Russel, I really love your take on becoming a Bohemian. Politics is for cattle herders in my opinion. One does not need to control the world to leave a mark on it.
But like you said, the pure bohemian life is often not something to romanticize. I live a sort of hybrid. I run my own business and frequently have time off especially during the winter. I’ll take a week or two off between jobs sometimes. A lot of the hatred of middle class life in my opinion is the slavery to a company or another man that makes it intolerable.. not being able to just take off for a while when you want to. There was a time when most people were self-employed and that leads to a greater sense of freedom.
the guests view on "Decadence" is entirely nonsensical. Although, I've never actually heard anyone online discuss it without resulting to pop-historical reasoning.
Maybe it really is easier for chuds to stay middle class in Australia? The last 15 years in the US, between a ruinously K-shaped economy and the world’s most farcically extreme DEI regime, there have been enormous structural forces mercilessly dispossessing the historic American middle class. I know Australia has some similar patterns but, “if you’re on Substack you have the intelligence to live a middle class life”—to my American ears that sounds like a transmission from Mars.
I actually said this to Derek after we stopped recording. I think that the Australian middle class is being hollowed out as well, but perhaps not at the same rate, probably because it’s more socialist
I’m sure that’s part of it. Also hiring in America may have more extreme patterns of exclusion. 94% of corporate positions in the US in 2021 were filled by people of color (per Bloomberg); and from 2020 to 2025, 88% of net job growth went to foreign-born workers (per Cato).
Peepee poopoo
Really tough to argue with that
Really easy to agree with though: I do both everyday.
I bet you do too.
Very profound
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Russel, I really love your take on becoming a Bohemian. Politics is for cattle herders in my opinion. One does not need to control the world to leave a mark on it.
But like you said, the pure bohemian life is often not something to romanticize. I live a sort of hybrid. I run my own business and frequently have time off especially during the winter. I’ll take a week or two off between jobs sometimes. A lot of the hatred of middle class life in my opinion is the slavery to a company or another man that makes it intolerable.. not being able to just take off for a while when you want to. There was a time when most people were self-employed and that leads to a greater sense of freedom.
I'm self employed too with a similar winter schedule but it still feels like the whip with a mortgage and family.
Volar dahearis nigga
Interviewer needs to learn to hold his tounge and let the guest finish speaking
"You were not made to work like brute beasts,
but to pursue virtue and knowledge"
Good discussion but a little too eager to jump in before the guest finishes his point at times.
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I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who got triggered by that Jack Gordon NEET interview
the guests view on "Decadence" is entirely nonsensical. Although, I've never actually heard anyone online discuss it without resulting to pop-historical reasoning.
Maybe it really is easier for chuds to stay middle class in Australia? The last 15 years in the US, between a ruinously K-shaped economy and the world’s most farcically extreme DEI regime, there have been enormous structural forces mercilessly dispossessing the historic American middle class. I know Australia has some similar patterns but, “if you’re on Substack you have the intelligence to live a middle class life”—to my American ears that sounds like a transmission from Mars.
I actually said this to Derek after we stopped recording. I think that the Australian middle class is being hollowed out as well, but perhaps not at the same rate, probably because it’s more socialist
I’m sure that’s part of it. Also hiring in America may have more extreme patterns of exclusion. 94% of corporate positions in the US in 2021 were filled by people of color (per Bloomberg); and from 2020 to 2025, 88% of net job growth went to foreign-born workers (per Cato).
Guy had a rough go of it with Dave Greene