Extreme Wealth Disparity Is Breaking Society | MR BEAT | BRIDGES #10

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00:00:00 Teasers / Intro
00:00:59 Mr Beat vs Mr Beast (SKIP INTRO)
00:03:27 Anyone can become president
00:06:22 People make choices based on scarcity
00:10:00 Pro tariff is a red flag
00:13:13 "It's about the survival of our species"
00:15:59 We've come to an impasse
00:17:12 How does it feel to have power to influence?
00:24:13 Critical thinking isn't common sense
00:33:55 Important to stay curious
00:40:38 You should be terrified if you hold all the same opinion as 5 years ago
00:41:58 Ok with being prisoners
00:43:48 Shortcut to find out who is BSing you
00:45:50 "It was meant to happen" explanation
00:46:25 Dr Beat gives advice to Destiny on how to argue w/ his mom
00:49:05 Mr Beat doesn't like how people make fun of Trump supporters
00:51:23 Do you worry about audience capture?
00:53:35 Destiny made Mr Beat mad
00:56:08 Framing of events is just as important
00:58:30 drama of political streamers
01:01:29 Negativity feeds algorithm
01:09:09 People dehumanise ancient and young people
01:14:45 Mr Beat explains JFK assassination
01:24:21 It was such a freak black swan event
01:28:16 Voting for leaders based on wacky beliefs is not fine
01:31:26 Democracy is not good
01:33:23 Pendulum has swung too far?
01:42:08 14th amendment interpretion of electoral college
01:48:45 We need to find new ways to tax companies
01:57:36 NIMBY movement is frustrating

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[@kungfujoe2136]

can you see economics away from power and psychology?

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks to everyone here for listening to me act like I know what I'm talking about. I noticed some comments about the audio messing up...it gets better about 20 minutes in.

[@isaiahvaldez3330]

👍

[@kepexor1]

You know way more than most

[@nikcantsnipe]

I found this conversation super interesting. Love your videos, by the way. This was a collaboration I was looking forward to. Ever since you talked to Steven.

[@aepneuma]

@@iammrbeat are your the lead singer of weezer

[@thelevelbeyondhuman]

Luv ya Mr beat. There should be a whole series of you teaching Destiny history! Good chemistry here

[@OhMyJoshy]

We need to acknowledge not only is Mr. Beat very smart. He’s also jacked. Definition of a sleeper build.

[@MegaAnimeforlife]

Fr I had no idea mrbeat was so swole i figured he was skinny lol I guess because his face and neck are pretty thin

[@XavierKhrone]

Mr. Beat Yo Ass

[@PuddingXXL]

@@XavierKhrone Why does that go so hard lol

[@aepneuma]

Mr beat gives off massive weezer fan energy

[@trax72]

Ooo-wee-ooo, he looks just like Buddy Holly

[@SacredCASHcow]

@@trax72 this guy wrestles! (with jimmy)

[@ayyycorn]

he said before that weezer is his favorite band, much of the music that he makes is very weezer (blue and pinkerton especially) inspired

[@josezuniga4814]

He is 💀

[@MonalisaShams]

Nice pfp

[@tonyskullz5218]

Legendary guest pick. My faith in humanity increases as Mr. Beat becomes more popular.

[@Dloopgroop]

😂🤣 you act like leftist propaganda is some new genre.

[@iluvjimihendrix]

Haven’t watched this entire video yet, but I’ve been watching Mr. Beat since the 6th grade and now I’m turning 20 soon. He’s the only KZbinr I consistently watch and I honestly wish he did more things like this. Genuinely a great guy.

[@The00man]

Ong he's so cool

[@kobeischildren]

Yessir :)

[@Sacredsnow2]

Love mr Beat. I’ve always loved history, but didn’t want to be a teacher so now I’m a truss designer 😂 Mr beat sates my curiosity and gaps in knowledge on American history.

[@viderevero1338]

One of the most wholesome, regular dudes online honestly.

[@cosyisconflicted]

Yeah he supports the based cause through and through and I can support fhat

[@bgregz]

"We live in a society" -Mr Beat 🗣🗣🗣

[@user-tp8pf5ke8o]

mrs breast is best

[@archite001]

The guest list on this podcast is really really high quality please keep it up

[@ZombieMurdoc]

If Mr. Beast were here I wouldn't have clicked the video. I'm here for Mr. Beat

[@n0rng]

When Mr Beat was walking about people making wrong predictions, I was reminded of Tim Pool's "50 state landslide" prediction...

