There are a few things in life that if somebody tells you, you automatically know they are a grifter. They&#8217;re a con man; they&#8217;re trying to con you into something.
The most obvious sign of a con artist is somebody who&#8217;s telling you that a well-known, well-worn truth — something that is absolutely irrefutable — is not true. They know better.
They know better because they&#8217;ve seen through the matrix, they&#8217;ve seen through that truth; that truth is actually a mask for the underlying reality.
Now, there may be some widely held notions that are untrue, but in order to debunk those notions, you would actually have to show why your notions are better.
However, if someone suggests, for example, “Hard work is useless. I have a better way to earn you fast money without a lot of work, without getting yourself educated, without putting in the hours to develop a skill set,” that person is conning you. They are lying to you.
If somebody were to tell you there is an easy way for you to get fit with no exercise while eating trash, that person would be lying to you. That person would be conning you because, obviously, you need to eat healthy and exercise if you want to be in shape.
And the biggest one of all — and it&#8217;s held true by pretty much every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries — is the idea that you should not get married, that marriage is bad for you, that somehow marriage is going to ruin your life.
Now, there are a lot of problems with the current legal structure of marriage. I agree with the critique of the current legal structure of marriage. No-fault divorce is one of the worst things that ever happened to Western civilization.
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Marriage is a commitment. That commitment is lifelong. There should actually have to be a really good reason why you are divorcing. That is particularly true if you have children because marriage is designed as the fundamental building block of institutional society. It is the place where children are reared. It is the place where you produce children, and children require stability.
It is from those fundamental building blocks of civilization — “the little platoons,” as Edmund Burke called them — that you can actually build a functional, free civilization, which is why every grifter movement of the last couple of centuries has assaulted the family from the outside.
For example, Karl Marx was very big on assaulting the family. The Communist Manifesto famously suggests abolition of the family. Why? Because the family is a place where you might learn “bourgeois” values. It&#8217;s a place where you might be inculcated into responsibility, duty, or church. These are all very bad, according to the Marxist movement, which is why the Communist Manifesto <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>,
<blockquote>On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.</blockquote>
So blowing up the family would allow for a better world. Don&#8217;t get married. Fight the fight. Blow up the traditional institutions that actually support a functional society, and fight the fight.
The idea of the Left is that every single person is basically a malleable widget violating the strictures of the evil society. This is part of the big con, which is the idea that there are things like gender roles that are rooted in biology; however, if you can see through that immutable truth, then you will have destroyed the matrix. This is the perspective of the Left, and this is why they fight the family. This is also why children have become a tote bag to this group of people. It&#8217;s something you occasionally have in order to manipulate in a particular form or fashion.
But the attack on the family is not, unfortunately, restricted to the political Left. All grifters, all con men, have to take immutable truths and subvert those immutable truths in favor of something only they have uncovered — something incredible that you never knew about. And if you just take the red pill, then you&#8217;ll know it.
You&#8217;ll know it, and then you&#8217;ll be right. You won&#8217;t have to do hard work in order to be rich. You won&#8217;t have to be a good person in order to attract a good mate. You won&#8217;t have to spend the time raising your children in order to be a successful man. They&#8217;ve discovered the secret.
The leader on this side of the movement is Andrew Tate, who got his start as a provocative reality TV star, then began a webcam business effectively grooming women into sex trafficking. According to his own admission, that&#8217;s how he made his money. Whether he says they were groomed or not, the reality is he groomed women into getting into the webcam industry and pornography.
This is Andrew Tate’s game. He&#8217;s considered entertaining because he “explodes the myths.” But the way that he “explodes the myths” is by playing a really stupid game for stupid people.
The game is like this. “I&#8217;m going to say two transgressive things, things that violate the taboos of the culture around me. One of those things is true, and one of those things is false. But because they are both transgressive and because people will oppose me on both of them — one for bad reasons and one for good reasons — I have somehow gotten under the skin of the matrix. Everyone opposes me, which is why I&#8217;m a rebel.”
That&#8217;s Andrew Tate&#8217;s entire game.
So he will say things like feminism has ruined men by usurping the male role and robbing men of their initiative. That is true. That is not politically correct to say.
But then he will say another transgressive thing that is absolutely false. For example, “Women love it when you treat them like garbage, and you should treat women like garbage; dominant men are the kind of men who treat women like garbage.”
That is not true. It&#8217;s transgressive. And it&#8217;s transgressive specifically because it&#8217;s evil. It is bad to say. It is bad to think. Women should not be treated like trash, and good women do not want to be treated like trash. Further, treating women like trash is not going to make your life better. And it is not going to make their life better.
But it is transgressive to say; it is taboo. Tate has violated many taboos, and he can get away with it because the rules don&#8217;t apply to him. He&#8217;s a “Nietzschean Ubermensch” because he is very buff and because he works out a lot and because he smokes cigars. And this means you should listen to him.
You should listen to him so much that you should pay him $49.99 a month to join Hustler&#8217;s University, where you will learn other secrets — secrets like how you don&#8217;t need hard work and initiative in order to really get ahead. You can learn his magical methods for making lots of money.
You can own a Bugatti, just like Tate owns a Bugatti. All you have to do is listen to his magical business advice, which explodes all of the matrices of truth, the immutable truths.
