people have the time/money to worry about. And we do so, to our own detriment, due to the notion that time is finite and every second we spend worrying about woke issues is a second we could be devoted to doing something productive or simply enjoying leisure, both of which are preferable to what we're currently doing.
Most to All socialists are champagne socialists, especially Marx who was a lazy bum who never worked a day in his life and lived off his family's wealth and that of Engles.
Finally, a term for the nurturing of horrible and harmful ideas… as long as those advocating for said beliefs can’t be adversely affected. Thank you, Mr Henderson!
This was quite an interesting interview. Thank you for featuring him. I hadn't heard of luxury beliefs before but I agree 100%. My son is a police officer in a small city in So Cal in which most are working class. I asked him if there were any protests regarding defunding the police and he said "no, most of these people have to get to work in the morning."
luxury beliefs sound like modern-day Plato's noble lies. it is fascinating that to see modern-day parallels to ancient Greek political terms being used. history is repeating.
I've been saying this for years. I just get ignored when they find out I didn't get a college degree. I guess my southeast Asian working class self doesn't know anything.
The nuclear family is one of the few things that has survived since the beginning of time and is a proven marker of becoming a productive and self sufficient adult. Of course it has to be done away with.
@pooheadlou The TERM is modern. But the concept is literally older than human beings. It exists in nearly ever herd-based or social animal group, including humans. All a nuclear family is is a mother, father, and one or more kids. The concept existed since before language.
Well it also has to be done away with for these neo Marxists as it's the only place in which the state has no say in the moral and political instruction of children.
Isn't it kind of strange that we call these people "intellectuals" who hold these luxury beliefs when the beliefs I feel like require you to be extremely dumb and void of any logic?
I enjoyed this interview very much. Rob Henderson is a straight forward speaker. He kind of touched on it but not everyone needs to go to a university. Trade schools are another option, especially as there are so called plumbers, electricians, and contractors who are not qualified to be doing the job.
I never miss a chance to listen to Rob Henderson. Knowing his background and how he moved away from such a chaotic upbringing gives him more credence than any academic or government official.
I wonder about creativity being as valuable as intelligence. I have always struggled academically, but my work around was my creativity, not just in aesthetics but in finding ways to work around barriers.
Yes it's a silly system that only recognises academic results where only a small percentage have the raw intelligence. They've lowered the standard so much that the degrees are useless and meaningless and other talents which are useful are not utilised or developed in the crush to be " university educated". It's not good for the academically talented because they cannot be nurtured either. It's a mess.
One of the reasons they have to keep people generationally poor is if everyone had a leg up in life, who is going to do all the jobs nobody wants to do?. We can't have a society full of doctors and judges, we need the little people being coffee makers ,cleaners and all the other "normal" jobs that make society a nice place to live.
Sewer workers, garbage collectors, water treatment workers, plumbers, mechanics, engineers, pest control. They are the people that make life "normal". Without them the whole place literally turns to sh*t.
This is the excuse given, for allowing mass immigration of unskilled workers, as well. I think it is less a matter of having members of society willing "to do all the jobs nobody wants to do", and more a matter of paying them enough, so that they don't mind doing them, and can provide a decent living for their family.
@@corinnewatts6683these people get paid pretty decent wage though. We still need toilet cleaners, typists, fast food serves, carers. These people make pittance.
Love Rob Henderson, so balanced and well spoken. I am in my sixties, grew up in the 70s and witnessed these luxury beliefs through university even then
I disagree with the notion that they don't intent harm. The most vile and intolerant people around belongs to the tolerance crews. There is no limit to what they are capable of as several movements have proved lately.
This was eye opening I enjoyed the conversation. I was a teacher for 20 years. Towards the end of my career the two biological parents were about 20% of my classes.
Yes the words are deliberately weaponized for social engineering purposes. They are usually the opposite to the intent - such as "keeping you safe" usually means "exploiting your fears".
I know what it is like with a difficult childhood. Mine was radically different compared to his, but in some ways it motivated me in much the same way. It led to me stumbling on the two paradoxes of reason. In my case, academics split with one faction pro and the other wishing I were dead. (No exaggeration). Excellent post. Well done.
I do not have time or money for luxury beliefs. I am barely treading water and trying not to drown in bills, food prices, medical bills and prescriptions, utility prices. Heck, I pay $140.00 a month for internet
Rob Henderson is a great mind looking outside of the accepted software 😊 Surviving insecurity as a powerless child without the ability to change their situation 🎉 Brave new world 😊 You survived.
