Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
Jimmy Carr claims approximately 1 in 3 viable pregnancies in the UK now end in abortion, suggesting people feel they cannot build families in current conditions.
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This is the episode's most policy-dense chapter. Jimmy's diagnosis is that fiddling with income tax rates by 2% or tweaking stamp duty is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Real national competitiveness depends on four structural levers: currency, energy, regulation, and tax. His prescription: devalue the pound (it's overvalued, which is why a pint costs £7.50 in London); commit to a 20-year nuclear energy programme modelled on France's 1970s build-out of 56 plants; slash regulation (the UK's current regulatory environment resembles the late Soviet Union); and introduce a flat rate of tax inspired by Estonia's single-form, no-repeat-data, flat-rate system. For America, he's more concise: open primaries to force candidates toward the centre, and term limits to prevent the permanent political class. The American Constitution is brilliant technology — but it has to be actively worked, not left to sit there. [1] — Jimmy Carr "Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structur…" 1:40:20
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
In 1950, about 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's about 1 in 10, attributable to capitalist economic growth.
From 2021 to 2024, 6 million children fell below the poverty line in the US after the expanded child tax credit expired.
Private domestic infant and international adoptions typically cost $40,000 to $70,000, while foster care adoption is the most affordable route at $0 to $2,000.
Historically, only 40% of men have ever reproduced — Galloway uses this to argue that romantic success requires effort, not a hall pass.
Robby Hoffman is the 7th of 10 children raised in a Hasidic household in Montreal, where the family was poor and comedy was a survival mechanism.
Robby's Hasidic community had no concept of 'too soon' in comedy — if it was funny, you threw it, and if you bombed, your sibling told you immediately.
Robby didn't realize she was gay until age 17, when a persistent Italian classmate followed her into a bathroom stall at an end-of-semester bar event.
After Robby came out, her still-Hasidic father sent exactly one email saying the behavior was 'not befitting of a daughter of Israel' and calling it promiscuous, despite Robby having only one girlfriend.
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