The reason I&#8217;m bringing up Andrew Tate is because he, again, is playing the game with two transgressive things. The true thing that he has said is, “I pray Christianity regains its strength and protects its societies against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan. If you accept everything, you stand for nothing.” I agree with every word of that statement. Christianity ought to regain its strength and protect its society against the pervasive and constant erosion of morality by the devotees of Satan.
But then, Tate put out tweets like the one that he did yesterday. It comes up in the context of marriage. Yet again, he is saying an immutable truth must be exploded. That immutable truth is the fundamental good and necessity of family.
He stated, “Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children.” Even within this tweet, he is making a couple points: one true, one false.
One, Western societies are not reproducing at replacement rate. That&#8217;s very bad. But he goes further because his game is to say many transgressive things — some true, some false. <a href="https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1780180832369402005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He writes</a>: 
<blockquote>Dear white men. You’re f***ed. You&#8217;re being replaced because none of you have children. Even those of you bi***ing about the replacement online like little girls don&#8217;t find the gumption to f***. I see white men bragging about having 5 kids as if it&#8217;s an achievement. lol. Five? Lolol. Per year right? Ohhhh. All you white boys lost control of you’re (sic) women and now they won&#8217;t accept multiple wives anymore. 
Now they tell you they don&#8217;t want anymore kids. One’s (sic) enough. They don&#8217;t want to do their god given job anymore no, they want Instagram likes instead. So you’re (sic) genetic potential is stumped by the whims of some singular female. A female who takes 9 whole months to grow a single baby. Other races have multiple ovens for bread. We&#8217;re not cucked. Some **** is screaming at you about loyalty and you&#8217;re sitting there saying, “yes, baby” Jerking off to porn when she&#8217;s asleep or maybe cheating with a side***** (CONDOM ON!) Oh no I couldn&#8217;t get another woman pregnant my wife would kill me!!! Total f***ing losers. 
Soon your race will be nothing more than a few pages in a history book. A lesson on what happens when you f *** the female psyche so hard they&#8217;re obsessed with money and social media as opposed to being one of many baby factories for a king. 30 children minimum for the dons. White people? Go talk to your “best friend” wife about what to do this weekend. Maybe you can take a nice walk around the Ikea. Enjoy extinction. </blockquote>
So, one true thing, many false things. One true thing: People need to have more kids in Western civilization. But many false things: Marriage is bad. Loyalty to your spouse is bad. Society can be built on men running around having sex with 30 women and having 30 kids per year, and this is the true measure of a man.
And young men think, “Wow, that sounds amazing,” because the male sex drive looks for various women. That is just the way that mammalian biology is built. Men seek to impregnate many females. So that sounds great to a bunch of young men. Or getting off on Tate&#8217;s webcam business. It sounds amazing to them.
That&#8217;s also not how societies are built. But again, the idea is — and this is how you know it’s a con — marriage is bad. He&#8217;s actually saying marriage is bad because if you&#8217;re a “person who has five kids, lol.”
I have four kids. I’ve been married for 15 years. If you have four kids, double the replacement rate, you are doing your societal job. But that can only exist and can only create functional children, children who are going to propagate good values, if there’s a father in the home.
Here&#8217;s the thing. If you impregnate many ladies and then you leave, you have created a generation of young men who are incapable of raising themselves. The effects of single motherhood in the United States are very well known: high levels of drug use, of crime, of poverty, of suicidal ideation. It creates actual pathologies. 
That is what Andrew Tate is promoting because he is a con artist, and he&#8217;s conning you into doing something. He is conning you into giving away the only pathway toward actual societal success and personal success in favor of his vision of a Genghis Khan-like spreading of his seed.
The reason this is important is because a lot of young men are falling into this sort of treachery.

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Highly conservative new Argentinian president Javier Milei stated bluntly, “Every single state company that I can sell I will do as soon as possible.&#8221;
Milei conducted an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/exclusive-argentine-president-milei-says-theres-no-plan-b-for-economy/553AA5B2-E861-4942-A852-E89BF4D203CE?mod=hp_trending_now_video_pos1">exclusive interview</a> with Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker, who asked, “I want to know how long you think the Argentine people can wait to see signs that your plan is working.”
“They understand that this process can take about two years,” Milei, who promised to change the currency from the peso to the U.S. dollar and close the Central Bank, answered. “And even if there’s a warning sign, saying it is hard to bear the austerity for more than a year, the truth is that when we begin to see the way in which the data is flowing and how inflation is moving, we ourselves are surprised at the speed with which we are achieving results.&#8221;
“You were just in Davos, and your speech in Davos generated a lot of attention,” Tucker noted. “I want to know, what else do you need from your supporters beyond words? Is, for example, Argentina receiving new investments?”
“It is true that we would need investments because one of the things that happens is that when you make fiscal adjustments, you increase savings. If those savings are not paired up with investments, economic activity drops, followed by employment rates, and finally real wages,” Milei replied.
“Privatization. How quickly do you plan to move forward with your agenda?” Tucker asked.
“As fast as I can,” Milei stated. “Every single state company that I can sell I will do as soon as possible. The thing is that there are institutional restrictions.”
“Where will you start? With Aerolineas Argentas? The trains?” Tucker pressed.
“Whatever we can we will privatize. I mean, it’s not a question of naming which companies; it’s just a matter of technical constraints in terms of time,” Milei said. “In the last month, we bought $5 billion and the monetary base in Argentina is close to $8 billion, around $7.5 billion, so that if we finished cleaning up all the interest-bearing liabilities of the Central Bank, we would be able to dollarize for very little money.”
