Our panelists today represent a group of libertarian activists Who are all lay people who are not professional libertarians? They all have day jobs and families and bills and the same kind of everyday concerns That I'm sure most of you have a lot of conferences like this. We tend to get talks by academics Or intellectuals, so we thought it would be interesting to get the perspectives and the ideas and some strategies From just some intelligent lay people from all walks of life different ages Different backgrounds and experiences, but I think you'll find that everybody on the panel is a very dedicated very intelligent and Might have some interesting ideas for us I'm going to introduce everybody just very briefly you can meet up with them later Some of them provided their email addresses on the program But what we've asked them to do is to give just a few brief moments of remarks of What they think from their perspective ought to be done What's what's a strategy or what are the tactics? What are the options available to us? And then when they're done We can field questions amongst the panelists themselves or or from the audience So we hope we'll have a good discussion with lots of feedback and and enthusiasm on the end is Bill Haynes our host today someone I think a lot of you know quite well He's been a libertarian for many decades and involved in the golden silver business for many decades as well See the next to him is Catherine Muratori. She is a scientist a biochemist With advanced degrees in that field and also these days perhaps the most important job. I'll stay at home mother Sitting to her left is Jordan Osmond She's someone who's been a friend of the Mises Institute and who has the unique talent of being both an IT and a finance expert in one package Sitting next to her is someone I've known for a long time Mark Victor a very well known attorney in the Phoenix area He's tried and won some very high-profile cases dedicated libertarian and also a Former student who I think whose life was changed by being in law school with Butler Schaffer professor Butler Schaffer To my left here is Hunter Hastings who is a marketing expert who's worked throughout his career for some of the biggest names in Fortune 500 companies in the area of marketing and he has some great ideas about strategy for the broader libertarian movement See it next to him is Taylor Cohn it Taylor is a principal in the in the Cohn it automotive group which owns a series of automotive build your dealerships across I guess Southern California and some other states and he also Manages and runs one of those dealerships himself and finally on the end. We have dr. Don Prince who has been a Libertarian stalwart for many decades. He is a retired medical doctor Dermatologist and once served as the head of AAPS, which is sort of the anti AMA group within the profession of medicine So a round of applause for our panel. Thanks to all of you They're going to join us and I told Bill that we would start with him So Bill take it away. Okay. I have three. Let me have this. We have some water here, please I have three minutes to say that in a very brief In that very brief three minutes is that we cannot pass up any opportunity to bring even one individual to the libertarian idea To bring them into libertarianism and they open up freedom and liberty. We have no idea Who that person will impact in their lives now personally when I am discussing or sometimes it in into a debate with a dedicated socialist I Do not try to bring him around to my point of view But I try to present my case in a manner so that those people who are listening will be brought to my point of view. I Would not waste my time sitting down with a dedicated socialist one-on-one and discussing anything with them Obviously we need to abolish several federal departments and divisions But we're here to discuss non political solutions and that would be a more political one My personal experience is in academia as a scientist So I'll leave creative entrepreneurial scientists the task of finding market solutions that can poke holes in the regulatory apparatus but there's a reason that I initially thought of abolishing federal level agencies and That is because not only is there a vast regulation of applied medicine But also a tremendous amount of funding of science in the United States So I think a non scientist who is interested in the cause of liberty can advance liberty in the sciences by Just being more aware of funding of sciences For example, the National Institutes of Health spent three quarters of a billion dollars this year to train over 15,000 scientists Now scientists don't think of themselves as being recipients of welfare, but they obviously are At the 25th anniversary celebration of the Mises Institute Professor Hoppe gave us a talk on anti intellectual intellectuals and they are those among us who think independently Fight for freedom and against the state He pointed out that the Mises Institute is central to providing alternative financing to anti intellectual intellectuals. I Agree with this as a graduate student I did send some of my taxpayer provided stipend to the Mises Institute In return they sent me at that time it was called the I think Austrian economics home study course so to borrow a term that Mr. Goyette Goyette just used I was immunized with that and and we all need those booster shots After being paid to complete a PhD and then looking towards a career of Monetary support from federal grants a libertarian scientist has to stay alert to To what the government is doing especially in the fields of education and research We can see that the current model is not lifting science up. It's bringing it down and We can just look at examples in the market and compare that to the bloated biomedical research areas But it's the theoretical framework of Austrian economics that gives that kind of observation Meaning and the libertarian scientist has to continually hold on to and study and get immunized with Austrian economics and sound history and philosophy and Rothbardian ethics In order to continue to question the role of the state in scientific funding and research As someone in the computer industry, I just want to say that entrepreneurialism is Continuing to just explode and the internet is completely assisting that through things like crowd sourcing and that sort of thing So from the standpoint of the entrepreneur, there are great things happening in the market My question is is there a way that we can harness that as a group that has specific interests in Let's say propagating the ideas of liberty and sharing those out with with more and more people broadly Is there a way that we can do that? leveraging some of the entrepreneurial ideas, I would actually add entrepreneurialism to Jeff's for Solutions, I think instead of perhaps reacting to the system We should be proactive and start really looking at ways that we can harness Harness our communities harness our knowledge Create new softwares if more people are aware of how to implement their own servers To leverage some of the technology that's out there instead of you know buying into the we'll call them the big box Outfits that are running that right now You know we could decentralize some of that because There is an advantage from a security standpoint to be decentralized It's what we call security by obscurity because it can't hit us all at once But by the same token then we're also all Under the same level of scrutiny and surveillance The violation of privacy rights ready or not We just had an act passed on the 27th of October Called the CISA Act which is basically cyber cybersecurity Information sharing so ready or not They're about to find ways to share when you have a breach of data Who you are? What you were doing and send it off to our friends that you know the state and Federal government so that they can see what type of attack was taking place And that is an absolute breach of privacy So read your privacy statements before you download software the the younger generation Has no idea how insidious the internet and the folks that are managing our Infrastructure are everything you have on social media everything you have Even in an email. It's it's someone's got it somewhere whether in this was well before the NSA Information came out. It's stored by the nature of the internet Someone has a copy of that so just assume that that information is out there But there have to be some ways that we could decentralize and leverage the knowledge of the people in this room and Start creating new structures new ways of sharing information that could actually benefit The libertarian movement in freedom in general without having to be in other words Let's stay one step ahead of them You know, we don't have to always be reactive so that's that's my my proposal Okay, so the short guy's got to stand up yes, I'm standing First off I want to take issue with something that was said already I do think we should confront the socialist Let's not be freedom wimps. We're right about this stuff and let's get out there and confront them We may convert some people there are probably people in this room who started out as socialists What what's to lose nothing to lose and lots of things to gain? Let's confront everybody on everything all the damn time Okay, so how to fix the justice system in five minutes here it goes I Got six things. I want to say number one We're not going to fix anything anywhere at any time until we can win more hearts and minds period That's the only way to get freedom. We got to win more hearts and minds. It doesn't matter who's elected It doesn't matter what the Constitution says doesn't matter what the Supreme Court interprets Do we have enough people who understand the ideas of liberty? That's where we need to be focusing if we got enough we'll have freedom if we don't like right now We'll have