"How Baby Boomers Ruined Society" - Rich vs Poor, Civil War & Population Crash | WhatifaltHist

[@Level_Eleven]

“I operate under the assumption that I do not have all of the information” This ought to be common sense

[@Kenguruh]

I've noticed though that often people with very strong opinions about some things are the ones with the least facts about the subject

[@jamm_affinity]

@@Level_Eleven He says this and then proceeds to make populist predictions based on a faulty rat experiment. All of the shit he says, people have been saying for years. He already believed in a narrative and searches for evidence to support it in history.

[@seanpupillo7823]

I mean, this guy just says that as a front, and then proceeds to act like he has all the information. Xd

[@RammsteinDevoted]

@@seanpupillo7823 He’s tacitly admitting that he’s opining, not espousing grounded fact. You’re just too smoothbrained to recognise the difference and process a conversation between two people accordingly.

[@thatguy6908]

​@@seanpupillo7823 ikr, dude says only part of the left is woke, when in reality if someone watchs msnbc or cnn they're woke AF

[@onephatdude]

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

[@matthewthurn]

Ok, that’s an epic quote!

[@USELESSINFO-y3p]

LOOK AT THE ACTIONS OF WHITEPEOPLE WAR-DECEPTION-GREED-STOLE THE WEALTH EVERYPLACE THE GO BRING SICKNESS. GIVE EDUCATION USELESS INFORMATION...MARK TWAIN JOKE!!!!!!

[@Webedunn]

“You don’t truly start learning until your last day of school.” Albert Einstein

[@deejay7339]

A fiscal conservative.

[@USELESSINFO-y3p]

@@Webedunn WELLTHATS SILLY. WHEN YOUR IN YOUR MOTHERS WOMB. WHEN SHE STUDIES, ALLTHAT KNOWLEDGE IS UPLOADED TOTHE CHILD. THEYKNOW THIS. ANDSO GOVERMENT DEMANDS YOUHANDOVER YOUR CHILDREN,

[@tomhanks1769]

5 years ago dude would have been cancelled so hard for dropping so many truthbombs. But it looks like we've moved past the "weak men" phase and are now at the "bad times" phase.

[@JiaruiChen_]

There has been no difference to me

[@Zenhumanist]

What truth bombs would he have been cancelled for?

[@JiaruiChen_]

the fact that the democrats are giving power to women so they can make them loyal pawns.

[@JiaruiChen_]

The democrats blowing money under the premise of helping shit hole countries

[@JiaruiChen_]

How women especially not the 10s will try to rally people around you against you

[@HABITZER]

I am 43 I have 4 boys 25, 18, 11 and 9. Your guest is 100% right. My 25yo is miserable, and so are all of his friends. I talk to them frequently. We are headed in such a horrible direction! My son is 25 has a great job and he can't afford a house, he is single and angry. America has fuq'd up bad! 😢

[@HABITZER]

My 11yo is always talking about gay and trans stuff. None of my kids are happy.

[@steven_003]

@@HABITZER For his own sanity, try to get him away from this stuff. Nothing to gain but mental health crises. Makes me really sad to hear. I’ve seen people I went to school with go completely insane over this hypersexualised mindset.

[@LoraxChannel]

I'm 60 and a millionaire, mostly in real estate assets. In all my life I've never known anyone who could buy a house at 25. I bought my first at 30. This guest has zero clue. Yes, my degree is in economics.

[@rockertothecore]

​@@LoraxChannelyou enjoy that bubble you live in buddy

[@jamezbrian4135]

@@LoraxChannel I was 32

[@shanejones578]

“There are rumblings of troubles out in the far provinces; but here in Rome all of the fish ponds are beautifully stocked…”

[@worndown8280]

Sounds like something said in DC.

[@mkultranigga]

​Planned

[@commandermcnash5137]

I think the fact Warographics managed to create The Situation Room indicates The Long Peace is over, just yesterday I talked to my normie family and after each one started to point out what we knew we came to the conclusion our entire civilization is not just in a deep crisis, its under clear and evident attack, from the wars between pro-western and global south states to the refugee crisis to the appearance of outsiders offering to disrupt the system to take us back to the good old days and agents of chaos who simply want to see the entire system come crashing and consequences be damned.

[@justadildeau]

Let them eat fish

[@SouvenTudu1]

Wow

[@sanctuarydelete6-6-6]

only way anyone in america is getting off the couch and doing anything about anything is when the power goes out and doesnt come back on.

[@keithspernak6456]

Sorta tounge-in-cheek, but can you IMAGINE what would happen if smartphones stop working? There will be a group of people who functioned just fine before smartphone existed and a group of people that have known nothing but having a screen in their hands.

[@Kevin-ys7sj]

By then it's too late for most!

[@Kevin-ys7sj]

The proper reply to most women who cry misogyny is simply misandry!

[@Kevin-ys7sj]

The proper reply to most women who cry misogyny is simply misandry!lack of responsibility 🎯💯!

[@jmoney1941]

@@Kevin-ys7sj 👏👏👏

[@zombiedearth]

Rudyard went from having a small niche channel to touring all the biggest podcasts instantly. I mean he deserves it, the dude is smart at seeing patterns and learning history. Next stop joe Rogan 💯 let's go !

[@AZ-697]

He’s so overplayed. Many others said the same as him long before he did.

[@lennard5393]

Joe Rogan is an ass sniffer

[@FilipMacioszek]

Who.​@@AZ-697

[@directorchris2]

HE SAID He s 23!!!! The favorite Kabbalist NYMBER

[@thelongvirtuesignal8551]

Some patterns will get you banned if you mention them like how most of these "elites" have "certain" last names...

[@lplplplplp8677]

As someone born in the mid 70es, I haven't seen this level of scientific driven conversation in a good while. Thank you, you are making my day.

[@mrdbooks7285]

He is a False Prophet, do more investigation maybe listen to who he praises at about 21:13 - Peter Zeihan = Snake Oil Salesman.

[@boogermcphee2847]

My salary would have been very comfortable for me only 10 years ago. Now I can barely afford to eat. 10 years wasted. I’m 45. Not about to bust my ass for regression again.

[@fredrodriguez177]

you have to change, can not continue on same path if you want different results.

[@LynxStarAuto]

That's fine, but remember it was your decision.

[@callmebabyzee]

So real and rich people don't realize it.

[@hardleecure]

i hear you buddy. I'm 41 and it's becoming a slog again. Feels like I'm just getting out of high school and starting off in the job market with shit pay even though I make way more. Just shows inflation is a problem and the government lies about what the real rate of inflation is. Best advice I can give is to work on your resume (sprinkle in some believable bs) and job hop to get an increase in pay.

[@allendulles2481]

Thank the greed of globalists.

[@Lola_Roboto]

I’m semi glad I’m GENX. I got to see the 70’s through 2010. It been in severe decline since 2008 and bad since 2020. I feel like I’m in a dystopian hell.

[@thespileys2301]

Based upon your experience, what in your opinion is the cause?

[@dmark2639]

​@@thespileys2301Listen to the video. It's all in there. Everything all at once since the 1970's

[@jamesoquinn9168]

Yeah. We Will get to see the horror coming, but be completely unempowered to do anything about it. Learn to grow vegetables and purify water.

[@scarba]

I know, I‘m 55. I thought when the Berlin Wall fell that we were going to have a great future. Instead of that it’s the darkest time since the 1920s and 30s. I can’t even believe it’s real it’s been so fast

[@anthonyml7]

Hmmmm I wonder who became president at that time...

[@derek4412]

Rudyard is only 23-years-old and you would never know it. Most intelligent young people slip up from time to time and say something incredibly naive. I’ve watched dozens of his videos and he always comes across as thoughtful and reflective. I pray he keeps his content intelligent and avoids descending into internet-induced stupidity. Because this world badly needs more thoughtful people online. Even YT is getting hard to watch with all the mind-numbing shorts and overly dramatic titles on videos.

[@Daniel_o_r]

It’s because those thumbnails are what bring in the viewers for some reason, I’m with you, I hate the click bait titles too.

[@freddieoblivion6122]

Censorship really IS evil.

[@benjamintaheny450]

(((YT))) is 'stupidifying' their enemy.

[@memph7610]

I always look forward to his videos but I'm quite certain he's not 23... When he was on Sitch & Adam, he mentioned that he was older than them, he's probably in his 30s.

[@darksu6947]

​@@memph7610He's actually 23. I've been watching him for many years.

[@FrankHurt]

23 years old! This guy has absorbed more wisdom than most people three times his age possess. Excellent interview. Instantly subscribed to the WhatifaltHist channel on KZbin. Looking forward to binging his videos!

[@Anonymous______________]

Not really, there's plenty of people who have come to the same conclusions. It's just the average has regressed so low that some people look intelligent, when in fact they're simply smarter due to the overtone window.

[@TheYgds]

@@Anonymous______________ Yeah, he's smart and the work he does is definitely graduate level....but he hasn't drilled down on anything enough in his video essays to parse them apart completely. He still has a way to go before he's a real intellectual force. Some of what he says has issues, though its broadest strokes seem to be data supported, though not necessarily correct. He also relies a lot on books, which are not often the best sources for the sort of granular data he needs to make his points. He needs to read research papers and do more detailed quantitative meta-analyses to be fully convincing.

[@weekendatbernies2265]

He is on the High end of the Asperger scale and has a very high IQ

[@SubduedRadical]

@@TheYgds Given how badly "the experts" failed us in EVERY CRISIS OF THE LAST 20 YEARS, along with how bad research papers/peer review has become, to the point it's a joke now? I think he's better off with books than research papers. Stop gatekeeping wisdom; "the experts"/academia have no monopoly on it. They never did, they just fooled themselves and many others that they did, substituting mindless sophistry for wisdom.

[@rkirby7183]

I don't trust people who have not yet realized they can be profoundly wrong. When you're older you realize that you often had dearly held, presumably well thought out, ideas and beliefs that later you realized were completely wrong. .Most of this diatribe is just book-learning. Read a lot of stuff and then you can spout it back.

[@nicksmith8166]

People have become anxiety ridden robots. I’ve multiple times come across someone at the grocery store that wants to get around me or get something off a shelf in front of me and rather than say “excuse me” they will stand there and stare at me or stare at the floor. I even told one woman “you can say excuse me and I’ll be happy to move.” She started crying and power walked away. I was stunned.

[@amo757]

True. Watch Cart Narcs.

[@anthonyml7]

Yeah in NY we just go for it, we're callous assholes, especially the old timers

[@brutusvonmanhammer]

With how insane people are these days, saying something as innocuous as "excuse me" can lead to your death or serious injury. It's no wonder so many people are riddled with anxiety.

[@cinziam457]

THX for posting that -- I also said those exact words to someone and they looked at me like I had two heads. I call them "socially retarded". I do not call anyone w/genuine issues "retarded" as it's a horrible word. I save it for people who have every reason to do better but don't do better.

[@anthonyml7]

@@brutusvonmanhammer it's mostly women

[@CornFedWhiteBoy27]

My parents only care about themselves . I grew up a fourth generation farmer. My dad got the ground dirt cheap for his parents and when it was time for me to have my turn he wanted top price or top rent. I said enjoy yourself I'm out haven't talked in years. And for anyone wondering yeah I was the only boy and helped my dad everyday up until I was 29 when he retired.

[@SECRETPURPOSE]

I think that I have a very similar situation. I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with my life, but I just don't want to or can't go back to that scenario before. Only boy as well. How have you created a life after leaving your family's trade?

[@JeremySayers38]

Sounds familiar too, only boy so just a work horse. These Boomers were really selfish and unrepentant.

[@CornFedWhiteBoy27]

@SECRETPURPOSE I had my cdl so I started trucking. Have done about every type of haul but being a lowboy driver where I operate all kinds of equipment is some what of enjoyment. It doesn't fill the void driving by farmers in the field all the time but it's good money and something not alot of people can do like farming.

[@CornFedWhiteBoy27]

@SECRETPURPOSE you are probably gonna be good at whatever you wanna do. Those years on the farm has given you loads of character that most don't have. You can look into farm management if you don't mind relocation. There are alot of big farms needing farm minded leaders to run their business.

[@ldl1477]

I have an older cousin; his father (my uncle) died when he was still in college. As the only kid, he had to drop out to go home and feed the livestock. That's almost 40 years ago now. He was given all kinds of cr@p for having a bad attitude, but looking back, he was effectively "married off to his mother" at the ripe age of 21. The harder he worked, the more she spent. From what I understand, no one cared enough to pull him aside, and help him restructure the operation, or explain he was losing his youth and had other options, or get him to buy out the farm from his mother. He was her mule, and family just ridiculed any/all of his shortcomings. I, on the other hand, decided to learn from his experience, and went off to live my own life. The money isn't worth a heart full of bitterness.

[@nogotrobot7954]

My grandpa bought a farm house on 50 acres for $3,000 cash in the 1930s and he was just a factory worker in michigan. Thats about $100,000 in todays money. I could take a 30 year loan and still not afford to buy a decent house right now.

[@jaygunter3828]

totally different economic times. Cash (and loans) were much more difficult to come by in the 30's vs today. I will bet 3k in that period would have bought a lot of stuff off of desperate people. We would have been in similar times in the GFC if the money printer hadn't been turned on and house foreclosures hadn't been held off. Look at how much house prices went down even so.

[@nogotrobot7954]

@jaygunter3828 so how did he have $3000 cash? I can tell you but it wouldnt make my wife and kids happy.

[@jaygunter3828]

@@nogotrobot7954 I am guessing he saved it. You said he was a factory worker. Just like you would today. I don't understand your question.

[@digitalfinancialmarket]

US dollar -97% rugpull

[@oliveoil7642]

He likely saved like a fiend for it. No credit cards, electronic toys, fancy restaurants, cars or vacations. Tough physical labour and resilient attitude!

[@neilaleksandrov2655]

Its so addictive listening to Rudyard, the thoughts are phrased so clearly and lots of this rings true, even just the mental growing up I did living through the last two decades as a College educated millennial. Real life is so different from what we were taught in University and really grounds you into what is real and what is fake. Looking back on it now a lot of the liberal education philosophy we learned seems insane now.

[@samuelspiel8855]

60 years ago women were screaming that men were privileged at the EXACT same time that their 18 year old nephews and brothers were being drafted into a war where tens of thousands of those 18 year old died. Men are beyond oppressed in this regime.

[@ldl1477]

The top 10-20% of men are privileged in comparison to the median/average woman. Women are fixated on the top bracket of men, with other men being more or less invisible.

[@NEILANIL1]

Its in all fighting and conquering communities and tribes. I don't get your point?

[@moneyobsessed]

@@ldl1477 80% of men are put in the "slave" category

[@pokeman5000]

Yeah but they were in the "not people" category as another popular KZbin channel would sufficiently describe. So do they really count? Out of sight out of mind! Just kidding yeah the entire cohort was/is messed up and we'll be dealing with it our entire lives.

[@dmitryasadov9319]

Its less than 5% if we talk about privilege.. top 1, the oligarchs..

[@lenr7068]

He is 23, no college, doing PHD analysis. Beast!

[@LA-hx8gj]

And PhD students are just using ChatGPT for their "research" 😂

[@nephilimshammer9567]

He's a moron snake oil sales man is he is selling any worker is to.blame

[@theodoravonwied5441]

PhD research in History is usually on a way lower level intellectually. Believe me, I was a PhD student in History.

[@lenr7068]

@@theodoravonwied5441 Well, looks like he saved himself a buttload on money by self educating himself. He is above the average history PHD student.

[@mikemcglauflin8985]

This is a man that is clearly raised in a matriarchal environment. He is merely complaining. He has nothing too offer.

[@Chevelle602]

Whatifalthist is by far one of my favorite KZbinrs

[@sonicleaves]

He's by far my favorite. What are your others?

[@Cyricist001]

Ever hear about Zoomer historian or GDF?

[@Nightdiver20]

@@Cyricist001 Zoomer Historian is great

[@Skelfi]

Some of my other favs are: Uberboyo, Max Derrat, Galahad Eridanus, Formscapes.

[@ConfusingConfucianism]

​@@Nightdiver20 Zoomer Historian is shit

[@Ahuman1-o1y]

This guy at 23 has identified almost everything I have managed, but I’m in my 50’s. He’s a beast.

[@effyourstyle]

it is common sense

[@sugargay7168]

@@effyourstyleits true that its common sense but it takes time for parts of it to break through and it happens to different people at different rates :)

[@johnglad5]

The US debt is 35 trillion, over 100 grand for every person in the US. Think hard. This, to be repaid is mathematically impossible. The great reset is going to be horrific.

[@hyperteleXii]

It literally means everyone has to work $100k extra. Good luck with that!

[@Bertuzz84]

That 100K is peanuts compared to the average persons net worth of 1 million. Money is created through mortgage loans, and is destroyed through the payment of interest and principal. So creating more money is pretty easy and not the problem at all. The debt of the government is the insane wealth of the population. The only real problem is the wealth inequality.

