Thanks, Tom. I greatly appreciate your genuine concern for our future. Conversations with people who don't understand the laws that dictate our collective ability to flourish are not going to yield anything we want.
@Arise4Fries90 Everything he thinks & says is of a broken spirit. In essence, we need top-down control because anything else is chaos. Blind to chaos engulfing us all.
@Arise4Fries90 maybe read Aristotle and basic history books so you can understand what's going on . Because the populist with facist characteristics is the FAR-RIght The left hasn't gotten politically to the other extreme ( if you actually realize that the typical thing a populist party of extremes is to create extreme distrust of the government and academia .. it's propaganda . But don't take my word .. read things like the French Revolution and the rise of musulinin. History repeats itself.. let's try for that to happen
He started off saying he didn't know what the problem was... um, then why are you here? Isn't it obvious that communist / central banking causes these problems? Incentives are in the wrong place and the ones controlling the economy have an unfair advantage on everything else.
@@SCplayer1000 yes, when they have shown time and time again that they are not in our interest, who, among you has asked for more money printing or wars or immigration no one asked for this, they unilaterally decide for us, not based on our wants or needs, but their own
As a Brit, it’s interesting to see how those in the US view Rory Stewart. Rory is pretty loved and respected here in the U.K. by people on both sides of the political divide in part due to his brilliant podcast The Rest Is Politics which he cohosts with Alastair Campbell. It was so good to see this discussion with Tom, one of my other fave podcasters! Great discussion 👏🏻
Immigration is not the problem. Immigration of the wrong people/culture is the problem. History tells us that modern progressive Christian countries are seen as the crack in the dam that can be exploited by aggressive cultures in both religious belief and birth rates. 1970’s Lebanon and Iran tells this story. A culture that prospers must be cohesive and have the same goals. Some cultures are polar opposites and can never come together. No matter how hard you push the progressive thought programs in media, academia and political policy it’s a fantasy to think opposing ideology can peacefully co-exist. Please look into the Palestinian expulsion from Jordan, the effect on Lebanon and the Cultural shift in Iran during the seventies as mentioned above.
Lies. I’ve lived among Lebs, Iranians, Palestinians, and other Arabs who were both Christian and Muslim. They live together peacefully. Shit goes south when the WEST interferes with it. Western White Ideology is the death of everyone and everything. You don’t know what you’re talking about
This guy feels like a throwback to when the government was seen as knowing best and people were just expected to follow along without question. He seems like the exact type of person The American Founding Fathers were fighting against. Who knew that intently listening to a British person speak, could make me so proud to be an American.
Lol, he's literally despised in the UK for being an elitist globalist, he was essentially driven out of the Conservative party for opposing Brexit and trying to keep us in the EU. So no, disliking him is not some unque American insight.
i agree with half of what you said until the PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. Read ENOUGH ALREADY by Scott Horton about all the DESTRUCTION our country does to other nations, take their resources and then SHOW THEM NOTHING BUT DISDAIN. We are ARMING GENOCIDE in the Middle East for DECADES as if Arabs were not human beings. READ THE HISTORY OF YEMEN and should be enough for you to chose to be a HUMAN BEING and not a NATIONALIST.
So who does? A free for all? Lawlessness? There is a system in place that needs to get lobbyists and citizens united out of government and make representatives accountable. But as someone who has traveled throughout the world and studied some political science, it is amazing to me how little everyone really knows about democracy and different forms of governments.
@@observer2000No, not at all. I am against big government. Big government creates centralized power, overspending and corruption. The less you ask the government to do for you the more you have power over your own capital.
There are no conservatives in Britain, everyone right of a Marxist are considered "far right extremists". The most conservative person you could find in Britain, would be equal to a moderate Democrat here.
@@davidgill6883 Exactly David, too many on this channel equate conservativism with nativism when the founding principle of conservatism (Lincoln) is about pluralism and dynamic thinking. The modern conservative movement has been hijacked by southern dixiecrats - based purely on grievances.
People don’t riot over a single tweet; they riot because of ongoing abuses in their daily lives and the unfair treatment they experience in a ‘two-tier’ system. The tweet could have been the 'final straw.'
LOL, I am not sure what you said is in the vicinity of my thinking, but I will assume it is. This is the descendant of people who ATTACKED OTHERS AND TOOK ALL THEY HAD and now look at them with disdain.
Freedom of speech is good as a principle, but bad as a cult. It's only good because it has downstream effects that improve the general 'quality of discussion' in a way that facilitates good things and inhibits bad ones. If you're willing to overlook and accept the 'quality of discussion' curling up and dying in the name of the tool that is supposed to keep it alive, then that's a problem. Rory has been very measured here.
I think most of the west have gone past a tipping point and there is no way back. The culture, values have changed as you see blurring of the lines between what clearly is good vs evil and yet hamas is now celebrated by so many across the west.
He's one of the reasons why the tories lost. He should try living in Birmingham where we have Muslim grooming gangs that are covered up. We have a huge problem with illegal immigration who refuse to integrate with our British culture. They want it destroyed. Ps I'm half Pakistani and my father was an imam
While I have compassion for the guest, and I am sorry that he has cerebral palsy, or whatever causes him to have that ridiculous fake toothy smile, I do find his totalitarian, central planning, elitist viewpoints to be saddening. I appreciate that Tom had on a person who is not interested in human flourishing, which is a bias of Toms. I had never heard of this guy before, and I think his one benefit to humanity is that he gives us a comparison point, so that if somebody has lousy as Trump or Harris gets into office, we can at least say, "I am glad it was not Rory."
The gun grabbers always leave out the fact that people's lives are saved by guns as well. It is not only a one-way street. Why didn't he talk about all the knife and acid attacks in England?
That this interview is getting a worse reception and view count than Candace Owens signals exactly how doomed we all are. Candice is a woman who's found great success in saying what people like to the expense of any underlying truth, accuracy, or principle. Rory is a man who was once a favorite to be the British Prime minister, but lost because he refused to compromise on his principles and beliefs to appeal to the radical elements of the conservative party.
I completely agree with you. I find Rory very thoughtful and balanced. He is also a rare example of someone who helps facilitate much needed (and lacking in today's world) dialogue between left and right. His regular news podcast with Alastair Campbell is excellent.
I should add that I can't say much about Candace Owens, as have only watched a couple of her podcasts. I'll watch her one with Tom next, but I do agree with what you say about Rory.
You mean he was a woke sell out to the managerial class. The Tories have run themselves into the ground pandering to woke scolds. Of course he has a podcast with a war criminal he is part of the managerial class thats destroyed the UK over the last 20 years.
Gross misrepresentation of “gun violence” as that 40,000+ number included self deletion, which is the majority of that number. Japan has higher rates of that act despite no firearms. People find a way.
He made a few mistakes. Firstly he ignored defensive gun use in his statistic. His number includes kills in self-defense. He also conflated gun violence with deaths and murders in general. The UK has plenty of knife violence and murder.
@@offensivearchknife crime in the U.K. is wildly exaggerated by the US media to function as a reason as to why the US should not regulate gun ownership. It’s part of the narrative they spin. I’m a Brit. I’ve never witnessed knife crime and have never known anyone that has. Meanwhile, two of my American cousins have been shot in the past, one fatally.
@@offensivearch UK has almost no murder. The UK homicide rate is less than half of the overall rate across Europe and about one-sixth of the rate in the United States One sixth. Think about that.
Thanks Tom for talking to a guest with whom your audience generally disagrees. Reflecting on what Rory said, I think there’s a legitimate debate about which we should work out our position: is society better off when they are ruled or when they rule themselves? To elites like Rory, free speech and gun ownership, among other freedoms, tear up the social order, making society chaotic and dreadful. To the populist, elite rule takes away rights and freedoms that everyone should have, and society is worse off for it. What I observe is that everyone wants power. The elites justify their desire to control everyone else by believing that they are better, smarter, and more deserving of power. The populists justify their populist champion believing that he will give more power to the people whom he purports to fight for. This conversation is so classic American vs English thought.
Why do you characterise Rory Stewart as an elite? He's a former politician elected by the people. Are all politicians elite by your definition? Or you're just discriminating based on his accent and that his parents cared about his education? Just trying to understand
I think it made sense to have 10 children when the population was 2 million in the USA. But now it would be crazy for every couple to have 10 children. At some point that’s simply not sustainable.
But in neither case were people doing it because of some idea of the optimal population size; they were doing it for their own reasons, which is right. And even if you do put the country above yourself, have you ever driven east from the western border of Florida? You get about 200 miles of NOTHING, except for the one city of Pensacola. And this is a place with great weather, long growing season, great beaches and plenty of water, not even the western deserts.