tyranny. So that's where we need to focus about fixing the justice system really and everything else But number two you can't fix the justice system until you fix the law Period it doesn't matter. We got to get rid of all victimless crimes we got think of this as Think of this as two separate areas of the justice system We've got procedure which is how do we sort of process cases through the system then we've got the substantive law The procedure is not that bad if you made me the king of the procedure There's a lot of things I'd change, but it's really not that terrible. We do a pretty decent job not perfect But pretty decent at figuring out who's really guilty and who's not guilty Which really just means the state hasn't proven their case But it doesn't matter if what they're guilty of is a bunch of stupid shit that shouldn't be against the law in the first place So so fixing the effectiveness of the system doesn't matter and is completely irrelevant Until we can fix the law number three what I'll call jury Education here's what I mean by this the jury was supposed to be the final check on state Power just had a buddy of mine who's a lawyer in Italy who I met because of Lou Rockwell He read one of my articles in Italy and he contacted me and said hey Mark I'm a lawyer in Italy. He came to visit me a couple of weeks ago and we talked about the system They don't have jury trials there could be a big problem What I love about the jury trial is when I'm standing up there We've gone through a lot of aggravation by the time I stand up and closing argument in front of the jury But when I'm standing there, it's just me And the jurors it's me and the rest of the people's representatives They should be able to do whatever they want to do. We should be able to get the bureaucrats and the Terranical big government nuts out of the way. It's just me and them I need to be able to tell them you can judge the law as well as the facts I need to be able to stand there and say ladies and gentlemen Even if you think the state's proven the case the law screwed up who cares if this guy really had marijuana Find them not guilty But in addition to that we need to be able to tell them what the punishment is They don't get to know what the punishment is Could you imagine being a juror and coming back with a guilty verdict thinking that this guy's gonna get probation? when because of our crazy ridiculous Punishments that we have now all throughout the United States and Arizona is one of the worst states on this They don't understand that they just completely ruin somebody's life People make decisions based differently on what they understand to be the gravity of the decision as Judge Kaczynski pointed out in an article recently on this very point We think differently we invest a different amounts of time in whether we should go to Starbucks or some other Coffee house in the morning versus whether we're gonna buy a new house, right? Shouldn't I be able to tell them ladies and gentlemen of the jury if you come back with a guilty my guys got to do 20 years? Think about it carefully. I can't say one peep about that. We got to educate the juries Number four we need to abolish mandatory minimum sentences I can't go to trial in a lot of these cases I talked to the gun guys all the time and the gun guys give me these scenarios and they say you know Mark, what if this that the next thing happens and then I shoot somebody in my house? Maybe it's a good shooting, but if it's close They're never gonna get to trial because the situation is gonna be such that if the jury comes back and says that they acted Reasonably they leave with me we go they buy me dinner if the jury comes back and says no you were Unreasonable then they go away for maybe 20 years none of you will take that chance All of you will walk in and plead guilty to a lesser charge because you're stuck with the mandatory minimum if you lose We need to be able to give judges the power to say you know what? Even though the person has been found guilty and it could be first-degree murder still there needs to be an option for Probation so people are allowed to send cases in front of the jury I can't tell you how many cases I would have loved to have tried in front of a jury that I can't Because the risk is too high Number five we got to reduce caseloads the crushing volume of the caseloads in our system There's an article today in the Washington Post about this and they name Maricopa County and they have identified here some of the worst death penalty lawyers ever you would think That in a death penalty case would have tons of resources and tons of attention. I've done lots of death penalty cases I just I'm finishing one up now. We have such crushing caseloads that these Public defenders and even prosecutors just don't have enough time And that's never going to be reduced until the drug war ends period huge lack of resources and then finally number six because I know I'm Running out of time. We got a we got to get real about the Commerce Clause and about federal jurisdiction We got this monstrosity of a federal justice system I can remember talking to a federal prosecutor recently and I said I said is there anything you think you don't have Jurisdiction over and we talked about lots of things and I said what about a DUI case Do you think the federal government could prosecute DUI cases and he says well cars move in interstate commerce and all the parts are made Into he's absolutely right. This is a slam dunk win For the federal government in terms of a jurisdiction There is nothing that I can think of that the federal government couldn't exercise its Jurisdiction over and so we got to get all these crimes out of the federal government We got a we got to get the Commerce Clause and I know I hear I can hear Butler over there Because he taught me about the Commerce Clause He's gonna give me a hard time when I meet with them We got to do something different with the Commerce Clause because it reaches everything It's an infinite source of endless federal jurisdiction until we fix that.  Thank you Yeah, start that's you did that's a hard act to follow So what must be done? Here's my proposal. We need to build a more attractive and more cohesive brand for liberty So let me explain that as Jeff said my professional experiences in building brands Brands of people love Brands of people are devoted to Think about Pepsi and Apple and Jack Daniels one of my favorites and BMW Many of these started as niche Properties and were expanded into global brands with with dominant preferences Successful brands have a couple of Attributes firstly they offer their adherence a it's what we call a functional benefit. There's something in it for them They make individual lives better or at least on the subjective preference scale. They make people feel like their lives are better So brand marketing is a very Austrian concept You figure out what people want and you and you give it to them and they rate it on their own subjective scale second brand stand for something powerful that can generate just astonishing levels of emotional investment and tremendously loyal behavior Apple makes you technologically astute and socially cool at the same time Jack Daniels makes you authentic At least for a while BMW makes you feel like you're the best driver in charge of the best equipment So these brands stand for something that's very attractive to people the Liberty brand actually lacks many of the attributes of a successful brand and I think our brand is in danger of being perceived as negative We tend to be against a lot of things if not against everything rather than Relentlessly positive and optimistic, which I think we should be we're not always really clear what Liberty means for the individual How does it make a difference in there in their everyday lives and we don't consistently engender that emotional investment of great brands Although we have to say dr. Paul did that in his campaigning and showed what could be done. So there's a there's a terrific sign there So I don't have six things but I have three things first make it clear that we are for the individual We believe it individuals. We love individuals. We believe they can succeed and and we want them to succeed the state Hates individuals they repress individuals and so we need to be for that emotional Heroism of individuals individuals or liberties heroes the functional and benefit then is exercising individual economic power We are economic power. We're the biggest part of the economy. So let's bring that to life. Let's empower people Mises said that consumers boss because the consumer decides what is produced based on their preferences and To Jordan's point the entrepreneur directs the market economy by rearranging the factors of production to produce what consumers want That's economic power. So let's bring this to life. Let's promote individual economic power Entrepreneurs as Jordan said, but it doesn't have to be Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. It's starting a small business in your in your locality It's freelancing Mary Mika says there are 38 million freelancers in the economy and so there's there's lots of opportunities at that level an Individual can harness the power of cloud computing. They can they can Get kickstart of financing. They can use the internet. There's no limit to the to the scale that individuals can can operate at so let's Drive that individual opportunity then on the opposite side refuse to do business with the big crony businesses Let's support our entrepreneurs and do our business locally and and do it with entrepreneurs And especially refuse to do business with the big banks, which a lot of us have identified as as particular crony capitalism That's radical decentralization. Let's do it all with our in our local communities with local businesses Let's do for localness in economics. What Whole Foods