[@hyperteleXii]

The average person doesn't have a net worth of $1mil, but $200k.@@Bertuzz84

[@erwind917]

lol, it’s not meant to be repaid. We can pay it right now. By printing it. The U.S. can pay $35 trillion by printing it and giving it to its debt holders. Then the value of the dollar would collapse. So what would the debt holders gain by that repayment? The purpose of the system isn’t to repay, it’s to keep apes active and motivated. To keep things moving.

[@johnglad5]

@Bertuzz84 You are making wrong conclusions from.that data. 67% of the wealth is held by the top 1%. 78% living paycheck to paycheck. Another statistic to ponder is the interest on the debt, it has surpassed the military at over 900 billion dollars. Yes that's billion with a b. With over 2 trillion added to that soon the US government will not be able to pay for anything aside from the military and the interest on the debt.

[@ChristineMeyer-hs9rg]

Divide and Conquer. Your enemy is the WEF.

[@crowhillian58]

Exactly, reading some of the comments on here blaming boomers is totally missing the point.

[@c3bhm]

And which group is severely over-represented in the WEF....? We're not allowed to talk about that.

[@vitorsf992]

​@@c3bhm Look at this anti-chosen discourse. Anyways, it's the tiny hats.

[@hananokuni2580]

Your father might never abandon you, but he will chastise you. God might never abandon His chosen people, but He does punish them. If you read the Old Testament, God complains often about how the Hebrews would abandon the faith He gave them and instead worship foreign idols.

[@didforlove]

family/ humanity/ society /economy /ecology /global warming quality of life/standard of living all in decay /late stage capitalism population overshoot 8 billion globally ww3 famine peak oil === THE APOCALYPSE

[@jerrys5764]

Love how Tom recognize how important this topic is and so he did his due diligence and flowed so well with the guest. And let him speak alot and freely. Scary future

[@RobertBowen-b2r]

This young man’s narrative is spot on. His research is faultless in content. These are the narratives that must be put at the forefront in political and economic discussions by the mainstream media instead of secondary media.

[@geneeverett33]

There’s good stuff and total misses.

[@michaelstollairetbarceo3287]

This guy is a good combination of fast, intellectual thinker but also a good communicator on his often complex perspectives. Good interview

[@waynez3885]

Very impressive for someone so young. Gives me some hope for the future…

[@AJ-ey4ev]

He’s very smart but I feel my T going down listening to him more than the nerd host with his black rimmed glasses

[@Utilizador-gs3lx]

Yeah but it's clear he's not used to speaking witout a script he Hmms alot , good nontheless

[@barbmurphy6903]

@@AJ-ey4evlisten anyway

[@richardmallon1065]

Hello, I agree with you at all.😊

[@janiemiller825]

Basically .. “ We’re Fu-ked “ lol 😂

[@alomaalber6514]

Correctamundo. Read THE WORST HARD TIME. my parents were married in 1936 and went East. It will depend on WHERE you live. and it will not be anything like the sad events of 1865. People are really not community minded like they used to be.

[@Trump2024asw]

​​@@alomaalber6514Yup it'll be the Balkans on meth an steroids.

[@Weinerjihad]

Correction. City ppl are fucked. Rural Americans have been preparing for this for decades.

[@RuggedIrish]

Hahaha! I keep picturing The Walking Dead while listening to this and others of Rudyard Lynch's interviews. Only that I'm gonna have to live it out soon. I drive around and imagine roads and powerlines in disrepair from neglect and a failed country/economy. I wince in physical pain when I begin to imagine my friends and family then quickly force myself out of the daymare.

[@kw7796]

Time to find Jesus.

[@En_Pissant]

I think Tom is becoming a better host, or at least I think he did the best job I’ve seen him do so far.

[@TokyoRealEstateMan.website]

he was great today...

[@SuspendedLogic]

I mean he keeps hosting. If he hosts enough and reads the constructive criticism, and also tries to improve each time, eventually he will be great.

[@sixsmith7653]

I enjoyed the interplay in this conversation.

[@brianmeen2158]

Tom is smart and has a unique hosting style - i like his podcast

[@Kit-kk9cb]

He didn't talk about how he believes in nothing or that one time he almost had intercourse with a girl but then ruined it. Also, he didn't wear his infantile skater cap. Progress!

[@fmore2]

The most inetersting and knowledgeable 23 year old EVER. One of my favorite channels... Whatifalthist.

[@justinlinnane8043]

really? what EVER EVER EVER ?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DarkMatter2525]

He mixes a lot of falsehoods in with a lot of truths. He will mislead many people.

[@Bischlarbo69]

​@@DarkMatter2525 how so?

[@alexmail861]

We wanted globalization and we got it hard

[@keithj6251]

Liberals wanted globalism.

[@4SG]

Who's we?

[@cowboybeboop9420]

Globalization is not a bad thing per say. The problem is more - boomers - crappy American leadership - American culture - lack of virtue among Americans etc For example America is literally the richest country on the planet that has EVER EXISTED and yet somehow Americans can`t live within their means and drive insane debt. It`s too painful for Americans to cut spending. How is that NOT a lack of virtue?

[@starproxy.gaming]

@@cowboybeboop9420 Agreed. Here, in America, hyper individualism leads to narcissism, selfishness, and greed. You can't run a society efficiently and effectively if everyone is out for themselves. The lack of education is also a really huge problem. I don't think everyone needs to have an Ivy League level of education, but I think society at large benefits greatly with well-rounded individuals. We are off balance, completely!

[@claykeough7898]

As a 40yo millennial who's been employed since 15, educated, stayed in shape, responsible with money/ credit and ambitious I can just say I'm starting to realize I'm in the perfect pocket of a slow bleed out. I've made it to six figures with benefits and my quality of life has declined. I think especially the community and infrastructure around me that should be getting better but instead more miserable, drugged out than ever and roads buildings and small businesses deteriorating. I've chased a carrot of a small American dream that was never going to be there and it just feels hopeless anymore. Greed has seemingly won and automation/AI will be the final blow if not global war or more biologically created plagues.

[@mattcordes9276]

Correct...Find an off ramp if you can.

[@EZeasyET]

100k doesn’t go that far anymore . You’re not that bright if you don’t realize that

[@claykeough7898]

@@mrcodcommando3939 you're focusing on the wrong thing for sure, but that's what they want is for us to all be pointing at one another while our infrastructure crumbles and billionaires make record profits. I care much more about QUALITY OF LIFE IN MY COMMUNITY. Not what you're thinking which is trivial bs and keeping up with the Robinson's. I'm not in debt and have very much so managed my money. It's the things happening right in front of our eyes and maybe you should do your research and open yours. It doesn't take much but since you can't seem to see in front of your own nose... I feel sorry for you.

[@SatanIsTheLord]

100k including benefits? How much is these benefits? 80k?

[@foodhoarder9434]

I don't understand how "greed has won" is your conclusion. More like fake empathy and unearned entitlements.

[@entropiated9020]

I recall being told, when I was growing up, that because of technology and progress, that the price of things is supposed to go DOWN. But somehow costs just keep going up...except, apparently, for certain things. Hard to believe that there isn't a thumb on the scale making this happen.

[@kristiblack4789]

Microsoft monopoly is the epitome of this blight on mankind!

[@markysgeeklab8783]

It's true, if you are in control of the tech.

[@Nick-ij5nt]

that's what happens when you just keep printing money

[@peterriggio9853]

It did for a long time, that period of time has come and gone.

[@markysgeeklab8783]

@peterriggio9853 tech isn't made for the benefit of the end user, it is made for the benefit of the creator of the tech. Take all antisocial media as an example, the end user isn't the customer who pays the creator money. The person who buys advertising or data is the customer and the company (meta, tik tok, etc) creates a platform to ensnare the attention of advert viewers (us). Smart technology for your house is another example, it is sold to you, but the profit in the long term is made from using "your" network to mine data + as a repeater station & by selling "your" data.

[@anthonymahkovic8567]

The phones and social media screwed gen z and some millennials. I noticed when I stop listening to podcast and shows. And have introspective thought. At night when I sleep. I have more rememberable and vivid dreams. Anybody else like this?

[@user-zo1pk7bi2o]

No. 😮

[@missfunkadilly]

*memorable. And what you are describing is due to dopamine dysfunction. Dopamine is responsible for the vividness of your dreams. You stopped mindlessly consuming and leveled out your dopamine consumption.

[@Reply-who-me]

This explains why my boomer boss when I was in my 20’s said, “get as much debt as possible, you don’t have to pay it back when you die.” Yeah, but my child will get nothing from me of value. Then my boomer parents died within 10 months of each other at 63 and 61 and they had left me the refuse of their lives to clean up at my cost (think a 20x8x6’ dumpster overfilled). Granted my mother, albeit rather late in her life, left me her house and a $10k life insurance policy to bury her. Selling her house allowed me a down payment on a house after negotiating and paying off her estate’s debt. This put my small family in a better state than most of my fellow Gen-Xers.