[@tBagley43]

oh yeah he hates tim pool, I knew immediately that's who he was talking about

[@thelevelbeyondhuman]

Tim “civil war any day now “ Pool

[@lightknight876]

@@thelevelbeyondhuman the fella from Canada calling for civil war in America. Such a strange world we live in

[@bigiron1990]

Tim pool has tin foil lining his beanie.

[@connerpaul9401]

Its annoying that people choose to only have a healthy distrust in government systems without any verification behind those systems, yet they choose to fully trust conspiracy theories without any verification whatsoever.

[@realGBx64]

B-b-b-but the tuskegee experiment!!!

[@Essayons92]

That's because most people that hate the government have no idea what the government does, or the way it works. They all would fail an actual civics class.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

A random conspiracy theory is at least as likely to be true as the government is to be honest. Because the government always lies, investigating them can lead you FURTHER from the truth. Investigating a conspiracy will create one, even if one didn't exist yet.

[@Hrotiberhtaz]

From an outsider perspective, populism isn't a rational political framework. It's based entirely on emotional appeals where the populous supports policy that's against their own interest and in favor of an elite while they are fighting with a burning heart to defeat what they perceive is an elite. When a person loses the ability to think of consequences in a rational manner they can be convinced of almost anything. What leads to populism over and over is the same thing over and over. A lack of justifying why some people are bound to live a harsh life in misery and others in abundant luxury. The populists are able to exploit the dissatisfaction and manipulate the ones living in misery and mobilize them to not only get rid of policymakers that created their situation, but also the political opposition that could fix the problem. And they do it while convincing these people that symbolism, culture war issues, spirituality and less wealth redistribution is able to fix it so when they get to power they don't really have to invest in anything at all, while they make themselves the new rich elite class while implementing safety mechanism into the institution where the only way to get rid of them is by force. You'll see once Trump is reelected he will make sure to do alteration to the first and second amendment. All the Republican "paranoia" about the left wanna ban their speech and the right to bear arms is simply them projecting.

[@zr1129]

@@realGBx64 And they will bring tuskegee or mkultra as if no one is aware of those programs. But they are literally in history textbooks.

[@FlyingFlaneur]

Mr Beat. Good call.

[@themumblebrapper]

love him

[@colindoyle7035]

Anyone else been binging Mr. Beat content? Never thought I'd consume this much content from a high school teacher in Kansas lol! Love him! About to dig into this convo 🍽

[@SamHartwell420]

Hey, I really love hearing Destiny and Mr Beat interact. One of the parts that resonated with me was talking about the friend that had a kid and became a lot more right wing. I would say I grew up fairly conservative, but as I got older I started hearing better arguments for policies associated with the left. Healthcare was the start of it because I've had type one diabetes since I was 13. I had a weird situation when I was around 20 where I couldn't be on my parents insurance anymore. I was in school and had two jobs at the time but neither gave me health insurance and I was only able to afford a plan because of Obamacare. I admit I have no clue what prices were before Obamacare, but I was paying I think less than $50 a month and it was some of the best insurance I've had still to this day. But learning about the cost of just keeping myself alive and hearing stories of other diabetics who were in similar situations to me and died because they couldn't afford insulin was really eye opening. So over time I became more left leaning. I starting seeing clips from Hasan, my brother in law introduced my to Vaush and eventually I succumbed to the Destiny orbit. All of this caused a good amount of tension in my marriage. My wife grew up similar to me, but her parents were much more into politics and very conservative. She's moderated her views quite a bit, but still could probably never vote for a Democrat. Finally my point, we had our first kid last year and both our moms and her Grandma have become super antivax and beg her not to vaccinate our kid at all (even though all of their kids were fully vaccinated with even new vaccines at the time). It's caused a lot of fights and it makes her stressed out going to doctors appointments because she knows I'm always going to want to get him vaccinated with at least something. I had sent my mother in law the hbomberguy video about the antivax movement in the 80s hoping it could change her mind even a little bit. She only got about 15 minutes in before turning it off. Later she told my wife and i to read a book called turtles all the way down (not the John Green one, the antivax one that makes it really hard to find any criticism of it) that's like 500 pages long. I read a few sections with easily found wrong information and told her I'm not going to waste hours of my life on this trash when she wouldn't watch an hour and a half long video I sent her. All this is to say I understand how it could be very easy to go along with wrong beliefs in the interest of maintaining family relationships. I've fought tooth and nail and it's barely made a difference. My kid is still behind on vaccines and I've literally changed no one's mind. Also note for Destiny about the actual podcast, I noticed a faint humming and lots of low frequency noses when people would hit the table or blow into the mics. I have some experience in audio, but I don't get the chance to practice that much so take this with a grain of salt. The humming sounds like a ground issue. My understanding is if you have different pieces of audio equipment plugged into different circuits, there can be a difference in the ground circuits that causes a weird humming. From what I've heard the solution is to just plug everything audio into one outlet, but that's not always possible. If you're going to wait a week or two before posting the video anyway, you could just use a noise reducer effect on it and that should clean it up nicely. For the rumbling, insulators in-between the table and mic stands can help, but you might be able to get away with a high pass filter up to 100ish hz. Voices don't really go that low so cutting out frequencies below that probably won't lose anything other than the booming sound. I'm pretty sure OBS has a built-in plug-in for that, but I'm sure there are also add-ons you can use.

