Keith Knight
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Keith Knight
Men are much more likely to move to get work. The most dangerous jobs, the lumberjacks, those are all men. That's why I want to say OSHA says about 91% of workplace deaths are male. This is because men are willing to take more risk, and the vast amount of homeless people are also men. This gets into the woke aspect of disparities between groups or proof of discrimination.
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Keith Knight
They never mention the inconvenient disparities that only one gender has had to register for selective service, slavery, the draft in American history. They don't mention the fact that it's totally legal to genitally mutilate a baby boy, whereas to do so for a girl is justly illegal and a crime that you would be in jail for.
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Keith Knight
They assume that if there's more men represented at a place of work, that's discrimination against women, even though something like 89% of elementary teachers are female. The vast majority of nurses are female. The vast majority of babysitters are female. Not because men are being discriminated against, because women work better with people and men tend to work better with things.
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Keith Knight
Men are higher risk takers. The reason 95.5% of people killed by the police are men is not because of a huge sexist issue against men when it comes to the police. Men are much more violent. Younger people are more likely to get killed by the police than older people because younger men have higher levels of testosterone and are much more apt to commit violence.
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Keith Knight
So we see these disparities everywhere. You would also think in the dating market that if men just had all the power, that women would be constantly going up to guys asking, can I please have sex with you? And if I have sex with you a few times, maybe I could convince you to take me out to dinner. It's the opposite.
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Keith Knight
It's the guy begging for the woman's attention, saying, I'll take you out a bunch of times and maybe in exchange we could get intimate together. Just every aspect of life. This is not even close to a resembling reality where the men have all the power and the women just have no institutional power at all.
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Keith Knight
It definitely happened in the academic realm. In 2017, a gentleman named Roland Fryer at Harvard University, happens to be a black economist, published a paper titled An Empirical Difference in... Oh, gosh, what was the title? An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force.
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He studied a number of cities across America to say, look, a lot of times when BLM makes their claims, they use... anecdotal evidence in a country of 350 million people. They refer to one person or a second or a third, one of which happened to be Trayvon Martin, who was not killed by an actual officer. But there's just a number of anecdotes.
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Keith Knight
So he goes, what we at Harvard need to do is come up with empirical evidence to support these anecdotes. to which his conclusions were there was no difference in police use of force when it comes to shootings when contextual factors were taken into account.
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Keith Knight
So just as I mentioned, yes, men are more likely to get killed, but men are also more likely to resist the police or initiate violent encounters with the police. In the academic world, this was a very big thing which drastically increased the amount of insecurity among academics who were much less likely to start
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indoctrinating their kids and their students with all of this nonsense because they knew this guy was going around. So they ended up getting him fired over a completely fraudulent sexual harassment lawsuit. All of the text messages since he's been fired have been released. This guy is totally innocent. So I almost know that it was happening in the background.
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Keith Knight
But you have other academics like Dr. Wilfred Riley at Kentucky State University who said, You know, lynchings, absolutely terrible. A quarter of people lynched in American history were white. In 23 states, more whites were lynched than blacks. The biggest white lynching in American history after the Civil War was the 1891 New Orleans lynchings where all the victims were white.
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So something that was actually a result of mob violence was later seen through the lens of only something racial.
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Just like slavery, if you think the problem is the skin color, well, what's your objection to the slavery mentioned in ancient Mesopotamia in the Code of Ernamu or the Code of Hammurabi or Vladimir Zelensky enslaving people to fight a war against their will, kidnapping and conscripting soldiers to go die on the front lines when the average life expectancy in places like the Battle of Bakhmut were four hours?
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Keith Knight
They have so little that when all you focus on are arbitrary differences, you can never really get to the root of the issue. Not to mention the fact that Larry Koger, another academic, came out with a book titled Black Slave Owners in America, 1790 to 1860. This caused another uproar. So it seems like the academics had a significant amount of insecurity created in them. They stopped pushing it.
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Keith Knight
Even when I was at Arizona State, I could see it actually dying down a little. So, yeah, hopefully it is gone for good. But you never know. A lot of times when they're always pushing this racism nonsense, though. They'll always use the anecdotes. They never mentioned Justine Damon getting killed by a black Somali officer in Minnesota after she called 911 to report an assault.
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Keith Knight
They don't mention Ashley Babbitt, unarmed woman, getting killed by a black officer. Tony Timpa was actually getting suffocated to death on camera by the Dallas police for, I believe, 14 minutes. Same thing as George Floyd. It's all on camera. And they were never prosecuted. You have white men like Kelly Thomas getting beaten to death by the police. And this is never taken seriously.