The environmentalists on the Left no longer care about the effects of birthrates, nor the overall rising population in Western countries brought on by 10's of millions of mass migrants flooding into 1st World countries ...because the ethnically original Western population is being supplanted with 3rd Worlders. It's no longer a "theory", deny it all they might.
He is so keen on de-centralisation and a more localised democracy and yet at the same time thinks Brexit was a terrible decision - the EU being highly centralised and very un-democratic....
A lot of younger people born in western countries are being taught that having children is bad for the environment or not having children is empowering and allows you to focus on your career.
Meanwhile immigrants have a far higher birthrate and they're actively being shipped over by the countries "elites" and their complicit NGO's....but now f**k our environment suddenly, and there's no number of migrants that is deemed "too many".
It has been going on since the 1970s, with Paul Erlich, et. al. The constant harping on about the "population explosion" and how the world is doomed because people have families is likely a large part of the reason for the below replacement birthrates in Western nations.
1:09:00 he admits that not only did he go wrong believing he knew best, he wasted vast sums of money on it. And now he is pushing "government (or someone who is appointed to decide what the facts are) knows best." Perfect.
About Trump, and his talk about "the illegal immigrants are eating your dogs and cats"...there's some truth to that. It's not just Trumpist, populist rambling. Many people in this world actually DO eat dogs (a lot of Lao and Vietnamese people like it), and it wouldn't surprise me if one or two cats also end up on the grill...🤕💔
Sooo either he is lying or he is clueless about soooo many things. But the NPR voice is very soothing. I think i would vote for him as Ministry of Truth Czar.
Don't rely on others to form your views. Listen to the end, absorb the arguments on both sides, then make your decisions. That is the problem with current politics and debate. We're letting others form our views. Form your own.
All he had to say was "far right", once. The insidious linguistic sleight of hand meant to paint everyone opposed to illegal mass migration as an extremist.
@@jasonhclements look i watched 40 mins of it and I thought it blew. Really didn't address a lot of issues and a very simplistic cookie cutter approach. I thought it sucked.. anyways it's his right to look at comments and decide how he wants to spend his time. I wish I used his approach
Calls out what popularism is but then misses the fact that democrats are the populist faction, then goes after elon, unfortunately he is an example of what he is calling out, a minority who things he is the majority who knows the truth absolutely.
Somehow this person seems very pro the existing establishment and denies some things which are the truth, he seems like he was good at giving the taxes of his citizens to other places in the world, politicians love that, interesting how in our western countries the homeless and poor are not helped while Africans or foreign countries are supported. Does he also support immigrants being housed in 5 star hotels which is paid by taxpayers who are living in poverty? he sounds very elite
There are fewer workers, but greater automation, making those missing workers unnecessary. The real problem is prioritization. Will the fed gov invest in infrustructure and sustainability or will it finance impractical trucks, and private rockets?
Please! There is no left or right.The dividing line is establishment or not. Stewart is as establishment as they come. And yes, Tom should have pushed much harder. Ffs, Stewart used to be the chairman of Le Cercle!
Rory is Conservative. Conservatives don't exist in mainstream politics post covid. Conservatives believe in the separation of powers, the rule of law, free trade, maintaining faith in institutions, and tradition. Rory fits all of that. The current "right" is protectionist, isolationist, and antiestablishment - not conservative. Rory didn't move left, the Overton window shifted hard radical right.
@@Scarletpimpanel73 this is an interesting take. Most people think the overton window shifted left. Can you give me some examples of it moving right? Genuinely curious to hear your perspective.
@@Scarletpimpanel73 also, just wondering where you think Sam Harris sits on this spectrum? While we are at it: Musk, Destiny, Hasan abid, pakman, Rogan?
@@bhriscannan2080 Firstly - conservative and right wing are not synonymous. Traditionally the right has been defined as aligned with conservative. But there is a radical right as well. The Right/Left axis is a moving point. Conservative is somewhat constant - a disposition toward status quo. Sam is more right wing on immigration - but left on economics. I view him as conservative. Destiny is pro government having more intervention in markets - he is center left in my view. Pakman is slightly left of Destiny but still center left. Rogan is fairly libertarian - but someone centrist. Hasan, is far left. I consider myself conservative - somewhere between Rory and Sam.
59:32 ...when one asks themselves honestly; "looking back, when I was doing well - did it actually feel like I was doing well at the time?" We often look back at "the good times", yet in the moment, they actually weren't that good. When my wife and I bought our small house for $110k in 1996 - it was a stretch at the time. To make it happen, we lived in fear of being laid-off, and had to give up trips, new vehicles, eating at restaurants for a long time. Yet today, we look back and say; "WOW, we only paid $110k for our house 28 years ago..." That being said :) compared to today, the 90's were sort of magical.
Learn about robotics from Japan? They continue to descend into the demographic hole. ok I'm done with this podcast. The guy seems wildly out of touch with reality.
Yes. He is absolutely out of touch, and I can already tell at 20:49 he is one of those wackadoodle leftists. I’m dying to click the next button but I want to be fair
Perhaps Japan wasn’t meant to have 100+ million people and need to go back to a slower more rural way of life. Their work culture is nuts and breeds misery and low birth numbers. They for sure do not need more foreigners. They need to go through some hard times before they find their new norm.
I think many of the comments show how intolerant Americans are when someone has a different approach or voices different viewpoints. No wonder why America is split and fracturing. If it's not their way, it's the highway!
BORDERS: Sorry just don’t bring your trauma here Take coming to a new country as a GIFT!! don’t make it worse for us just because you suffered - make a new life! New culture
The homicide figures in all of the United Kindom at least the last time I bothered to pay attention was less than 300 people. About 42 of which being caused by firearms or gun crime etc. This was nearly a decade ago but I don't believe that number has risen significantly much beyond. Knife crime however, is increasingly becoming a problem with two inner city youths in London killed over the weekend. If they can't get guns they will use alternatives.
Americans have difficulty understanding they are more violent then many other cultures. But I think it has to do with their history. Maybe it in the blood? From the first landing of the boats, when the people believed "God gave them this new land" they promptly killed all the indigenous peoples to claim it for themselves. And ever since USA has (except for 2 years) been at war with someone, somewhere in the world exercising their might. Currently Ukraine, Israel, Sudan, and soon to be China if Trump continues with his threats. But Americans don't understand that China is not a warring country. They built a Great Wall to keep others out. However, I do believe China will out whit and out smart America years before US has an opportunity to wage war, and do it all within United Nation legal boundaries.
Thank you both for this conversation. I love the way that you're so thoughtful and balanced, explaining what you perceive so clearly without over-simplifying or omitting the nuances. This allows a real dialogue and recognition of different sides of an argument, which is refreshing in today's polarised climate ❤
Are you ever going to have some constructive conversations again instead of click bait and conspiracy garbage? I'm so close to unsubscribing to this channel.
No. Your suffering due to monetary expansion, the shutting down of the economy over COVID, the disruption of oil due to a blown up pipeline and conflict with Russia. All planned in my opinion.
@@offensivearch Bad decision that has impacted on everyone from the ordinary person, politician and corporations. The only people who truly benefited were the disaster capitalists of the City of London (the financial district) who profited by betting against the Great British Pound (£) as it plummeted in value.
Interesting point at 40:00 about abortion: in Europe they have a compromise on the number of days it's allowed, in US we don't. We did have such a rule with Roe v. Wade, which was overruled because it was decided incorrectly, according to the majority (and I agree.) It seemed to have been a rule, out of nowhere. But it "harmonized" with the European idea on this. It's good to listen to Europeans, but it's also good to throw most of their ideas these days in the trash. Europe now is so different (and worse) from when they were intellectual world leaders from, say 1600 - 1900. Now the ideas from across the pond are worse than worthless.
Stewart is delusional, dangerously so because he’s arrogantly convinced his take is the truth. Illegal immigration is an enormous problem in the UK and US (millions coming in per year) and Stewart decides @46 that the thing to discuss is … weird cats and dogs story from Trump. How can Stewart get so upside down on priorities? He doesn’t give a shitt about things that don’t effect him in his MP bubble.
Think we are all pretty happy we live on this side of the pond to you where we believe in evolution, lifting up the needy and homeless and have genuine compassion for those less fortunate. The US is becoming more dystopian by the day, Its a complete bastardisation of the brilliant ideas of the founding fathers who would hate what it's become.
@@XanderMohan Unbelievable. You tell yourself you’re “genuine”, but that’s just a pose. Guys like you are the reason Rotherham was allowed to happen. Allowed a land war in Serbia 1990s, then demand somebody else pay the defense bill to resolve it in your own backyard. Do it again in Ukraine, after funding Russia by buying their gas. But you’re genuine. Just sod all the way off.