[@LDRTrejo]

So happy to see Mr beast giving back to the community by showing up on smaller shows

[@MBG-ck9ou]

I thought our girl Destiny was on a little too much red bull when I first started watching him, but damn Erudite moves like a straight up cartoon.

[@darksideofthefandom7373]

kyla, you did an excellent job co-leading the engagement in this podcast. you were truly listening, and asking thought-provoking questions. keep it up.

[@tpbenze5032]

Just getting through the start I’m glad she acknowledged the active listening thing it bothered me a lot because it seemed fake 😂 knowing it’s just a habit makes me feel better

[@henry-js]

Glazing

[@Potatoarmy12]

I agree

[@viderevero1338]

​@@henry-jsIs it glazing when its a woman? Is it licking? What is the terminologh here.

[@Avv4U]

@@viderevero1338 Major simp here 🤣

[@pwalshofficial]

As someone who is generally pretty critical of Destiny (from the left), I have to say this was a good conversation. However, things really fall apart for me when pro-capitalist folks start talking about how billionaire CEO's would be fine is they just had some kind of "moral obligation" to reinvest their money into the common good. This reward system cannot exist under capitalism because the idea of unending growth and wealth is inherent to the fabric of capitalism. You cannot expect those to benefit from a system which is geared towards wealth and income disparity to use their profits to benefit the working class. It would be a complete contradiction of what capitalists are trying to achieve. This is why folks on the left see capitalism as an immoral and unviable system. You cannot extract morality from exploitation.

[@timreyes2179]

That growth thing more of an effect of fiat currency I think. Without constant growth, fiat kinda fails. But with fiat there's a lot of levers to keep things from really failing. I think fiat is a necessary evil, but capitalism doesn't have to go hand in hand with fiat currency.

[@Stoneworks]

Love Mr. Beat, this episode made me happy

[@strikestorm]

Just finished #9 and #10 just dropped, I'm so happy.

[@ronan5228]

Dear god I love mr beat so much

[@thecastaways2]

I have been listening to Mr. Beat's content for years. Thanks for having him on!

[@FKProds]

"Why can't we celebrate the success of huge corporations?"

[@poppygloria3819]

FINALLY

[@Matt-pc9vw]

This was so good! Huge props to everyone involved.

[@Wildminecraftwolf]

Erudite has absorbed so many of destiny's mannerisms lmao

[@Sunset2073]

his fluids too

[@vgacoralreef]

@@Sunset2073what?!

[@darken3150]

@@Sunset2073 lool

[@njay4361]

This was a refreshingly awesome talk. Thank you for this! 💛

[@nate9952]

Love how well the podcast is improving, definitely my favorite episode

[@Warrentertainment]

Mr. Beat and Destiny in the same room and I'm like "WOW!!!!"

[@Ty-wy7yq]

Very glad to see this episode after my macroecon college textbook tried to tell me that “if we redistribute wealth people will be less inclined to work making the economy pie smaller”

[@grantlauzon5237]

The video Destiny is referring to at 1:18:52 is called "Oswald Acted Alone" by Sean Munger. The part of the video he's referring to is "chapter 4 The Bank Robbery Analogy"

[@realGBx64]

That Munger vid is amazing. That dude should also come on the podcast

[@blahblahbag8715]

This show is rapidly improving. The resources you can put into it certainly help, but this feels like a lot of good research and conversation coming together to really better the product. The quality of the video/sound has gotten so much better, but also you two are finding a better rhythm a lot more quickly that podcast cohosts tend to

[@aries8910]

This is the nicest I’ve ever seen Destiny look and I have mixed feelings 😂😅

[@nicbarth3838]

I know his face looks nice

[@noctemeffugio5962]

Let’s gooooo! Looove the little lead-in!

