This video of Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen giving away a home she didn’t pay for has gone viral. And unsurprisingly, her social media team have turned off the comments.

Well, yeah, because those comments weren’t very good for Jacinta Allen. But this kind of weaponized welfare giving away stolen taxpayers money in return for clicks and votes, it’s so much worse than you think, and we need to talk about it. Because this should be completely unthinkable that a politician would try and give like this. And it should be socially unacceptable for anyone to accept a gift like this.

Because giving away a free house at a time when the state is already deep in debt and sinking fast, this house will be paid for by our children and our grandchildren. We are literally stealing from the future and they will still be paying for this house long after it’s become dilapidated.

The problem with stealing from the future is that eventually the future becomes the present.

And if you want to know why our standard of living has dropped so much over the last 5 years, it is in part because we started stealing from the future a few decades ago and that future has now become our present. Things like this, well, it’s just going to make it worse.

This video is not just about commission housing towers and house giveaways for social media clout. This video is about the fact that we haven’t yet learned our lesson. And now we are systematically stealing our children’s future and we’re doing it in the name of compassion. And what Allen has done in her video should be a crime. Yes, an actual crime with an actual prison sentence because she is dealing in stolen goods and she’s doing it for her own personal benefit in this case to try and boost her popularity.

But let me really upset you. If you’re not upset enough already, let me do it right from the outset of this video. Because actually when you really understand what’s going on, you soon realize that giving away anything for free that is above and beyond what somebody needs as the most bare essential for survival is morally wrong.

If it’s not an exchange for value, i.e. you’re handing over your money because you see value in the thing that you’re getting in return. If it’s not an exchange and you’re just handing over your value for nothing, then you’re actually making the world a worse place. No matter how noble your intentions may have been, all welfare and most charity isn’t just economically damaging, it is morally wrong.

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Because if taxation is theft, and it is, then welfare is just politicians buying votes by giving away stolen property. But deeper than that, if the future wealth of Australia is simply the sum of how much we create minus how much we consume, which is what it is, then allowing any able-bodied person to consume value without creating value in return is allowing them to steal from the future and in the process impoverish our children and our grandchildren in the name of compassion, which requires a level of cynicism that we should not be willing to accept in Australia. And this is not just economic suicide. This is morally wrong.

All right, for those of you that haven’t seen it, here’s the video.

[From video]

So, Julia, congratulations. You’ve just picked up the keys. Thank you very much. To your brand new, beautiful home. I’m so happy. [End video]

Okay, new home. That’s great. That’s a great moment in anyone’s life to move into a new home and a brand new home at that that is an achievement or it would be an achievement if you had worked for it. There is no achievement here.

Jacinta Allen says congratulations — for what? Neither the person receiving the house nor the person giving it away did any work to make this happen. The congratulations belong to the people that built the house. Or actually, more correctly, the congratulations belong to the kids that haven’t even been born yet who are going to be paying Victoria’s state debt off over the next 50 to 100 years. They are the ones who should be thanked and congratulated because they are the ones who are going to have to do the work, create the value.

[From video]

And what’s particularly important about this location for you? You were saying it’s close to family. Yes. It’s very good area. My all family here. I’m so happy. You’ve got quite a few grandchildren who are close by. Very important for my grandchildren. [End video]

How nice. Her home is close to her grandchildren, which means it’s close to her children, which leads me to the question, why aren’t her children providing their mother with somewhere to live? And this is not just a mean rhetorical question. I am right now providing my parents with somewhere to live at my family’s expense and I’m happy to do that. After all, they provided me with somewhere to live for the first 20 years of my life. And looking after your own parents in their old age is a social responsibility that I believe we all have.

But the woman being given this home, well, she’s not an invalid. She’s not an outcast. She’s not someone with no one to look after her. She has family in Australia. Family who also live in the same area as where this new house is. Now, I don’t begrudge her for accepting a free house from people stupid enough to give one away, but I have to ask, where are her kids? And why are we giving away a house to someone who has family right there?

Now, you may object. Maybe her family can’t afford to provide her with a place to live, perhaps. And that would lead us then to having a far more constructive conversation about the cost of living and the way our living standards are dropping and how the value of our money is being eroded, which is a conversation we need to be having. Because doing things like this, giving away value, giving away other people’s work in return for no value or no work, this is the reason why our cost of living is skyrocketing. Our standard of living is dropping and people can’t afford to provide housing for their own mothers.

This is the cause of that. Taking a look at why her kids can’t afford to give her a home themselves would lead us to finding the actual problem. Giving away a home for free not only hides the problem, it makes it worse because now we’re just borrowing even more from our future to pay for our present.

[From video]

And so tell us a little bit about your new home. I’m so comfortable. I’m so happy. It’s modern. It’s fresh. They’re very modern, very clean, and close to good public transport. You’ve got services close by. I think walking 6-7 minutes walking and a train station. So I’m so happy. That is great. Then you more older catching train. [End video]

Yeah, I don’t blame her for being happy and it checks out. An older person moving closer to public transport. Well, yeah, that is good. That is a good thing. I completely get why she would want that.