The luxury belief of thinking that people work under the table for minimum wage. Illegals working construction rarely work for minimum wage or less. The tax structure actually makes it possible to pay under the table workers 150% of minimum wage or more and still come out ahead as the employer.
I don't think the problem with England's immigration is economic contribution. I think it's mostly around the way they treat others (ESPECIALLY WOMEN). Alex Phillips talks about this a lot. She's brilliant.
I think young elites will promote their own righteous beliefs even if they thought or knew it would not be great for poor people. It would be the fault of the poor, they would think.
Agree. I was just at the point where he explained you will be happier poor, going to church, married and have a friend. Well that is so simplistic!! And does not take into account environmental factors. We are all so different, that won’t make everyone happy. However, I did go to church years ago, and I went every week. I must admit I found an inner peace in me, and I was calmer and happier. I would like to go back, I found I’ve been so busy, doing a degree and now a new demanding job. But I will go back, it was great for the soul, and the people there were so caring, and looked after each other. It was nice to belong to something bigger than myself if that makes sense
@@marieyoung3113 One thing we all miss perhaps in this modern life is working actively for the greater good of those around us. Back, long long ago, when the life of all in the “village” depended on many people (I won’t say all of the people as there must always be the sick, weak and other folks who can not really participate), there must have been satisfaction in working towards some common goals that helped everyone. We are so separated now. We all go on our own way to work or school without reference to others. I would think that going to church (or any religious service) regularly would bring a feeling of community and shared goals. I’m not a church going person, but I have found a small amount of peace and satisfaction from working with some of the women in my neighborhood who have said they have no friends and always feel alone. We just meet once a month in the community center and chat and drink tea as women do. We have all benefited with less loneliness and looking forward to seeing each other. These days in our modern life, a neighborhood is often just a collection of houses where the people living there have little to do with each other. That is our biggest problem, I think.
The Tiger Mom thing; Being brought up like that can be really traumatising. It's interesting to not that soo-ee-side rates in East Asia among students and teachers are among the highest in the world. In extreme cases, EVERYTHING is sacrificed for academic 'success', even family relationships and the mental health of the child. I have seen it first hand.
We have to develop a way to hold the academics and public sector workers who implement and support luxury beliefs and theories that consistently fail liable for their implementation of these delusional theories.
married men are happy. married women aren't really happy. The happiest people are married men and single women. Everybody would like to have a wife and everything that a wife brings to a household with so little investment.
I wonder what a society would look like if every one was a white collar worker. That would mean no one was a cashier, or a waitress. No one would be working for MacDonald's, or Wendy's or KFC. No one would be working in a warehouse loading trucks. No one would be a truck driver. Etc etc. See how this could be a very bad thing?
I’d have to push back a little bit on the “trickle down” definition… A, I haven’t heard that term used in 15-20 years and B, even if used now it just means less taxes, regulation and just overall less Gov to help those that truly provide livelihoods and drive the economy. What’s maddening to me is that people still try to argue about what actually creates economic growth and prosperity… the Gov doesn’t create jobs or revenue and the fact that the Left and Democrats still debate this shows just how dishonest and incompetent they’re as leaders.
Cultural appropriation is such a stupid concept. Every culture borrows from other cultures. Also, why is it only other cultures are important and other cultures borrowing from American culture is unimportant? Such stupidity.
The abortion "topic" always bewilders me. I don't see any need for there to be an ideology or politics around it, for govt or academia to be involved in it, as they recently have taken it upon themselves to do. It has always been a matter for the individuals involved to decide on, using their own free will, personal beliefs and situation. Edit: to clarify there should not be an overarching, "one size fits all" way to think about abortion as a topic. It is exceedingly personal and specific to each individual.
Gary Lineker....I think his views on immigration _could be_ considered luxury beliefs. Well, for the moment anyway...one day even the rich, sanctimonious & smug will feel the change in crime stats.
Thatcher policies worked a d i. The 90s the ricj poor gap was at it lowest. Blair comes along with trickle-down wealth in the 00s, and now the wealth gap is the biggest it's ever been
land rights for gay whales!!!!!!! (that was irony back in my day and it seems more applicable today than way back then. i am 62) altogether now....land rights for gay whales!!!! another great episode mr gold, never heard of luxury beliefs....great description, i will use them!!!
Trickle down economics is the opposite of a luxury belief. Trickle down economics directly benefits, rich people who support it, while it directly harms poor people who believe in it. The definition of a luxury belief is something that harms others, while the person who holds it is sheltered from those harms.