Why has Rwanda been the fastest growing economy in the world 1994-2024? Rwanda grew 20.6% in the year ending Q2, 2021 Rwanda grew 7.5% in the year ending Q2, 2022 Rwanda grew 6.3% in the year ending Q2, 2023 Rwanda grew 9.8% in the year ending Q2, 2024 Rwanda the Model!
A significant answer to the 1st question, put to a former MP and Cabinet Member, is that A) those at the top tier Government roles arm themselves with outdated models of economics and B) politicians, like Rory, know even less. In plain sight, a significant part of the answer is evidenced by the inadequate response. Get Jim Rickards on to answer just that first question - that’s over an hour right there.
Very greatful that you invited Rory Stewart, he is one of the most thoughtful and well liked politicians out there. I agree with his criticism of Musk. In a previous interview Marc Andreessen said it would be great of Musk was cloned to mini Musks, filling important positions around the world. Interesting how an intelligent and well read man can completely ignore moral and integrity. It's all about productivity there, with all the Musks sleeping on their factory floors, never having a vacation, and firing all who don't comply :)
Mr. Bilyeu, I know it feels good to sit at the grown-up table, but wouldn't it be better to interview businessmen who built their company from ZERO to PROFIT? How they started. The nuts and bolts. Their sacrifices and lessons. Everyone talks about being a billionaire, but that is dumb. Interview SELF-MADE businessmen whose company broke the ONE MILLION dollar barrier. You can leverage a fantastic life for you and your family with a company that generates 1.5 million a year. Why keep interviewing these people who add NOTHING TO PURPOSE of Impact Theory. Impact Theory began as Inside Quest with a focus on ACTIONS, and it became this thing where men who never built anything from scratch pontificate on WHAT IS WRONG WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
I would challenge you on the 70's, rolling blackouts, war, entire towns being economically devestated, etc. Things are pretty rough today for sure, but they havnt always been peachy either.
I am a Brit and I think Rory makes a lot of very good points, from an educated informed position, doesnt mean I agree with everything he or anyone else says. Life was simpler in the past for everyone, so perhaps they were happier. Perhaps cave men eating a meal after a large kill were extremely happy. I dont mean to be flippant but the argument is arbitrary. I expect many US citizens were happier in the past too. Social media in part allows us to see how others live and compare, becasue that is human nature. That was essentially one of the points he was making. We all now have so much free time to think about the past and its so incredibly documented, that nostalgia plays a big part.
@@martinKeast-ry2vn I suspect most populations in the West were happier 30 years ago. I remember the USA in the 1990s and the overall vibe was better- nearly everyone who was alive at that time would agree. I would also suspect most non-Western countries are happier now than they were 30 years ago. Unfortunately, the well being of the citizens doesn’t seem to be a high priority for the leaders in the West over the last 30 or 40 years.
@@RyanMoran6 life is just a lot more complex now. Being happy is mostly down to ones disposition. I tend to think people feel happy (if thats the right word) relative to their fellow society. The problem with Brits is they like to moan and complain about everything. Americans on the other hand are generally more optimistic but that does seem to be changing, wanting a smaller government but equally blaming the government for how their lives are going. Just reading the comment section of video feels like a paraellell universe.
I was Born 1958 , both of my parents taught School since the one room school house. Having paid into a teacher's pension plan which expected the retired teacher to live 5 years past retirement. In the end both worked 35years and collected their full pension for 25 years. Also upon retirement Father was given a cheque for all his sick days as he never missed a day as well spent 5 years in substitute teacher placement of the younger generation always used their sick days. I was born before paid parental leave and mother took an extra year keeping me from attending Kindergarten. Oh as well we ran a Rescue Ranch for un- adoptable children 5-6years of age for a total of 9
I think Tom is right about the transition. Britains decline arguably precipitated the 1st and second world wars, I don’t think it’s ridiculous to argue american decline could precipitate a significant period of instability and insecurity, which may involve conflicts, or disasters that may be really quite severe.
40:41 "Nobody talks about abortion" in the UK. Yeah, its illegal to protest outside an abortion clinic. In fact, it is illegal to pray outside of one. It is even illegal to stand across the street from one and not pray. Look up the video of the lady being arrested for doing just that. Not bothering anyone, not blocking them from entering, just standing on the opposite side of the street. I wonder why no one talks about it.
I work with the elderly most have had to come out of retirement and join the job force again. I've been told my entire life social security and retirement generally isn't an option for my generation and after and now I see it unfolding in real time.
On the collapse of the birth rates: This is not driven by wealth but existence in low trust environments. This is why birth rates of Russians post-Soviet era collapsed. People blame the phones and computers but they don't stop to ask why men and women of our kind are living in the virtual world instead of the real world. Their lives have been made immeasurably worse in a way they cannot control. The toys are just a coping mechanism for having to exist in a world not of their own making. The reason for the baby boom in the 40s is because it was a post-war environment with lots of opportunity and very little uncertainty.
Hopefully, after being manipulated once or twice into violence that is later found to be based on lies, the ability of the purveyor to manipulate people again will be reduced.
The moment that he said that the reason certain populations were having bigger families was Not because of their convictions but because they were poor, I stopped listening. What a joke.
Elon Musk has noted the birth rate drop in Japan and pronounced it to be disastrous. What is missed in all these discussions when economists discuss the population pyramid is the problem of tying economic growth to population growth. In the past 220 years there has been a tremendous world population increase, especially in the past 90 years, 2 billion to 8 billion people. Japan had a population of 42 million in 1900 and now has a population of 124 million. The world population in 1800 was 1 billion, China today is 1.4 billion. I suggest that the issue of population needs a fresh review.
Population decline is not just a function of poverty. It's a function of rules and laws, technologies. Car seats for example add cost to having children and limit how many fit in a car compared to the past, does it save as many lives as prevents lives. There is also government promoted birth control and abortion. Feminism and anti-discrimination rules encouraging women to have and value careers instead on valuing motherhood.
It is not massive immigration itself that is the problem but the massive immigration from alien cultures. If massive immigration came mostly from Europe it would be a very different problem.
Rory, my family has been here (U.S.) since the early to mid 1600's on MOST branches of the tree, and in the one case of my paternal grandmother, she was the first born here to Eastern European immigrants. All assimilated, all worked, and all served the country. The problem are the waves of immigrants many of whom who don't assimilate, who have no intention of working, have no intention of serving, and have an active hatred of the current society/population/People's of their new surroundings....We see this in the especially the U.K., U.S. and Western Europe with huge numbers immediately on the welfare system with free food/housing/spending cash/medical, as the poor American citizens look on saying WtF. Then of course, you have the political "Elitist" class who are giving away the store so to speak, and activity failing to Police the new population as they would the existing population, while the propagandists in the "Independent" Press lie and gaslight the population about what is going on with the degradation of society, the crime wave of harassment, gang-grapez of women, machete attacks, murders, and physical assaults of the general populace...those that would have been national news for weeks in the past had they been done by an ethnic Englishman are downplayed or even ignored today if they're done by an immigrant. Go ahead and intellectualize the giving away your society, watch it fade away and it'll have the 3rd World appearance in every other way one day in the near future.
Mortality saliance, number of surviving offspring, population density, and family structure vs the predominant cultural emotion underpinnings (ie, pride, envy, shame, guilt) are all dimentions highly correlated with fertility rates
When he said a billionaire like Elon purposely pushing the boundary and putting out purposefully untrue and ill intentioned information that causes chaos then “changes the equation” and he responded with “in what way?” 46 min 😂😂😂 I died at how he was unable to realize how dangerous that could be
I love how this guy says immigration is "more nuanced than you might think" 8:10 because people who object say they don't mind a little diversity. As if them _not_ saying all the D.E.I. platitudes wouldn't immediately get them branded as Racist, causing them to lose their jobs, friends and status.
One of your best Tom. Keep it up. Was happy to donate to that charity. Rory was interesting and pragmatic. Did not agree with everything, but much respect to him. A civil discussion for a change.
The primary assumption is that our economy is based on “population growth”? Then why is population growth growth .5% while gdp is 2%. There are more important drivers to our economic growth than population. Its innovation and productivity.
My parents and grand parent, even my great great grandparents were NOT immigrants. My ancestors who were the first here in my family were pioneers and settlers. This Brit is ridiculous to think that the US has no “right” to feel the things he feels about the people invading both our countries.