[@kerwinbrown4180]

Why did her house decline in value?

[@Charmayne7]

I had a professor tell me the same thing about debt when I was in college.

[@agates9383]

Here's the thing - X'ers never should have expected ANYTHING! from their self centered childlike boomer parents - I was a latchkey kid from age 5 on and figured out at a very young age if you want it - you damned well better figure out how to get it done on your own.

[@fredrodriguez177]

Most of these people do not want a legacy to leave to their offspring. As your boss has explained. The system at this point in time didn't exist to generate this amount of debt. Tax laws,deductions, and pollical ignorance has made it so.

[@agates9383]

@@fredrodriguez177 Not ALL, some of us ARE literate in these matters and are interested in multi-generational wealth, the obvious challenge is to find the correct vehicle - some think it's physical PMs in your possession, some think it's over funded whole life insurance policies (which are intriguing if you have enough money and time) - pretty sure going forward that equities and real estate wont be the vehicles that will allow for this.

[@VeritatisQ]

Does he talk about central banks and fiat currency? That's literally the cause of inflation 99% of the time.

[@blarmosanchez2593]

He did in their first interview

[@YadraVoat]

@@blarmosanchez2593 And he does on his channel.

[@ango586]

40 pc max rest is zero tax thru loopholes on billionaires

[@technozombie789]

​@@ango586Inflation comes from money creation only, taxes only change who gets to spend the money. Supply and demand affects prices, but this is distinctly different from inflation which is the devaluation of a currency and by extension labor.

[@ango586]

@@technozombie789 no .. too much money in few hands is used to buy assets like land homes commercial properties and stocks and increased demand.. this causes more inflation than anything else .. media and lobby makes politicians public unaware of real reason

[@nickmattio3397]

Going off the gold standard in 1971 massively accelerated all of this globally today

[@WilliamMcAdams]

Forcing the gold standard (cutting out the silver standard) was worse.

[@alomaalber6514]

you are correct. And that china trade thing, I forgive Nixon it was Kissenger says new history books!

[@danielolivares5]

@@WilliamMcAdamswhy is that sir?

[@WilliamMcAdams]

@danielolivares5 silver was the "people's metal." Most commonplace tradable currency. Easier to obtain and trade.

[@joeyeddeer1072]

I could be wrong but I understand that they needed to get off the gold standard because people were either, or a combination of hoarding gold and a population boom creating a limited supply of gold bucks with which to transact with.

[@joeanthony7759]

The saddest part is that there are things that can be done to address these systemic issues, but that would call for collaboration over competition, and open minds.

[@andiwishthat1103]

Love this discussion, my mother and grandmothers cult destroyed me from being creative. Chopped me down at every level. Still reeling decades later. Thanks for filling in a few blanks in my jigsaw of a mind. Truly thank you for your research.

[@blarmosanchez2593]

People don’t realize how much damage there is in being raised in a cult, and how difficult and painful family and other cult members make it to walk away.

[@SomeUserNameBlahBlah]

Which cult?

[@Anton43218]

​@@SomeUserNameBlahBlahsame question

[@notallowedtobehonest2539]

@@SomeUserNameBlahBlahthe left

[@freddieoblivion6122]

Always telling us what "we shouldn't do"/. I lived that life, too.

[@dakotathompson8062]

I’ve been saying this about the baby boomers since I was 17. Family hated me for it. Now I’m 22 and the world will see what they’ve created.

[@joshualambert8346]

I have shirts older than you.

[@palamedes_the_wise2896]

​@@joshualambert8346 Congratulations on ruining the greatest country to ever exist 🎉

[@mikesteelheart]

LOL Boomers aren't even the actual culprits of our mess, they just perpetuated it. How old do you think Boomers were in the late 60's and early 70's? Do you think teenagers and 20-somethings had much power back then? That's like saying Millennials were responsible for the 2008 crash lol... The Silent Generation and even some of the younger culprits of The Greatest Generation are really who screwed us over with their idealistic do-gooder liberal mentalities which ignore actual economic realities...

[@ElementOBam]

They weren’t leaders capable of independence just like our generations aren’t. We’re just scam believing lemmings being led by people telling us what to believe. They don’t teach self reliance anywhere. The cycle will continue.

[@-MakeItGood-]

I’ve been saying this about the boomers since the 90s 😂

[@greyfuller1025]

The way he carries himself as a stereotypical nerd is so fascinating.

[@wzpu3283]

That's high-functioning ASD, Sweetheart.

[@oliveoil7642]

Perhaps on the spectrum. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@KingArthurWs]

@@oliveoil7642 Whatifautist Man's a savant, I think.

[@DiluviumEyesofThunder]

Only autists will make public information which otherwise they could exploit to their own advantage.

[@bentuovila5296]

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

[@starproxy.gaming]

33:02 One of the problems with rural societies in modern day USA is the climate change disrupting their harvests which many have complained about for years. I've heard multiple farmers in my everyday life say they were thinking of changing careers. And farmers in America by in large tend to vote against their own interests so we need to address that issue. It's a giant pink elephant that no one talks about.

[@joeytofoic]

Bureaucracy is the opposite of Freedom.

[@elasticharmony]

Due to the high amount of doubt as to how anything happens, these institutions take on a form inwhich their doubts lead them.

[@SouvenTudu1]

No

[@pavementstoneguy]

It's Free-loaderism 😅

[@EnwardSnowman]

NO modeerF is the opposite of Freedom it has a goatee

[@nephilimshammer9567]

Stop blaming the working class people. Blame corporations and govts for allowing this system

[@lebe220]

AIPAC

[@Throginit]

Everyone is complicit in the system the only difference is the degree of complicity.

[@Maltlicky50]

Complicit? Or forced to be complicit?

[@zkal11]

@@Maltlicky50 Right? The government has a monopoly on violence.

[@lebe220]

@@Maltlicky50 Potential not used

[@MSMNBC]

Most baby boomers I have met are not actively oppressing people, but alot of politicians become millionaires in less than 5 years on a $200,000 salary.

[@elizabethf3596]

yeah lets not turn on each other- Trump lost money as POTUS and donated salary, he actually cares about America as an economic nationalist. his opponents are actively collapsing America, borders sovereignty and our rights

[@annalynn9325]

Yes the last sentence is true. But for the first sentence I think you’d need to talk to the boomers’ children about that. That’s where a lot of bitterness is coming from, boomers having so many advantages and feeling no responsibility about passing anything onto the next generations, not even any stable social institutions

[@melindarathke851]

I believe it’s because unless you hear something concrete like this, you believe if people work hard, love God and follow the rules…you win. We’re now seeing how hard it is for younger people and many of us are scrambling to make things right. Their parents came out of the Great Depression and were very kind and hardworking people. Who knew the world would go to -- so quickly. Don’t be bitter, have real conversations and share this video. They’re as perplexed as anyone as to what’s going on!

[@MSMNBC]

@@melindarathke851 my big quarrel is that prescription drugs are rampant while a person can be arrested for drinking a beer in public.

[@samij6071]

@@melindarathke851 Well they shouldn't be: for 4 decades they voted for candidates who literally ran on ending the very programs & policies which allowed boomers to prosper. The climbed up the ladder & then pulled it up w/them.

[@GoldDigger7819]

This idea that boomers are somehow responsible for this mess is laughable. For the record I am not a boomer so I am not speaking from a defensive point of view. For the boomer generation, they were basically doing exactly as the elite class trained and groomed them to do. Get married, have children, buy homes and other things. The idea was that you had to have all of these material things to show that you had been successful. You had to own at least one home (ideally more), you had to own at least one vehicle but ideally one vehicle for every adult in the home. All these material things were required. There was no one pumping the brakes saying "maybe we should not be financing all this stuff, It is going to make a huge mess in the future". Boomers were actively encouraged to do it and treated as less than if they opted out. The people in the drivers seat (political class) were literally herding all the boomers towards the banks and pushing loans on them. Not a single banker or political class elite were trying to slow it down. All the boomers were operating under the assumption of "the smart people in the drivers seat in DC know what's best and this is what they are encouraging". Boomers today are simply the scapegoats of people like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi among many others who have been in government for decades. Where were they in 1980 telling people to slow down? They had all the inside information and saw the data. they were making the rules and the laws. Why was there not a massive push from the top in the 80's and 90's to slow down the financing of literally everything? The answer is they pushed us here on purpose. This is part of what is called the Cloward Piven strategy. It is s decades long slow push to send more and more people into poverty and onto government assistance while also creating mass division and hatred among the haves and have nots. The ultimate goal is compete and total economic destruction at which time the government steps in and declares capitalism extinct and defunct. The solution is obvious. Socialism.