“Are you still thinking about adopting the dollar?” Tucker queried.
“In reality, we have always talked about a free competition among currencies. It’s a matter of what Argentines choose, and it is likely that at an initial moment, they will choose the dollar,” Milei asserted.
“Do you have a plan B?” Tucker asked.
“No. there is no plan B. There is no plan B to do things right. You either do things right or you do them right. Because if plan B is to start doing things halfway or compromise, that’s the story of Argentina, and that’s where we are now,” Milei told her.

Day Two Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024

‘There Is No Plan B’: Argentina’s President Milei Takes Hard Line On Return To Capitalism

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In the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facts</a>,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> explains the history behind the World Economic Forum and what Americans need to know about its power-hungry agenda. 
In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/tbdeee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a>, released on Saturday ahead of the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week, Shapiro explained the history of the organization and how it evolved into the entity it is today. He said that the organization had little respect for representative democracy or liberty, but wanted to impose top-down control. 
“The World Economic Forum was first established in 1971, led by a German engineer, economist, and professor with a master&#8217;s from Harvard. His name was Klaus Schwab. Schwab was the originator of a theory of governance and markets he called stakeholder capitalism, defined in opposition to shareholder capitalism,” Shapiro said. 
Shareholder capitalism is when businesses primarily focus on returns to investors while stakeholder capitalism suggests that businesses should answer to the world at large. 
“This philosophy, of course, means that those who control corporations ought to act as philosopher kings, answerable to no one but their own perceptions of moral duty. Unsurprisingly, this particular argument is attractive to those who love the idea of top down command and control,” Shapiro said. 
In recent years, the WEF has pushed for a “Great Reset” of capitalism to transform industry in pursuit of the so-called fourth industrial revolution. This includes pushing the concepts of “social sustainability” and “environmental sustainability” onto global corporations. It’s a call to revolutionize the world and how it currently works, Shapiro explained.  
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“Almost certainly the new revolution will look like top down social engineering by the big brain, all in the name of smoothing out the bumps of technological change. Regulators will work hand-in-glove with big business to work out the rules for your life,” Shapiro explained.
He also said that pushing this global agenda of elite control conflicted with traditional Western concepts like liberty and representative democracy, which were disliked by the WEF.  
“If all of this sounds frightening, that&#8217;s because it is. The arrogance of the business and governmental elite seeking to control all of us is absolutely breathtaking. The policies discussed at Davos shape the elite caste in nearly all Western countries. When you hear about the end of carbon-based fossil fuels or a global tax regime or corporate governmental cooperation, a lot of that is coming from Davos and the World Economic Forum,” Shapiro concluded. “And when those globalists get together at Davos, understand the ideas they are discussing will have a real world effect on you, your business, your church, and your family.”
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As San Francisco continues to take heat for its growing homelessness and drug problem, at least one elected official blames capitalism for the crisis in his neighborhood. 
Leftist Supervisor Dean Preston, representing the city and county of San Francisco, acknowledged the homelessness problem in his neighborhood. The Democratic socialist oversees San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, notorious for its open-air drug markets, retail theft, and homeless encampments, which accounts for around half of the city’s homeless population per a 2022 count, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. 
“I think what you’re seeing in the Tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rungs,” Preston told Freddie Sayers of UnHerd in an interview. 
“The biggest driver of why folks are on the street is because they lost their jobs, income or were evicted from their homes, usually for not being able to pay the rent,” the supervisor added, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/news/san-francisco-democrat-says-homelessness-crisis-in-his-district-is-absolutely-the-result-of-capitalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Post. “So you have major landlords literally causing folks to lose their homes, and real estate speculation making it impossible for folks to find an affordable place to live.”
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Preston also criticized the city for arresting people who were using drugs in broad daylight, arguing that San Francisco’s approach to the issue has been “inconsistent.” The city reported a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-sees-record-drug-overdose-deaths-in-august-like-a-zombie-apocalypse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record of drug overdoses</a> in August as 84 people died from overdoses in the month, equating to about five deaths every two days. San Francisco is on pace to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/san-francisco-fentanyl-meth-drug-overdoses#:~:text=In%20the%20first%20nine%20months,2020%2C%20when%20it%20saw%20720." target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit</a> more than 800 drug overdoses in 2023, which would pass the record set in 2020 when 720 died from overdoses. 
“I think it’s completely counterproductive to be arresting people for doing drugs,” Preston said. “Like, what’s the objective?” 
Sayers pressed Preston on how the issue could be resolved if he’s against enforcing laws against homeless encampments and drug use in the city. 
“The thing is, it has gotten worse, right? Because the approach that we’ve taken is very inconsistent as a city,” Preston responded. “Ramping up enforcement activities, whether it’s … sweeps of homeless people or drug use, doing a series of arrests, usually timed with some news cycle and then a few days later, a few weeks later, a few months later, the same thing happens.” 
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Preston also wants to take more money away from the city’s police department, saying he would cut $100 million out of “the very bloated police budget.” San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-defunded-police-reversing-course-next-year-calls-accountability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> to redirect $120 million away from the police budget in 2020 to support social justice causes in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death and the ensuing riots and demonstrations across the country. A year later, however, Breed submitted an emergency request to the Board of Supervisors for additional police funding as San Francisco faced a troubling shortage of officers.