[@nocuh]

“Pro-tariff” _can_ be a red flag. Context and implementation is key. An agrarian society rich in natural resources is more poised to shift toward industry and manufacturing both artisanal and mechanized, providing the agricultural sector is protected as a key player in building and maintaining autonomy. A trinity of agriculture, industrial, and manufacturing policy; it repeatably works, as history shows. Made in 19th century USA. However. Wells run dry, mines become exhausted. Then you must adapt. Service economies in developed post-industrial states are trickier… unsuitable to protection as they are much more reliant on complicated foreign relations; susceptible to global supply chain disruption. Plus policy has to protect mostly amorphous abstracts rather than tangibles. Theoretical whackamole. Good luck!

[@Dopamine_Drop]

To what Kyla was saying about negative consequences around admitting fault: Yes, it is great to immediately admit being wrong and switch your position when receiving appropriate info/understanding. However, the better ideal to strive for is not having a stance/hard opinion and saying "I dont have the relative info to have an opinion, therefore I dont know", instead of giving a misinformed or under informed opinion and admitting being wrong constantly. Its totally possible Kyla believes this for the same reasons, but the way she framed it left some ambiguity.

[@DeltFtw]

Amazing episode! Keep them coming.

[@wetpaperbag1346]

Mr Beat was a great guest, teaching high achool econ is not an easy topic to get students engaged so he's doing great work engaging fresh minds in an important topic to our daily lives. Unrelated but opening with the conversation about Kyla actively listening has primed me to notice her resisting her urges and it's really funny.

[@joell21]

And here we go

[@slurve0h]

I actually found this guy when i was searching for Mr. Beast videos. Glad i misclicked onto his channel.

[@r4fide]

Great episode, really good discussion! Bonus Meme at 01:18:21 : Whetchen Gritmer

[@westonbeats]

Amazing audio, love the ear bleed inducing buzz in the background. Very high quality

[@greatestever5634]

Its destiny's Ki that is causing that buzz. Nothing can be done about it. He's too powerful

[@cahzriel_wonka]

Goooood stuff!

[@heliowolf5042]

We need to get Dan Carlin as a guest.

[@notsoErudite]

Help me out by emailing him as a fan, have sent an email inviting but never heard back

[@reptar4life]

Steven did not figure out what was causing that buzzing sound lol

[@AnCacaMilis]

I can never unnotice "I'm super curious" now

[@themumblebrapper]

damn I mustve been a weird kid I loved history books, especially about shipwrecks and disasters

[@XavierKhrone]

Wasn't this supposed to be a premiere? 🤔 Other than that: LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!! 😎

[@Arimil1234512345]

Another great episode.

[@claudiaxander]

Need warm diffuse light in the corner stand in the middle. Its just a dead blurry dark corner. Whose with me!

[@adrian-dragosbalaban6401]

Yeah, pretty boring set up. The Anything Else pod has better setting but is so annoying to listen to sometimes

[@Jobe-13]

This guy is great

[@johnvandaele6504]

Love Mr. Beat so much

[@greybeaver8300]

I'm glad you had Mr Beat on, great discussion

[@CJ_Walks]

Fantastic discussion! The Beat goes on!

[@wingy252]

Awesome guest! Hope the podcast really starts taking off!

[@indigosnow_]

Fuck yea, Mr. Beat 🤘

[@MD-mc9xw]

Mr breast give me money

[@isomz638]

He misused the term negative reinforcement... negative reinforcement is NOT the application of punishment, it is the REMOVAL of a negative when the desired behavior is observed.

[@onlyeveryone2253]

interesting

[@shellshocktm]

This comment will go unnoticed so I'm going to say - I want someone to look at me like erudite looks at destiny when he's speaking

[@iLuvMisaell]

real recognize real

[@ingmar89]

I noticed ur comment

[@iLuvMisaell]

@@ingmar89 better like and comment mtherfcker

[@lmaolol9357]

I am looking at you like that rn and you can't see me 😳

[@kissesncurses]

both of my worlds colliding this is crazy

[@keithdobson5846]

Crackle crackle... Buzz buzz

[@raiderscat]

Finally 😮

[@next_door_rigil3270]

Goverment has to step up in some situations with punitive action or restrictions. Free market doesnt always work. For example, I really dont get the incentive of having solutions over long term for long term problems in a free market environment like what is the incentive to have climate policies for an issues that will affect the free market over the long term. We can just pollute now to have a larger wealth that can be used to adapt as much as possible afterwards. It would also be what everyone else would be doing. In this respect, we really need to have a punitive system for polluters in the free market. I also dont get how you tackle the inevitable accumulation of knowledge and wealth caused by the existence of economies of scale. Monopolies happen inevitably in free markets if there are no restrictions in place.