[@7towers777]

This kids only 23 years old his understanding is phenomenal. Imagine him at 50.

[@richardbayne7566]

Except that he’s wrong about a lot of stuff.

[@Mathias3279]

@@richardbayne7566 are you a boomer that is somehow poor?

[@mostawesomedudeever1]

He's a moron, the global economic system in no way works the way he describes

[@faithburns8379]

Who IS this guy??

[@OurBestFutureinfo]

"Boomers are printing more currency as they retire & withdraw their 401ks" 🙄 #uh..dumbwrong 😬 #yikes!

[@kevinw2569]

What a timely guest! Much appreciated Tom!

[@CapitalismDeathSpiral]

This reality is boring and evil. I am now 40. I gave up in 2008.

[@turul9392]

43 here. Things stopped being real in the mid aughts.

[@jessehamilton4223]

Hey brother I left the economy in 2008 early 2009 when I got sick of working minimum wage jobs after earning my bachelors degree

[@madamkirk]

Dorky of you to give up.

[@captain_crunk]

44 here. I retired 5 years ago on my 39th birthday. I got lucky so many times in various career moves it's legit crazy to think about. I worked really hard too, but dumb luck was the biggest factor to my success. Dumb luck indeed - I was just diagnosed with colon cancer, so it looks like retirement happened at the correct time for me...if you get what I'm saying. Anyway, go live your life. Only boring people get bored.

[@jessehamilton4223]

@@madamkirk perhaps, i didnt take down the economy though and when faced with working hard with nothing to show for it and working less hard with nothing to show for it the decision was easy

[@dannyroberts9807]

This went off the rails on its analysis of urban vs rural life. Cities don't make people feel lonely....the opposite has been true for many of us. Technology dependence on the other hand isn't even touched on.

[@boneheded2819]

I have no idea why no one ever points out that with larger amounts of labor causes lower wages. Everything that's happening to day is all about money and profit. There is only so much disfunction a civilization can sustain before it collapses.

[@ericlosey998]

I think you mean corruption and greed.. those two things ruin even the greatest nations

[@kristiblack4789]

Supply Side Economics = $upply $ide Economics!

[@dmark2639]

I think it is assumed that increasing labor force decreases wages. Economics 101.

[@boneheded2819]

@@dmark2639 you would think. Considering the normal everyday American citizen has below average intelligence and lacks the ability to think it should be pointed out.

[@DiabloMet]

Supply and demand. As well, no one talks about how much all the illegal immigration is affecting prices as well. They're being housed with your taxpayer money and using your taxpayer money to buy groceries, increasing the demand without increasing the supply, driving prices up. 20 million illegals since 2020

[@BigPatFenis_]

I have a coworker who is a massive GigaBoomer. He told me just the other day he plans on spending all of his money so he can go fishing and live out the rest of his life doing his hobbies instead of living comfortably like he already does and saving it for his kids. His exact words were "why save it? I'm going to die anyway so it won't matter." Then they have the audacity to look at you like you're a beggar for suggesting maybe they should pass the wealth down to them instead of hoarding it and letting it die with them. They really are a generation of selfish, entitled brats who sold our future to profit their present. My parents said the same thing to me and my siblings. That "we aren't getting shit because we didn't get shit from our parents." Like, alright fine. Go ahead and die with your money, I couldn't care less. But don't be surprised if I start making money that I don't help you with anything if you need it.

[@anthonyml7]

Your not wrong, but neither are they. At least they care enough to teach you that lesson and it sunk in.

[@AbrahamShekelstein]

Sounds like you got shitty parents then. My parents didn't get much from their parents, but they plan on passing down quite a bit to me. I also plan on doing the same for my future children even though I could retire now in my 30s

[@jasonroth7377]

So retire. ​@@AbrahamShekelstein

[@AbrahamShekelstein]

​@jasonroth7377 why would I do that? If I retire now then I'll leave bare minimum for kids in the future. If I continue to work and retire at 55 then they'll have millions extra. It's about not being selfish

[@gwills9337]

Jokes on them - no grandkids

[@icoroticus8590]

When Blackrock Vanguard and StateStreet own most rental housing and also own most of the food supply and manufacturers, this is what happens. A handful of people can manipulate economies and politicians. Bust up the above-mentioned monopolies, and things will improve.

[@realestatejunkie0414]

You’re thinking of Blackstone

[@kdacuna]

100% agree

[@dtrout]

Blackrock and Blackstone are in the same Larry Fink pea pod. Amen to breaking up the monopoly.....set limits on total holdings of any single firm...... otherwise you will be playing anti monopoly whack a mole.

[@patnor7354]

Look deeper. There are banks ans bankers owning these companies.

[@NYyankeeboi]

It would be near impossible to accomplish that when they own all the sledgehammers...

[@greenless1983]

I studied Zoology at CSU. Graduated 2006. These topics of discussion are studied and known about in the natural world. Maybe humans should stop thinking we are better or smarter than animals since it seems we have no more control over the natural world. Just a thought. Great conversation!

[@OkTxSheepLady]

30:33. On parents keeping their children in a perpetual state of infant-hood: have you heard of Bud and Temple Abernathy who at 9 and 5 rode horseback 1000 miles BY THEMSELVES from Oklahoma to Santa Fe New Mexico with their father’s blessing in 1909. Today the child protective agencies would take such independent children into custody. In fact parents who live in cities today are maligned for allowing their young teens to navigate the public transportation alone. When did most parents and society at large forget that the goal is to raise functioning ADULTS?

[@joannlarson6386]

Different time and population.

[@travisprugh6347]

my kids are 16,14,13 they could all survive on their own at about 9 or 10 just as my parents taught me

[@ryangonzalez3225]

Explains nothing ​@@joannlarson6386

[@ryangonzalez3225]

Is it emergent or designed.

[@janiemiller825]

@@travisprugh6347bravo clap 👏

[@ancientdunlop]

I built my house myself. It's off-grid and self sustainable. We live on my income because my costs are so low. I have two kids. They will NEVER go to a school to be corrupted. When they are old enough I will teach them to build their own homes. Nothing society has to offer now is useful. Surround yourself with good trusted people. Build your community. Think outside the box. The world is ALWAYS lying to you. Think and do your own research. A life of materialism is worthless. The only thing worth investing in is land you can grow food on, that is universally true. You can't eat gold or crypto, nor will it keep you or your family warm. Get some perspective.

[@Mastermind111111]

You're right, everything in society has become useless now.

[@JuiceForgetting5]

People on the internet are so bizarre.

[@lion_king8841]

​@@JuiceForgetting5 Bizarre is how society keeps fu... G you and you always ask for more.....

[@Orson2u]

HELL yes!

[@joebroart]

Poor children,

[@CHRISCRAZZ-t7w]

I’m 52 years old and I really enjoy this young guys KZbin channels I saw him and other debates he’s calm, rational intelligent! He gives me hope for the young generation

[@charlesharmon4926]

I’m 52 also and agree.

[@charlesd4572]

You're an Xer nit a boomer

[@richardmallon1065]

Yeap this guy is very intelligent, there's hope in the future from our grandchildren, but although so we must continue working ass off to enhance this society.

[@RealEyesRealizeRealLiez]

How? If you listen to him how TF do you have hope for the younger generation? Because ONE dude is legit? He's literally telling you how the younger generation is f*cked. Swear people have no brain

[@BubacarrJammeh-px9fl]

He is One in a million. There is no hope there sir lol😂. 99 percent of this generation is screwed up. Few handful brilliant ones can’t fix us the 99 percent

[@bbb8182]

Our grandparents/great grandparents had lots of kids--great for farm labor. Now we have kid's as expensive pets and the fewer the better since they cost a lot..

[@richnick1911]

We are all here for such a short period. Enjoy each day the most you can!

[@JoshDragRace0688]

Well they are making that as difficult as they can for most people.

[@fishguru73]

I'm a boomer and I didn't vote for or agree to any of this shit. This really all started in 1913 with the Federal Reserve act which opened the door for unbridled fiat printing and socialism.

[@dennislilly2818]

Same. I'm 64 and living paycheck to paycheck.

[@pingjocky638]

You are on the money That is the Creature of Jekyll Island! How it all started.

[@k3V2181]

No that Makes no sense

[@CrowenClark]

Ahh blaming socialism for everything it's the goto, can't go near the sacred cow of capitalism.

[@Kevin-ys7sj]

The powers that be murdered over a 1,000 people aboard the Titanic to bring this nightmare ponzi system to our shores!