@@AndreyMedvedevNo, he's a university lecturer at an Ivy League school. He also runs a charity that facilitates direct cash donations to poor people in the Third World. He was previously a UK minister, and before that a UK member of parliament. Before that, he was deputy governor of a province in occupied Iraq. Before that he worked for the Foreign Office (my guess is MI6), and before that, he was in the army. Before which he graduated from Oxford. And before that, he was at Eton. He also walked across the Middle East (Iran, Afghanistan, etc.) in the fall of 2001, after 9/11. On foot. Staying with local people. So I find it fucking hilarious with all the nobodies in these comments shitting on this absolute overachiever.
Immigration and migration are different. I’m not against immigration but we are a sovereign country and we have a process to enter this country. No, not everyone is allowed in permanently, murders for example. There needs to be a balance.
"Iran/Iraq war spent billions of $, acheived nothing"- It was Very effective- for some. Change your focus: It made a lot of the controllers much richer. For them , it achieved --making them rich. Always look at who got rich on world events, too. "Political" decisions, with greedy in control, are made with goals other than those stated. I really liked the second half, talking about the impact of just a little cash,, ALLOWING THEM TO SPEND IT WHERE _THEY_ SAW THE MOST NEED. I believe it, based on things I've seen. Managing its distribution would be an interesting problem.... I think your view of Bill Gates' goals is naive... Worthwhile; thank you.!
Watching western peoples all over the planet struggling with the reality of the generational syndrome of "The Chickens Coming Home to Roost". The seeds of Colonial Imperialism having taken root has grown this demographic arc in the present. It is very interesting to watch what passes for a British intellectual struggle to rationalize the present circumstances. The thing this fellow does not recognize is his perception of time, he perceives it to be linear, in that when it concerns anthropology and civil populations the consequence of generational malfeasance results in this aberrant demographic. Time and its consequences are a demographic arc, time is not linear to serve one's self-interest such as it would be in calculating the returns of usury self-interest. Ask the wrong questions and get unsolvable outcomes. Short term decisions have long-term outcomes. Cheers.
There were parts of this interview where Mr. Stewart had me laughing so loud my wife heard me from 200' away. The bit about how the days when the news media could lie and no one knew any better lead to more truth and honesty was the best. link to time stamp in case you missed it. ruclips.net/video/gxRc1MXQ9wY/видео.htmlsi=gr7Y7javnYL6Ck7W&t=1751
All you fucking rubes trust every far-right influencer grifting for clicks. It's hilariously naïve. I mean, the whole reason you hate the media is that the media criticized Trump, and Trump told you the media was bad. So like good obedient fucking lap dogs, you started doing Trump's bidding and attacking the media. That is not independent thought, that is being in a cult.
Well. Not seeing lots of middle between right and wrong. Finding moral ground in "the middle" will be quite a challenge. "A man that won't stand for anything will fall for everything." comes to mind. Now a sense of humor really shouldn't be that hard gracious there is so much to laugh at when it comes to politics.
Waking people up does nothing. Maybe 1 percent of awoken people will do something, for themselves. You need specific action plans, and then turn them into actions, in order to effect change.
this guy knows tom. first amendment good, second amendment bad. living in NZ, my government does stupid things but i'll always back them as a kiwi for the good they do. i get why americans don't back there country anymore. looking from the outside, america's falling apart faster than any other country of influence
Lower birthrates are NOT as a result of a country becoming more wealthy. The only thing that dictates birth rates is women's rights, or IOW egalitarianism. You want to raise birth rates? Remove women's rights & watch what happens.
Why does the guest think at 48:00 that the Haitians in Ohio are not eating cats? It was never disproved, and there's much corroboration. He's being misled, intentionally or not, by the opinion-shapers. By the way if he thinks my view is because I have insufficient education, I have better and higher degrees than he does.
@@jez1522 Y’all’s entire argument starts and ends w/ they’re in a cult- you don’t get it, the pets were never the point, the point was it’s effect on housing, labor, value, voting, and the democratically it being forwarded on people that were not asked in anyway for their town to be up ended. The cat thing is a small artifact of the bigger picture.
@@jez1522 It was never about the dogs, it was about its effect on housing and jobs and votes and that no one asked for this, but it was forced on them and if anyone has a problem with it, they are morally bad
I commend you Tom, for not blowing up at this representative of the ruling elite. Not to worry, we fact-checked him. It is good to listen to all views. Thank goodness for free speech where it exists.
I disagree with Rory on the insignificance genetic influence of Viking and Anglo-Saxon invasion or settlement on the genetic make-up of the British. There are still significant genetic markers linking us with Scandinavia and Germany - especially in the East and North of Great Britain even after a thousand years.
No what he meant was the vikings and Germanic tribes did not replace the original habitants - UK natives are largely DNA natives mixed with the migration of the various groups depending on what section of the country our ancestors came from, example my grandad was from north east, his ancestry has Norse and Norman whereas my grandma from the south bordering Wales has Germanic - both are dominantly native UK DNA however. This has all been proven with a large genome studies. The story we use to be told was that the natives were replaced by the Germanic tribes and vikings - they actually married into the native tribe but dominated culturally by winning some battles and taking seats of 'thrones' from defeated tribes. No replacement occured except a cultural one.
Special thanks to Navage: Get a cleaning kit as a FREE gift with your order, but only by going to impacttheory.co/NavageITOct24
@18:00 when that guy says about populism is how populist feel about the other side. (Liberals)
Thanks, Tom. I greatly appreciate your genuine concern for our future. Conversations with people who don't understand the laws that dictate our collective ability to flourish are not going to yield anything we want.
@Arise4Fries90 Everything he thinks & says is of a broken spirit. In essence, we need top-down control because anything else is chaos. Blind to chaos engulfing us all.
@Arise4Fries90 maybe read Aristotle and basic history books so you can understand what's going on . Because the populist with facist characteristics is the FAR-RIght
The left hasn't gotten politically to the other extreme ( if you actually realize that the typical thing a populist party of extremes is to create extreme distrust of the government and academia .. it's propaganda . But don't take my word .. read things like the French Revolution and the rise of musulinin. History repeats itself.. let's try for that to happen
Problem with ALL of this guy’s arguments is they presuppose a benevolent honest government. We don’t have that anymore (not in a long time).
And the press has been putting its thumb on the scales rather than report fairly.
Having a base of thinking in terms of a benevolent honest government is a problem??? Who is "we" that don't have that anymore?
He started off saying he didn't know what the problem was... um, then why are you here? Isn't it obvious that communist / central banking causes these problems? Incentives are in the wrong place and the ones controlling the economy have an unfair advantage on everything else.
@@SCplayer1000...the government is being used to destroy us.
@@SCplayer1000 yes, when they have shown time and time again that they are not in our interest, who, among you has asked for more money printing or wars or immigration no one asked for this, they unilaterally decide for us, not based on our wants or needs, but their own
As a Brit, it’s interesting to see how those in the US view Rory Stewart. Rory is pretty loved and respected here in the U.K. by people on both sides of the political divide in part due to his brilliant podcast The Rest Is Politics which he cohosts with Alastair Campbell. It was so good to see this discussion with Tom, one of my other fave podcasters! Great discussion 👏🏻
Are you sure about that? I've always thought he is quite moronic and incapable of communicating outside his class.
Believing in the government has to be the most delusional thing a human being can do for oneself.
Immigration is not the problem. Immigration of the wrong people/culture is the problem. History tells us that modern progressive Christian countries are seen as the crack in the dam that can be exploited by aggressive cultures in both religious belief and birth rates. 1970’s Lebanon and Iran tells this story. A culture that prospers must be cohesive and have the same goals. Some cultures are polar opposites and can never come together. No matter how hard you push the progressive thought programs in media, academia and political policy it’s a fantasy to think opposing ideology can peacefully co-exist. Please look into the Palestinian expulsion from Jordan, the effect on Lebanon and the Cultural shift in Iran during the seventies as mentioned above.
Lies. I’ve lived among Lebs, Iranians, Palestinians, and other Arabs who were both Christian and Muslim. They live together peacefully. Shit goes south when the WEST interferes with it. Western White Ideology is the death of everyone and everything. You don’t know what you’re talking about
immigration and cheap labor are 100% a major problem boomer.
@@crambownuance my guy… you sound ignorant and infantile using that term. Try making a valid point. How is it a problem?
From where? Chinese immigrants would be the best right?
@@crambow You didn't read a thing he wrote.
This guy feels like a throwback to when the government was seen as knowing best and people were just expected to follow along without question. He seems like the exact type of person The American Founding Fathers were fighting against. Who knew that intently listening to a British person speak, could make me so proud to be an American.
If you can't see ways the US government have gone against the ideas of your founding fathers over the years I'm not sure what makes you feel pride.