Preston made headlines earlier this year when he suggested that San Francisco encourage tourists to keep belongings out of their cars, arguing the strategy would reduce car break-ins. A clip of Preston’s comments drew criticism from many people, including Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, who promised to donate $100,000 to help unseat Preston. 
“Dean Preston needs to be fired,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1705180840609673577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1705180840609673577%7Ctwgr%5Eb26134382243cd3a64bdb8f38771252d84e264ed%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Felon-musk-calls-san-francisco-supervisor-fired-citys-destruction-crime-surge">wrote</a> on X in September. “He is arguably the person most responsible for the destruction of San Francisco.”

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&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/global-warming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global warming</a>&#8221; is out, &#8220;global boiling&#8221; is in, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Thursday.
“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal – humans are to blame.&#8221;
The science is settled, according to Guterres, but it would seem the fear-based propaganda hasn&#8217;t worked in scaring enough of the world into submission. And so, Guterres and his team have changed the talking points.
“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.&#8221;
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The words &quot;global warming&quot; didn&#39;t work.
The words &quot;climate change&quot; didn&#39;t work.
So now the UN Chief is using the words &quot;global boiling&quot; to push his radical green agenda. <a href="https://t.co/rzYZJSZgzI">pic.twitter.com/rzYZJSZgzI</a>
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It&#8217;s easy to imagine that Guterres and the gang at the UN have a yellow notepad that looks something like this:
<blockquote><del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Global Warming</del>
<del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Climate Change</del>
<del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Extreme Weather </del>
Global boiling?</blockquote>
Would it surprise you to find out that Guterres is the former president of the Socialist International and a firm believer that the planet can only be saved by a team of &#8220;experts&#8221; and government control?
No, it probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise you; you&#8217;re a Daily Wire reader equipped with critical thinking skills. It&#8217;s easy to draw those conclusions if you pay attention.
Yet, it&#8217;s worth <a href="https://www.socialistinternational.org/fileadmin/uploads/si/Documents/Congresses/Paris_1999/AG_Address_Paris_1999.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewing</a> anyway that in 1999, Guterres gave an address outlining his desire for global socialism, and how his vision for the world would depend upon international organizations like the UN, global regulations, and cooperation between non-government actors.
He ended his speech, saying, &#8220;Dear friends and dear comrades &#8230;&#8217;We must not abandon utopia because the antagonism between ideas and reality is both the major dilemma of democratic socialism and its fascinating driving force.'&#8221;
Guterres is still pursuing that &#8220;utopia&#8221; and is using &#8220;global boiling&#8221; to enact it — with a sense of urgency, too. Don&#8217;t think, just do it, Guterres seems to be saying.
&#8220;It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C and avoid the very worst of climate change but only with dramatic, immediate climate action,&#8221; he said Thursday. &#8220;We have seen some progress &#8212; a robust rollout of renewables and some positive steps from sectors such as shipping &#8212; but none of this is going far enough or fast enough. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.&#8221;
Yet Guterres is wrong. The experts are not all-seeing Gods who can predict the future, much less the weather. As best-selling author George Gilder has long touted, the sort of central planning supported by Guterres cannot account for &#8220;human creativity, which always comes as a surprise to us. If creativity didn’t come as a surprise, we wouldn’t need it, and socialism would work.&#8221;
What can work?
Gilder is out with a new book, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-after-Capitalism-George-Gilder/dp/1684512247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life After Capitalism</a>.&#8221; The book isn&#8217;t against capitalism — rather it argues that its critics and many of its defenders get capitalism wrong. The driving force of capitalism is not greed, rather it&#8217;s &#8220;creativity and faith in the future.&#8221;
In the book, which casts doubts on global <del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">warming</del> boiling, Gilder writes, &#8220;Let&#8217;s assume, hypothetically, that Co2 somehow becomes a problem. Capitalism deals with problems by pursuing opportunities.&#8221;
Socialism deals with problems through more government control.
&#8220;Government mandates and directorates and global resets will not shape the future,&#8221; Gilder predicted in &#8220;Life After Capitalism.&#8221;
&#8220;They can only retard progress, and only so far as we let them, if we live in democratic countries. What will really shape the future is human creativity, and a new wave of technological entrepreneurs,&#8221; he added.
Gilder also warned, &#8220;More than ever in America, we face the prospect of a life after capitalism in its most negative sense: a life of scarcity, deprivation, and fear.&#8221;
And that is exactly what Guterres has to offer: Our time left to save the planet is scarce — so is clean air. So we must deprive ourselves of modern technologies, conveniences, and abundant resources of energy. If you don&#8217;t, everybody you know will die from &#8220;global boiling.&#8221; The experts will save the day.
What a load of bunk. Socialists never change, but the words they use to sell their ideology does.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Global Warming’ Is Out. ‘Global Boiling’ Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

'Global Warming' Is Out. 'Global Boiling' Is In, United Nations Secretary-General Says

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Imagine you’re the head of Mattel, and you’re hoping the new “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reviewers-barbie-movie-is-a-deeply-feminist-adventure-thats-poking-fun-at-the-patriarchy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbie</a>” movie sends your toy sales skyrocketing.
And then you hear this line of dialogue about the iconic doll:
<blockquote>You represent everything wrong with our culture. You destroyed the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism &#8230; you fascist!</blockquote>
Suddenly, the “Barbie” tie-ins got a little more… complicated. And that’s before the movie skewers both Mattel, Inc. and its fictional CEO (Will Ferrell).