[@ChiTownTx]

One of the main problems with the economy is the people in government that control the decisions around it. This is why term and age limits are needed. Currently we have people in their 80's, making economic policies that will have a negative impact down the road that they will not have to deal with because they will be dead. This wasn't always the case. Most people don't realize that the founding fathers, such as Jefferson, Franklin and Washington were all very young. Most of them were in their twenties and thirties and George Washington was considered an old man at 44. Any policies they made they would have to live with the consequences of them due to their young age. This is no longer the case. This is why you must have age and term limits across all forms of office. Otherwise people are too easily corrupted and especially if they can make policies that they themselves will not have to answer for due to dying out from old age.

[@beloved-child]

Your 2nd paragraph is the most understated problem we have........they don't even care because thdy won't be around for the consequences.

[@donaldvermillion1253]

age limits and term limits across the board for ALL elected officials. The ONLY way this will happen is with a convention of states. DC swamp will never vote on it, their hands will have to be forced and tied. I say their pay should be median pay of that of their district. if their district is all dirt of the earth farmers scraping by each and every year. it makes no sense for their representatives to be making 1/4 million every year. And with pay in mind, it should cease when they leave office. No more life time pay and benefits.

[@cross-eyedmary6619]

@@beloved-childHence WHY they created the public school system. The YOUTH are our saviors and they have all been brainwashed and incapacitated!

[@mannieberhanu3469]

Indeed Indeed I agree

[@kayc7442]

Not to mention that they vote for policies in their later years that they would have never have voted for in their younger years due to the reality of the negative consequences greatly affecting their careers

[@Professor_Greenleaf]

As a professor, it’s important to me to note that Calhoun’s experiment (i.e., mouse utopia) was never replicated. That’s not because someone ran similar studies and found different results. No, it’s because the study was never replicated. As far as we know, the results of those 30 experiments is precisely what happens when you put 9 mice in a perfect environment that can hold 6000-all goes to hell.

[@starc.]

if it happened once, that means its possible and eventually happens again, especially if one knows the exact previous conditions

[@uzmahburneyrand662]

I'm gen X. This discussion was brilliant. Thank you.

[@alomaalber6514]

Don't blame the boomers look at 1936 in THE WORST HARD TIME. and more.

[@recongraves]

You read the Dr Ralph E. Lapp, The New Priesthood. 😂😂 Boomer drop big boy along with planned obsolescence. 1936😂😂😂give it a break. Hit me up when your done catching up with history. What's next bitcoin isn't money😂😂​@@alomaalber6514

[@heidib9275]

Yes! Our society IS facing a psychological plague. Thank you for identifying and defining it!

[@WW_SHTFF_WW]

This is the best explanation of what happened to America I've ever heard.

[@alomaalber6514]

There is more to it. It will be social unrest and it will depend on WHERE you live. Read THE WORST HARD TIME about 1936 and also the Fourth Turning.

[@shanejones578]

Terebinth leadership, west pointer that needs your help who’s no longer welcome in America… and check out Martin Armstrong. Tom is a softball, and rudyard is too awkward and fearful of big brother govt to spit the real truth out because he’s smart enough to know it that’s why he dances around the hard truths to much with his intriguing takes and comparisons/theories etc

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

That's because you're new to it. Matt Bracken, a former Navy Seal, has been warning us for over 20 years about CW2 and the break-up of America. There are also a few other authors like Bracken of the same caliber. So, as I like and appreciate Rudyard, he's late to the game.

[@shanejones578]

@@blokcomNativeFaces my grandfather said he was 99% sure after ruby ridge, and was 100% by the end of the month after LA started burning down.

[@blokcomNativeFaces]

@@shanejones578 Your grandfather new what was up. Many from that generation who were Vietnam vets and were the early prepper-minded, they saw the writing on the wall, way before T.Chittum wrote his book in the late 90's.

[@keithj6251]

I was born in 1961, a baby boomer. The height of wages and US dollar buying power peaked in 1968. Its been a downhill slide ever since. Tte system wasn't set up to help me for even 15% of my life.

[@infinitewatersss]

born in 62 and now 62 years old. i hear you.

[@WTFlux-lh2tf]

Rudyard Lynch is intelligent on a gifted level. We're lucky to have him within the realm of futurist sociopolitical analytics. His historic insight by virtue of studying causal structural conflict,and then using multiple outcomes to arrive at theoretic conclusions, is science just waiting to be weighed as proof. Thank you Tom for hosting him!

[@bubbasanches4591]

Not really. He has zero proof, zero sources, admits to making it all up as he goes, plus he's uneducated. Just because someone's on youtube doesn't mean they're correct. He's saying things you want to hear deep down so you agree with him.

[@sofigag]

This fellow to me is the male version of Whitney Webb...I have slightly more hope for the younger generation😬

[@WTFlux-lh2tf]

@@sofigag I can't believe you stated as much! I almost included that exact thought, albeit, Whitney seems more the logical didactic, and Rudyard has that, and a super powerful visual imagination with regards to historic projection. His mental faculties seem to allow for exceptionally strong logic based analytics that center on an ability to simultaneously animate multiple juxtaposed hypothetical outcomes. But YES, Whitney is in fact the other MIGHTY force in the realm of genius level journalism, and historic perspective. I fully agree with your observation that these individuals point to a high level of youth based optimism, and inspire a great deal hope! Sadly, things are about to get REAL.

[@sofigag]

@@WTFlux-lh2tf They both have the unique ability to process vast amounts of daunting information and condense and extrapolate. It's truly fascinating to listen to both yet kind of depressing. Am listening to RL's video: Are We A New Weimar? It makes me sad when people say that things are about to "get real" as we the people were/are not the architects of this well planned chaos...the side issue I have with many of these types of videos of late is that no one can definitively tell us how to prepare financially...I don't need to be told again that I need to go to Costco and buy more water and dried goods...

[@WTFlux-lh2tf]

@@sofigag Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. There's no getting around that. In terms of financial planning, I read a number of diverse plans, I consider them ALL delusional. There is nothing that we can do to plan other than be prepared. ALL money, forms of money (digital), material (gold) backings, and all forms of valuation are controlled at critical junctures in which they can be made valueless overnight. So many people just don't get that. The elk, no matter what watering hole it chooses, still has to drink to stay alive. All apex predators (banks) know that on an instinctual level. This planned destabilization will last for several years. Only the "elk" (humans) that don't have to make the journey to said watering hole will survive the apex predation, because at the end of the day, they WILL survive due to the fact that it's their game in which the rules are designed to solely insure their survival.

[@Anton43218]

I am 19, an only child, from eastern europe and I believe my 50+ yo parents want to get rid of me as they have said to me when I was 12 that if mobilization is enacted they will tie me up by my hands and feet until the recruitment officer comes to enroll me. They don't even like the country we live in yet they want me to die for it. Anyone else like me?

[@sharonmessenmaker6311]

Your parents don’t deserve you!

[@romans5875]

I pray that God gives you the strength and wisdom to make the right decision. I don’t have the answers but I pray the best for you.

[@Anton43218]

@@romans5875 the right decision to me is to get recruited and to try to put as much lead in as many officers as I can catch until I inevitably get brought down by my own conscripted countrymen thinking they will get a bonus for pandering to those which use us as cannon fodder. However I cannot perform this as I have no descendants and my family line will go extinct without me, so I shall have to settle for being a draft dodger.

[@meropee9994]

Can you move out? Don't give them the opportunity

[@Flyingpengui3]

That's terrible, I think you should find a room and live by yourself

[@TRAVIESO_NA]

I wake up in the middle of the night and think about stuff like this constantly

[@davenchop]

go back to sleep..these people are fearmongers looking for attention..

[@VTJJ22]

It's concerning man I feel you

[@anthonyml7]

May not need to touch more grass or find a hobby my dude

[@NYyankeeboi]

Your not the only one. Its 228am in Los Angeles right now 🤣🤣

[@TheOnlySaneAmerican]

No you don't.

[@andersmonemar3833]

"Being on the morale arch of history" is a universal political view. All political parties and most leaders worldwide are stuck in this.

[@JSambrook]

This podcast is hitting me well and usefully, I really appreciate you giving Rudyard this venue. Thank you, Tom, too, for all the work you do to really be prepared to have a good discussion with your guests.