Lol, he's literally despised in the UK for being an elitist globalist, he was essentially driven out of the Conservative party for opposing Brexit and trying to keep us in the EU. So no, disliking him is not some unque American insight.
i agree with half of what you said until the PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. Read ENOUGH ALREADY by Scott Horton about all the DESTRUCTION our country does to other nations, take their resources and then SHOW THEM NOTHING BUT DISDAIN. We are ARMING GENOCIDE in the Middle East for DECADES as if Arabs were not human beings. READ THE HISTORY OF YEMEN and should be enough for you to chose to be a HUMAN BEING and not a NATIONALIST.
The guy is an idiot but don't forget that 99% of Americans are even dumber.
trusting the government to solve your problems is the root cause off all of our societies problem in the west today
So who does? A free for all? Lawlessness? There is a system in place that needs to get lobbyists and citizens united out of government and make representatives accountable. But as someone who has traveled throughout the world and studied some political science, it is amazing to me how little everyone really knows about democracy and different forms of governments.
@@observer2000No, not at all. I am against big government. Big government creates centralized power, overspending and corruption. The less you ask the government to do for you the more you have power over your own capital.
Mainly America. Govt there is messed up and doesn't serve the people of US. But big money, donors, PAC money and big business 😊
He actually thinks he is a a conservative, it shows how delusional he is.
He IS a conservative, just not a racist
Does he???
There are no conservatives in Britain, everyone right of a Marxist are considered "far right extremists". The most conservative person you could find in Britain, would be equal to a moderate Democrat here.
@@davidgill6883 Exactly David, too many on this channel equate conservativism with nativism when the founding principle of conservatism (Lincoln) is about pluralism and dynamic thinking. The modern conservative movement has been hijacked by southern dixiecrats - based purely on grievances.
He's a conservative in every country outside the US
People don’t riot over a single tweet; they riot because of ongoing abuses in their daily lives and the unfair treatment they experience in a ‘two-tier’ system. The tweet could have been the 'final straw.'
This dude is a perfect example of "I'm all for free speech until I don't agree with it"
Absolutely - loves social media until people he doesn't agree with find a way to use it.
LOL, I am not sure what you said is in the vicinity of my thinking, but I will assume it is. This is the descendant of people who ATTACKED OTHERS AND TOOK ALL THEY HAD and now look at them with disdain.
Freedom of speech is good as a principle, but bad as a cult.
It's only good because it has downstream effects that improve the general 'quality of discussion' in a way that facilitates good things and inhibits bad ones. If you're willing to overlook and accept the 'quality of discussion' curling up and dying in the name of the tool that is supposed to keep it alive, then that's a problem. Rory has been very measured here.
💯
Exactly. Took him with a grain of salt untill he couldnt give a straight answer on free speech.
I think most of the west have gone past a tipping point and there is no way back. The culture, values have changed as you see blurring of the lines between what clearly is good vs evil and yet hamas is now celebrated by so many across the west.
What is clearly good & evil?
There absolutely a way back.. Most people don't have the stomach for it.
He's one of the reasons why the tories lost. He should try living in Birmingham where we have Muslim grooming gangs that are covered up.
We have a huge problem with illegal immigration who refuse to integrate with our British culture. They want it destroyed. Ps I'm half Pakistani and my father was an imam
the amount of grimacing going on is indicative of the fact that even he cant beleive how much bullshit is coming out of his own mouth
It's a tic.
@@SaltAndVinegarFlavour you are obviously new to this guy
While I have compassion for the guest, and I am sorry that he has cerebral palsy, or whatever causes him to have that ridiculous fake toothy smile, I do find his totalitarian, central planning, elitist viewpoints to be saddening.
I appreciate that Tom had on a person who is not interested in human flourishing, which is a bias of Toms. I had never heard of this guy before, and I think his one benefit to humanity is that he gives us a comparison point, so that if somebody has lousy as Trump or Harris gets into office, we can at least say, "I am glad it was not Rory."
Just great to have a Brit tell an US Citizen what the US founding fathers thought
At least he isn’t a complete blithering idiot like Tom.
Rory Stuart is a pure Neoliberal.
His answer to everything is more immigration and wars.
Well, they were British
They are both clever....are you too?
@@Ewoud42Are you clever enough to judge who is clever?
The gun grabbers always leave out the fact that people's lives are saved by guns as well. It is not only a one-way street. Why didn't he talk about all the knife and acid attacks in England?
“All the knife attacks”,… really? 3.4 knife deaths per million in UK. In US, it is 67 gun deaths per million
That this interview is getting a worse reception and view count than Candace Owens signals exactly how doomed we all are.
Candice is a woman who's found great success in saying what people like to the expense of any underlying truth, accuracy, or principle.
Rory is a man who was once a favorite to be the British Prime minister, but lost because he refused to compromise on his principles and beliefs to appeal to the radical elements of the conservative party.
I completely agree with you. I find Rory very thoughtful and balanced. He is also a rare example of someone who helps facilitate much needed (and lacking in today's world) dialogue between left and right. His regular news podcast with Alastair Campbell is excellent.
I should add that I can't say much about Candace Owens, as have only watched a couple of her podcasts. I'll watch her one with Tom next, but I do agree with what you say about Rory.
You mean he was a woke sell out to the managerial class. The Tories have run themselves into the ground pandering to woke scolds. Of course he has a podcast with a war criminal he is part of the managerial class thats destroyed the UK over the last 20 years.
Gross misrepresentation of “gun violence” as that 40,000+ number included self deletion, which is the majority of that number. Japan has higher rates of that act despite no firearms. People find a way.
And if you exclude gang on gang which england does that number drops even more.
@@psychoholicslag4801 and 70-80% of shootings happen in gun free zones.
He made a few mistakes. Firstly he ignored defensive gun use in his statistic. His number includes kills in self-defense.
He also conflated gun violence with deaths and murders in general. The UK has plenty of knife violence and murder.
@@offensivearchknife crime in the U.K. is wildly exaggerated by the US media to function as a reason as to why the US should not regulate gun ownership. It’s part of the narrative they spin. I’m a Brit. I’ve never witnessed knife crime and have never known anyone that has. Meanwhile, two of my American cousins have been shot in the past, one fatally.
@@offensivearch UK has almost no murder.
The UK homicide rate is less than half of the overall rate across Europe and about one-sixth of the rate in the United States
One sixth. Think about that.
Thanks Tom for talking to a guest with whom your audience generally disagrees.
Reflecting on what Rory said, I think there’s a legitimate debate about which we should work out our position: is society better off when they are ruled or when they rule themselves? To elites like Rory, free speech and gun ownership, among other freedoms, tear up the social order, making society chaotic and dreadful. To the populist, elite rule takes away rights and freedoms that everyone should have, and society is worse off for it.
What I observe is that everyone wants power. The elites justify their desire to control everyone else by believing that they are better, smarter, and more deserving of power. The populists justify their populist champion believing that he will give more power to the people whom he purports to fight for.
This conversation is so classic American vs English thought.
Why do you characterise Rory Stewart as an elite? He's a former politician elected by the people. Are all politicians elite by your definition? Or you're just discriminating based on his accent and that his parents cared about his education? Just trying to understand
@@martinKeast-ry2vnelite as in ruling class
I think it made sense to have 10 children when the population was 2 million in the USA. But now it would be crazy for every couple to have 10 children. At some point that’s simply not sustainable.
But in neither case were people doing it because of some idea of the optimal population size; they were doing it for their own reasons, which is right. And even if you do put the country above yourself, have you ever driven east from the western border of Florida? You get about 200 miles of NOTHING, except for the one city of Pensacola. And this is a place with great weather, long growing season, great beaches and plenty of water, not even the western deserts.
The environmentalists on the Left no longer care about the effects of birthrates, nor the overall rising population in Western countries brought on by 10's of millions of mass migrants flooding into 1st World countries ...because the ethnically original Western population is being supplanted with 3rd Worlders. It's no longer a "theory", deny it all they might.
Thank you Mick Jagger for your insight.
I thought it was Willem dafoe. How naive of me.
@@davidchurney6314 lol at both these comments
He is so keen on de-centralisation and a more localised democracy and yet at the same time thinks Brexit was a terrible decision - the EU being highly centralised and very un-democratic....
A lot of younger people born in western countries are being taught that having children is bad for the environment or not having children is empowering and allows you to focus on your career.
Which gives plenty of room for Islam to be moved in
Meanwhile immigrants have a far higher birthrate and they're actively being shipped over by the countries "elites" and their complicit NGO's....but now f**k our environment suddenly, and there's no number of migrants that is deemed "too many".
