Live From Barcelona — The Attack on Merit | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2023-05-08

00:00 Intro
03:13 Merit did not matter before capitalism
11:11 Shattering of the barriers
20:00 Old devil never dies
22:53 Last 10 years
26:58 Virtue in the suffering
30:17 War on Merit
37:56 Crossroads

Live Questions:
42:05 Have you read "The Tyranny of Merit" by Michael Sandel of Harvard? Awful content. And professor Sandel portrays himself as this wise and measured philosopher, when really he's a viscous egalitarian.
46:10 Hi Yaron, in which situation would I need to open a company to do business in a free society? And how it was like in the 19th century? Thank you 😊
49:51 One of your biggest assets is your mindset. And Objectivism allows you to understand the world in order to achieve a values seeking confident mindset you will need to sustain yourself and resist evil for your lifetime.
54:48 If slavery was un-meritocratic and ineffective economically, why did it last for so long? Was it primarily psychological? People liked the rush it gave them to have complete power over other human beings?
59:59 Do you think there is any value in undertaking an MBA degree, even if their marketing is heavily focused on ESG?
1:01:30 Will the Fed end up having to buy all of the good long term low interest debt that the banks can't hold to maturity (for liquidity reasons) and can't sell without taking a loss?
1:05:11 I love how Yaron demystifies popular right wingers, Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson, Ron Desantis etc.
1:05:22 Do not rely on compassion to get things done. We will all end up holding hands and starving together.
1:05:50 What is ARI's protocol for its followers once capitalism has been fully abolished and there is no more food?
1:08:05 If a fetus has no right to life because it's not individuated from its mother, do conjoined twins have a right to life even though they aren't individuated?
1:11:22 AJ Soprano is influenced by philosophy and his father’s duplicity into becoming cynical, listless & ultimately suicidal. When he says “Life is Absurd”, Carmela’s “God forgive you!” doesn’t help. How does Kantaniasm affect an attitude towards life?
1:15:47 Why don’t anti-abortion activists consider unfertilized eggs and sperm cells to be people? They have just as much potential to become a person as the fertilized embryo, don’t they? Is it because it can’t be enforced?
1:20:09 I think a majority of people today have a nihilistic element, but it's not consistent and to the core of their being.
1:20:50 Do statists and the bad philosophers of history seek to make people cynical and passive?
1:23:07 I do remember a US president in a political event saying «  If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. » That was a direct attack on merits!
1:23:49 if 26 people subscribed to YBS through Patreon at the $25 level, would you be able to do the shows without needing superchat goals?
1:25:10 Did you not do a show yesterday cause you were glued to watching the coronation?

1:25:43 Outro

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