Starts off with a common fallacy. "Trickle down economics" 1. This is a slanderous name by Democrats and does not represent the idea, at all. 2. The idea is that a good economy is good for EVERYONE, so a policy that helps the rich is not a "bad" idea just because it helps the rich. If it is helping everyone, then stop being so envious just because it also helps the rich. 3. When trying to turn an economy around, you have two options. Improve conditions for the typical employee or improve conditions for the typical employer (which includes small businesses). It is indisputable that efforts to help the employer are more effective and help everyone, where helping the employee tends to only create inflation due to this almost always being some kind of handout or comes at the detriment of the employers, so there are fewer jobs. Democrat economic ideas are almost always about buying votes by making people believe we need democrats to give handouts, so they hated the Reagan economics despite how obviously successful they were. So instead, they mischaracterized the ideas and slandered them as "trickle down". Him perpetuating this fallacy popularized by Democrats shows he REALLY was not prepared for this question. Additionally, he is empirically wrong to claim capitalism inherently concentrates wealth.
The reason for the Ukraine War is standing outside 1240 Yates St, Victoria. His name is Kyle or Kai. He wears the Ukraine flag colours. He has been out there for hours and is freezing to death and emotionally manipulated. I called the police ambulance but the police were woke g no sending and tried to blame the victim suggesting he may have a weapon. This is criminality to a high degree. Dude here says it’s summer so all ok. So shocking. It is currently 10 degrees, feels like 9. There is no heating at this My place shelter. Criminal Enterprise Very Clearly.
Andrew: have you listened to “Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman” on the Tortoise TH-cam channel? I didn’t know his father was a Scientology OG. (Episode 3)
Sometimes kids don't receive any kind of personal attention They are lost and confused 😕 Feel unable to concentrate on anything but mindset distraction 😌 Some are intellectuals 👏 😌 Different brains learn in different ways and some different ways are amazing.
"Racism", "sexism" and "homophobia" are not 'woke' words, nor are they politically correct. They are common or garden words describing everyday factors of the 21st century in developed countries. Still, saves me watching the rest of this utter bullshit.
Join the dots between all the troubled souls in the decaying western world and i guarantee you'll find that before the drugs, the alcohol, the depression and whatever else ails you'll find they hail from a broken home. We have so normalised selfish divorce that we fail to recognise it as the root cause of our problems. Divorce and family breakdown destroys a child's faith and innocence.
My parents divorce was the best thing to happen in my childhood. When they were married they'd physically fight, which I saw many times. Once they divorced, they were friends. My dad would come over to see us nearly every night after work. He's long dead, but he's still the best man that I ever knew.
@@justanothernick3984 Given his experience and the amount of work he put into developing his ideas I'd say that makes him an authority compared to the majority of social media commentators out there that have not put in any effort whatsoever.
Redistributing wealth is not a viable corrective measure. Teach work ethic and prudence. Teach marketable skills. along with mastery of basic math, basic finance, and economics, as standardized high school curriculum. Entire neighborhoods of young, strong, working age people wasting their time and money on destructive endeavours, and wasteful activity,, then crying "Oppression" ...and it goes on generation after generation
He did not come up w this idea. He coined a 2 word pop culture phrase. I’ve read about other people writing about this same idea from dates that predates this guys entire career.
Luxury belief to have these chats and hash out these ideas. It is a very hungry man who sits with legs crossed and mind open waiting for duck to fly in.
All this Equivalency of happiness is complete BS as far as I can tell. Help people with adequate income for food and housing and they will be more likely to be happy.
Whilst it's true that hard working immigrants can bring dynamism and innovation to a new country, I can't help thinking they're taking that away from their old country. And I will NEVER blame people for wanting a better life, but there's so many issues with the mass amount of migration we have now. I think wealthy countries should do much more to help the poor shitty countries to do better, thus obviating the need and desire for such huge migration
Join the 17k heretics on my mailing list: andrewgoldheretics.com. Here are your timestamps:
0:00 Rob Henderson Highlights
0:52 Luxury Beliefs
1:37 Defund the Police Ridiculousness
3:12 Queers for Palestine
4:07 Luxury Beliefs on the Right
4:52 How Luxury Beliefs Propelled Rob Henderson
6:22 A Woke Agenda
7:52 Social Media vs Legacy Media
9:52 The Weird Spike in Woke Words
12:32 Islam & Mass Immigration
13:52 Robin DiAngelo’s Luxury Beliefs
15:37 How Rob Henderson Has Changed His Mind
18:22 Does Intent Matter?