did for local produce? I was I was listening to John Mackey the other day and he says he's taken the local produce Component or local organic produce a component from 5% to 30% in a very short period of time Just think of that just think if we could get 30% of people to switch their accounts from a big bank to the local Community Bank that would get noticed so economic power at the local level and Then the emotional benefit is pride Let's be proud of our own self-reliance. Let's throw off the Dependency that the state insists that we all have pride in localness pride in the exercise of our individual economic power Let's make proud self-reliance and the voluntary Collaboration of self-reliant people like us the highest value for the individual And then the last thing is that we need a brand leader and as mr. Goi said there's no nobody better than the Ludwig von Mises Institute to be that brand leader. Thank you I'm actually going to be reading notes from my phone. I'm not checking my Twitter updating my Facebook, so So my idea is about what is to be done are related to Communication specifically how to change our language our conceptualization and our organization so we can have more influence and I believe that these techniques are in the vein of the strategy of Winning hearts and minds but I need to apologize to mark for my first point because it's going to sound a little wimpy and I Hope you can just read between the lines on it so First libertarians excel at rational judgment and evaluation We're able to scrutinize any social situation and quickly determine who is right and who is wrong who is moral and who is immoral But we're not what we're not so good at is communicating our values and needs and thoughtfully considering those that motivate others Particularly those values and needs that are universal to all of mankind. I Think libertarians would benefit enormous enormously for mastering the art of empathy as best described in Marshall Rosenberg's book nonviolent communication With greater empathy we can not only listen for what others We can all we can not only listen for what others need so we can explain the solutions we have to offer But we can better explain our own needs and help others to understand that we are not motivated by blind faith to rational ideology I see empathy as the true language of liberty that all libertarians can embrace second libertarians seem to spend a lot of time conceptualizing the flaws of our current system as hunter mentioned and Imagining the methods by which it might end to the point of even fetishizing collapse But we spend comparatively less time imagining what might replace it and offering these entrepreneurial visions to others While it's true that no one can know for sure what the future state of a free market might look like Each one of us can come up With a vision and take steps to turn it into a reality if we took all the time and the energy we invest in fantasizing about the collapse of the state the death of the dollar and the bankruptcy of the welfare system and instead worked out business models for voluntary security organizations and alternative currencies and Community aid organizations we could start putting them into practice now and start living in the libertarian future Let's offer others a practical vision of the future and how it might function differently Let's each come up with something specific That we do with more liberty than we have right now rather than obsess about Liberty like it is an end in and of itself and not a means to other ends Third, I believe libertarians should be the most organized social enclave around and to that end We should all form our own local associations of like minds and get together on a regular basis These Mises circles are great, but they only happen a few times a year and Hans-Hermann Hoppe's property and freedom society is an excellent forum But it takes place far far away Libertarians often like to think of themselves as the brave but lonesome voice of sanity But we aren't really alone or at least we don't have to be I Formed a group in my local town that meets monthly to read and discuss Austro-libertarian ideas and I found that generally people interested in freedom are free thinking in other areas as well such as nutrition parenting philosophies and even personal values and lifestyle These organizations are a great way to gain new perspectives and form real friendships that add to our quality of life and Turn our obsession with liberty into another practical social advantage so in Enclosing a language of empathy a constructive conceptualization process and a local association of like minds These are three ideas which could improve every libertarians communication and influence Although I'm speaking for Practice of medicine the first concept I had mentioned is Advocable to everything and that is if you are a patient a consumer in this case You need to have the money yourself Because only in that way. Do you have the power to make your correct decisions as? an individual physicians I must look only to you and This concept has been greatly distorted over the past 60 years as Many of the things happen this started during a war in this case World War two Where people started to looking for a third party to fund some or sometimes all of the money So the first concept is to be sure the patient the consumer stays in your hands This also has a huge Concept also relating to that in that you make the best decisions to satisfy you not a third party and What I would like to point out is now them almost all of the money is flowing not to you the patient But is run by a third party. I pointed out this is just exactly now Instead of a practice of medicine It's like veterinary medicine the person paying the money in this case the owner Contacts the vet says should we pay for this or not? Fifi the the patient in that case is less now this entirely and you know when I first pointed out this concept People grasp that right away that the complaints I had interesting that was a veterinarian's which I thought was quite The second concept is to return to true insurance Insurance is not to be paid for the everyday activities. It is something that financially would be Catastrophic economically if you have faced that so we need to go back to the concept of true insurance and the insurance should be owned by you Through a market experience the idea that now that I am over 65 I can focus only to one insurance where I must pay over a lifetime just for that So-called insurance is absolutely wrong and the third thing I'd like to point out is I am a physician The third party like refer to me as a provider. I'm a provider to my family I'm not a provider for the government and so I view this the concept because I Must focus back to what I mentioned only to you It is only in this way that as a physician to a patient the most intimate Information the patient can give to me as a physician to benefit the patient most and that type of Privacy is totally violated when a third party enters into this what should be a beautiful Relationship I have watched in my lifetime a beautiful profession Which was one of honor's profession he turned into profession that was more like the oldest profession Let me just mention that Peter Kalman is an entrepreneur For and a representative for Kalman associates which puts on trade shows around the world He's also been an absolutely outstanding Campus coordinator on behalf of the Mises instead, so Peter. Thank you Jeff. Hi So I'm really bad at following instructions and getting places on time when people tell me to sorry about that But I'm also not very good at telling other people what to do So when I first heard the topic of today kind of struck me as kind of interesting for libertarians to be talking about What people other people must be doing and so I just want to kind of start with a show of hands Can you raise your hand for me if you're a voluntarious that is if you believe in nonviolent cooperation in humans interacting without coercion without force if you believe that Violence is wrong no matter who's doing it and if you believe that good ideas don't require force I'd love you to raise your hand for me. I'd hope that everyone alright a few people don't that's alright So I'm not gonna make your hands tired. I promise keep them up Keep them up now keep your hands up if you believe in voluntarism as a philosophy That's gonna bring us to a freer society lower your hand if Anyone in your immediate family disagrees with you That's if any of your parents any of your siblings any of your spouses or any of your daughters or sons Happen to believe that government is a solution to bring us to a freer society Okay, there's a lot less hands now I'm gonna have to put my hand down for the next one if anyone in your extended family Disagrees with you put your hands down. I've got about 30 uncles. I'm from New Jersey, so I'm not there's no way I'm gonna get all of them, but you know, I think you guys can see where I'm going with this Are all of your friends? Voluntary is are all the people that you buy on your vendors that you buy from on a day-to-day basis? Are they volunteers are you know are all your clients libertarians or all the people you're doing business with libertarians? You know, and I think this is a really good place to start thinking about things. I think Really the only thing we can change is what's immediately around us and honestly really the only thing we can change is ourselves But we can set an example through our successes for those who would like to follow it We can't force anyone to follow it obviously but if our Austrian economics and philosophies of non-violence and Avoiding coercion can lead us to greater successes because we've removed that bureaucracy that layer of fat from the government I think that is going to show people and create a bourgeois around the idea of being