This psyop has been in place for decades
It has been going on since the 1970s, with Paul Erlich, et. al. The constant harping on about the "population explosion" and how the world is doomed because people have families is likely a large part of the reason for the below replacement birthrates in Western nations.
1:09:00 he admits that not only did he go wrong believing he knew best, he wasted vast sums of money on it. And now he is pushing "government (or someone who is appointed to decide what the facts are) knows best." Perfect.
About Trump, and his talk about "the illegal immigrants are eating your dogs and cats"...there's some truth to that.
It's not just Trumpist, populist rambling.
Many people in this world actually DO eat dogs (a lot of Lao and Vietnamese people like it), and it wouldn't surprise me if one or two cats also end up on the grill...🤕💔
Sooo either he is lying or he is clueless about soooo many things. But the NPR voice is very soothing. I think i would vote for him as Ministry of Truth Czar.
thank you comment section, for stopping me from wasting my time.
You made the right choice. 40 mins of my life I want back.
Don't rely on others to form your views. Listen to the end, absorb the arguments on both sides, then make your decisions. That is the problem with current politics and debate. We're letting others form our views. Form your own.
All he had to say was "far right", once. The insidious linguistic sleight of hand meant to paint everyone opposed to illegal mass migration as an extremist.
@@jasonhclements look i watched 40 mins of it and I thought it blew. Really didn't address a lot of issues and a very simplistic cookie cutter approach. I thought it sucked.. anyways it's his right to look at comments and decide how he wants to spend his time. I wish I used his approach
Haha! I wasted 1/3.
Calls out what popularism is but then misses the fact that democrats are the populist faction, then goes after elon, unfortunately he is an example of what he is calling out, a minority who things he is the majority who knows the truth absolutely.
Somehow this person seems very pro the existing establishment and denies some things which are the truth, he seems like he was good at giving the taxes of his citizens to other places in the world, politicians love that, interesting how in our western countries the homeless and poor are not helped while Africans or foreign countries are supported. Does he also support immigrants being housed in 5 star hotels which is paid by taxpayers who are living in poverty? he sounds very elite
There are fewer workers, but greater automation, making those missing workers unnecessary. The real problem is prioritization. Will the fed gov invest in infrustructure and sustainability or will it finance impractical trucks, and private rockets?
Rory is a lot further on the left than he tried to convey. He thinks Sam Harris is too far right... Tom you should have pushed back a bit more.
Please! There is no left or right.The dividing line is establishment or not. Stewart is as establishment as they come. And yes, Tom should have pushed much harder. Ffs, Stewart used to be the chairman of Le Cercle!
Rory is Conservative. Conservatives don't exist in mainstream politics post covid. Conservatives believe in the separation of powers, the rule of law, free trade, maintaining faith in institutions, and tradition. Rory fits all of that. The current "right" is protectionist, isolationist, and antiestablishment - not conservative.
Rory didn't move left, the Overton window shifted hard radical right.
@@Scarletpimpanel73 this is an interesting take. Most people think the overton window shifted left.
Can you give me some examples of it moving right? Genuinely curious to hear your perspective.
@@Scarletpimpanel73 also, just wondering where you think Sam Harris sits on this spectrum?
While we are at it:
Musk, Destiny, Hasan abid, pakman, Rogan?
@@bhriscannan2080
Firstly - conservative and right wing are not synonymous. Traditionally the right has been defined as aligned with conservative. But there is a radical right as well. The Right/Left axis is a moving point. Conservative is somewhat constant - a disposition toward status quo.
Sam is more right wing on immigration - but left on economics. I view him as conservative. Destiny is pro government having more intervention in markets - he is center left in my view.
Pakman is slightly left of Destiny but still center left.
Rogan is fairly libertarian - but someone centrist. Hasan, is far left.
I consider myself conservative - somewhere between Rory and Sam.
59:32 ...when one asks themselves honestly; "looking back, when I was doing well - did it actually feel like I was doing well at the time?"
We often look back at "the good times", yet in the moment, they actually weren't that good. When my wife and I bought our small house for $110k in 1996 - it was a stretch at the time. To make it happen, we lived in fear of being laid-off, and had to give up trips, new vehicles, eating at restaurants for a long time. Yet today, we look back and say; "WOW, we only paid $110k for our house 28 years ago..." That being said :) compared to today, the 90's were sort of magical.
Finance went along with wages, in the past one worker could fund a mortgage now it takes two workers to fund a mortgage.
Learn about robotics from Japan? They continue to descend into the demographic hole. ok I'm done with this podcast. The guy seems wildly out of touch with reality.
Yes. He is absolutely out of touch, and I can already tell at 20:49 he is one of those wackadoodle leftists. I’m dying to click the next button but I want to be fair
Perhaps Japan wasn’t meant to have 100+ million people and need to go back to a slower more rural way of life. Their work culture is nuts and breeds misery and low birth numbers. They for sure do not need more foreigners. They need to go through some hard times before they find their new norm.
@@Cire-my6ur Yeah, I made it to the 19:00 mark before I had to comment negatively about him
I think many of the comments show how intolerant Americans are when someone has a different approach or voices different viewpoints. No wonder why America is split and fracturing. If it's not their way, it's the highway!
Folowing a faith plays a huge difference , especially if one thinks it's above all others..
BORDERS: Sorry just don’t bring your trauma here
Take coming to a new country as a GIFT!!
don’t make it worse for us just because you suffered - make a new life! New culture
Things were better "when editors curated the news". Hah. My pea brain can handle info from various sources, thank you very much.
Yours can, but lots of people's can't.
How many UK subjects are killed a year with knives, hammers & clubs?
Rory lefty doesn’t care.
The homicide figures in all of the United Kindom at least the last time I bothered to pay attention was less than 300 people. About 42 of which being caused by firearms or gun crime etc. This was nearly a decade ago but I don't believe that number has risen significantly much beyond. Knife crime however, is increasingly becoming a problem with two inner city youths in London killed over the weekend. If they can't get guns they will use alternatives.
@@simondavies6270now let us know the rate of SSRIs in the UK vs the US. Everytime there is a mass shooter in the US we find out they were on SSRIs.
Americans have difficulty understanding they are more violent then many other cultures. But I think it has to do with their history. Maybe it in the blood? From the first landing of the boats, when the people believed "God gave them this new land" they promptly killed all the indigenous peoples to claim it for themselves. And ever since USA has (except for 2 years) been at war with someone, somewhere in the world exercising their might. Currently Ukraine, Israel, Sudan, and soon to be China if Trump continues with his threats. But Americans don't understand that China is not a warring country. They built a Great Wall to keep others out. However, I do believe China will out whit and out smart America years before US has an opportunity to wage war, and do it all within United Nation legal boundaries.
The UK homicide rate is less than half of the overall rate across Europe and about one-sixth of the rate in the United States
You CANNOT convince me that this guy isn't the Green Goblin.
Economics PhDs? Economics IS not science, not even social science. Economics is a mixture of politics and religion.
Citizens United, corporate ownership of government is our problem.
Tom gives guest a free pass... so lame.
You have any more clever thought? Please share
Thank you both for this conversation. I love the way that you're so thoughtful and balanced, explaining what you perceive so clearly without over-simplifying or omitting the nuances. This allows a real dialogue and recognition of different sides of an argument, which is refreshing in today's polarised climate ❤
Are you ever going to have some constructive conversations again instead of click bait and conspiracy garbage? I'm so close to unsubscribing to this channel.
Had enuf of this Brit when I heard he was against Brexit. He is a good example of why we fought to the death to get away from England.
Brexit was a bad idea dude, a very bad idea economically, culturally and socially. We're suffering because of it.
No. Your suffering due to monetary expansion, the shutting down of the economy over COVID, the disruption of oil due to a blown up pipeline and conflict with Russia. All planned in my opinion.
@@simondavies6270Bad for ordinary people or bad for corporations and politicians?
@@offensivearch Bad decision that has impacted on everyone from the ordinary person, politician and corporations. The only people who truly benefited were the disaster capitalists of the City of London (the financial district) who profited by betting against the Great British Pound (£) as it plummeted in value.
Brexit has killed any and all growth of the British economy and has affected the lives of almost everyone whether they know it or not.
"We were excited about Social Media when Me, Obama and Arab Spring used it. But Trump came along and ruined it all. We need to control it."
Interesting point at 40:00 about abortion: in Europe they have a compromise on the number of days it's allowed, in US we don't. We did have such a rule with Roe v. Wade, which was overruled because it was decided incorrectly, according to the majority (and I agree.) It seemed to have been a rule, out of nowhere. But it "harmonized" with the European idea on this. It's good to listen to Europeans, but it's also good to throw most of their ideas these days in the trash. Europe now is so different (and worse) from when they were intellectual world leaders from, say 1600 - 1900. Now the ideas from across the pond are worse than worthless.