19:12 Rob’s Homeless Upbringing
20:52 Asian vs Hispanic Oppression Olympics
22:42 Adopted Father Left
24:12 Becoming a Trouble-Maker
25:52 Rebelling Against Academia, Defending Jordan Peterson
27:52 Politeness is Scary / JD Vance
31:22 What Rob’s Old Friends Think of Him Now
32:52 Air Force, Yale & Cambridge University
34:52 The Hypocrisy of Students
37:52 This Student Said THIS was Trauma!
40:52 Feeling Mexican?
44:52 Elite Unis More Likely to Be Pro Hamas
46:32 JD Vance, Trump & Abortion
48:22 The Happiness Lottery (Genetics)
55:22 Mind-Reading Madness
59:02 A Heretic Rob Henderson Admires
This is what I want to know. Most important topic. I think it is far more complicated than a single or few who. Andrew, please look it the fact that the Qatar gov donated FORTY BILLION to US universities in a short time period. WAY higher than any other nation. Followed by the Saudis and other Arab nations.
Often times the loudest people for policies like "defund the police" are the most insulated and removed from the consequences of those policies.
Exactly the reason to describe them as luxury beliefs. Only those so far removed can afford the consequences.
They found devices that go boosh with a women linked to Antifa and gave her 14 days in prison. She's linked with over 30 riots and her friends attended court faces masked crying 'we love you'. These people are psychopaths.
Alyssa Milano was all about defunding the police until she thought a gunman was lurking on her $2.5 million property.
Yep. They all love in gated communities where they don't have to deal with real crimes and would easily call the cops on an outsider.
its always the case, I grew up on a council estate full of drugs and crime, yet I see privileged uni brats screaming about legalizing weed because they smoked a few in their dorms with their mates, they have not got a clue, I think anyone advocating it should be forced to spend 6 months living on a sink estate full of weed heads mugging people for cash and watching their life slide and the dispair of their families, I feel the same way about everything, advocating for more immigration? then spend 6 months in an area where the local council dumps them, spend some time in temp accommodation trying to get permanently housed, and jobs too advocating for gender ideology? spend 6 months volunteering at a womens shelter, see how the court system treats women etc.
Immigration is a HUGE luxury belief here in Canada. Us Canadians have no problem with immigration initially. Our government is so detached from reality that they think its perfectly fine to increase the immigration level faster then our infrastructure can increase. It's a nightmare
I hope Trudeau is gone in '25 but not holding my breath !
They know exactly what they are doing.
It boggles my mind that the Left don't see the huge trauma that immigration is: for the wealthy it may be exciting and adventurous. For those in crises and poverty it is the probable severing of family, community and country, no jetting back and forth for holidays and gorgeous Insta moments. It will be decades of hard grind learning new language and culture, feeling un-moored and insecure and deeply depressed/anxious.
To provide support is a no-brainer...to facilitate it in such incredible numbers that providing good support is impossible? Crazy and cruel
The same is happening in US cities and towns far removed from the southern border, never mind the towns on the border.
The same is happening in the UK. Quite a pattern emerging here isn’t there.
So enjoyed this discussion. We grew up poor in the UK, my dad was in prison when I was born, in the late 50s. I had a very dysfunctional, abusive childhood, but decided to raise my children with love and education. My 4 children are all professionals and one of my sons attended the prestigious University of Cambridge, as a mature student, as did Rob Henderson. I loved his story and relate to the difficulties of growing up, without protection.
Always love to hear someone break the cycle.
What about the father of your children? He wasn't involved?
@@ms-jl6dl that was a bit far reached
Ooh, this one will be good. Really like his term "luxury beliefs". The modern age equivalent of "champagne socialists"
Well we live within luxury here, but are forbidden to partake unless we are wealthy. So there will always be those who are unwealthy who resent this, and will seek to tear down the system that keeps them poor. SO, rather than help themselves to succeed within the rules of society, they seek to WIN in some other way ...like how a barbarian wins, or an animal wins during a hunt. A visceral victory is what the affluent non-thinkers desire! Something that makes them feel alive and covered in the blood of their fallen foes. Barbarism must inherit the Earth ..and thus some portion of humanity must take to the stars. Bro
There's another term as well - "intellectual decadence." We focus on things that only a decadent people have the time/money to worry about. And we do so, to our own detriment, due to the notion that time is finite and every second we spend worrying about woke issues is a second we could be devoted to doing something productive or simply enjoying leisure, both of which are preferable to what we're currently doing.
I actually came up with that and he stole it from me and then blocked me. He’s insane.
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Most to All socialists are champagne socialists, especially Marx who was a lazy bum who never worked a day in his life and lived off his family's wealth and that of Engles.
I remember when people with "luxury beliefs" were known as 'limousine liberals". Rob Henderson speaks the truth.
Or "champagne socialists"
A very concise speaker. He gets straight to the point.
Finally, a term for the nurturing of horrible and harmful ideas… as long as those advocating for said beliefs can’t be adversely affected. Thank you, Mr Henderson!
This was quite an interesting interview. Thank you for featuring him. I hadn't heard of luxury beliefs before but I agree 100%. My son is a police officer in a small city in So Cal in which most are working class. I asked him if there were any protests regarding defunding the police and he said "no, most of these people have to get to work in the morning."
luxury beliefs sound like modern-day Plato's noble lies. it is fascinating that to see modern-day parallels to ancient Greek political terms being used. history is repeating.
Such an intelligent and experienced man!
I've been saying this for years. I just get ignored when they find out I didn't get a college degree. I guess my southeast Asian working class self doesn't know anything.
Elitists have always hated the common man.
Thanks for sharing your story and perspective Rob!
I truly believe the only people who can understand poverty are those who have lived it.
I don't think so. Try living in poverty. You will not understand it. You will just live it.
The nuclear family is one of the few things that has survived since the beginning of time and is a proven marker of becoming a productive and self sufficient adult. Of course it has to be done away with.
The nuclear family is a modern term.
@pooheadlou
The TERM is modern. But the concept is literally older than human beings. It exists in nearly ever herd-based or social animal group, including humans. All a nuclear family is is a mother, father, and one or more kids. The concept existed since before language.
Well it also has to be done away with for these neo Marxists as it's the only place in which the state has no say in the moral and political instruction of children.
I went to the University of Vermont and a lot of people there also had luxury beliefs. Sadly today UVM and VT are more woke than ever.
Isn't it kind of strange that we call these people "intellectuals" who hold these luxury beliefs when the beliefs I feel like require you to be extremely dumb and void of any logic?
Love Rob Henderson - more pls!
I enjoyed this interview very much. Rob Henderson is a straight forward speaker. He kind of touched on it but not everyone needs to go to a university. Trade schools are another option, especially as there are so called plumbers, electricians, and contractors who are not qualified to be doing the job.
Andrew you kick ass at interviewing!! Im so glad to see you so successful!
I never miss a chance to listen to Rob Henderson. Knowing his background and how he moved away from such a chaotic upbringing gives him more credence than any academic or government official.
your videos are always really interesting, thanks for this.
I read his book last year. It is amazing that he made it out and has reached this level of success.
Amazon has “Troubled” on preorder for Feb 4 2025. I’m glad that Rob’s sales have gone well, but release more books!
I wonder about creativity being as valuable as intelligence. I have always struggled academically, but my work around was my creativity, not just in aesthetics but in finding ways to work around barriers.
Yes it's a silly system that only recognises academic results where only a small percentage have the raw intelligence. They've lowered the standard so much that the degrees are useless and meaningless and other talents which are useful are not utilised or developed in the crush to be " university educated". It's not good for the academically talented because they cannot be nurtured either. It's a mess.
You get the most fascinating guests!
One of the reasons they have to keep people generationally poor is if everyone had a leg up in life, who is going to do all the jobs nobody wants to do?. We can't have a society full of doctors and judges, we need the little people being coffee makers ,cleaners and all the other "normal" jobs that make society a nice place to live.
Sewer workers, garbage collectors, water treatment workers, plumbers, mechanics, engineers, pest control. They are the people that make life "normal". Without them the whole place literally turns to sh*t.
This is the excuse given, for allowing mass immigration of unskilled workers, as well. I think it is less a matter of having members of society willing "to do all the jobs nobody wants to do", and more a matter of paying them enough, so that they don't mind doing them, and can provide a decent living for their family.
@@corinnewatts6683these people get paid pretty decent wage though. We still need toilet cleaners, typists, fast food serves, carers. These people make pittance.
This is why the coffee makers, cleaners etc need to have the freedom to start their own businesses.
Love Rob Henderson, so balanced and well spoken. I am in my sixties, grew up in the 70s and witnessed these luxury beliefs through university even then
One of my favourite rational thinkers, Rob Henderson. Excellent!
