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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: Why is Elon Musk considered the world's first trillionaire?
What is that sin? It's envy. And what does Cain do? Instead of going to Abel and saying, what did you do right and I did wrong? How can I do better? He kills Abel. Envy is destructive. It is terrible. Now, what's interesting here is when we get envious, because it's not sort of a universal timing thing. Envy is a universal human emotion.
We feel it all the time, but it tends to kick in for anyone who's just above you on the wealth index. So if you make a hundred grand, you may be envious of the guy who makes 200 grand. If you're worth a hundred million dollars, the way Jimmy Kimmel is, you may be envious of the guy making a trillion dollars, but it's not every person who makes more than you.
There is a particular envy for people who take risks. Because in our heart of hearts, we think we could have done that too. We look at Elon, we say, I could have founded a space company. He thought of it, but sure, I could have thought of it. I could have taken the risk. It's something that's within my purview.
It's really, really interesting to watch New Yorkers who just voted for a democratic socialist like Zoran Mamdani, who rips on Ken Griffin all day long, rooting for the Knicks this season, right? The Knicks are super rich, really, really, really rich. Karl-Anthony Towns made $53 million this year. OG made $40 million. Jalen Brunson makes $35 million a year. That is a lot of money.
But you're not seeing jealousy or outrage in the stadium. People aren't showing up and yelling at them about how they need to redistribute their income and pay more taxes and how many school teachers are out of a job. And do we need more government-sponsored grocery stores from cats paying more tax? So why aren't people so envious of these guys?
Well, the truth is that everyone sort of recognizes that these guys have unique talent given by God. You're not seven foot. You're not 270 pounds and you can't shoot the three. But when it's a smart person who doesn't have overt sort of alien-like physical qualities, then we get pretty jealous. Why didn't we get what he has? Why don't we all get to be Elon Musk rich?
He's not that much better than we are. But here is the thing. The reason that Elon is super rich, and I know a lot of people who are as bright as Elon. I know a lot of very high IQ. Elon has a very high IQ. I know a lot of very high IQ people. He's much richer than any of them. Why? Well, because he took risks, huge risks, unprecedented risks.
And that is good because risk is what creates innovation. If you don't have people risking, you don't get better stuff. If you don't have people putting up their house for mortgage in order to sponsor and subsidize them building a company, the company does not get built.
If you don't have people willing to put their own money where their mouth is, their own time, their own effort, where their mouth is, you do not get new things. And we need new things. And not only that, we need a system that allows you to keep what you make. Why? Well, because here's the thing.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors?
Walter Isaacson in his biography of Musk talks about the fact that when Musk first decided that he wanted to send a mission to Mars, the first thing he realized is he had no clue about anything rocket related. So he cold called an aerospace consultant named Jim Cantrell. And then he basically just learned up.
According to Isaacson, from Cantrell and others, he'd borrowed rocket propulsion elements, fundamentals of astrodynamics, and aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion, along with several more seminal texts. It wasn't that Elon started off as some sort of expert on space. He was not. He knew pretty much nothing.
It's that Elon is personally an incredible risk taker, not just about his money, but also about his time and his expertise. He looked at something, thought, that's fascinating to me. I'm obsessed with it, and just launched himself into it.
Isaacson quotes another billionaire, Peter Thiel, saying, what I didn't appreciate is that Elon starts with a mission and later finds a way to backfill in order to make it work financially and technically. That's what makes him a force of nature.
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Again, that's shopify.com slash Shapiro, shopify.com slash Shapiro. Okay, so one of the things that you will see in modern American politics is pure envy, right? There are people jealous of Elon because he took a risk, masquerading as altruism. This is always and forever the socialist pitch. You don't like people who are rich because they're richer than you.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Carmelo Anthony case for societal values?
He's truly a useless nepo baby of Schenck Uyghurs. And yet he's touted as some sort of great thinker. Well, he compares people like Elon to the Gilded Age. He blames capitalism for people sleeping outside in the United States every night, as though the natural condition of humanity
is innovation and growth as though wealth is the natural condition of humanity as opposed to abject poverty, which is the actual natural condition of humanity, absent innovation. By the way, perform a quick thought experiment. You can see that the only thing that has changed in human history is free markets and innovation, private property.
That's the thing that changed because here's the thought experiment.
Chapter 5: How does envy shape public opinion about wealthy individuals?
Think of every single thing in Elon Musk's rockets. Think of every single element. Were any of those elements not present on planet earth in the year 1000 BC or 10,000 BC or 100,000 BC? Every element in your computer was present on planet earth when Jesus was walking the earth. Every single element. What changed? Innovation, private property, capitalism, rewards for risk-taking.
That's what changed. The reason Hasan Piker sits there in his well-made suit and Cartier glasses is because those companies that make them exist thanks to private property and capitalism. That is the reason. But here's Hasan Piker masquerade. He takes the envy and then he hides it behind a mask of, I just care about people. No, you don't. No, you don't. You're just jealous.
You're just a jealous leech.
in the wealthiest nation on earth, 700,000 people sleep outside every single night. I mean, that's preposterous, right? And the solution to that is so simple, really.
If we were to just like retool our system a little bit, because we have all of the wealth, we have all of the potential, we have all of the opportunity to change this system, to ensure that that doesn't happen because it's unbelievably inhumane. And yet... We don't do it because this is the way the system is designed. This is the way capitalism has to continue.