This is hardly new from La La Land, a business where income inequality isn’t a bug. It’s the feature every ingenue craves. You’d think industry executives might avoid that awkward anti-capitalist messaging at all costs (much like how climate change activists fear their private jet addictions will be exposed).
And you’d be flat-out wrong.
Modern films go out of their way to smite the rich and decry income inequality. The stars inhabiting those films just so happen to be among the richest stars in the Hollywood galaxy.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
The “Barbie” film goes out of its way to not only trash consumerism, but the titular toy. And a vital character even suggests we stop buying these “fascist” dolls of flawless white women. Yes, that’s another word taken directly from the script to describe the plastic doll.
This summer features another big-budget comedy with the wealthy in its crosshairs.
The Jennifer Lawrence comedy “No Hard Feelings” finds the Oscar-winner smiting the rich early and often. She plays a bitter, broke woman named Maggie who decides to sleep with a younger man for a quick payday, courtesy of a wealthy couple who can buy just about anything.
Gross, right?
Not to Maggie. She’d rather do that than be part of the capitalist system. Lawrence’s character spends serious screen time trashing the rich. She’s drowning in debt and resents the wealthy Long Island residents keeping the local economy humming.
Her moral compass is pure, or at least she thinks it is.
Maggie all but spits in a wealthy bar customer’s face early in the film. His crime? He’s rich, and he asked for a drink minutes before the bar officially opened.
None of this was an accident. Director Gene Stupnitsky says he <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/jennifer-lawrence-no-hard-feelings-raunchy-comedy-beach-scene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embraced the anti-wealthy angle</a> to add gravitas to the story, hoping it wouldn’t overwhelm the narrative.
The ultimate irony? The aggressively liberal Lawrence fought hard to snag a <a href="https://screenrant.com/no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-salary/#:~:text=Jennifer%20Lawrence%27s%20No%20Hard%20Feelings%20Salary%20Was%20Reportedly%20%2425%20Million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-million dollar paycheck</a> to star in the film. Did she fight just as hard to make sure her co-stars got an equally large paycheck, or at least one larger than the studio initially offered? Talk about income inequality! So much privilege.
Last year saw two celebrated films similarly assault the rich.
The superior film “The Menu” featured Ralph Fiennes as a chef who invites wealthy diners to savor his revolutionary cuisine. The assorted guests, including far-left actor John Leguizamo, are portrayed as mostly shallow souls eager to climb the societal ladder.
The chef has more on his mind than keeping the dishes fresh and warm, and the story soon takes a horrific turn.
The mockery is relentless, although the film proved one of the sturdier awards season entries and didn’t get lost in its agenda.
The same can’t be said for “Triangle of Sadness,” the Best Picture nominee that scorches the elite early and often. The film’s first half is brilliant, and even Donald Trump might chuckle at its social X-ray of the fatuous elites.
A group of ultra-wealthy souls gather for an extravagant cruise, but they’re left to fend for themselves when a storm overwhelms the boat.
The moment Woody Harrelson enters the frame as the ship’s combative captain, sadly, the film’s agenda overwhelms the story. The satire’s second half is a dud with income inequality notes and a storytelling detour that sinks the initially impressive tale.
Conservatives rallied around Harrelson for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woody-harrelson-said-he-wasnt-fazed-by-backlash-from-snl-monologue-i-dont-look-at-that-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defying COVID-19 groupthink</a>, but hearing the ultra-wealthy star praise socialism in the film may be tough to swallow.
HBO’s “The White Lotus” series similarly deconstructs how the rich and famous spend their leisure time. Show creator Mike White does so with a gimlet eye for hypocrisy and a greater sense of cultural balance. He’s willing to torch the rich while mocking those who attack them without earning their slice of the financial pie.
The show’s first season showcases embittered Gen Z types — Olivia Mossbacher (Sydney Sweeney) and her pal Paula (Brittany O’Grady) — as they smirk their way through paradise.
Do they appreciate the sacrifices the Mossbachers made to get them to Maui or the endless work that gave them the chance for a once-in-a-lifetime trip like this? Of course not.
The two have little empathy for anyone other than themselves. Later in the season, Paula cracks the parents’ safe to help a resort worker, but it hardly feels like a charitable move.
The best “eat the rich” satire in recent memory may be HBO’s just-wrapped “Succession.” The celebrated drama showed the rich and famous brawling over power, fame, and family dynamics. The show drew near-universal acclaim despite its not-so-veiled attack on families like the conservative-leaning Murdoch clan.
Hollywood understandably loves to tweak the rich. Heck, many elites bring it on themselves, and great writers have famously toyed with excess in profound ways. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” rushes to mind.
It’s far less agreeable when an industry renowned for excess not only mocks it, but does so sans irony.
Sometimes, though, screenwriters still get it right.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pushed back on billionaire Mark Cuban’s claim that pushing “woke” capitalism is “good business.” 
During an <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1670425430770302978" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream, Ramaswamy, author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America&#8217;s Social Justice Scam,” blasted Cuban&#8217;s comments and pointed to brands like Bud Light and companies like Target as proof that going &#8220;woke&#8221; is bad for business. 
“My view is that businesses have a purpose,” Ramaswamy told Bream. “It is to provide products and services to customers who actually need them and, yes, to make a profit unapologetically.” 