a libertarian because the successes will speak We'll speak for themselves, you know Um There are you know, there are a lot of ways around this political action You know I've got some books here from the RLC of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Los Angeles County Some some guys that are undercover anarchists that are infiltrating the Republican Party I'm trying to get delegates for someone somebody. I don't know. I mean there There's a lot of things people touched on but I kind of want to go back to agorism which was kind of touched upon a Few of the people Hunter and Taylor was yeah spoke about engaging with the communities that were a part of it Just sort of my theme as well. I work with Liberty Dot menu. It's on a website. That's on the program next to my name It's an it's a place for Liberty minded entrepreneurs to find one another, you know My suit was made by a voluntarious if you bought your suit at Macy's you're contributing to the state You know that that might seem a little bit ridiculous but I mean I don't really think that the black or gray markets are as Faux-pas as people imagine because the first three years of my life Employed from 12 to 15 at my uncle's sandwich shop I was getting paid under the table and I think that's a pretty common occurrence for people back east maybe not out here But I know there's a lot of black and gray markets. That's not just selling drugs So I don't know I just I find that that if we all are cooperating with each other non-violently and through peaceful means we can set an example through our actions rather than Badgering people and telling them what to do and as far as the hearts and minds go We really need to work on the ones that are closest to us before we work on the rest of the world


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I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And the headliner is in great shape. You do get that power sunroof, map lights, home link buttons, sunroof controls, rear gate controls, and on-star and SOS capabilities in the mirror. We'll take a quick look under the hood. Oh, it has the wireless cell phone charge pad on there as well. Your keyless entry with remote start. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this Yukon all the way around inside. Now, under the hood, we have the 6.2-liter V8 gas engine engine base. Very clean runs, very smooth once again. This Yukon has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this one is 100% ready to go. There is your emissions sticker. Check out those HID headlamps, those LED running lights. 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Hi everybody, Joe for jaspyscasegrades.com. It's a great way to end the Tuesday night with 2020 Panini Honors Football Five Box Random Team Break Number Two. 32 spots, everyone gets a random team. We know about honors, a lot of great stuff.  And congrats again to the winners of spots. There's all 32 teams, they're in. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Six and a four, 10 times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time. You got Robert Flores all the way down to Jose. Six and a four, 10 times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, five, six, seven. And good luck, 10th and final time. After 10 we got Carolina all the way down to Houston. Now I will pause the video and allow for a little bit of trading time, but trade at your own risk. All right, Robert with Carolina, Jose with Cleveland, Steve with the Washington football team, Stephen Masters with the Bears, Daniel with the Titans, Jonathan with the Seahawks, Jose with the Cardinals, David with the Bills, Robert with the Colts, Ryan Kasin with the Ravens, Daniel with the Giants, Eddie with the Rams, Gary with my Raiders, Brennan with the Jets, Jose with the Steelers, Daniel with the Eagles, Randall, LastBot, Mojo, Chargers, David with the Jaguars, Paul with the Lions, Patrick with the Falcons, Simon with the Saints, Stephen Masters with the Miami Dolphins, Matt Shaw with Tampa Bay, Jose with the Minnesota Vikings, Sean O, Kansas City, David, Niners, Brian Broncos, Patrick with the Packers, David with the Patriots, and the Bengals, Sean O with the Boys, and Jose with Houston. All right, let's sort by team name, and we're gonna pause the video really quick. And when we come back, we'll see if there's any trades, and then the break, stick around. All right, welcome back folks. No deals are done, not even a whisper of a trade, so things are just gonna stand the way they were. Stand in the place where you are. Thanks everyone for this late night rally. I appreciate it. All right, 2020 Panini Honors Football. Thanks again. Let's see what kind of magic we can pop out of here. Yeah, maybe we'll hit that bell too. There is a redemption right here. Slide that this way. We'll do the pack here first. I got Zack Moss, and we've got Lamar Jacks. The cards are kinda stuck together there. 37 out of 70 on that Zack Moss, and the Lamar Jackson, which is to 10. That'll be for the Ravens. Ryan Kasen with the Ravens, and David Razer with the Buffalo Bills. All right, should I do the, I'll do this card first? I'll do the redemption first. It's Chase Young. It says 2002, I feel like that's a typo. 2002 Honors Rookie Signatures. Should be 2020. Chase Young, frequently a redemption. Steve Locke with the Washington football team. And what do we have here? Ooh, a one of one Super Bowl Champion Signatures, Clay Matthews, Green Bay Packers, Patrick, with Green Bay, and all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Anyone else having trouble with the video? Or is it just Hollywood? He says it keeps freezing up. Everything looks good on my end. That one of one was a view, wasn't it, Ryan? Van Jefferson and Jake from State Farm. That's three out of five. Buffalo! David, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. And the Van Jefferson for the Rams goes to Eddie, 12 out of 70. All right. Ooh, we got an original right here. Let's do the other one first. It's Jonathan Taylor. 41 out of 49 for the blue horseshoes. Robert with the Colts. Wow, a nice Bobby Mitchell from National Treasures. 49 out of 50. As that's an original buyback. Those are fewer and far between. Nice Jersey and autograph. Nice, class of 83. Cleveland, Jose with the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland, this is for you. Now, Robert, you're having video issues too? So maybe it is us. Everything looks fine on my end. Maybe it's a YouTube thing then. Maybe YouTube's goofing up. Let's see what we got here. A Derek Carr for my Raiders. That's gonna be for Gary. And then Drew Brees for the Saints. That's to 10. That's gonna be for Simon. The Derek Carr is a four out of four. That's his Jersey number. It's pretty nice. Gary with the Raiders. And all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. We've got a James Robinson. One out of two. Jaguars. Wow, a lot of train whistles, David. All aboard. Woo-hoo. What's next? More train whistles? Yeah. Carter Samuel, five out of five. Carolina, Robert. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. What else? Do we have two more boxes to go? The train whistles the rest of the way. Another redemption. Should we do the redemption first or should we do the other? I might do the other card first. Looks like a one of one. Yeah, this honor stuff is pretty awesome. All right, we got T. Higgins. Bangles to 70. Jordan Love for Patrick. That's to 10. The redemption is Brandon Iac. Rookie signatures for San Francisco. And that's gonna be for David. The one of one is a Nick Chubb for Jose and the Cleveland Browns. It's with a spot that he won in the filler break. Cleveland, this is for you. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. All right, last box coming up. Thanks for getting in, everybody. High risk, high reward, but you can see why people wanna take that risk. I don't think we have any more honors after this, so just keep an eye on the store for more. All right, let's slide that over this way. Let's do the pack first. We've got a Jalen Hertz rookie card to 70 for the Eagles. That's gonna be for Daniel. And look at this, Pulsar. No, what, Hyper? Joe Burrow? That's a one of one. David Razer with the Cincinnati Bangles. Wow. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. All right, what are we closing with? More great stuff. We got Jordan Love. Green Bay Packers. Jay Hart going to Patrick. That's 14 out of 15. You might get an opportunity this year depending on what happens with Aaron Rodgers. And the last one is two out of two. It's a cracked ice, Kenny G. Rookie ticket autograph. Wow, what a break, ladies and gentlemen. What a way to end the night. That's Paul Norden with the Detroit Lions. Paul. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. What a break. Ladies and gentlemen, that was 2020 Panini Honors Football five box random team break number two. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for the late night fill, everybody. It was worth it. I'll see you tomorrow for more fun stuff like this. jaspyscasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


