Social Security (w/ Darwin); troll interruption (again); FDA Part 1 (w/ Meghann) - Livestream #23A

This is my first of two livestreams from Saturday, May 17, 2025, Livestream #23 Part A. 0:00 Intro, update on previous livestream, from Wednesday, May 14, 2025, which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p5tRni1hFg 6:18 Call with Darwin starts 9:13 Discussing Social Security w/ Darwin (a Majority Report w/ Sam Seder listener) Social Security as coercive Are vaccines coercive? Typhoid Mary Does Social Security make poverty better or worse? Factual claims about economics and history Wages and profits: Are they in sync? Should they be? The power—or lack thereof—of money; regulators, lobbying, and bribery My march to 1,000 subscribers! Catching up with chat 42:03 Any thoughts on Nicholas Provenzo's article on Andrew Bernstein (Adam Schmitz); Trump; etc. 52:52 Troll interruption 1:01:27 Call starts with Meghann Ribbens, a scientist who works in the biopharmaceutical industry 1:03:59 Meghann on the FDA, Part 1 1:10:31 Transition to the next stream, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXejpWXBP60. This livestream originally appeared in the “Live” section of my YouTube channel on May 17, 2025. After editing and re-uploading it, it now appears in the “Videos” section and is dated May 19, 2025. The Live Chat Replay is not preserved, but I copied it and pasted it into a comment below the video. www.patreon.com/DanNorton www.paypal.me/DanNorton11 #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate