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Well, there's, there's A lot to that. But there's def. That's definitely a part of the equation. I mean, no. No question. Look, there. There is no. And that's a topic for another episode. But there is no question that there is. Look, if you just happen to notice that, let's say under. And again, anybody who's, like, a little bit liberal here in this, or anyone who, like, you know, like, I forget any of that, like, whether you think it's. You think it's really, really great that women are in the workforce in the numbers that they are now versus back in the day when they weren't. Like, okay, fine. But the point is that before the 70s, which was really the big, like, jump of women entering the workforce, before that, like in the 1960s and before that, that. The model essentially was that women were. Were at home and men were in the workforce and women were raising. And for, you know, if you go back to, like, the 1920s, 1930s, or stuff like that, like, look, there was just. There was a lot less technology, and you were having a lot more babies. So it just was the way of the world. It was like, there was a lot of real tough housework to do, and women were having, like, six, seven kids. So you were gonna be. It wasn't like the way women have kids now. Now we're like a chick who has, like, one kid, you know that it was nine months of your life, you were pregnant kind of a year, if you really count the kind of recovery afterward. But it's like a year that you were pregnant. But if you had seven kids, that was almost a decade of being pregnant, you know? And, like, anyway. But women were doing work. They were taking care of kids. They were taking care of the house. They're actually working really, really hard. I don't know if you've ever taken care of seven kids before, but it's work. Work. It's quite a bit harder than most jobs that any of us have these days. Almost anyone I know. I don't think there's anyone I know who works as hard as someone who just takes care of seven kids. Like, I got two. I got a gauge of what it would be to take care of seven. It's a lot. But that's not taxable labor. The government doesn't make money off of that. However, if the woman goes into work and then hires someone to watch the kids. Now, the government. In the old system, the government was taxing the man's income and nobody else's. In the new system, the government is taxing the Man's labor, the woman's labor, and a third party's labor. Who's watching the kids? And so just saying it was clearly in the government's incentive for the disintegration of the family unit, for all of this to become taxable labor. And for all the talk that the socialists and the communists have about exploiting labor, somehow the government like, doesn't get like what? They're not exploiting labor. I pay over 50% of what I make to the government. You add up all my taxes. I, my income taxes are insane. My property tax is insane. State taxes insane. The town taxes are crazy. God damn. That's not even starting to get into sales taxes or the taxes you pay on whatever the tolls or anything like that. Okay, but it is an enormous sum of money that. But then you're going to tell me about how the capitalists are exploiting me. What, that doesn't count as exploitation? You know what I get for that? What I get for all of the, the insane amount of money that I pay in taxes. I get wars that I find to be morally abhorrent. I get government policies that are reckless. A huge transfer of money from the working class and the middle class to the billionaire class. This is what I'm forced to subsidize. This is, is to. Is rigging the economy in favor of the powerful. And then I get a government who hates my guts a go. A government whose their values are diametrically opposed to mine. They, they think that anti war activists are, are a danger and that we ought to push transgenderism on your 4 year old. That's what I get for the money I pay, but that's not exploitation. Like what, you know, anyway, so. But the point being, right, just back to the, the thing. All of those guys, right, they all benefit from women being in the workforce and from the disintegration of the family unit. And also all of the biggest, the big government proponents have what been totally for feminism for the last 40 years. That's quite a coincidence. It just, just happens to be that they're really on board with what their incentives are there. But again, that's like, look, it's, and this is to the point I was making before Rob, it's like if you gain, you gain so much goddamn weight that you can't fit out the, the front door of your house anymore. And then you're like, let's have a conversation about the size of that door. And you're like, wait, but on some level, shouldn't we really be having A conversation about what the hell happened here, that you've gained this much weight that you can't fit out the door. Because, like, that is kind of the root cause of the problem. And in this. And, and you can't believe it. You can't believe that people. Look, I mean, there was this whole conversation. If you remember Rob during the Joe Biden years, as depressing as it is to remember, he was, was. He was president once. There was that whole conversation around student debt forgiveness. And they still, they'd be able to have that conversation without even thinking that maybe we should also talk about how the, like, you'd sit here and you'd go, hey, I. I work at Door dash and I'm 200 grand in debt. I'm never going to be able to pay this off. And then the conversation would just stop. And this, this is how shallow and low IQ the conversation would be. It would, like, that debt ought to be forgiven. And then we'd argue about whether or not the debt should be forgiven. And no one would just go, like, can we scratch that stuff just a little bit? I go, wait a minute, it cost 200 grand to get a degree that culminates with you working at Door Dash. Hey, what the. What the. Is up with this entire goddamn system? And like, and so again, like, that's. I guess that's kind of right at the center of this Madani thing too. Do. It's like he's talking about the unaffordability of New York City. But can someone ever show me anything that he's written or said where he has in a serious way grappled with or argued for what the cause of this unaffordability was to begin with? Because it seems that without even saying it, what the commies have is an implied. Because you rich guys are so greedy, you know, and that's about it. Like, I, Again, I've. I've never really heard any of the people who were advocating for forgiving student loan debt to really explain to me how the price of college got so damn expensive. Because I could tell you how. But, like, if you want to know, why is it. Why is it that in my mother's day you could get a summer job and pay your college bills? In fact, that's what a lot of college kids did. They paid their own way. They didn't go. They didn't need their parents to help them. They didn't need to go into debt to do it. They worked as a, as a cashier and paid for college. Same building. Maybe not the Same building. They built a lot of new buildings. Same books, same knowledge, same process of learning. If you're learning, you know, if you're studying the history of the American Revolution, maybe there's been some new books written on it. But it's like really the same goddamn mechanism now, isn't it, Rob, to go and learn about that stuff? So why the hell is the price 1,000 times more than it used to be? Like, that's a pretty big. You want to talk about this topic? That's a really big part of it. Why is that? When do they ever even deal with this? When do they ever even talk about why has New York City gotten so much worse? Why has the price of everything skyrocketed so much? Because, by the way, hey, your boy Jon Stewart seemed to kind of put his finger on it last week, didn't he, Rob? He kind of had it like, it was like inadvertent. And he stumbled upon this at the, at the young age of 70, but he finally. Oh, yeah, was this government interventionist policies? Isn't that the thing, right, Rob? It's like you start with this rejection of, of laissez faire free markets, you know, they produce more wealth than the world has ever seen in. But then little by little, you start convincing, you know, everyone that we need a mixed economy, we need intervention, and then everybody basically just has bought into mixed economies at this point, including the former communist countries. They've obey the only ones who's hanging on. Cuba, maybe. China has embraced business, Russia has embraced business. They're not communist countries anymore. They're mixed economies, essentially. And you know, with varying degrees of authoritarianism. But so what happens is, right, so you have this, this mixed economy and then what again, like I said, back to the desert island thing, right? What can government do, Rob? You know, this all it can do. You know the funny thing, it can't make anything free, but it could make everything more expensive. Everything can be made more expensive. This show is sponsored by Better Help. You know, I got little kids, and one of the things that I love about them is that they're always learning and they're always growing. But as adults, sometimes we lose that curiosity. Well, therapy is a great way to get back in touch with that. And I personally have benefited from therapy in the past. I highly recommend it. I think a lot of people can benefit from it. And if you're thinking about maybe starting therapy, I would suggest you give Better Help a try. It's entirely online. 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We're instituting a new rule that everyone's got to have a really nice work environment. You got to have a much nicer shed. You got to have insulation for heating. You got to have electricity. You got to pay that guy more money than you're paying him right now. You got to make this up to code. All they can do is write more rules about what I have to do. And, Rob, what does each one of those rules do to the price of that apple?