“When those businesses wade into social disputes, not only is that often bad for business, just look at what happened to Bud Light, look at what’s happening to Target,” Ramaswamy added. “But more importantly, it’s bad for our civic culture in our country, because what we need is apolitical spaces that bring people together.”
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Last week, Cuban said going &#8220;woke&#8221; is good for business in an <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/06/11/mark-cuban-bud-light-target-woke/stories/202306110042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, despite both Target and Anheuser Busch losing tremendous amounts in market value after conservatives pushed back on LGBT-themed campaigns. 
“There is a reason almost all the top ten market cap companies in the U.S. can be considered ‘woke.’ It’s good business,” Cuban told the newspaper. “Most CEOs have enough experience to know to just wait out the news cycle until they go to the next one.”
The “Shark Tank” co-host made similar <a href="https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/05/call-me-woke-mark-cuban-says-on-mackinac-island.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> in late May to Michigan business leaders, saying “woke” means ensuring a company’s workforce “looks like” a product’s customer base and “making sure you can reflect their values and being able to connect to that.” 
Ramaswamy said that places in the private sector, like sports stadiums and labs, are where Americans should be able to “unite” despite political differences. 
“So I think woke capitalism is bad for capitalism, but it’s also bad for American democracy,” Ramaswamy concluded. “That’s why I’ve been leading the crusade against it for the last several years, and that’s what I’m taking all the way to the White House.” 
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Since Bud Light partnered with social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman, sales for the beer brand dropped 23.9% compared to the same time last year, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-cuban-claims-companies-target-bud-light-woke-good-business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News. Similarly, Target’s market capitalization had reportedly <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/target-market-cap-losses-hit-15-7-billion-share-near-52-week-low-amid-woke-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fallen</a> $15.7 billion as of last week following boycotts over the company selling “tuck-friendly” swimwear and having Pride Month displays that often appeared near the front of stores. 
Ramaswamy wasn’t the only one pushing back against Cuban’s &#8220;woke&#8221; business comments. Even Cuban&#8217;s fellow “Shark” Kevin O’Leary countered his claim, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-dismisses-mark-cubans-woke-business-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “The role of a business, a corporation in America for the last 200 years, has been to serve customers, their employees and their shareholders … not to educate society on the social issue of the day. They’re learning that very quickly.”

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&#8220;Never trust a socialist with a summer house.&#8221; &#8212; Colin Quinn
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermontistan) has got the greatest gig on earth. It&#8217;s a job anyone can do, as long as you&#8217;re missing a conscience and a sense of irony.
Next week, Sanders will hold court at a hip music venue in Washington, D.C., during an event titled &#8220;It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism.&#8221; There, he&#8217;ll hype his new book &#8220;It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism.&#8221;
So here&#8217;s what&#8217;s great. The top-tier tickets &#8212; sold through <a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/senator-bernie-sanders-its-okay-to-washington-district-of-columbia-03-01-2023/event/15005E397F6416F0">Ticketmaster</a>, the scourge of the universe &#8212; will cost you $95. But no they won&#8217;t. Ticketmaster tacks on a $16.45 &#8220;service fee&#8221; even when you order a ticket online.
The venue, called The Anthem, holds about 2,500 people when it&#8217;s configured for such an event. The prices range from $35 to $95, but most are $75 and above. Let&#8217;s say he sells half the tickets at an average of $75, that&#8217;d haul in $93,750. Nearly $100,000 to hear a millionaire bash capitalism.
Here&#8217;s another great thing: Buy a ticket priced $55 and above, and you get a free copy of his new book, &#8220;It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism.&#8221;
So perfect. Sanders will give the more monied Americans a free book. Can&#8217;t afford the top-tier tickets? Well, no book for you.
The irony is totally lost on Bernie. As a Democratic socialist, it oughta&#8217; be exactly the opposite &#8212; pay $35, get a free book; pay $95, well, you can afford that so you can clearly afford to buy the book (&#8220;It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism,&#8221; now available from <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667864/its-ok-to-be-angry-about-capitalism-by-bernie-sanders-with-john-nichols/">Penguin</a> for $28).
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The publishing company says in a blurb that the book is &#8220;a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.&#8221;
But Sanders has sucked off the government teat for most of his life, starting as mayor of Burlington in 1981 and then serving in Congress for decades. He&#8217;s had an even better scam of late: Run for president. That way, you collect hundreds of millions of dollars &#8212; mostly from the people Sanders rails against &#8212; and you write off nearly everything as a &#8220;campaign expense.&#8221;
Along the way, Sanders got super rich &#8212; even though a senator makes only $174,000 a year (which, incidentally, puts him in the top 4% of U.S. earners). But bashing capitalism pays: He pulled down a $900,000 advance for some recently published books and, in 2016, hauled in more than $1 million (not bad for a socialist!).
On the campaign trail, Sanders talks about taxing the rich as he pushes for free everything for everybody — free health care, free college tuition, even free money in the form of universal basic income, in which the government collects taxpayer money and redistributes it.
But he hasn&#8217;t redistributed his money. Vermont <a href="https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/08/08/bernie-sanders-buys-a-summer-home-in-north-hero">magazine</a> Seven Days reported in 2016 that Sanders and his wife bought a four-bedroom house on the shore of Lake Champlain in Vermont — with 500 feet of lake frontage — for about $600,000. The Sanders own at least three houses, with another in Burlington, Vermont, and one on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
And then it&#8217;s just too perfect that Sanders&#8217; event is being fronted by Ticketmaster, one of the few truly terrible things about capitalism. The ticket behemoth controls virtually the entire market for entertainment and sporting events.
