Michael Huemer

Uh, uh, people can try out different things, but I don't think like there's a, um, yeah.

So some people think, so Michael Humer, who we just mentioned, who has been a guest on this, uh, podcast before, uh, he thinks that, um, there's this like right to free movement and, uh, and, and, you know, when people are stopped at the border, you know, in general, like no country right now has open borders, right? So it's like, so if any of us wanna move to Japan, unless we have like Japanese citizenship, you can visit Japan for like a few months, but if you wanna stay there, You have to go through all this paperwork and you might not get through.

You have to show that you have a certain type of job or maybe you're married to a Japanese person.

Okay, so there are all these like restrictions and some people think that's like a violation of the right to free movement.

within that, why do you think academics dislike capitalism so much? Where's the drive coming from? And even in fields of STEM? Why do you think the ratio is different comparatively to studies faculties?

Yeah, good.

So I think this points to actually, I think, I mean, the reason I mentioned the Guild is I think this points to and I think there's a lot of data on this like discrimination so I think like for example if you're openly Republican and you apply right to a job that can sink your chances I mean that will sink your chances in many places right so but you don't have to be openly Republic even if you give like libertarian vibes if you start saying things like Michael Humer I think you're facing up yeah Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Xavier, but...

Yeah, so I think even humor is a good case, right? A lot of his early work is on epistemology.

I mean, Western philosophy was founded by slave owners, right? Plato had slaves, Aristotle had slaves.

Well, if you go back further, I think that societies that can afford a group of people who are professional intellectuals, right, and priests and so on and so on, like a priest caste, which then develops into philosophy and so on, people who sort of like... deal deal in ideas mostly they are going to be employed by the by the powerful and much of what they what they do and what they're expected to do is to justify why all of this is good and right and this is what they did this is what what political philosophers you know did for them for for the longest time and still kind of do i mean there is this libertarian philosopher that i really like michael humer and see he says all all these political philosophers they all have stockholm syndrome They're all justifying, you know, they all say, oh, you know, the guy who abducted me is kind of nice, right? And that's what political philosophers do often.

They try to come up with a rationale for why, you know, state authority is fine and why the state can do to you what it does.

I do think modern states are much preferable to what was around in the past.