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Keith Knight
So, yes, they have so little ground to stand on. I think it might be dying down, but they have poured so much gasoline in the minds of so many people throughout the last 20 years that I think like the right political arsonists could still come around and inflame the passions like Jasmine Crockett's always trying to do.
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Keith Knight
Yeah, you would think that you look at the police and you say, all right, they have the right to arrest citizens. Citizens don't have the right to walk up to cops and arrest them. They can stop and see if you're suspicious and maybe search through your car. You don't have the right to do that to them. They have the right to put you in jail if you violate one of their rules.
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But you don't have the right to do that to them. They have a monopoly on violence. People look at this and say, all right, they have a monopoly on violence. They give you orders. You must obey them. They're like, there's got to be a racial aspect to this. It's like, do you think that's the same thing? There's a much more plausible explanation for these things.
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Keith Knight
What Wilfred Riley did at Kentucky State University is commit the ultimate thought crime, and he basically says – He has to sort of gradually introduce his students to this. He goes, look, men are much more likely to commit violence against a person than a woman is. This is not me hating men. But statistically, that's true. Whether it's murder, rape, kidnapping, the perpetrator tends to be male.
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Keith Knight
As things are now, it Roughly is about a 13 to 1 ratio when it comes to black on white violence, when it comes to rape, murder, assault, burglary, robbery. 13 times, every 13 times a black person does it to a white person, a white person statistically will do it one time to a black person. This 13 to one ratio is what got him a lot of heat.
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Keith Knight
This was in a book titled Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me. But this is a reality that people need to know about. So when they see disparities in prison, they don't flip out. Imagine you have mentioned that you have a son on your show. Would you want your son to be raised to just say, 95% of people killed by the police are male? You are just discriminated against because you're a boy.
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Keith Knight
So don't bother working hard. Don't bother showing up on time. Don't go to a job and ask for on-the-job training. That's all buying into the system. You need to start a male lives matter movement. Anytime a man is hurt, you need to start organizing with your friends, rioting, looting, focus on protesting a lot. Everything else is just buying into the system.
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Keith Knight
You would be hurting your own son doing that. That is how Democrats are trying to raise black America today, even when all of these statistics are not to mention competing anecdotes, are completely against their narrative. That's the reality that they're just unwilling to address.
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Keith Knight
And that's why I'm really hoping to see an end to wokeism when it comes to disparities between groups are proof of discrimination. I'm really hoping that this goes away.
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Keith Knight
And it doesn't even properly reward the ambition which any sane society would like to reward. In civil rights rhetoric or reality, Thomas Sowell uses the example of Japanese Americans who came to America, didn't speak English, and by 1945, they are in Franklin Roosevelt's internment camps from his executive order.
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Keith Knight
By 1959, they had incomes that equaled white incomes, and by 1969, they were earning 33% more than the average American family because they are extraordinarily ambitious even today. Whites do not earn more than all the other groups. You have Vietnamese Americans, Pakistani Americans, even Nigerian Americans. Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Taiwanese Americans.
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Keith Knight
I believe according to the 2018 U.S. Census, where I last looked at these numbers, whites are like 11th or 12th on the list of ethnicities when it comes to income. So you're not even rewarding the very minorities who've engaged in Thank you.
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Keith Knight
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Keith Knight
Sounds good. Let's give the OG wokest their respect before moving on to the new term. Yes, please.
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Keith Knight
The ones who popularized the term in my generation, at least. So when it comes to the woke left, This would be anyone who assumes that disparities in wealth are proof of exploitation in the economic realm and anyone who sees disparities in outcomes between groups as proof of discrimination.
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Keith Knight
So when it comes to the economic side of things, if they see some people with wealth in a certain country and other people in another country that have less wealth, this must be the result of colonialism or imperialism. It doesn't occur to them that what happens first is countries get wealthy and then engage in imperialist or colonialist actions.
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Keith Knight
It just happened the other day when Kissen had said, oh, yeah, well, Daryl Cooper, he's had the opportunity to debate Andrew Roberts, someone I've been begging to debate, by the way. And, you know, he didn't take that. And Cooper has used David Irving as his source now. This is the ultimate attempt to poison the well.
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Keith Knight
This is a perfect SJW woke tactic where they say person A, well, he's loosely correlated to person B and person B can be dismissed. So therefore I've dismissed the argument of person A. That is a totally woke tactic. It's like, you know what another citation could be for someone you looked into and said, well, this doesn't all add up.