Another Democratic socialist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), has railed about Ticketmaster, and in one rare occurrence, she&#8217;s exactly correct.
“One of the things we’ve been increasingly seeing,” AOC said in November, “is that these price increases because of inflation and abuse of market power are due to market consolidation. It’s gotten so bad that we’re really seeing it affect our everyday lives, from how much we’re paying at grocery stores, to not being able to see our favorite artists without paying an arm and a leg.”
But Sanders has got that covered: &#8220;Tickets are non-transferable until 24 hours prior to the show time,&#8221; Ticketmaster says. &#8220;Any tickets suspected of being purchased for the sole purpose of reselling can be cancelled at the discretion of The Anthem/Ticketmaster, and buyers may be denied future ticket purchases for I.M.P. shows.&#8221;
Take that, capitalists!
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Sen. <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) is selling tickets priced as high as $95 for an event that will promote his new book, “It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism.”
Admirers of the democratic socialist can <a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/senator-bernie-sanders-its-okay-to-washington-district-of-columbia-03-01-2023/event/15005E397F6416F0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchase</a> seats on Ticketmaster, a company which has recently faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ticketmaster-live-nation-are-a-joke-break-up-their-monopoly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusations</a> of anticompetitive practices, for prices ranging between $35 and $95. The event will be hosted on March 1 at The Anthem, a music venue and auditorium in Washington, D.C. Holders of the more expensive tickets will receive a free copy of Sanders’ new book, which is <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667864/its-ok-to-be-angry-about-capitalism-by-bernie-sanders-with-john-nichols/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">available</a> for $28 from Penguin Random House.
The publishing company said that the lawmaker’s work is “a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like.”
“Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans,” the description of the book asserts. “Sanders believes that, in the face of these overwhelming challenges, the American people must ask tough questions about the systems that have failed us and demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins.”
The lawmaker is also hosting a book tour event at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York City, where tickets are <a href="https://www.bam.org/talks/2023/senator-bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selling</a> for $40. Penguin Random House also <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2018350/senator-bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lists</a> upcoming book tour events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Tucson, Arizona.
Sanders is by no means a stranger to accusations of hypocrisy with respect to his views on wealth accumulation. Though he is known for railing against large corporations and billionaire entrepreneurs, Sanders is a “millionaire with three houses,” as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-nails-socialist-bernie-youre-a-millionaire-with-3-houses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> by former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg during the party’s most recent presidential primary cycle.
“What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What’d I miss here?” Bloomberg asked. Sanders responded that he has a house in Washington, a home in Burlington, Vermont, and a “summer camp.”
Sanders claimed that Bloomberg’s workers earned his fortune; the former New York City mayor rebutted that the comments from Sanders would drive voters toward President Donald Trump because of their radical nature. “We are not going to throw out capitalism, we tried that, other countries tried that, it was called communism and it just didn’t work,” he contended.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the first female member of the Democratic Socialists of America to serve in Congress, has also received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-launches-tax-the-rich-merchandise-collection-after-met-gala-stunt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticism</a> for selling “Tax The Rich” merchandise, which she promoted during the Met Gala two years ago. Customers can buy $58 sweatshirts, $27 t-shirts, $27 mugs, and $27 tote bags, among other items.
Sanders recently made headlines for voting against a measure that exercised authority granted to Congress by the Railway Labor Act to prevent a nationwide rail strike. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-legislation-to-avoid-a-nationwide-rail-strike-bernie-sanders-intends-to-block-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> on social media that workers should receive at least seven paid sick days as rail companies earn “record profits” and shared his desire to “block consideration of the rail legislation” until a roll call vote guaranteed workers the benefit.

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Bernie Marcus, who along with his business partner Arthur Blank built Home Depot into a giant financial success, slammed Americans who don’t want to work.
Marcus, whom <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/bernard-marcus/?sref=MTy2GeXk">Bloomberg</a> estimates has a net worth of $5.25 billion but has, with his wife, donated over $2 billion to over 500 organizations through their Marcus Foundation, spoke in an <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5680bb94-4fda-4bb5-887a-62ca1b4341fd">interview</a> with Financial Times.
“I’m worried about capitalism,” Marcus stated. “Capitalism is the basis of Home Depot [and] millions of people have earned this success and had success. I’m talking manufacturers, vendors and distributors and people that work for us [who have been] able to enrich themselves by the journey of Home Depot. That’s the success. That’s why capitalism works.”
Marcus continued that thanks to “socialism,” “nobody works. Nobody gives a damn. ‘Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid.’”
Marcus wasn’t worried about any criticism he might elicit about his comments, especially from those he termed “woke.” He declared, “We used to have free speech here. We don’t have it. The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can’t attack me. I’m 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?”
Marcus reserved much of his harsh criticism for those who have reached great wealth but then sit on their money, “Too timid to jump in, these are people who took great risks in whatever they did, but they’re afraid to take this risk [to get] into the charitable world and help other people. Why, I don’t know,” he said.
Some of the recipients of the Marcuses’ largesse include the construction of the Georgia Aquarium, for which they gave $250 million, millions for an autistic center in Atlanta, and research into autism, cancer, stroke, and veterans’ PTSD.
