Stop Punishing Success!

Ajouté : 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]We need to stop vilifying success. Let's be clear. Zohran Mamdani does not want a better life for the poor, he wants a worse life for the rich. That's what he wants. It is the thing he is begging for. It is the thing he wants more than anything. Bernie is not concerned about people who are impoverished. Bernie is concerned about rich people he wants to tear to the ground while living in his vacation home. Hasan is not interested in what happens to poor people. He's fine with them frying out in Cuba while he's in the air conditioning inside. Hasan is happy to shop at Cartier while living in a mansion and bitching about the American economic system. Stop vilifying the people who make money in this country. Again, there's a whole effort happening right now, mostly on the left but also on the right, to vilify success. Again, it is not about fairness. I understand that poll data saying people think that things are not fair, but understand the attacks on Bezos and Zuckerberg and Musk, it's not about fairness. You don't have to like those guys. You don't have to like how they use their wealth. You can think they're being conspicuous in their consumption. That's all fine, but let's be clear about this. The attacks on them right now, not about fairness and it's not about decency and it's certainly not about regular people living better lives. It's about politicians who think that if they brown nose you by telling you the system is unfair and that it's fine and actually morally good to rob the rich guys, they will win your vote.

[00:01:06]And that is a sexy pitch. It's always been a sexy pitch. That actually you're justified in robbing people who have more than you. It turns out that violation of the 10th commandment is a very popular political agenda. That envy is a popular political agenda. If you tell people that the guy next door is rich because he's bad and he stole it, you're going to be more popular than if you say that the guy next door is rich because he provided a good and service at a at a price that people wanted to pay. So, who's making the case for envy?

[00:01:30]Democrats, pretty much all of them. Our enemies abroad who again would love nothing better than to seed class conflict in the United States in order to get us to destroy our economically dominant position. And increasingly, some members of the public, people who are being lied to and being told stuff that makes you feel good but makes your life actively worse. You want a better life? Then try to imitate the things that the billionaires did to become billionaires. That's how you get a better life economically speaking.