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Keith Knight
You could read Neville Chamberlain's Declaration of War on September 3rd of 1939. He says, we told the Germans to get out of Danzig, Poland by this hour. They have not. Therefore, on behalf of Polish independence, we are going to wage a war on Germany. But then the Soviets invaded Poland two weeks later on September 17th, 1939, and they didn't declare war. Maybe that could raise some eyebrows.
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Keith Knight
Maybe the fact that the war ended with 7 million dead Poles and Poland under Bolshevik occupation, maybe that could be a reason why someone questions the validity of the Second World War, Mr. Kissen, not just because, well, there might be a connection to David Irving who has said good things about national socialism. That's much more plausible. How about you could use Winston Churchill?
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as your source for being skeptical of the Second World War. Churchill wrote a book titled The World Crisis, 1911 to 1918. So let's take it out of the Second World War and just look at Churchill when he's operating in a war that today almost had very few defenders.
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Keith Knight
Barbara Tuchman will defend the First World War, but everyone more or less looks at it and says, well, this was a mass death, which really could, I mean, as bad as Kaiser Wilhelm was, he was better than what followed. So maybe we should have just tolerated that.
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Keith Knight
In Churchill's book, The World Crisis, he said that the policy that he enacted as first lord of the admiralty was a deliberate starvation of the population of Germany to push people into submission. He uses the word submission. Men, women and children wounded and sound into submission the whole population of Germany. I don't remember the exact quote, but I know it's on page 672 of that book.
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Keith Knight
He says this is a policy among the civilian population of Germany. A very pro Churchill historian, Martin Gilbert, said that there were roughly 700,000 deaths as a cause result of this blockade. Meanwhile, Kaiser Wilhelm went to the Netherlands to retire and live the rest of his life.
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Keith Knight
When it comes to wealth between individuals in a society, they assume the very wealthy exist and the very poor exist. The wealthy must have taken that wealth from the poor who also work there.
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Keith Knight
so it could be that we feel bad for the poor german civilian population that could be an explanation and then in the second world war churchill writes another book titled the gathering storm where he says the human tragedy reaches its climax that after all the exertions and sacrifices of the righteous cause we have found neither peace nor security and we lie in the grip of even worse perils than those we have surmounted
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Keith Knight
Meaning we fought the war against National Socialism and now the Bolsheviks control East Germany to Vladivostok and have a loose alliance with Mao in China. And they have bases, you know, very close to North Korea, later expanding into Vietnam. So you could use Chamberlain and Churchill as your sources, not David Irving.
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Keith Knight
There are people in Churchill's cabinet, Charles Percy Snow, who was a science advisor, who gave a series of lectures at Harvard titled Science and Government, where he said – this was in 1961. He said the paper on bombing by Frederick Lindemann, who was known as Viscount Sherwell, went out to –
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churchill's cabinet and we found that we could use bombs to make half of the german population homeless especially in cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants so you could use him as a source j.m spate said we were the ones who authorized the initial bombing of civilians in german cities and we knew that this would bring the war into britain but it was necessary because his book is titled bombing vindicated
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Keith Knight
So he's saying that the sooner you start bombing, the sooner you can get them to wave the white flag and surrender. So you have people, this was the heir principal secretary of the ministry saying, yes, we started the bombing. We should be proud of it. You have Frederick Lindemann himself giving a memorandum to Winston Churchill in May of 1940.
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who work at factories employed by the wealthy it doesn't occur to them i guess that there is also a disparity in productivity levels between these individuals so we should always assume that because there are so few jeff bezos's and steve jobs's and lebron james's
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Keith Knight
This was published in a book by Max Hastings titled Bomber Command, where he explicitly says, we're aiming at the civilian population. That's a very plausible explanation. Another source you could use is Charles de Gaulle, who was calling the shots for the French government in exile. In his memoirs, Charles de Gaulle says,
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Keith Knight
You know, I asked Winston Churchill why he was so interested in having the Germans bomb Britain. And Churchill told me that once the Americans see the bombing of Oxford and Coventry, the Americans will have to come into the war. These are totally legitimate sources that you could be using as opposed to David Irving.
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Keith Knight
And then there's another one, Martin Gilbert, who was the Churchill historian before Andrew Roberts became the Churchill historian. And he said...
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Keith Knight
the churchill told londonderry in 1935 we're gonna have to go to war with germany because they're the biggest power in europe just as we would take on the spanish if they got too powerful just as we've taken on the french empire or the french monarchy just as we would take on any other nation it looks like germany is the one we're going to have to opposed now.
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Keith Knight
But previously, Churchill said in an article titled Zionism versus Bolshevism in the early 1920s, that the Bolsheviks were going to be the ones they might have to go after because he saw them as the competitor, potentially the encroaching competitor on the continent at the time. All of these reasonable explanations and all Kissin has to respond is you probably think the Holocaust didn't happen.
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Keith Knight
It is so pathetic. And then one last one. One last one on the Second World War. Henry Stimson wrote a diary. This was the Secretary of War. And in 1946, there was the Pearl Harbor investigation. If you look at Stimson's diary entry on November 23rd, 5th of 1941, two weeks before Pearl Harbor, he said, we met with the president on Monday.
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Keith Knight
We had discussions that the Japanese were planning to attack us as soon as next Monday. The question was how we could convince them to commit the first overt act of war against us in order to justify intervention. I mean, we're quoting people who are in positions to know these things.
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That is totally legitimate and has nothing to do with us denying the Holocaust, hating Jews, or loving David Irving.
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that those people will one get a disproportionate amount of attention among the population and that will correlate to a very high level of income because they're just so much more productive they can acquire such a higher social status as opposed to everyone getting access to things equally they don't account for the fact that entrepreneurs
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Keith Knight
take the initial risk in investing in a startup business. The entrepreneur comes up with the idea of what to sell, which is extraordinarily difficult. They start the business with investments, which may or may not pay off. They have to find out where to market their product. They have to engage in web design.
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All of these extraordinarily difficult things the average person doesn't have the time for, doesn't want to take the risk. So you have a very small number of people who are willing to engage in those activities. Most of those people do not succeed. The ones who do end up with a disproportionate amount of wealth.
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Keith Knight
This is just arguing with a woke leftist now. They're so obsessed with symbology. They're like, all right, racism is a huge issue. We got to take down statues. We got to remove that bitch Aunt Jemima. We got to take down the Indian on the butter. And we can't have any schools named Lee because that might be Robert E. Lee.
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Keith Knight
It's like, all right, have any black kids learned to read as a result of that? Have any gotten on the job training skills? No, no. Okay, well, then you're obviously much more focused on symbology. And it's still symbology for him to focus only on Darryl Cooper. It's like, okay, Your criticism of the revisionist World War II narrative is to focus on one person.
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Keith Knight
Why don't you take a different person? How about President Herbert Hoover in 1953 wrote a book titled Freedom Betrayed where he has 18 points very clear as to how through diplomacy this world war could have been avoided. His case is basically that it was almost inevitable for the National Socialists and the Bolsheviks to collide. That in no way means Britain or the U.S.
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has to make a regional dispute into a world war. He says that even if we had to go to war with Japan, he of course knows that the Export Control Act of 1940 by Roosevelt was intentionally done to provoke the Japanese to attack America so the Americans can take the side of the British. Again, former president in 1953 was saying this. Kissin can just respond to that.
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Hoover goes on to say, if we didn't demand absolute unconditional surrender of the Japanese, they wouldn't have had to withdraw their colonies, two of which were in Korea and Vietnam. After pulling back their colonies, the US had to go to war in Korea for three years. We then went to war in Vietnam, fighting a proxy war against the Bolsheviks there.
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Keith Knight
So there are very reasonable explanations for all these things from a large number of other people who are not Daryl Cooper. And Kissen is still not addressing these very obvious claims. And we just know how pathetic it is when you say, well, we can never allow independence to be violated.
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Keith Knight
So that means all citizens of all the 50 states need to wage a war for independence against the Washington, D.C. regime, which claims the right to rule them. This small group of people claims the right to impose taxes, claims the right to regulate their lives in a large number of aspects. That's a violation of independence, surely. We're going to have to go to war over that.
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Keith Knight
The woke leftists in the economic realm has to ask themselves why we don't see 100% of people getting paid the minimum wage, because that's legally all you have to pay. Everyone could just earn the minimum wage.
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Keith Knight
Or you could say the people of the Donbass region felt that their independence was being violated by the 2014 coup in Kiev led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk in his anti-terrorism operation. So even the independence thing, they clearly see the costs of war are extraordinarily high and the outcomes are extraordinarily uncertain whenever you take it out of whatever individual frame they want to put things in.
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Keith Knight
Because they're always they're primarily focusing on the potential motives of the person presenting the evidence as opposed to very plausible evidence. The woke right is Constantine Kissin, Douglas Murray, Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager and Sean Hannity.
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Keith Knight
If you want an introduction to my work, you can check out a speech I gave titled Three Social Justice Lies, Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia. That can be found at the Libertarian Institute. If you're more interested in foreign policy, check out a book recently published by our institute titled Provoked How Washington Started the War in The New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine.