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This video is to introduce a series that I'm going to be working on titled Biblical Salvation settled once and for all. So leading into this topic, ask yourself these hypothetical questions.  Do you have eternal life? Do you know what the Bible says about how to be saved? Following on from these questions then, how do you think you are saved? Is it by faith alone, or is it by faith and works? Or would you say that you're saved by faith alone, but true faith must always produce works? If you sin, will this cause you to lose your salvation or would you say that a true believer will stop sinning? This is obviously a dividing issue amongst Christians. This is a never-ending debate that's gone back all the way since the beginning of the New Testament. One type of preacher will say for example that the Bible says we cannot lose our salvation because we have verses like No man shall ever pluck them out of my hand or they shall never perish. But then another preacher will say, well the Bible says we can lose our salvation because the Bible says if a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch into the fire and of course not everyone who says Lord Lord. Moreover for example a preacher will say we are saved by faith alone because we have verses like Whoever believes in me shall never die for by grace he is saved through faith and not of works It is the gift of God not of works unless any man should boast But then another preacher will say that a true believer must be obedient and show their faith with works because we have verses like If you love me keep my commandments and faith without works is dead Now you may be one of these people who are just wondering who is telling the truth Some people just think I don't know what to believe anymore or Someone told me to go directly to the Bible and not to listen to the words of man But then I go to the Bible and I see one passage saying one thing and another passage saying another thing And I don't I'm getting confused. I don't know what to do with that Perhaps you're worried because maybe you still have sin in your life and you were told that you must repent of your sins to be saved and so What this series will explore is that we will go through Every passage carefully in the New Testament that is used to teach About doctrines of salvation whether whether those doctrines are right or wrong will cover all the passages that are used to uphold salvation doctrines We will learn to rightly divide the word of God when we appear to have contradictory passages saying opposite things And we will cross-examine the teachings of those who preach a different gospel understanding Which Bible passages are leading them to such conclusion and to show how they are misapplying or manipulating scripture So who is this series aimed at? Well, it's going to be aimed at any Christian who professes the name of Christ Who wants to be saved from the judgment and enter into eternal life, but is unsure If you are confused about this topic or if you have heard mixed messages about salvation And you just want to humbly hear the truth and know how to be saved. This study series is for you if you're sick and tired of All the mixed messages and if you're weary because you try to read the Bible to know how to get to heaven and You're just confused. You just can't understand it and you just want somebody to show you Clearly how to make it to heaven without a doubt in your mind Please join me carefully in studying the scriptures Let us reason together and let's settle this issue in your heart once and for all Now you don't know when your last day on this earth is going to be so please do not put off this issue Search it diligently and be ready for when you draw your last breath But until then you can live in peace and assurance As you follow me throughout the study when we look at the Gospel of John and the book of Romans and the book of James And the book of Hebrews and so on and so on and so on throughout the study series We will in understand clearly what the implications are when Jesus said not everyone who says to me Lord Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven We will know why on one hand the Bible says we are saved by grace through faith and not of works But then on the other it also says faith that works is dead We will be able to discern why Jesus said he who does not abide in him is cast forth as a branch and cast into the fire But Jesus also said no man shall ever pluck my sheep from out of my hand Most people won't follow this entire study series So in this video, I'm going to give you a short simple Gospel summary So that you've got an overall picture before we start delving into all the scriptures If you are a Christian of any persuasion rightly or wrongly You probably already know that you are a sinner in need of a savior and if not then you probably ought to recognize it This is easily demonstrated from scripture just to take a few Romans chapter 5 verse 8 But God commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us Galatians 3 22 says but the scripture have concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Luke chapter 5 verse 32 says I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance Non-christians or Christians who severely lack understanding of the gospel will say something like one of these statements like I Think I am a good person or if there is a God I hope he will see that I have treated people right or I go to church. I live right. I am kind to my neighbor I pray every day and I ask God to have mercy on me I have turned from all my sins and I obey the commandments or I have built good karma for example So in summary many people think they are a good person They think that their works can merit them in the sight of God And they claim to be obedient to commandments such as thou shall not steal and love thy neighbor as thyself But this is contrary to what the Bible actually teaches So for example in Romans chapter 3 verses 10 to 12 and this is paraphrasing some of the Psalms as it is written There is non-righteous. No, not one There is none that understand earth. There is none that seek after God They are all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that do with good. No, not one Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 20 says if there is not a just man upon the earth that does good and sins not Revelation 21 8 says but the fearful and Unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and homeongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars Shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death Now virtually every person has lied before if we did tell the truth We would admit that we have done stuff worse than lying. Let's face it So scripture is clear that no person can claim to be righteous before God and the consequences for sins Even as small as lying is the lake of fire Which we would sometimes Colloquially refer to as hell which the Bible also refers to as hell in other parts But there is one way to actually escape this judgment of the lake of fire So here are a few example verses Romans chapter 5 verse 8 But God commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 3 and 4 says for I delivered on to you first of all that which I also Received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again Third day according to the scriptures Second Corinthians chapter 5 verses 21 for he that is God hath made him that is Jesus to be sin for us Who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him Galatians chapter 1 verses 4 says who referring to Jesus gave himself for our sins That he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God our father So if Christ died for our sins according to those passages that we just read It does raise the question of what must we do to be saved if anything at all Acts 16 verse 30 and referring to the prison keeper brought them out and said sirs What must I do to be saved and they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house Galatians chapter 3 verse 22 says but the scripture has concluded all under sin That's the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe John chapter 3 verses 16 to 18. This is one of the most famous passages in the Bible For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish But have ever lasting life For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved He that believes on him is not condemned But he that believes not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God So the Bible's clear here that if there is something we must do to be saved It is to believe in Christ to be saved Now that does raise a question then Don't most people or released a lot of people believe in Jesus Because after all all Catholics Jehovah's Witnesses Protestants evangelical seventh-day Adventists and Mormons believe in Jesus Some Jewish sex believe in Jesus for example Jews for Jesus or messianic Jews Muslims and Hindus also believe in Jesus Some atheists believe that Jesus existed and maybe he was even a good man So there are a lot of groups that claim to believe in Jesus, but they all believe different things about Jesus So then are they all saved one might wonder Well, the Bible does give us warnings about what it calls another Jesus or another gospel This comes from 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verses 2 to 4 But I referring to Paul fear unless by any means as the serpent beguiled heath through his subtlety So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ If he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit Which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might well bear with him So scripture does warn us that there is such thing as another Jesus and another gospel So to believe in the true gospel we need to believe in the true Jesus So regarding this another gospel issue Let's look at some different things by these different religions and denominations here to see what they believe about How to be saved or how to enter into eternal life So under the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox view To be saved you must participate in sacraments such as communion and confession, etc In Islam to enter Jannah, which is what they would call heaven or paradise You must believe in Allah and his messenger and do many good deeds and repeat prayers According to the Jehovah's Witnesses if you were to check out their website They would say to live forever you must learn about God and his son You must exercise faith and build up a good friend strong friendship with God Some branches of evangelicalism and Protestantism even though it's quite broad Will say that