[@frostydei5012]

This kid's analysis had sharpened a ton over the years. It really is impressive. The part he's missing is this: Unjustifiable, systemic inequality where wealth and influence is built through predation and dynastic fortunes. It's an economic, social, cultural, and tangible phenomenon. Civilizations rise. Until their ruling class inevitably insulates itself, justifies itself, perpetuates/replicates itself through technocracy and prestige, becoming increasingly malignant and entrenched over time. Conspicuous decadence in full view of their starving citizens, etc. Social contracts are a requirement of society. After the contract is proven to be false, society dissolves under the weight of contradictions. That destructive cycle has been ultimately restorative on a long enough timeline, historically. This time, the globe won't survive it. We live in a post scarcity reality but our biology doesn't know that. We're all genetically programmed to recognize a hostile environment and maladapt accordingly. Poverty signals scarcity to human genes. The natural biological resolution is self annihilation on an exponentially increasing scale. Antisocial, narcissistic, compulsive, violent, and nihilistic reactions will perpetuate generational trauma and population suppression. Until poverty/scarcity is no longer the expectation of your species. The wealthiest 10% of the globe are responsible for nearly all environmental degradation. 7 billion people will destroy themselves and it won't save the planet. We have to break this spiral. Now.

[@kdacuna]

Well said 💯

[@elizabethf3596]

ac saves lives, fake food, drugs news wars world govt collapses nation states and create world govt, you can eat bugs to save the planet. birth rates are drastically low, own nothing and be hoppy as Klaus Scwabb of WEF said

[@DonnieDarko727]

Read Lysander Spooner

[@joebroart]

Yeah thats a commies take on society.

[@Kawekaweau-i5o]

I think he is more on the mark than you are , not saying what your saying doesnt exist and is not a problem in certain societies i just dont think it has the universal alriding status in being the main factor or evil in the world. That view is a bit too simplistic in understanding the world

[@isaackellogg3493]

In addition to everyone else who tried to replicate Mouse Utopia failing to get Calhoun’s famous results, Calhoun himself was unable to replicate his most famous result on any of the other times he ran the experiment. It is literally 24 times of >not having population crash< vs one (1) single instance of population collapse that got published, which got him famous. So what did he do differently the one (1) time it actually worked? Well, he changed their diet from the other 24 times, and he picked mice from an already inbred, lab-hybridized strain already known for delicate constitutions. So the results of Mouse Utopia 25 could just as easily be attributed to malnutrition and/or inbreeding as to population rising above Dunbar’s Number. Other experimenters have tried many, many times to replicate Mouse Utopia 25, but the population never collapses, and certainly never into such meme groups as “the Beautiful Ones” or “the ones who kill those still trying to breed.” Females becoming more masculine and males more feminine is a result commonly found in populations that move to areas with high food supply and zero predators, such as bonobos vs chimpanzees. Since most of America’s and the West’s problems do not seem to stem from inbreeding, we might look at malnutrition as a cause. We did not evolve to consume high levels of non-fiber-associated fructose, and especially not to eat highly processed seed oils. Other societies who lack such additives to their diet do not seem to have had our problems, though the ergot hypothesis for the Salem Witch Trials might be an isolated analogue. Long story short, while Mouse Utopia may explain by analogy certain characteristics of our current civilization, given the irreproducibility of Calhoun’s results, in my opinion far too much stew has been made from this single, very questionable bean. It may be that future historians will see us as just as mad as the general population for blaming our civilization’s collapse on urbanization and population growth, when the true answer is so obvious to them, and should surely have been just as obvious to us.

[@aaronwilcox4376]

He did specifically mention that mouse utopia has never been reproduced in a lab. But it definitely makes a good comparison to human beings in the age of social media if nothing else.

[@isaackellogg3493]

@@aaronwilcox4376 this comes only after my posting of the above facts on three of his other videos. Before that, he blithely spoke about how Mouse Utopia had been run dozens of times by Calhoun, always with the same result, and that everyone else who tried it also got the same results, which derives ultimately from a single, unsourced but oft-repeated line in a 1977 article in a non-scientific magazine. His modification of his previous views, however slight, definitely counts as a shoutout (thank you Rudyard, I appreciate it!) but unfortunately he has welded his wagon too tightly to this particular star (and as he pointed out, there does not seem to be any other way of explaining the peculiarities of our culture than this alleged “standard” experiment) to change his official thinking so abruptly. I hope that in future, he will eventually work out his own conclusion with fear and trembling, and find his current beliefs just as cringe as he now finds his own beliefs from four or five years ago, when he was *21.

[@BAHB420]

When you can no longer see the night sky you stop believing in things greater then yourself

[@map3384]

In the mid 80s when I was a teen my generation was watching the baby boomer off shore the first of millions of jobs for the sake of growing their wealth. The greatest generation, their parents told them not to do it because it was destroy the economy for the generations to come. The boomers did it anyway because of their narcissistic sociopathic tendencies. As expected the economy is in the toilet. Boomers in their 70s are buying more homes than millennials and zoomers. That shouldn’t be happening. The birth rate is in the toilet. Boomers have the majority of wealth and could give zero cares about the damage they’ve done.

[@loisannarter725]

Thank you. It’s nice to be labeled. Funny I don’t remember the lavish life you speak of “Boomers “ having. Yeah thanks for the thumbs down.

[@zarbins]

Of course Boomers have the most wealth they are the largest generation living and are old (thus having the most time to accumulate wealth). GenX is too small, relatively. What has helped younger generations is the vast amount of personal finance educational material and the democratization of engaging with the markets. Anyone can learn to budget, save, invest and have access to tools and knowledge that Boomers could have only dreamed of. Millennials are catching up on the wealth front and the ones building cash positions to take advantage of the next recession will do very well for themselves.

[@loisannarter725]

@@zarbins thank you that was very nice. Nice.🥰😄

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

Babyboomer politicking all my life (I'm 44 years old in 2024 C.E.): Candidate 1: "You're a bigot!" Candidate 2: "No, YOU'RE a bigot!" Candidate 1: "No, no! YOU'RE a bigot!" etc. Millennials: (Shaking our heads and facepalming ourselves)

[@nikobellic570]

Put any generation in their era and environment, then you would have the same outcome. Humans take whatever they can get away with and then some. The ancient Greeks had a proverb about planting a tree for the next generation, even though you're not gonna be around to see it. Yeah, we're not sharing or sacrificing for our descendants

[@user-gl9iz1bp1r]

“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.” ~ Lord Acton

[@viktorianas]

Tom did his homework, top tier podcast in all aspects.

[@WeAreTheTwintails]

As a parent of young gen Alphas, I would really like to understand exactly how these gen x were raised that led them to be emotionally stunted. I don't want to accidently do the same with my kids!

[@PostNostalgos]

Gen X and millennials were put in front of a television as soon as they're spat out of the womb by their Baby Boomer parents. Raised on media, tv, and movies as opposed to instilling the values of their G. I. Gen and Silent Gen parents. Combine this with trash ideology from the women's rights movement along with other socialist movements, we now have multiple generations that are now brainwashed and confused just as badly as the Boomer parents were. Boomers became adults around the 1970s which coincided with things like "sexual liberation" and other nonsense ideology. They then voted in these ideas into policy, solidifying their place as voting juggernauts. Boomers are still the biggest population in every country right now, so any and all politics are tailored to them. The workforce doubled thanks to women taking more and more jobs, which caused more competition for jobs, which drove wages down. Then, when women were now convinced they had to have a job to have purpose in life, the government steps in with promises of government assistance to single mothers, paving the way for fatherless homes. Flashforward to present day, and now we have so-called "experts" trying to gaslight mothers into believing that fathers aren't important. That leads to more and more family separation and out of control mothers, who they themselves were raised without fathers, continuing the cycle. Mothers neglect their children and the child is also fatherless; a recipe for disaster that nobody talks about. Even intact families feel this effect because, even when both parents are in the household, the mother is still absent from working, leaving the child to strangers via daycare, or to other family members, usually the grandparents. And it's the grandparents who ruin the child as well. Usually through spoiling or other forms of neglect that they inflicted on their own children. Nothing changes and the cycle repeats. Its sad. Key take away: do not give your young Alpha a tablet or phone as such an early age. Actually talk to them. Another take away: make sure your child has both parents in their life. Fatherless homes are incredibly devastating to the spiritual and psychological well-being to children.

[@lebe220]

I was born in 1958 and always rebelled against the fiat money Ponzi scheme. Petrodollar will crash soon. Should never have been created.

[@kristiblack4789]

Never even learned about the BS Petro Dollar in school and/or my elder family members who actually worked in the International Oil Industry in many suspect places in the world. Had to learn about it all on my own when in 2012 I started researching the history of the privately and foreign owned US Federal Reserve Bank!

[@michaelpieters1844]

Well the Elite Jews did create a genius system where countries can NEVER repay their debt. NS Germany was very much aware of the Jewish danger but sadly they got destroyed.