[@MelissaM83]

Love the matching outfits ❤

[@foundingfarther1213]

Mr Beat and Cynical Historian should get drunk and box for the sake of history. We need to get them numbers up boys.

[@voyeur4youtubers264]

Great video!

[@stevevenit8042]

Love mr beat

[@YoloSwagO]

:) Good stuff

[@dabidibup]

Knowledge has diminishing returns

[@shagituz]

Would you rather be equal nearer the bottom or unequal nearer the top

[@PuddingXXL]

These interviews are goddamn lifejuice!

[@BlueTac1992]

Good conversation. Though the audio quality is a bit distracting at times

[@PlaystationPeeps]

I love Mr Beat

[@sydguitar99]

This current system we're living in puts the gilded age to shame and we dont even have a name for it 😂

[@AdamBechtol]

Mmmmm

[@dachadMWO]

Yoooooo Mr Beat!

[@balanzed5713]

Thanks for interviewing Destiny, mr. Beat!

[@singetdem]

at 10:00 - tariffs are essential, I think, because, here in EU union we have strict regulations on how to produce goods(pollution/waste management for example) whereas outside of EU they dont have those - they can save a lot of money by not adhering to standards, import and cripple the competition inside EU

[@elijahwebster4325]

there are reasons to do tariffs they just aren't economic reasons also there is other remedies for this

[@b2dub3]

@@elijahwebster4325what is another solution for it?

[@vtxshadow]

I love mr beat.

[@christT1989]

Perfect guest I love Mr beast

[@Alexandroid_]

Once I'm Mr. Beat, I only miss a beat

[@100AcreWoodz1]

Yessssssssss

[@KerrMalygos]

Great episode and guest

[@americanslav9694]

Excellent production quality Steven and Canada girl

[@MrMarx97]

plz more bridges

[@makeway1118]

I’m too old for this and I still love it. Thank you❣️ *FIX THE AUDIO*

[@dip9995]

What do you mean when you say you’re too old for this?

[@Entropic_StarKid]

One of the best teachers I ever had let students "sacrifice" themselves for this marshmallow diminishing returns experiment. Basically had to eat as many as you could, rating how satisfying each one was. By like 20 people were rating them 2's and 1's. Some kid got like 80ish and the record was in the hundreds. Cool guy, he's living his dream rn so I'm glad for him

[@bluesh0es]

So what was the lesson?

[@Entropic_StarKid]

@@bluesh0es just because something is in high demand initially, once the population has had enough and can't keep up with the supply, it becomes unwanted and ultimately a burden

[@csbrooks]

This was a fantastic episode, with a guest I had never heard of but was very thoughtful. Thanks keep it up

[@carefir]

❤

[@kobeischildren]

Mr Beat is great

[@gumbotime9564]

Fuck yeah members stay up 😩

[@aSSGoblin1488]

i take destinys handsome face for granted, next to his guests like beast turkey and dan they kinda look like butt.

[@user-lw9mo8xo8r]

Tempting, cant

[@DavidFregoli]

gross

[@technounion1892]

You're paying money to watch a podcast four days early.

[@nicbarth3838]

@@aSSGoblin1488 true

[@flipina]

Came for Mr. Beat. Learned something from Kyla too, well done.

[@akaku9]

His name's mr beat because he could obviously beat my ass Wtf are those arms

[@cocopuff239]

ground new is crazy useful. use it often

[@malcolmtroup3557]

Keep the quality high on these podcasts, it will pay dividends.

[@GummBo3]

Mr. Beat mentions tariffs as a kind of negative punisher, but in psychology it would be considered a positive punisher. Great discussion btw.

[@sagenod440]

I think Mr. Beat sees greatness in Steven just like many others do. I just hope he doesn’t get lost in the sauce

[@bronzeox]

"I'm not going to sit here and debate whether or not you can eat children alive because it's a super French belief" really threw me off until I realized lol. Listening to Destiny at high speed is not easy at times

[@BasementDwellingGremlin]

I wish I had someone who looks at me the way Kyla looks at Destiny.

[@nikkfrostt]

It seems that Canada (some parts of it at least) are introducing a Vacant Home Tax of 1% of property value per year. If the homes been vacant for 6+months, the owner pays the fee. This is combat the many rich or corporate businesses that use homes as investment and hold up the market by refusing to rent/sell homes at sane prices, keeping the floor pricing very high. At 1% it may not be enough to solve the problem but its a good start and will hopefully push the investors to at least lower pricing and fill out more homes.

[@foundingfarther1213]

2 of my favorite people