Stewart is delusional, dangerously so because he’s arrogantly convinced his take is the truth. Illegal immigration is an enormous problem in the UK and US (millions coming in per year) and Stewart decides @46 that the thing to discuss is … weird cats and dogs story from Trump. How can Stewart get so upside down on priorities? He doesn’t give a shitt about things that don’t effect him in his MP bubble.
Think we are all pretty happy we live on this side of the pond to you where we believe in evolution, lifting up the needy and homeless and have genuine compassion for those less fortunate.
The US is becoming more dystopian by the day, Its a complete bastardisation of the brilliant ideas of the founding fathers who would hate what it's become.
@@XanderMohan Unbelievable. You tell yourself you’re “genuine”, but that’s just a pose. Guys like you are the reason Rotherham was allowed to happen. Allowed a land war in Serbia 1990s, then demand somebody else pay the defense bill to resolve it in your own backyard. Do it again in Ukraine, after funding Russia by buying their gas. But you’re genuine. Just sod all the way off.
Why has Rwanda been the fastest growing economy in the world 1994-2024?
Rwanda grew 20.6% in the year ending Q2, 2021
Rwanda grew 7.5% in the year ending Q2, 2022
Rwanda grew 6.3% in the year ending Q2, 2023
Rwanda grew 9.8% in the year ending Q2, 2024
Rwanda the Model!
A significant answer to the 1st question, put to a former MP and Cabinet Member, is that A) those at the top tier Government roles arm themselves with outdated models of economics and B) politicians, like Rory, know even less. In plain sight, a significant part of the answer is evidenced by the inadequate response. Get Jim Rickards on to answer just that first question - that’s over an hour right there.
People don’t need to wake up the government needs to wake up after all they write the policy’s all you have to do Tom is look at your own state
Very greatful that you invited Rory Stewart, he is one of the most thoughtful and well liked politicians out there. I agree with his criticism of Musk. In a previous interview Marc Andreessen said it would be great of Musk was cloned to mini Musks, filling important positions around the world. Interesting how an intelligent and well read man can completely ignore moral and integrity. It's all about productivity there, with all the Musks sleeping on their factory floors, never having a vacation, and firing all who don't comply :)
Mr. Bilyeu, I know it feels good to sit at the grown-up table, but wouldn't it be better to interview businessmen who built their company from ZERO to PROFIT? How they started. The nuts and bolts. Their sacrifices and lessons. Everyone talks about being a billionaire, but that is dumb. Interview SELF-MADE businessmen whose company broke the ONE MILLION dollar barrier. You can leverage a fantastic life for you and your family with a company that generates 1.5 million a year. Why keep interviewing these people who add NOTHING TO PURPOSE of Impact Theory. Impact Theory began as Inside Quest with a focus on ACTIONS, and it became this thing where men who never built anything from scratch pontificate on WHAT IS WRONG WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
Exactly! Well said
The guy was almost Prime Minister of the UK. You may not value his opinion, but it still carries weight.
He thinks Brits are better off today- I’d bet the average British citizen was much happier in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s than today.
I would challenge you on the 70's, rolling blackouts, war, entire towns being economically devestated, etc. Things are pretty rough today for sure, but they havnt always been peachy either.
I am a Brit and I think Rory makes a lot of very good points, from an educated informed position, doesnt mean I agree with everything he or anyone else says. Life was simpler in the past for everyone, so perhaps they were happier. Perhaps cave men eating a meal after a large kill were extremely happy. I dont mean to be flippant but the argument is arbitrary. I expect many US citizens were happier in the past too. Social media in part allows us to see how others live and compare, becasue that is human nature. That was essentially one of the points he was making. We all now have so much free time to think about the past and its so incredibly documented, that nostalgia plays a big part.
@@martinKeast-ry2vn I suspect most populations in the West were happier 30 years ago.
I remember the USA in the 1990s and the overall vibe was better- nearly everyone who was alive at that time would agree.
I would also suspect most non-Western countries are happier now than they were 30 years ago.
Unfortunately, the well being of the citizens doesn’t seem to be a high priority for the leaders in the West over the last 30 or 40 years.
@@RyanMoran6 life is just a lot more complex now. Being happy is mostly down to ones disposition. I tend to think people feel happy (if thats the right word) relative to their fellow society. The problem with Brits is they like to moan and complain about everything. Americans on the other hand are generally more optimistic but that does seem to be changing, wanting a smaller government but equally blaming the government for how their lives are going. Just reading the comment section of video feels like a paraellell universe.
I'm glad you had this guest on so that I know who the enemy is.
What a pigheaded way to think.
I was Born 1958 , both of my parents taught School since the one room school house. Having paid into a teacher's pension plan which expected the retired teacher to live 5 years past retirement.
In the end both worked 35years and collected their full pension for 25 years.
Also upon retirement Father was given a cheque for all his sick days as he never missed a day as well spent 5 years in substitute teacher placement of the younger generation always used their sick days.
I was born before paid parental leave and mother took an extra year keeping me from attending Kindergarten.
Oh as well we ran a Rescue Ranch for un- adoptable children 5-6years of age for a total of 9
This was just an hour and twenty minutes of Rory doing the Principal Skinner meme. “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.”
I think Tom is right about the transition. Britains decline arguably precipitated the 1st and second world wars, I don’t think it’s ridiculous to argue american decline could precipitate a significant period of instability and insecurity, which may involve conflicts, or disasters that may be really quite severe.
What’s wrong with western economies? The people pulling “money “ out of nowhere and loaning it.
40:41 "Nobody talks about abortion" in the UK. Yeah, its illegal to protest outside an abortion clinic. In fact, it is illegal to pray outside of one. It is even illegal to stand across the street from one and not pray. Look up the video of the lady being arrested for doing just that. Not bothering anyone, not blocking them from entering, just standing on the opposite side of the street. I wonder why no one talks about it.
I work with the elderly most have had to come out of retirement and join the job force again. I've been told my entire life social security and retirement generally isn't an option for my generation and after and now I see it unfolding in real time.
Your guest talks a lot about Flint, Michigan. That city has been in a total decline for over 40 years now.
Rory was someone I once resp[ected and looked up to, but he has deeply betrayed his values and has become as awful as Alastair Campbell (nearly)
How so? Please elaborate...
On the collapse of the birth rates: This is not driven by wealth but existence in low trust environments. This is why birth rates of Russians post-Soviet era collapsed. People blame the phones and computers but they don't stop to ask why men and women of our kind are living in the virtual world instead of the real world. Their lives have been made immeasurably worse in a way they cannot control. The toys are just a coping mechanism for having to exist in a world not of their own making. The reason for the baby boom in the 40s is because it was a post-war environment with lots of opportunity and very little uncertainty.
Informative Insight 👍
Hopefully, after being manipulated once or twice into violence that is later found to be based on lies, the ability of the purveyor to manipulate people again will be reduced.
Since the exclusivity of "truth telling" was taken from traditional media, people's choice and capitalism decided its fate.
The moment that he said that the reason certain populations were having bigger families was Not because of their convictions but because they were poor, I stopped listening. What a joke.
Nah you see people in Africa have very small families
Elon Musk has noted the birth rate drop in Japan and pronounced it to be disastrous. What is missed in all these discussions when economists discuss the population pyramid is the problem of tying economic growth to population growth. In the past 220 years there has been a tremendous world population increase, especially in the past 90 years, 2 billion to 8 billion people. Japan had a population of 42 million in 1900 and now has a population of 124 million. The world population in 1800 was 1 billion, China today is 1.4 billion. I suggest that the issue of population needs a fresh review.
Population decline is not just a function of poverty. It's a function of rules and laws, technologies. Car seats for example add cost to having children and limit how many fit in a car compared to the past, does it save as many lives as prevents lives. There is also government promoted birth control and abortion. Feminism and anti-discrimination rules encouraging women to have and value careers instead on valuing motherhood.
It is not massive immigration itself that is the problem but the massive immigration from alien cultures. If massive immigration came mostly from Europe it would be a very different problem.
Tom found a cartoon parody of a intellectual with a firm grip on reality.
Impressive to see. I'm hoping that I forget I sat through this.