you must repent of your sins and surrender your life to Jesus and Walk in daily obedience to him to progress towards perfection Seventh-day Advent is will say something like when you are saved You will strive to be good and pay close attention that you don't fall away and lose your salvation According to Mormonism, they might say that you must exercise your faith by doing the best you can in your own ability And then you trust in Christ for what you can't do Eastern religions like Hinduism for example will have very different beliefs But they'll believe something along the lines of how you must build up good karma by the way that you act in this life So that you can be elevated in the next life Now these religions all have many different instructions for eternal life But they all have one thing in common and that is your works Something that you do the works that you do to merit your salvation So on the one hand we saw loads of scriptures about how it's believe you must believe it's by faith in Christ But then we have all these other denominations and groups that are saying that it's something you must do You must play your part somehow like you must turn from your sins or you must pray x amount of times or whatever So it then raises the question our works of ourselves necessary or required to be saved While the Bible refutes this for example in Ephesians chapter 2 8 and 9 It says for by grace are you saved through faith, which is what you believe and that not of Yourselves so nothing to do with you. It is the gift of God not of works Lest any man should boast Romans chapter 11 verse 6 says and if referring to election is by grace Then it is no more of works Otherwise grace is no more grace But if it be of works, then it is no more grace. Otherwise work is no more work So we see that if it were by works, it's not by grace But Ephesians says it's by grace. Therefore. It must not be of works Romans chapter 4 verses 2 and 3 says that if Abraham were justified by works He has wear off to glory so he can glory in those works, but not before God So he isn't justified by his works before God for what says the scripture? Abraham believed God so it was his belief and it was counted on to him for righteousness So it wasn't his own righteousness, but it was counted on to him for righteousness through what he believed Galatians chapter 2 verses 21 says I do not frustrate the grace of God For if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain A.k. If righteousness were by our own works or our obedience to the law, Christ died for no reason It was pointless to do so So scripture is clear that salvation is by faith. That's believing not by our own works If our own works are required, there is no grace and therefore you are believing in what the Bible calls another Jesus If you insist that you must work in righteousness to the law or that is to have works Then Christ died for no reason because there is no grace in such a gospel So salvation is not earned by what you can do rather It is given freely because of what God already gave you and that will be shown in the next slide You see the Bible says that salvation is a free gift So we already read the verse from Ephesians 2 8 to 9 where it said for by grace Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves why because it is the gift of God not of works Less any man should boast Romans chapter 6 verse 23 says for the wages of sin is death But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So once again, we see that it is a gift Romans chapter 8 verses 32 says he that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all How shall he not with him also freely give us all things John chapter 4 verses 10 says Jesus answered and said unto her if thou knowest the gift of God and Who it is that safe to thee give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water So a free gift cannot be worked for it cannot be earned It cannot be purchased It cannot have any further conditions to keep it. Otherwise. It's not really a free gift And it has no conditions to work for it after receiving it because it is a free gift a Gift can only be freely accepted or rejected But you can also ask for it if you want to receive it So verses to show this like Romans chapter 10 verse 13 says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Shall be saved Acts chapter 2 verse 21 says and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Shall be saved so scriptures perfectly clear salvation is a free gift It's for those that believe and it's as simple as call upon the name of the Lord Ask him for that free gift and you shall receive Once you have accepted that gift and you are now saved and have eternal life Christ gives you some promises that he will hold on to you For example, John chapter 10 verse 28 says and I give on to them eternal life and they shall never Perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand So he's giving you a promise he gives you eternal life You shall never perish ever doesn't say might not perish and no man shall ever pluck you out of his hand John chapter 5 verse 24 says very very very I say on to you here that here is my word and believe on him that sent me has ever lasting life and Shall not Come into condemnation, but is already is passed from death on to life Second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 22 says who has also sealed us and given the earnest or a deposit of the spirit in our hearts Philippians chapter 1 verse 6 says being confident of this very thing that he which has begun a good work in you will Perform it until the day of Jesus Christ So the Bible is promising here Christ will hold on to you. He will not let you be plucked from his hand There is no condemnation for those that believe he has sealed you He has deposited the spirit for you and he has begun a good work in you and he will finish that work Now an objection that people might throw is for example wait a minute What about Christ's warnings about those who will not enter into the kingdom of heaven? There are passages in the Bible that give clear warnings that not every professing Christian will be saved and There are passages that warn about the consequences of sinning and so because of these warnings many people will insist that we Cannot just believe in Christ for salvation. We have to walk in obedience as well Otherwise, we are not heeding to these warnings and we can continue living in sin while still being saved potentially so Because this is a short video we cannot go into all of these passages in the gospel summary right now I plan to do other videos that deal with those passages, but let's look at one misunderstood passage So for those who believe that it's not enough to believe all they might even say that you can lose your salvation If you don't continue in faith by doing the work This is one of the go-to passages that they go to and this is Matthew chapter 7 between verses 21 to 23 So it says not everyone that says on to me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven But he that does the will of my father which is in heaven So it's he that does the will that will enter in not everyone who says on to me Lord Lord But we saw earlier it says that Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and so we now appear to have two different issues going on here Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in your name and in your name have cast out devils and in your name have done many Wonderful works notice. It's not just a few it says many and when it says in that day it's referring to judgment day and Then will I profess on to them? I never knew you Depart from me you that work iniquity So this passage is often used to show that it's not enough to just believe because not everybody who calls out Lord Will enter into the kingdom of heaven because we need to quote one quote do his will okay So let me show you why this is a wrong way to interpret Matthew chapter 7 So in verse 21 when it says not everyone that says to me Lord Lord Notice that verse 21 makes no mention of their belief and faith It only claims that they called Jesus Lord. So it doesn't say they called upon the name of the Lord just that they called Jesus Lord Jesus then says Essentially in order to get into the kingdom of heaven that you must do the will of his father which is in heaven So it does say that one must do with the will of the father So this is then taken as a statement to mean that we must have these works of obedience in order to be saved But let me show you with what what the problem with that is in verse 22 This group that's going to say to him Lord Lord They did say have we not prophesied have we not cast out devils have we not done many Wonderful works. So in verse 22 they unsaved here. They don't say did we not believe or did we not trust in you Lord? Instead what they said is we have done many wonderful works. That's what they're confused about They don't understand why Jesus won't let them in when they've done so many wonderful works No mention of their belief no mention of their faith at all. No mention of what Christ actually did So the people that did all the works Don't get saved, but we must do the will of the father. So Jesus said you must do the will of the father to enter into heaven But these people did the works, which is what people often say that that means But Jesus would still not let them in and so Why is that? Well, this can be examined with this can be compared with John chapter 6. So in John chapter 6 it says in verse 40 And this is the will of him that sent to me the temporary one which sees the son and believes on him may have Everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day So this is obviously not from Matthew chapter 7 where we read the other passage But Matthew chapter 7 doesn't actually specifically define what doing the will of the father entails Whereas John actually does interpret