And yet, in spite of the same wealth inequality, if not worse, that we're currently experiencing in comparison to the Gilded Age, Americans are sleepwalking in the direction of fascism. And that's what I want to avoid.
What a ridiculous person.
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Chapter 6: What criticisms did Jimmy Kimmel express about Elon Musk?
What a truly ridiculous person. And I just want to point out here that even the so-called Gilded Age, right, which again was a propaganda angle on one of the most innovative and creative times in American industrial history. It's what launched America into the forefront of the global economy. It's what generated America's leading wealth on planet Earth, the Gilded Age.
And all of the supposedly evil robber barons, people like JP Morgan or Rockefeller, these are people who coined industries. Also people who, by the way, saved the economy. In 1907, the American economy nearly collapsed and JP Morgan got all the bankers in a room. There was no Federal Reserve at the time. And they backstopped the entire American economy. But wealth creation helps people.
People are not sleeping homeless because SpaceX is successful. You know, it is truly incredible. Just baseline economic ignorance of folks. Go back 500 years and everyone was sleeping homeless. If you had a home, it was a trashy home. It was a set of four walls. Your animals slept inside with you. There was no actual floor and you crapped in a bucket. Things are a lot better now.
That is not because of Hassan Piker's predilections economically. So let's talk about SpaceX specifically. SpaceX is an amazing company. And again, this is not an advertisement for you to buy SpaceX stock. I don't know if it's overvalued or undervalued. I will say that ripping on SpaceX is an absurdity. SpaceX has done amazing and continues to do amazing things.
SpaceX as a company is responsible for roughly 82% of all American space launches and over 84% of the global payload mass to orbit. It controls America's sole domestic crude ride to the ISS. It has revenue from three places, Starlink, which has 12 million active subscribers for direct-to-device internet, which, by the way, Starlink will have a salutary impact on global politics.
If Starlink had been widely available in the middle of the Iran war, it would have made a huge difference. Iran shutting down the internet has been a disaster area and literally the only way anyone was getting any information from the outside was Starlink. Its space launches, obviously. SpaceX makes a lot of money off its space launches.
And the possibility of orbital AI data centers following its merger with XAI. By the way, that is legitimately the coolest possibility. You know how a lot of people these days have a lot of angst over land use with regard to data centers? So the fix for that, innovation, man, it's an amazing thing, risk-taking, an amazing thing, is something called orbital AI data centers. So what is that?
That means that you literally launch pieces of data centers into space, and then they rely on solar energy because the sun's energy is constant in space, and the cold temperatures of space prevent overheating. According to the Wall Street Journal, orbital data centers will feature swarms of satellites laden with AI chips.
They'll need solar arrays to produce electricity to run the AI computing systems. The satellites are expected to fly in an orbit that roughly travels over Earth's poles to maximize their exposure to sunlight. It is amazing stuff. SpaceX will mint today probably 4,000 millionaires, people down to the janitor who actually own stock in SpaceX.
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Chapter 7: How does the concept of envy impact economic success?
And that those things are mutually exclusive. They are mutually exclusive with promiscuity and with lack of responsibility. And so the idea that you needed to go through promiscuity and lack of responsibility to get to monogamy and responsibility is stupid. You could have just embraced those things right from the top. And as somebody...
who skipped the promiscuity and the lack of responsibility, let me say, I was happy from the very beginning. I didn't have to go through a decade of misery I didn't have to go through a decade. That sounds like a bad romance series from Netflix where you're effed around and effed over and effed. You didn't have to go through any of that. It turns out there's a shortcut.
That shortcut is to just get to the good part because the good part, the reason she's so happy in her 30s is not because she had a crappy 20s. The reason she's happy now is because she embraced my standards. She got married and then she's having a baby. That is the reason that she's happy. The fact that she has to explain everything. Why?
It was great to bash herself in the head with a frying pan over and over and over for a decade because she needed to do that so that she could feel good when she stopped bashing herself in the head with a frying pan. You know what's great? Never having bashed yourself in the head with a frying pan.
Now, again, the case I'm making is not that there can't be repentance or that people can't change their way, but people do that all the time and it's great. That is a wonderful aspect of life is you change your perspectives. But she is actively preaching for doing the things she did.
According to Alex Cooper, in order for you to feel good about stopping smacking your face with a frying pan, you have to keep smacking your face. It is good. It is actively good for you to smack yourself in the face with the frying pan just so you can feel good when you stop smacking your face with the frying pan. Or you could skip the frying pan entirely. You could.
You could just make it good right from the very beginning. One of the beautiful things about my personal life, I don't talk about my life on the show all that much because my life is the part that I care about. That is the private side of my life. It is protected. It is a bubble. I've built it that way for reasons, both safety and emotional. My life is unbelievably happy. And guess what?
It's been unbelievably happy for decades. You know why? Because I got married to a wonderful human being, to my wife when I was 24 and she was 20 and we were both virgins at the time. We have slept only with one another and we have four children and a fifth on the way. And it's fantastic. It is great. And it was great right from the beginning.
We didn't have to go through a decade of travail and heartbreak and learning to live with yourself and being yourself. You didn't have to go through any of that. You didn't. If you think Alex Cooper is happy now because she was unhappy for a decade, you are wrong. She's happy now because now she's doing the right thing and you don't have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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