But there’s a lot of hardworking men and women who are raising families. And there’s a lot of Australian retirees who work their asses off for 45 years who would love to live closer to public transport, but they can’t afford it because they’re spending only the value that they have created. They’re not being given other people’s value for free. And they’re going to be looking at this and saying, “Well, yeah, that must be nice living close to the train station like that, especially if you don’t have to pay for it yourself.”

Now, again, if this lady’s family had got together and bought this place for her on commercial terms, then yeah, okay, great. That’s fantastic. But that’s not what’s happening here. What’s happening here is that my children and my grandchildren are being shouldered with more debt so that Jacinta Allan can make a cute little bit of social media content.

[From video]

Can we have a bit more of a look around your beautiful new home? This is your… this is the bedroom, the main bedroom. They’ve got beautiful light, big open windows.

So, this is the bathroom. How lovely. Yeah, very big. It is very big. The other part is not so big. Yeah. Oh, that’s the laundry. Yeah. Beautiful. So, lots of good storage. Yeah. Beautiful. Very big. And then this is your kitchen. Kitchen area. Fantastic. And all the modern appliances.

I can see you settling in so well here, Julia. It’s been so wonderful. Yeah. It also comes with the… if they wish to restore a dishwasher, which is perfect when they get older. She was very happy about that. Well, I feel very privileged to have visited you on the day you key. Thank you so much. [End video]

Again, I have no issue with her living in a place like that. It seems like a nice little place and it looks ideal for someone in her phase of life. But to hear Jacinta Allen there saying, “I feel so privileged.” No, no. You gave away money that wasn’t yours to buy the opportunity to make that little privilege happen — to create a little social media video — but that cost you nothing except for a little bit of your time, which is something you clearly have far too much of. Now, people are going to watch and accuse me of being anti-immigrant or not caring about the elderly or being heartless or a host of other things that aren’t true. So, let me be absolutely crystal clear and specific. My issue here is with the fact that we are stealing from the future. We as a culture, as a society, as a civilization, we are stealing from the future.

See, our quality of life is dictated by our net worth as a civilization, which is expressed in the form of infrastructure and technology and culture. We have what we have because past generations built things and then they died and we got those things for free when we were born.

Yeah, there’s the obvious stuff like the roads and the electricity grid — two things which we are in the process of destroying by the way — but there’s also the less obvious values such as knowledge and things like medicine. And we got all of it for free because past generations worked hard to create it. They created more value than they consumed and then that value was left over. It was left behind for us and we were born into it. We literally stand on the shoulders of giants.

Past generations left to us a civilization and infrastructure that is or at least was worth something. And they did it without debt, by the way. We got it for free because they on average created more value than they consumed.

The thing is, we’re all consuming value every moment of every day. The roof over your head is aging. The clothes on your back are wearing thinner. The food in your belly is digesting. Even the most non-consumerist person you know is still consuming relentlessly every single second of every single day. Consumption is inherent to being alive. And someone has to work to create in order to replace what it is that you consume. And if that doesn’t happen — if you don’t do the work to replace the value that you inherently consume just by your existence — then you will leave the world behind poorer than it was when you entered.

Or to say it another way: you steal from future generations for your own comfort and ease. The equation is really very simple. If we on average create more than we consume, then we make the world a better place for our kids. And if we on average consume more than we create, we make the world a poorer place for our kids. And this is what makes all welfare and most charity completely perverse and morally wrong.

Now, by welfare, I mean the government stuff where they’re dealing in stolen goods. All welfare, without exception, is evil. Now, I’ve covered this in detail before, but in brief: it’s evil because it’s a triple whammy. You are stealing value from someone that worked for it, that worked to create it. That’s the taxes. Then you’re administrating that stolen goods using people who could have had a productive job. They could have gone out there and done something with their lives that created value, but now instead they’re working for Centrelink and they’ve made a career out of dealing in stolen goods, creating no value at all. And then you’re handing what’s left of that money after Centrelink have been paid for handling it over to people who now don’t have to provide or create any value in their lives either.

So we’re stealing from the people that work in order to pay other people for the purpose of not creating value.

What’s really perverse is that if those welfare recipients start to create value — they get a job — then we take the welfare away from them. So literally now we’ve created a system that punishes welfare recipients for doing the thing that each and every one of us need to do, at least to the best of our own ability, within the confines of whatever disabilities or circumstances we may have.

Each of us needs to create as much value as we’re able to for the sake of our kids and our grandkids so we can give a better life to them.

So that’s welfare. All welfare is evil because it is literally dealing in stolen goods and it is systematically destroying our children’s quality of life, stealing from the future for the comfort of people who don’t work in the present.

But on top of that, most charity is also evil.

Now I support private charity in principle. Charity is the mechanism by which we should help people who need it. People who are disabled, people who are elderly, people who are very unlucky. Anyone could find themselves down in their luck at any moment in time. And most humans need a helping hand at some point in their lives. And I completely support that happening.