that in chapter 6 that it's to believe on him and therefore have everlasting life And earlier in the same chapter he said something very similar between verses 27 to 29 He said labor not for the meat which perish perishes But for that meat which endures into everlasting life Which the son of man shall give unto you for him has the father God the father sealed Then said they on to him. What shall we do that we might work the works of God? And this is in the context of everlasting life Jesus answered and said on to them This is the work of God for everlasting life that you you believe on him whom he has sent So scripture is clear We cannot do any works to get into it to get eternal life to be saved If there is any doing or any working at all it always comes back to believing on him and having eternal life So continuing in Matthew chapter 7 in verse 23 Jesus will profess on to them I never knew you Depart from me and then he calls them you that work iniquity workers of iniquity So notice that Jesus says I never knew you he did not say I don't know you well enough because you didn't obey my will all of the Time he also didn't say I used to know you but then you will lost your salvation and I don't know you anymore He just says I never knew you and Even though they bragged about their works and doing the works they still come under the category of workers of iniquity So once Jesus knows you you are saved and passed from death on to life If you add your own obedience and your own turning from sins as a requirement for salvation You come under the category of a worker of iniquity no matter how obedient you claim that you are So then that raises the issue of what happens if I sin after I believe because if all I have to do is believe I don't have to work for my eternal life and it has nothing to do with my obedience It does raise the question. Can I continue in sin then or what will happen if I do sin? So regarding the issue of can I carry on sinning after I believe Well Paul sets up a premise in chapter 5 verse 20 that moreover the law entered that the offense might abound But where sin abounded grace did much more abound. So wherever our sin has abounded God's grace has abounded more But then should we continue in sin? Then well Paul answers this point in Romans chapter 6 verses 1 and 2 where he says what shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid or may it never be? How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? So scripture is clear that we should not use grace as an excuse to carry on sinning But nevertheless because we have and we do sin grace does indeed abound So if we are commanded not to live no longer therein it raises the question of do true believers still sin Well Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray in Luke chapter 11 And he says and he said on to them when you pray say our father which is in heaven Hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done as in heaven so in earth Then he says in verse 3 give us day by day Our daily bread and then following on from this and forgive us our sins For we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil So Jesus teaches us here how to pray giving us a model for the type of things that we should be praying for So note that this prayer is for something that is a daily need which implies that it's a daily prayer And Jesus also tells us to ask for our sins to be forgiven and to lead us not into temptation He wouldn't need to tell us to do these things if we didn't sin But then it does raise the question of what will God do to us if we do sin And that's something that a lot of Christians struggle to come to terms with And so those that believe in a workspace salvation or think that you can lose salvation One of the doctrines that they fail to grasp and understand properly is the chastisement of believers And this refers to how God punishes believers differently from how he punishes unbelievers So we can set up a premise here in John chapter 1 verse 12 that But as many as received him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God Even to them that believe on his name So the implication is that when you believe you become the son of God And so then what happens here then Well, Hebrews 12 explains the chastisement of believers. It says in between verses 6 to 10 It says for whom the Lord loves he chasens and scourges every son whom he receives If you endure chasening God deals with you as with sons For what son is he whom the father chasens not But if you be without chastisement Whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards and not sons? Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live? For verily for a few days they verily for a few days chastend us after their own pleasure But he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness So you may notice that in the world many wicked people do wicked things And they do not appear to get chastised by God or rather At least on this earth it looks like they get away with it But we know that they will be tormented in hell for those sins But believers are already passed from death on to life they will not go to hell So they must be chastised in this life And so it is through our chastisement from our heavenly father that we can partake in his holiness So if you believe a new carry on sinning a new deliberately carry on sinning God deals with you as a son He chastises you and this could be applied in many different ways He will punish you on this earth you could end up in prison You could end up being run over by a bus for example That's just some of the ways that God could chastise you And so here are some good verses that show the chastisement of believers While still showing us that God is faithful nonetheless despite ourselves So 2 Samuel chapter 7 verses 14 says I will be his referring to David's father and he shall be my son If he commits iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men And with the stripes of the children of men And so these stripes of men and the rod of men refers to an earthly chastisement there A very similar reading in Psalm 89 between verses 30 to 34 says If his David's children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments If they break my statutes and keep not my commandments Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes Nevertheless so despite that my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that has gone out from my lips The Bible is clear that God will chasten our sins But he will not forsake us he will not go against what he said He will not take his covenant away. Well, what was his covenant? It's that whoever believes in him shall not perish but will have everlasting life God cannot go against what he himself said And this is because salvation is not dependent on our faithfulness and obedience It is dependent on Christ's faithfulness and obedience So we must trust in him and not trust in ourselves


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I'm Jerry Baker, I'm the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal, based in New York, and it's my pleasure to be here this morning with someone you all know very well, Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, who is one of the most eminent academics in the area of business economics. So, Michael, thank you again. Just tell us first of all, if you would, there's been such a lot of discussion about corporate social responsibility over the last decade or more now. But tell us, you've got an improvement on the idea of corporate social responsibility. Can you just tell us a little bit about the idea that you have been pondering and how you came to develop the insights that you developed as a result? Well, let's start with a basic idea, Jerry. The basic idea, which we call creating shared value, is about actually applying the capitalist model to addressing issues in society, issues like hunger, issues like environment, issues like water, issues like health. And I want to be clear, applying the capitalist model, creating shared value is pure unadulterated capitalism. It's about making money. But the idea is that, actually, there's no artificial need to limit the way you make money just to the conventional needs and the conventional mainstream consumer benefits that companies have been trying to create, that we can open up our thinking about creating economic value by understanding that there's huge opportunities for companies to have fundamental impacts on almost all the major issues in society. And so the idea here is actually to get capitalism working, not against the interests of society and the community, but actually integral to addressing the problems of society and the community.  