[@didforlove]

family/ humanity/ society /economy /ecology /global warming quality of life/standard of living all in decay /late stage capitalism population overshoot 8 billion globally ww3 famine peak oil === THE APOCALYPSE

[@markperlsweig7807]

A key point Rudyard made was in the larger issue of deterioration of routine social cooperation and shared norms. The pandemic accelerated and clarified this trend. People drive in the left lane when nobody is in their lane to the right. People rush to make appointments but aren’t available because they are on holiday. Medicines people need go into shortage repeatedly but pharmacies won’t share their supply and stock information with customers and won’t answer their phones for doctor’s offices. It has all just reached a point of being bizarre.

[@golondriz3]

Our poor kids

[@joepic85]

Your are right about poor

[@joshuak2810]

Lack of personal responsibility combined with a Surplus of non stop media (social media, internet, news, etc.) Combined with BOTH parents (if your lucky enough to still have them together) working full time jobs -> Or the LACK of a TWO PARENT HOUSEHOLD along with a series of other issues and this is the world we now live in… 🤔😵‍💫

[@kbadgett123]

Rudyard Lynch (Whatifalthist) is awesome! He makes History & Sociology cool.

[@richieharrow6205]

This dude needs to be invited everywhere-Rogan, Tucker, PBD, etc ASAP

[@jacqdanieles]

This guy is a right winger. Guess whose policies primarily contributed to the current situation? He says we have a labor surplus. Not quite. We have a *shortage of production.* Corporate America sold out the middle & working classes in pursuit of quarterly profits to juice up executive stock options & bonus packages & overinflated CEO compensation. I remember the days when corporations sold entire production lines to the Chinese & shipped them in crates overseas. They literally converted the engines of American production into the rust belt. And the previous administration simply made noise for political gain but made little progress in accomplishing anything.

[@theplasmacollider6431]

@@jacqdanieles Left wingers have not solved anything. They are increasing the size of the federal government.

[@castratedbob]

Yes because proto socialist leftist policy is so good for economic development, if you discard the 100 million high pile of corpses its already produced in less than a century ​@jacqdanieles

[@justadildeau]

​@jacqdanieles what a PATHETIC analysis

[@jacqdanieles]

@justadildeau yeah, sure ... I noticed how you pointed out the errors in it ....

[@Soggygranite]

This is such a great conversation. One of the best I’ve had the chance to hear. I’d like to think people from all sides could watch this and at the very least find it incredibly interesting

[@BeegPoppa]

Rudyard is one of the dopest people of this generation, era, and century.

[@ladycarys3008]

I love watching Rudyard in long form interviews because you can watch him actively trying to connect all the threads into the pattern that will hopefully make sense to other people. He goes on tangents because he knows that all the variables matter and wants to make sure everyone is on the same page in regards to them so that the point can be made. My brain works in a similar way so it is fun to see someone else wrestling with how to transcribe a 3d thought into a streamlined concept. I would say this is probably why his scripted and textwall filled videos display his points better than the long form style does, but he has definitely gotten better at it after a couple months on the pod cast circuit.

[@flickwtchr]

Oh sure, he's a freaking genius who hates old people in 3D.

[@IsaacLHarrison]

When I started my trade here in Australia, my boomer techinician said "don't discuss religion and politics. and you will do alright" LOL it's the two most determining factors of society - and has been for thousands of years.

[@brianmcglade8164]

Boomer cultural Marxism!

[@jehriasean6379]

This man's brain is the entire history of planet Earth.

[@elenarda-i2x]

Oof. No. Just, no.

[@AZ-697]

@@elenarda-i2xseconded.

[@AZ-697]

Whatifalthist is a pseudo-intellectual with a lot of false assertions due to his lack of experience in the world.

[@kcried1081]

@@AZ-697 no, I think alot of experience clouds ones point of view. I think his lack of experience is an asset bc he is coming from a clear mind, with clear eyes and very objective. Just like two players playing chess and when your in the mix you cant see the whole board bc u get tunnel vision. but the third person watching the game because he isnt vested see all the moves and he sees a move you have been neglecting that could end the game within a couple moves but you the player cant see it and then you lose.

[@elenarda-i2x]

@@kcried1081 There is so much wrong with this position that no explanation could dissuade you from keeping it, because you wouldn't understand the explanation.

[@SECRETPURPOSE]

I can't believe Whatifalthist is on Bilyeu

[@NeedleHex]

This guy is the final boss of reddit.

[@JonAleksanderKrancan]

Hes everything anti reddit

[@RedEverything]

No, he’s too based to be identified as a Redditor.

[@ayylien3070]

He is like a Redditor that was immune to brain aids and didn't catch it.

[@AIartificalIntellige]

You showed how cooked your brain cells are bro with this comment.

[@allahuakbar7717]

He’d be banned off Reddit so quick 💀 Reddit is a leftist shithole

[@retarteddwarf2182]

Blue Pill: We can afford to think like this. Red Pill: NO we can't. NO. It's a complete sentence all by itself.

[@ericlosey998]

Bullshit the right is just as responsible for this your whole part was 80 boomers till recently

[@barbarakane9887]

Absorbing exchange...Mr. Lynch has a great facility to recall and explain his facts and theories. Tom is a patient listener who is well prepared and objective. I am a female boomer so some of the ideas discussed did not convince me, however 90% of the discussion was helpful to me in my understanding of the current stage of US history we are living in.

[@laurentdrozin812]

That's the problem with social media. When I was their age, I also used to have a lot of half assed ideas, but I did not have a platform and "followers" who confirmed everything I said. I grew older and wiser. I hope they can find the way, but given this conversation, it might take some time.

[@ofthebrave9194]

Well, you definitely got older, not sure about the other part though

[@Dugout97]

I must have missed the part where he included a 2-tier justice system between the populace and the elites. That was a serious issue that lead to war in the past and what we see today.

[@3ddesigns220]

We have an incredible amount of corruption at all levels that stems from we and our ancestors sacrificing the future for the present. Well it's the future now, and the bill is due.

[@piggypoo]

That might go under the idea of "building the utopia"

[@crowhillian58]

In the UK our current Prime Minister, Kier Starmer is known as 'Two tier Keir' as well as other names like Kier Stasi.

[@steven_003]

@@crowhillian58Insane dystopia, I was always fond of your country and people. Now I am worried it won’t exist anymore in a generation or two.

[@MSMNBC]

One thing to keep in mind is that a dollar of silver coins in 1963 is worth $15 dollars now. The paper money doesn't even make good wiping paper.

[@misterlyle.]

If you are looking for a pattern to explain what you don't understand, you will find it. That doesn't mean you have found understanding.

[@hans.henrik.eriksen]

One politician in my country called out kindness as a problem several decades ago, but called it kindism.

[@kostyaa1990]

Everyone too busy trying to predict something will happen so that nothing will happen. What a paradoxical time we are in.

[@Soldano999]

A lot of things have been happening lately in case you haven't noticed. Probably more in the last 4 years than in the 40 years i've been alive.

[@corterapidoetramontina2904]

"Nothing will actually happen" alright sir, say that to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants flooding the big cities in the States, Canada, Australia and Europe right now💀

[@auramdickerson112]

Every fast food restaurant is supposed to be a pop, mom and family restaurant. Every box store should be a village market.

[@Dana-b9j]

I agree!! That would be nice!

[@chase_modugno]

I think restaurant and business owners deserve the freedom of choice to expand their business to other locations if they want to. The age old question is: how do you limit growth without becoming too authoritarian.

[@vulpinemachine]

@@chase_modugno the massive corporate growth is only enabled BY govt in the first place. All the so called "regulations" and "safe guards" are actually the thing that give corporations power. Consider: Imagine if a company's product harmed or killed someone and it could be proven that it was a mistake made by the company. Now, imagine that you had the ability to sue and hold personally responsible the current owner of the company? As it stands, govt allows people to remove responsibility from themselves and so there's a disconnect between the world that is getting built by the powerful and the people who must suffer at their hands. In Rome they made the bridge builder stand under the bridge upon its first test. THAT kind of "skin in the game" responsibility needs to come back to our society. Then growth is not a thing that needs to be limited, it becomes self-limiting. Those that can bear the weight of responsibility, will grow, those who cannot, will not.

[@chase_modugno]

@@vulpinemachine My guy, all I was basically saying was that having nothing but mom and pop shops isn't really something that would happen. I agree that there are some governments that enable corporate growth. However, saying businesses will naturally become self-limiting is false for the reasons why there are governments that have to step in to put in regulations on businesses to prevent them from forming into monopolies.

[@Vicky-Blue]

I really like Tom. He is one of the few interviewers who dare to talk about inconvenient issues with no agenda.

[@Dakine1121]

Whatifalthjst is such a smart dude, glad to see him here and doing great!!