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Keith Knight
Long book and long title. It reads so quick because it's so subdivided in its sections. If you're interested in economics, we have a new book at the Libertarian Institute titled The National Debt and You. This is by Joe Salas Mullins. You can check out libertarianinstitute.org slash donate. Get a copy of one of our books or just read the articles. Watch one of the videos.
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Keith Knight
Immediately, you see that as a causal result of capital investment, which makes workers more productive, once they get access to telephones, computers, machinery, as far as agriculture goes, each worker becomes more productive. And they're competing with other employers for the best employees. This is what raises wages.
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Keith Knight
So it's capital investment along with competition, which increases the likelihood that people will acquire wealth. It is not the result of exploitation.
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And even if you give the socialist everything they ask for, there's still massive inequality. That's that which they promised to resolve. You automatically see inequality between all the democratic socialists, AOC, Pocahontas, Bernie Sanders. Those people are very disproportionate in their wealth, power, and influence to all of their constituents.
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Of course, it's ridiculous to mention, but obviously Chairman Mao was not equal to the average person in China. Even in ancient Greece, the average person was not equal in power and social status to Aristotle. Fidel Castro, very unequal to anyone else in Cuba. So the equality lie...
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Keith Knight
seems to just be something that they play on your emotions to create this sort of tension among the masses to see the state as the ultimate savior lou rockwell famously said that the reason that they push this lie is because it's unachievable we know in every society there's some elites and there's people with a lot less
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Keith Knight
power so they push this lie because it forever and always will be a justification to expand the state power all right we've done a bunch of things well everyone's still not equal guess we need more money and power for the state so because it's an impossible goal to reach that goal post is always going to be moving it's always going to be a justification for the state to grow as far as being immature
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Keith Knight
This is referred to as the Santa Claus principle. So you have the scarcity principle, which the Austrian economists embrace. Every second you spend doing something, that's one second you're not spending doing other things. Every dollar you spend on this, every cubic ounce of concrete you spend on this project, you can't spend on a different resource.
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Keith Knight
The Santa Claus principle is, well, everyone can have everything. We could just increase the money supply, and that's not going to have an effect on the value of any other dollars in circulation. The Santa Claus principle is literally the child who believes in the North Pole, a guy makes stuff, gets it around the world at no opportunity cost. It's that ridiculous.
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Well, as much as we love complaining about the corporate press and the state education system and how horrible the universities are, we actually want to create an alternative for people to go to. At libertarianinstitute.org, use our search engine to type in any historical issue, any economic issue, any philosophical issue, and get the proper answer.
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So when they say, well, I think everyone should have health care and it should be free. As if getting the state to coercively fund something makes it free. It's as ridiculous as saying, well, the military is free government. I've never gotten a bill from the Pentagon, so it must be free. Obviously, it's not free. Then if you take the case of health care, housing or education, the state.
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has producers answering to the state for whether or not their products meet consumer demand instead of the consumer being empowered to determine whether or not to associate with certain companies and buy their products. Kodak went out of business because they didn't meet consumer demand. Blockbuster went out of business.
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Keith Knight
Sears and A&P Grocers, all of these places did because they were answering to consumers. But once they start answering to the state, he who pays the piper calls the tune, then they worry about what the state has as far as what metrics are sufficient for them to produce products and services, and they ignore customers.
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Keith Knight
That's why everything the state creates is absolutely very low in quality and extraordinarily high in price. So the Santa Claus principle that the woke leftists on the economic realm embrace is is primarily the cause of much lower quality and much higher prices than we otherwise would have.
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idea of how society should be organized through social cooperation as opposed to coercion by the state. So that's what we're trying to do at the Libertarian Institute. Create a free online educational archive for everyone. You can write off any donations on your taxes. And if you pay 50 bucks, you can actually get a physical book in exchange for a donation.
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Keith Knight
Yeah, the foundations are all completely backwards. If you just look at the feminist issue in the case of having it all, the sitting president of America actually came out and said this would have been, I want to say, in like 2015 or something. Obama came out and said the wage gap is not myth. It's math. Apparently, a Harvard graduate believes in the gender wage gap.
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Keith Knight
But as you said, you can't have it all. The reason men make more is, one, they work different jobs and have different skills. The same reason 20-year-olds make a hell of a lot less than 40-year-olds. Not because we need equal education. age or anti-age discrimination because they have different jobs. They have different skills. Men are much more likely to die at the workplace.