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00:00 Intro
00:50 Merry Christmas!
02:20 Last episode of Rules For Life
04:55 Remainder: $10000 Super Chat Match on Dec 31
05:58 Possible future series - Capitalism 101
07:58 Motivation for Rules For Life Series
13:08 Context for Rules For Life Series
14:30 Objectivism is primarily for you to live the best Life
16:30 Review of the previous Rules
23:45 All Rules must be integrated
31:00 Meaningful Life
32:05 Excellence at Living

Live Questions:
33:55 Here’s to the Rules for Life series! It’s been great! I particularly integrated to “Beauty in your life” episode by putting up art in my living space and following artist on Twitter. I hope listeners revisit them, and new listeners find them!
35:11 You think man will always be dealing with the constant battle between reason and faith?
39:49 Rules for life are life changing! I can’t wait for you to pull them together into a book.
41:11 What do you think about the $1.7 trillion budget, and what do you think the budget ideally should be? Like $1 billion?
49:18 Rules for Life are pure gold - super inspiring and true. Merry Christmas Yaron!
49:49 Part 1) Are Americans more isolated and lonely than Europeans? We are social creatures, and all that loneliness and lack of connection leads to anxiety, angst, rage, opiod epidemics and school shootings(see part 2).
1:01:32 A wonderful series Yaron. Thank you and Merry Xmas.
1:01:59 I've been listening to YBS since early 2022. I got curious about your hostility towards anarchism in a video by Jeff Berwick(ancap). Your philosophical message quickly resonated with me in favor of typical libertarian ideas.
1:02:48 Dennis Prager posted today: "Christmas should focus more on Jesus and less on Santa". Is this a declaration of war on capitalism? Disgusting. Prager, Shapiro, and Peterson have become de-fanged versions of Nick Fuentes.
1:04:52 I was debating a leftist about removing all gov't regulations and he rebutted: "You never lived in a world with zero regulations, and the people who did voted those regulations in for a reason". What is a good reply to this?
1:06:07 Why do you think a sizable number of intellectuals didn't recognize Objectivism as true, and get involved in implementing it the way Ayn Rand predicted? Her predictions were typically quite accurate, but not this one.
1:07:24 Are most intellectuals today hardened altruist-philosopher kings or do they hold some enlightenment views? Maybe 85% Plato, 15% Aristotle?
1:08:38 In the future, will there be only one language spoken throughout the entire planet? Will it be English?
1:09:31 Why was capitalism able to take hold in Germany and Japan after WW2? Both cultures were still extremely collectivist and authoritarian.
1:10:59 In your life time do you believe you will get to 1,000,000 subscribers?
1:11:39 Were conspiracies theories rampant in 1920's-1930's Germany like they are today?
1:12:45 Is there a tendency among Objectivists whereby they are afraid to question some of Ayn Rand's ideas out of fear of being condemned by the Objectivist community?
1:15:31 Re my previous question does this represent moral cowardice?
1:16:30 The Fountainhead seems basically about focus, Roark didn’t think about Toohey when he probably should have. How to distinguish between focus and evasion?
1:18:08 did you get your rs5?
1:18:57 Are there any upcoming promise politicians out there? Do you think the tech industry will crash in the coming months? Thoughts on Eric Adams, NFT &Musk?
1:22:27 I just avoided a 5 car pileup on the ice because of the miracle of 4 wheel drive. I would like to thank the innovators and inventors. Mary Christmas 🎄
1:22:55 Reading 'The Industrial Revolution' by T.S. Ashton (referred by Mises) - outstanding history.
1:24:01 Is there a connection between second handedness and social anxiety? Tips for dealing with this?