Interview · moment 13 of 14
Getting Away With Murder If You're Hollywood, and Student Loan Inflation
from Torching Bridges (with David Angelo) · #31
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5 minGuest
David argues Hollywood liberals can say unfunny, empty political content and be revered while dissenters are punished, then they pivot to student loans inflating college costs the way subsidies inflate everything else.
- 55:58Tim's formula: 5% funnier as a comedian and he'd be a millionaire; 30% less funny and he'd be a multi-millionaire.
- 56:30Kids choosing to become plumbers making $200,000 versus PhD sociology graduates working at Starbucks will eventually force a reckoning in higher education.
- 57:02Student loans created the college affordability crisis—in the 1960s college cost $40 and nobody needed loans, but removing market incentive for price control made it a disaster.
- 57:30Government subsidies on anything—housing, education, healthcare, war—drive prices through the roof, just like if they subsidized orange juice it would cost $20.
- 57:56Tim has been critical of Trump and doesn't think opposition to him is a crazy position despite acknowledging he has problems.
- 58:27Trump campaigned explicitly on a Muslim ban and won, so the travel ban shouldn't be treated as out of the blue.
- 58:47If the travel ban is just step one of incremental rights erosion, people who've already cried wolf will have no credibility when stage two arrives.
- 59:40Yemeni protesters at Brooklyn City Hall are reasonable, but it's worth asking what threshold they should be protesting at if not government overreach.
- 59:57Odd that protesters focus on the Muslim ban rather than the four-year-old kids getting shot in their cities due to policies both Obama and Trump were involved in.
- 1:00:08The U.S. levels countries, drone strikes weddings, and destabilizes civilizations for oil and rare earth minerals—Hillary's Libya intervention and Syrian policy are unconscionable but she ran on experience.
- 1:00:40Tim Dillon is performing in Los Angeles for the next two weeks with premiere shows; tickets available at TimDillonComedy.com or @TimJayDillon on Twitter.
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