I disagree with the notion that they don't intent harm. The most vile and intolerant people around belongs to the tolerance crews. There is no limit to what they are capable of as several movements have proved lately.
Rob's Happiness Lottery parallels Mike Rowe's agenda. Would love to see Rob on Rowe's podcast.
Great interview, Andrew.
This was eye opening I enjoyed the conversation. I was a teacher for 20 years. Towards the end of my career the two biological parents were about 20% of my classes.
The words aren't an accident. The UN SDG-5 informs the ESG policy guidelines for investment, and it feeds into the activists entitled beliefs.
Yes the words are deliberately weaponized for social engineering purposes. They are usually the opposite to the intent - such as "keeping you safe" usually means "exploiting your fears".
"Trickle down economics" was one of Thatcher's policies. I was there. It didn't work.
It worked under Clinton in America. Also under Reagan.
Clinton also implemented austerity measures to balance the budget, and that worked too.
@@daheikkinenno it didn't.
She adopted it from Raegan, who picked it up from an economist. It also ties into the Irn Rand stuff.
@@daheikkinen America's manufacturing base is now in China
Yet another great interview!
I know what it is like with a difficult childhood. Mine was radically different compared to his, but in some ways it motivated me in much the same way. It led to me stumbling on the two paradoxes of reason. In my case, academics split with one faction pro and the other wishing I were dead. (No exaggeration). Excellent post. Well done.
I do not have time or money for luxury beliefs. I am barely treading water and trying not to drown in bills, food prices, medical bills and prescriptions, utility prices. Heck, I pay $140.00 a month for internet
Need to get that Starlink 🤣
The way Henderson smiles as he recounts misspent youth...lol
I really enjoyed listening to this discussion and learning about ‘luxury beliefs’ - a term I don’t recall having heard before.
The cost of entitlement is paid by those that can lease afford it
"women have feet too" never have truer words been spoken Andrew 😂
Henderson is great: insightful, grounded, humble. I've known his work for the last couple of years and he's spot on.
Fascinating as always
Great interview. Very engaging.
I love the term "Luxury Beliefs", its so perfect since we need a new expression for woke!
Being friendly, polite and nice; is a complete weakness. Canada no longer is Canada.
Rob Henderson is a great mind looking outside of the accepted software 😊
Surviving insecurity as a powerless child without the ability to change their situation 🎉
Brave new world 😊
You survived.
The luxury belief of thinking that people work under the table for minimum wage. Illegals working construction rarely work for minimum wage or less. The tax structure actually makes it possible to pay under the table workers 150% of minimum wage or more and still come out ahead as the employer.
I don't think the problem with England's immigration is economic contribution. I think it's mostly around the way they treat others (ESPECIALLY WOMEN). Alex Phillips talks about this a lot. She's brilliant.
What an interesting interviewee!!!! Loved the episode.
Great interview! I love it when Andrew, an intelligent and articulate person, interviews another intelligent and articulate person.
Henderson is a figure to watch. He should put himself out there more!
It's not trickle down, its droplet down, and frankly, we need Niagra Falls.
Yeah i`m a 62 year old working class Aussie and i`m over the woke crap. Most of us are. Stuff the elitests. Good on you 2.
Fantastic ❤❤❤
Very cool guy, really enjoyed this one.
THANK YOU
I think young elites will promote their own righteous beliefs even if they thought or knew it would not be great for poor people.
It would be the fault of the poor, they would think.
Agree. I was just at the point where he explained you will be happier poor, going to church, married and have a friend. Well that is so simplistic!! And does not take into account environmental factors. We are all so different, that won’t make everyone happy. However, I did go to church years ago, and I went every week. I must admit I found an inner peace in me, and I was calmer and happier. I would like to go back, I found I’ve been so busy, doing a degree and now a new demanding job. But I will go back, it was great for the soul, and the people there were so caring, and looked after each other. It was nice to belong to something bigger than myself if that makes sense
@@marieyoung3113 One thing we all miss perhaps in this modern life is working actively for the greater good of those around us. Back, long long ago, when the life of all in the “village” depended on many people (I won’t say all of the people as there must always be the sick, weak and other folks who can not really participate), there must have been satisfaction in working towards some common goals that helped everyone.
We are so separated now. We all go on our own way to work or school without reference to others. I would think that going to church (or any religious service) regularly would bring a feeling of community and shared goals.