Rory, my family has been here (U.S.) since the early to mid 1600's on MOST branches of the tree, and in the one case of my paternal grandmother, she was the first born here to Eastern European immigrants. All assimilated, all worked, and all served the country. The problem are the waves of immigrants many of whom who don't assimilate, who have no intention of working, have no intention of serving, and have an active hatred of the current society/population/People's of their new surroundings....We see this in the especially the U.K., U.S. and Western Europe with huge numbers immediately on the welfare system with free food/housing/spending cash/medical, as the poor American citizens look on saying WtF. Then of course, you have the political "Elitist" class who are giving away the store so to speak, and activity failing to Police the new population as they would the existing population, while the propagandists in the "Independent" Press lie and gaslight the population about what is going on with the degradation of society, the crime wave of harassment, gang-grapez of women, machete attacks, murders, and physical assaults of the general populace...those that would have been national news for weeks in the past had they been done by an ethnic Englishman are downplayed or even ignored today if they're done by an immigrant. Go ahead and intellectualize the giving away your society, watch it fade away and it'll have the 3rd World appearance in every other way one day in the near future.
No. Lack of education, not the fear of dying is associated with poor countries demographic
Mortality saliance, number of surviving offspring, population density, and family structure vs the predominant cultural emotion underpinnings (ie, pride, envy, shame, guilt) are all dimentions highly correlated with fertility rates
When he said a billionaire like Elon purposely pushing the boundary and putting out purposefully untrue and ill intentioned information that causes chaos then “changes the equation” and he responded with “in what way?” 46 min 😂😂😂 I died at how he was unable to realize how dangerous that could be
Do the poor make more children, and/or do more children make them poor?
The future doesn’t need us.
I love how this guy says immigration is "more nuanced than you might think" 8:10 because people who object say they don't mind a little diversity. As if them _not_ saying all the D.E.I. platitudes wouldn't immediately get them branded as Racist, causing them to lose their jobs, friends and status.
One of your best Tom. Keep it up. Was happy to donate to that charity. Rory was interesting and pragmatic. Did not agree with everything, but much respect to him. A civil discussion for a change.
Social media isnt the problem, its people using it as a source of news and reliable information is.
The primary assumption is that our economy is based on “population growth”? Then why is population growth growth .5% while gdp is 2%. There are more important drivers to our economic growth than population. Its innovation and productivity.
My parents and grand parent, even my great great grandparents were NOT immigrants. My ancestors who were the first here in my family were pioneers and settlers. This Brit is ridiculous to think that the US has no “right” to feel the things he feels about the people invading both our countries.
SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IMPOSSIBLE TO INCITE VIOLENCE AND BESIDES CHILD PORN AND SNUFFING SHOULD ALLOW ALL
Stopped listening at "far right"
Exactly! I love when an ignoramus is telling people how to live. Does he work at the BBC?
@@AndreyMedvedevNo, he's a university lecturer at an Ivy League school. He also runs a charity that facilitates direct cash donations to poor people in the Third World. He was previously a UK minister, and before that a UK member of parliament. Before that, he was deputy governor of a province in occupied Iraq. Before that he worked for the Foreign Office (my guess is MI6), and before that, he was in the army. Before which he graduated from Oxford. And before that, he was at Eton. He also walked across the Middle East (Iran, Afghanistan, etc.) in the fall of 2001, after 9/11. On foot. Staying with local people. So I find it fucking hilarious with all the nobodies in these comments shitting on this absolute overachiever.
Forgot to say he is also co-host of one of the UK's biggest podcasts.
Immigration and migration are different. I’m not against immigration but we are a sovereign country and we have a process to enter this country. No, not everyone is allowed in permanently, murders for example. There needs to be a balance.
Rory Stewart seems like a shill. He also looks a lot like Mic Jagger?
An intellectual with no spine ,is an enemy in the weeds
Hillary Clinton came across as evil, not stiff.
"Iran/Iraq war spent billions of $, acheived nothing"- It was Very effective- for some. Change your focus: It made a lot of the controllers much richer. For them , it achieved --making them rich. Always look at who got rich on world events, too.
"Political" decisions, with greedy in control, are made with goals other than those stated.
I really liked the second half, talking about the impact of just a little cash,, ALLOWING THEM TO SPEND IT WHERE _THEY_ SAW THE MOST NEED. I believe it, based on things I've seen. Managing its distribution would be an interesting problem....
I think your view of Bill Gates' goals is naive...
Worthwhile; thank you.!
This guy is a joke.
Wish he was. But he's actually a very influential figure.
It’s so nice that he feels -HE’S “SMARTER” than the average person. 🤮
Watching western peoples all over the planet struggling with the reality of the generational syndrome of "The Chickens Coming Home to Roost". The seeds of Colonial Imperialism having taken root has grown this demographic arc in the present. It is very interesting to watch what passes for a British intellectual struggle to rationalize the present circumstances. The thing this fellow does not recognize is his perception of time, he perceives it to be linear, in that when it concerns anthropology and civil populations the consequence of generational malfeasance results in this aberrant demographic. Time and its consequences are a demographic arc, time is not linear to serve one's self-interest such as it would be in calculating the returns of usury self-interest. Ask the wrong questions and get unsolvable outcomes.
Short term decisions have long-term outcomes.
Cheers.
There were parts of this interview where Mr. Stewart had me laughing so loud my wife heard me from 200' away. The bit about how the days when the news media could lie and no one knew any better lead to more truth and honesty was the best. link to time stamp in case you missed it. ruclips.net/video/gxRc1MXQ9wY/видео.htmlsi=gr7Y7javnYL6Ck7W&t=1751
All you fucking rubes trust every far-right influencer grifting for clicks. It's hilariously naïve.
I mean, the whole reason you hate the media is that the media criticized Trump, and Trump told you the media was bad.
So like good obedient fucking lap dogs, you started doing Trump's bidding and attacking the media.
That is not independent thought, that is being in a cult.
Well. Not seeing lots of middle between right and wrong. Finding moral ground in "the middle" will be quite a challenge. "A man that won't stand for anything will fall for everything." comes to mind. Now a sense of humor really shouldn't be that hard gracious there is so much to laugh at when it comes to politics.
The mental health industries cases are increasing also. 13-17yr olds
Waking people up does nothing. Maybe 1 percent of awoken people will do something, for themselves. You need specific action plans, and then turn them into actions, in order to effect change.
This is normal expected chaos that comes with change . It will find its way to its happy place.
this guy knows tom. first amendment good, second amendment bad. living in NZ, my government does stupid things but i'll always back them as a kiwi for the good they do. i get why americans don't back there country anymore. looking from the outside, america's falling apart faster than any other country of influence
Tom Bilyeu The Theorist !! Tom almost 50 years old looking mid 30s Good show 👍 More Life, More Impact
Lower birthrates are NOT as a result of a country becoming more wealthy. The only thing that dictates birth rates is women's rights, or IOW egalitarianism.
You want to raise birth rates? Remove women's rights & watch what happens.
Why does the guest think at 48:00 that the Haitians in Ohio are not eating cats? It was never disproved, and there's much corroboration. He's being misled, intentionally or not, by the opinion-shapers. By the way if he thinks my view is because I have insufficient education, I have better and higher degrees than he does.
There are how to cook your cat videos online, but the self anointed elites will never educate themselves.
Then you’re just a cult member
@@jez1522
Y’all’s entire argument starts and ends w/ they’re in a cult- you don’t get it, the pets were never the point, the point was it’s effect on housing, labor, value, voting, and the democratically it being forwarded on people that were not asked in anyway for their town to be up ended. The cat thing is a small artifact of the bigger picture.
Just by the way you constructed your sentences, one can tell you do not.
@@jez1522
It was never about the dogs, it was about its effect on housing and jobs and votes and that no one asked for this, but it was forced on them and if anyone has a problem with it, they are morally bad
I commend you Tom, for not blowing up at this representative of the ruling elite. Not to worry, we fact-checked him. It is good to listen to all views. Thank goodness for free speech where it exists.
Clearly this man's tinder isn't as dry as the rest.
I disagree with Rory on the insignificance genetic influence of Viking and Anglo-Saxon invasion or settlement on the genetic make-up of the British. There are still significant genetic markers linking us with Scandinavia and Germany - especially in the East and North of Great Britain even after a thousand years.
No what he meant was the vikings and Germanic tribes did not replace the original habitants - UK natives are largely DNA natives mixed with the migration of the various groups depending on what section of the country our ancestors came from, example my grandad was from north east, his ancestry has Norse and Norman whereas my grandma from the south bordering Wales has Germanic - both are dominantly native UK DNA however. This has all been proven with a large genome studies. The story we use to be told was that the natives were replaced by the Germanic tribes and vikings - they actually married into the native tribe but dominated culturally by winning some battles and taking seats of 'thrones' from defeated tribes. No replacement occured except a cultural one.