But charity — private, small organization, or person-to-person charity — is by far the best way that we as a society should support people who need it. But let me be really clear. No one should die of thirst, of hunger, of exposure, or due to a lack of basic medical care like an antiseptic or something like that. I am not talking about just leaving people to die on the street out of neglect.

Yes, charities should, and they do, provide basics, things like clothes. But what if you don’t want old clothes out of someone’s rack from the 1980s? What if you want something new? “I’m a dignified human being. I deserve better. I want the current fashion.” Okay, then do some work. Create something of value in return for the clothes that you are going to wear out and destroy over time. Exchange value. Don’t just demand it for free.

Which is why charities should only provide the bare essentials. Because someone’s desire for something better should be the catalyst. It should be the thing that drives them to get off their ass and do some work and create some value. And when we give people things of high value in return for nothing, then we are removing from them the incentive to get out there and do whatever it is that they can do.

We as a society must expect people to do what they can. And anyone who won’t do what they can, whatever that is, well then they should only get the extremely bare minimum necessary for survival and nothing more.

I’m not saying people should die because they’re being forced to live out in the elements in the middle of winter. But nor should we be giving away houses for free. I support charities that provide emergency shelter and dorming rooms and things like that. But if you want your own house — a place where you can put your stuff and lock it up and be secure — or if you want to live in a better location that suits you better for whatever reason, if you want that thing, create that value so that you can pay for it. Create the value in return.

Otherwise, you are just stealing from our kids. And the charities that make people comfortable whilst those people refuse to create whatever value they’re capable of… again, I’m allowing for disability, for age, for the fact that not everyone can create full value to replace what they consume — I accept that.

But if we allow people to be comfortable while they are creating any less than the maximum value they’re capable of, then we are stealing from our kids.

No one should die from bad water or a lack of food or shelter or basic medical interventions. But if you want more than that, if you want to be comfortable or life to be more convenient or to consume more, then you’d better be willing to create that value. Otherwise, you’re a thief.

Now, if you’ve created value and you want to give it away in some form, that is your prerogative, because you created that value in the first place. That’s private charity. If you want to give away a brand new home in a great location that you paid for out of your own hard work and you want to give it to someone who will do no work in return, well, that’s your prerogative. You can do that. That’s your business. You’re no longer stealing from other people. You’re giving away what is yours. And there is a world of difference between those two things.

If Jacinta Allen, for example, had paid for that house out of her own bloated salary and it came entirely at her own personal expense, well then I would say that’s a terrible use of that money and that giving away that house is still a net negative for society because you’re not incentivizing someone to create any value in return. But I would also agree that the money is yours to spend and you can give away a house if you want to.

If that lady’s own children had worked hard and had rented or bought that house for her because she’s their mom and they wanted to look after her, perfect. She invested years of her life into them. She gave them incredible value for decades and now they’re returning that value back to her in her old age. Fantastic. That’s exactly how it should work.

But this — this is not that. This is adding to the debt on our children, stealing from our kids and our grandkids. And that debt will remain long after that house is dilapidated and needs more money to be spent for a renovation.

Yeah, I’m the bad guy. Call me heartless. Call me whatever you want. I’m right. And I’m calling you a thief if you support this kind of theft from our children and our grandchildren.

Do you know why our quality of life has dropped so badly in the last few years? It is in part because we’ve been stealing from the future for decades. And the future is now here. That future that we started stealing from with the massive growth in middle class welfare back in the 1990s and early 2000s — we are living in that future now. And that’s why our quality of life is dropping.

And if you want to know what our future now looks like, just ask yourself: are we as a civilization, as a culture, as a country, are we creating more than we consume? Or are we instead rewarding consumers and punishing creators and paying for today’s comfort, today’s consumption with tomorrow’s work?

I’m not a fortune teller, but videos like this one allow me to see the future.

This is weaponized compassion — stealing from our kids’ futures for clicks. This is not compassion. This is a crime scene. Trading in stolen goods. Goods that have been stolen not only from the producers and hard workers of today, but also from our children in the future.

Once upon a time, it was socially unacceptable to be a moocher, to be a freeloader, to be a charity case — unless you really were actually a charity case due to disability or injury or some sort of really genuinely bad luck. Once upon a time, society would have looked at that woman’s children and said, “Hey, your mother needs somewhere to live. What are you going to do about it?”

In other words, once upon a time, we expected people to create value in order to consume.

Once upon a time, we built civilizations. And we left to future generations a world that was more, that was better, that was wealthier than the one that we were born into. And now, well, now we celebrate those who consume. And politicians win public acclaim by giving away the hard work of others.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And just because welfare like this is well-intentioned doesn’t change the fact that it’s paving the road to hell.

This video is not going to make me any friends, but someone has to say it. We are already experiencing that drop in our quality of life because we started stealing from the future a few decades ago. And it’s just going to get worse until we get back to insisting that people must create value before we let them consume it.

And we have to insist that politicians can no longer steal our value and give it away for nothing in return.

Nothing less than the future of our civilization is at stake. And politicians giving away our value for free just so they can buy a few votes and a little bit of social media influence — that should be a criminal offense because they are trading in stolen goods.

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