I’m not a church going person, but I have found a small amount of peace and satisfaction from working with some of the women in my neighborhood who have said they have no friends and always feel alone. We just meet once a month in the community center and chat and drink tea as women do. We have all benefited with less loneliness and looking forward to seeing each other.
These days in our modern life, a neighborhood is often just a collection of houses where the people living there have little to do with each other. That is our biggest problem, I think.
I read an article they said DiAngelo's book should be called "Damned if you do damned if you don't"....
Thank you.
Really enlightening, informative video.
Gave a lot to think about.
The Tiger Mom thing; Being brought up like that can be really traumatising. It's interesting to not that soo-ee-side rates in East Asia among students and teachers are among the highest in the world. In extreme cases, EVERYTHING is sacrificed for academic 'success', even family relationships and the mental health of the child. I have seen it first hand.
Andrew, you should interview Jasun Horsely on this top, too, and its relationship to Fabian Gradualusm.
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We have to develop a way to hold the academics and public sector workers who implement and support luxury beliefs and theories that consistently fail liable for their implementation of these delusional theories.
married men are happy. married women aren't really happy. The happiest people are married men and single women. Everybody would like to have a wife and everything that a wife brings to a household with so little investment.
No such thing as a happily single woman.
@@bobhill4364 I am. Very Happy, Very Single.
I’m married 41 years and pretty darn happy.
@bobhill4364 I disagree. Especially after being married or in a long relationship, single women learn to appreciate being single.
@roseosterndorf1265 I don't doubt it. You are a lucky one. However, most married women at 41 are not happy.
prestige media - another truth 🗯 term Royal courtiers competing with each other vibes.
I remember the Sun printing a full page spread on how to spot a sex change.
I wonder what a society would look like if every one was a white collar worker. That would mean no one was a cashier, or a waitress. No one would be working for MacDonald's, or Wendy's or KFC. No one would be working in a warehouse loading trucks. No one would be a truck driver. Etc etc. See how this could be a very bad thing?
Trickle down economics has never been an economic theory. It is an unsophisticated left-wing explanation of supply side economics.
Prestige media, such a good term.
Wonderful guest andrew and i agree with him on the abirtion issue, please stop cancelling life guys
I’d have to push back a little bit on the “trickle down” definition… A, I haven’t heard that term used in 15-20 years and B, even if used now it just means less taxes, regulation and just overall less Gov to help those that truly provide livelihoods and drive the economy. What’s maddening to me is that people still try to argue about what actually creates economic growth and prosperity… the Gov doesn’t create jobs or revenue and the fact that the Left and Democrats still debate this shows just how dishonest and incompetent they’re as leaders.
Cultural appropriation is such a stupid concept. Every culture borrows from other cultures. Also, why is it only other cultures are important and other cultures borrowing from American culture is unimportant? Such stupidity.
hasn't luxury beliefs been a concept in philosophy for thousands of years??
The abortion "topic" always bewilders me. I don't see any need for there to be an ideology or politics around it, for govt or academia to be involved in it, as they recently have taken it upon themselves to do. It has always been a matter for the individuals involved to decide on, using their own free will, personal beliefs and situation.
Edit: to clarify there should not be an overarching, "one size fits all" way to think about abortion as a topic. It is exceedingly personal and specific to each individual.
How true, and yet there are so many who think they have the right to decide, this very personal decision, for others.
Gary Lineker....I think his views on immigration _could be_ considered luxury beliefs. Well, for the moment anyway...one day even the rich, sanctimonious & smug will feel the change in crime stats.
Rob Henderson's luxury beliefs are similar to Gad Saad's suicidal empathy beliefs. Except suicidal empathy beliefs can also harm the believer too.
A word of caution casually supporting redistribution without studying the psychology of work in society. See: Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.
Two giants of economics. WW, RIP.
Thatcher policies worked a d i. The 90s the ricj poor gap was at it lowest. Blair comes along with trickle-down wealth in the 00s, and now the wealth gap is the biggest it's ever been
land rights for gay whales!!!!!!! (that was irony back in my day and it seems more applicable today than way back then. i am 62) altogether now....land rights for gay whales!!!! another great episode mr gold, never heard of luxury beliefs....great description, i will use them!!!
Trickle down economics is the opposite of a luxury belief. Trickle down economics directly benefits, rich people who support it, while it directly harms poor people who believe in it. The definition of a luxury belief is something that harms others, while the person who holds it is sheltered from those harms.
Andrew, I like your show, but I hate the theme. Please get rid of that violin.