Marcus, who has supported former President Trump and donated to both Trump and Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, called President Biden “the worst president in the history of this country.” He called Trump’s policies “spot on,” but added, “It’s going to be very interesting in ‘24 because I think that DeSantis will challenge him. And may the better man win.”
After his 90th birthday, hearing that critics were targeting him for supporting Trump, Marcus <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008008667978">fired back</a> on Facebook, “In the next ten years, God willing, I will accomplish more to save this world than my critics will do even if they had forty lifetimes.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bono">Bono</a> just said that it’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitalism">capitalism</a>, not socialism, that will save people from poverty. 
The 62-year Irish <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">singer-songwriter</a> discussed this and several other topics with The New York Times during an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/24/magazine/bono-interview.html">interview</a> to promote his upcoming memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” out November 1.
Like so many other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">musicians</a>, Bono (real name Paul David Hewson) holds left-leaning political views. But the U2 frontman is also critical of anyone who talks a big game but won’t act. Over the years of being an activist, Bono said he discovered that donations alone aren’t the answer to solving the world&#8217;s problems.
“I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem,” he told the NYT. “I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.”
He later criticized anyone who hates business leaders by the nature of their position. 
“I didn’t grow up to like the idea that we’ve made heroes out of business people, but if you’re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero,” Bono said. He also reluctantly admitted to admiring President George W. Bush pledging $18 billion to help fight HIV in Africa. Bono said he was willing to give credit where it was due despite the potential for alienating fans.
“I often instead use the word ‘actualist,’ because activists sometimes like to stay on the outside and criticize, whereas the “actualist” wants to get [expletive] done,” the “Beautiful Day” singer told the publication. 
“I found that if I was ready to drop some biases, coming from the left to work with the right, we could get stuff done. I know it will lose some music fans, but it was important for me to have that in there.”
Bono also cursed Marxist icon &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara, though he did retain some of his leftist views, including calling former News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch “evil” and accusing him of trying to “dismantle democracy.”
In anticipation of the memoir’s release, the U2 singer also apologized again for the much-maligned promotion he did with Apple in 2014 when the album “Songs Of Innocence” was automatically added to each iTunes user’s account. Bono described it  as an “overreach” resulting from his “vaunting ambition.”
“I take full responsibility,” he <a href="https://variety.com/2022/music/news/bono-apology-u2-itunes-album-memoir-1235411778/">said</a> of the incident.

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In an exclusive interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/benjamin-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, the longest-serving prime minister in the history of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> and a fervent capitalist who tore his country away from its socialist moorings, explained the necessity of free markets in order for a nation to be strong.
“You know that innovation doesn&#8217;t do it by itself,” Netanyahu stated. “That is, science, technology, education, do not produce wealth by themselves. Because if that were the case, then the Soviet Union would have been, you know, the most wealthy country in the world because they had fantastic scientists, mathematicians, physicists, metallurgists. Didn&#8217;t help, okay?”
“To do that, you have to have free markets,” said the man who, as Israel’s Finance Minister, set the nation on the road to financial success. “Technology without free markets doesn&#8217;t take you anywhere. It just makes people migrate to countries with free markets. Free markets and technology can explode, which is what you&#8217;re seeing here.”
“My mission was to — if my father&#8217;s generation was to ensure the creation of the Jewish state — my generation&#8217;s responsibility I saw was to ensure its future. And the only way you can ensure its future would be to have it powerful.”
“What does powerful mean?” he asked rhetorically, then noted how the Jewish people had been left to their murderous enemies without an army for nearly 2,000 years. “The first thing you have to do is to have an army. The ability to defend yourself, which is what the Jewish people lacked, when they didn&#8217;t have a state and they were butchered on without end.”
“Well, what do you need for an army?” he pointed out. “You need tanks — that&#8217;s been replaced by drones. You need airplanes, F-35s, you need submarines, you need the military intelligence. It’s very expensive. All these things have one thing in common. They&#8217;re very expensive. So how are you going to pay for that?”
“Well, the regular thinking was, that&#8217;s easy,” he commented about his socialist predecessors. “You tax the people; you&#8217;ve got the money. Right?”
“I know,” he grinned. “That’s wrong. That’s why the only way you pay for that is with a robust economy. And the only economies that work are free market economies. That was my idea. And the idea was that with a free market economy, you can then build a very powerful military and military intelligence.”
“And now you create both civilian technology, military technology, and you become now something that people are interested in,” he said. “You don&#8217;t go and beg for countries to come and help you — they come to you, to help them. And that creates a third apex of the triangle, which is the diplomatic, flowering, flourishing Israel.”
“So my idea was, fix the economy, get a strong military, and get the stronger diplomatic position that will get you peace, strength — get you peace, not weakness,” he recalled. “Well, that&#8217;s easier said than done. First of all, it&#8217;s not so easy said,” he quipped. “For people didn&#8217;t believe it. You know, they basically believe, well, we&#8217;ll solve our problem if we make peace. And if we need to make peace, we have to make concessions; that will make us weak, is still worth it. In other words, they believe that peace produces strength.”
“I believe that strength produces peace, especially in our part of the world,” he said forcefully. “If you&#8217;re not strong, you disappear. You&#8217;re devoured. So I had to effect a free market revolution here. That&#8217;s really what I did, both as prime minister and as finance minister.”

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