Yeah. Well, how does it differ? I mean, we're just going to say we've heard a lot about corporate social responsibility. There's been an acceptance that companies somehow have something beyond the immediate profit motive as an obligation. Yeah. But so how does what you're proposing differs from that? Well, I think we're in a sort of a logical progression. I think that CSR was an effort in companies to be responsible. That word responsible is a very important word. The idea is companies have a responsibility. They need to be good corporate citizens. They need to contribute to the community. They need to comply with community standards. All those things really make up corporate social responsibility. And all that is correct. All those things are important. But ultimately, that motivation for companies is separate from the core of their business. Companies should be good. They should be generous. They should take money from their capitalist activity and invest it in this other stuff. The idea of shared values says that, no, no, no, there's a bigger opportunity. It's not taking money from capitalism and investing. It's actually rethinking how we practice capitalism. See, I think the original CSR idea was sort of do no harm. And a lot of companies set out to kind of see if they could reduce the harms they were producing in variety of ways, environmental harms, safety, accidents, things like that. The idea of shared value is not necessarily possible for every company in every situation, but it's not about actually reducing harms. It's about actually creating value. Value for a social issue, but at the same time, a business model that leads to profit. CSR is fundamentally about redistribution. Take from the prosperous and donate. And that sometimes is the only way to solve some of these issues. And sometimes that's necessary. But the CSV idea says, no, no, that's probably not going to ultimately succeed because there's only so much you can give. What if you could re-engineer the way you do your business so you could actually create a business model to get drugs to lower income people in rural areas, for example? Then you have the magic of capitalism at work. Capitalism is where all wealth is created. There is no wealth created by government. There is no wealth created by NGOs. It's where all the wealth is created. When business makes a profit, magic happens. We're not saying that every company in every situation in every market for every aspect of their business is going to be able to create shared value. But if it opens its thinking, what we find is companies can stretch their markets, stretch their consumer, differentiate themselves in completely different ways, and frankly operate their value chains in a fundamentally different way. Remember, we used to, you know, I remember, you know, not very long ago when people in business thought that being environmentally responsible was expensive. And that's the old style mindset that there's a trade-off between a social agenda and a business agenda. Now we're kind of understanding that companies can save massive amounts of money by saving energy and using resources better and thinking hard about packaging. And it's not about philanthropy. It's not about being a good guy, you know? It's about actually doing business in a smart way. So this shared value idea is just a way of opening up business to thinking about new ways of designing and developing and marketing their products and also operating business. And the trigger for it, the pull for it, the tug for it is to think about how a company can actually itself impact issues that have traditionally been defined as social issues. Capitalism has been doing this forever. Yeah, this is my point. Been doing it forever. But we've got stuck in many businesses in a very narrow view of how to compete, of who our customer was, of how to serve that customer well, of how to operate a supply chain. We got stuck because, and we didn't understand all the opportunities that we were kind of leaving on the table. Let me just, I'm just trying to figure out, because my point is that, yeah, this is how capitalism has developed looking for needs that are out there and seeking to supply those needs at the same time by gaining profit from doing it. And that's how the world has developed. That's how the world works for 100 years. But isn't it interesting that capitalism has a bad name and is viewed as dangerous for society? Right. And that's the trigger here. Why would business be seen as working against the interest of society? And I think at least the conclusion that we were reaching is that business was not understanding its power to actually benefit society. Isn't there a risk, though, that if companies go out of their way, I mean, explicitly seek social, look for opportunities where there seems to be social need, and where the primary motivation is the fulfillment of that social, the filling of that social need, that actually they will not be successful companies. They won't be successful companies because they won't be profit maximizing. That's absolutely a risk. But remember when I said the beginning, creating shared value is pure unadulterated capitalism. If you can't make money doing it, you shouldn't do it. Then it becomes part of the CSR bucket. And if it gets into the CSR bucket, there's only so much you can do. There's only so much you can give. There's only so much you can donate. There's only so many NGOs you can support. And the idea here is how much can we move things into the capitalism bucket? But capitalism means making money. So the other thing you need to say about creating shared value is it's business specific. There's no formula that applies across all companies. It's not a one size fits all. You know, a pharma company thinks differently than a mining company thinks differently than Federal Express thinks differently than Marriott. It's business specific because capitalism is business specific. Talk a little bit about you develop the concept. I think you've developed particularly three, three areas of where CS, where companies can practice CS. Can you talk a bit about those areas? The idea is that the from all the work we've done and all the companies we've worked with over the years, there seems to be kind of three buckets here. One has to do with the product itself and what features or needs the product is actually meeting and the customers that the company is seeking to serve. And the shared value idea says, well, there's a many social dimensions that can be embodied in a product. And there's often customers whose needs that have not been served that are available. So there's the product opportunity. The second opportunity has to do with what I call the value chain, the way the company actually conducts this business that has to do with the supply chain and procurement and operations and logistics and customers service and so forth. And again, if we look at that value chain with a kind of shared value perspective, again, we open up new opportunities to save energy, save packaging, have more beneficial impacts on our suppliers that benefit them and their employees.  That is the businesses and institutions around a company. Any company doesn't do everything inside the company. It depends on lots of other organizations to do their job well in order to be productive and efficient and grow its business. And the third kind of opportunity in shared value is to think about that ecosystem around the company. And the better that ecosystem is, the more effective and competitive the company can be. So those are the three buckets. We find that most companies can discover some new opportunities in each of those areas. A great example I like to use and it really illustrates the distinction between CSR and CSV is the whole way by which you procure agricultural commodities from, particularly from small farmers. Now the CSR approach to low incomes of small farmers, the CSR approach is fair trade. Pretty much everybody in this room has probably bought a fair trade product. Fair trade is about making sure that those poor farmers get an adequate price for their crop. Do the farmers have to, and that's being good. It's fair for those farmers to get an adequate price for their crop. We're being good by making sure that they get an adequate price for their crop. And yes, that'll improve the incomes of the farmers. But that's not a sustainable solution. That's just redistribution. That's paying more for the same thing. That's just passing income from one party to another. This other model of procurement is very different.  The farmer can increase their yield. They can increase their quality. They get higher prices.  It's a win-win. It's profitable. We're running quite short of time. We'll have a couple more questions. How does a financial institution go about creating shared value? You could argue, I'd be cynical for a moment, and say that maybe a great idea is to develop something called a subprime loan where you go out and you seek people who are unable to get regular access to financial markets and you create these wonderful products and then maybe you securitize them and who knows? But I'm being flippant. It's a great example. It's a big issue for financial institutions. What do they do? I think your example is a wonderful example of this was a product that was not good for many of the customers who bought it. So here's an industry that made money, you know, in a way that actually was potentially harmful for their customer. Final question. What are the policy implications here? I mean, a lot of what you're talking about seems to be on that frontier between government's role in an economy and the private sector's role in the economy. What should, I mean, should there be tax incentives to encourage companies to do this? Should there be areas that the government should say, no, no, this is our area of social responsibility? Well, I think first of all, there's a big idea here is that government and NGOs will be much more successful at what they are seeking to do if they can enable shared value on the part of the private sector. And that often requires either skills or platform investments or other sorts of sort of pre-competitive investments that will then allow business to kind of go at this shared value stuff. If we can get capitalism to work, we get some tremendous benefits. Number one, it's scalable. We can do it at infinite scale. Number two, it pays for itself. It doesn't require donations. It doesn't require philanthropy. Number three, it's kind of dispassionate. If you're not creating a benefit that funds itself, then it's not worth doing. You know, so I think that if we want to change the attitude of the public to business, it's going to be based on what we in business do, what we achieve, what we accomplish. And this is a way of getting businesses thinking about that question. Michael, we have remarkably, and given we cover a lot of ground, I could cover so much more, but remarkably, and unfortunately we've run out of time, but I please, ladies and gentlemen, join me in thanking Michael Porter.