Starts off with a common fallacy.
"Trickle down economics"
1. This is a slanderous name by Democrats and does not represent the idea, at all.
2. The idea is that a good economy is good for EVERYONE, so a policy that helps the rich is not a "bad" idea just because it helps the rich. If it is helping everyone, then stop being so envious just because it also helps the rich.
3. When trying to turn an economy around, you have two options. Improve conditions for the typical employee or improve conditions for the typical employer (which includes small businesses). It is indisputable that efforts to help the employer are more effective and help everyone, where helping the employee tends to only create inflation due to this almost always being some kind of handout or comes at the detriment of the employers, so there are fewer jobs.
Democrat economic ideas are almost always about buying votes by making people believe we need democrats to give handouts, so they hated the Reagan economics despite how obviously successful they were. So instead, they mischaracterized the ideas and slandered them as "trickle down".
Him perpetuating this fallacy popularized by Democrats shows he REALLY was not prepared for this question.
Additionally, he is empirically wrong to claim capitalism inherently concentrates wealth.
The reason for the Ukraine War is standing outside 1240 Yates St, Victoria. His name is Kyle or Kai. He wears the Ukraine flag colours. He has been out there for hours and is freezing to death and emotionally manipulated. I called the police ambulance but the police were woke g no sending and tried to blame the victim suggesting he may have a weapon. This is criminality to a high degree. Dude here says it’s summer so all ok. So shocking. It is currently 10 degrees, feels like 9. There is no heating at this My place shelter. Criminal Enterprise Very Clearly.
"Women have feet too"😂😂
Andrew: have you listened to “Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman” on the Tortoise TH-cam channel?
I didn’t know his father was a Scientology OG. (Episode 3)
Sometimes kids don't receive any kind of personal attention
They are lost and confused 😕
Feel unable to concentrate on anything but mindset distraction 😌
Some are intellectuals 👏 😌
Different brains learn in different ways and some different ways are amazing.
"Racism", "sexism" and "homophobia" are not 'woke' words, nor are they politically correct. They are common or garden words describing everyday factors of the 21st century in developed countries.
Still, saves me watching the rest of this utter bullshit.
please get coasters!
Join the dots between all the troubled souls in the decaying western world and i guarantee you'll find that before the drugs, the alcohol, the depression and whatever else ails you'll find they hail from a broken home. We have so normalised selfish divorce that we fail to recognise it as the root cause of our problems. Divorce and family breakdown destroys a child's faith and innocence.
My parents divorce was the best thing to happen in my childhood.
When they were married they'd physically fight, which I saw many times. Once they divorced, they were friends.
My dad would come over to see us nearly every night after work. He's long dead, but he's still the best man that I ever knew.
As opposed to normalizing staying in dysfunctional, toxic and abusive marriages?
Green energy is another luxury belief.
It is. But why are we paying attention to Rob as some sort of authority? He re-coined a common concept and wrote a (few) book (s).
@@justanothernick3984 Given his experience and the amount of work he put into developing his ideas I'd say that makes him an authority compared to the majority of social media commentators out there that have not put in any effort whatsoever.
When is the Tommy Robinson interview going to be out??
Redistributing wealth is not a viable corrective measure. Teach work ethic and prudence. Teach marketable skills.
along with mastery of basic math, basic finance, and economics, as standardized high school curriculum.
Entire neighborhoods of young, strong, working age people wasting their time and money on
destructive endeavours, and wasteful activity,, then crying "Oppression" ...and it goes on generation after generation
He did not come up w this idea. He coined a 2 word pop culture phrase. I’ve read about other people writing about this same idea from dates that predates this guys entire career.
Luxury belief to have these chats and hash out these ideas.
It is a very hungry man who sits with legs crossed and mind open waiting for duck to fly in.
Do you have any new heretics lined up Andrew? Ed Winters, perhaps? Joey Carbstrong? Dr Alex Hershaft?
All this Equivalency of happiness is complete BS as far as I can tell. Help people with adequate income for food and housing and they will be more likely to be happy.
How did you put yourself thru upper education?
Thank you for using CHILD
Whilst it's true that hard working immigrants can bring dynamism and innovation to a new country, I can't help thinking they're taking that away from their old country. And I will NEVER blame people for wanting a better life, but there's so many issues with the mass amount of migration we have now. I think wealthy countries should do much more to help the poor shitty countries to do better, thus obviating the need and desire for such huge migration
Good point, Seems to have happened in Portugal