The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Book Show. Alright everybody, welcome to Iran Book Show on this Sunday night. I hope everybody's had a fantastic weekend. Ready for the Thanksgiving week. It's Thanksgiving week so I hope everybody's ready for go back to work Monday but then long vacation once Thanksgiving begins and of course a great Thanksgiving meal and everything else associated with Thanksgiving. We will do a show dedicated to production, productivity, productiveness. We will do that on probably on Wednesday, either on Wednesday or Friday, probably on Wednesday before Thanksgiving is better. Then after Thanksgiving, so yes, something to look forward to in terms of shows. Today we'll be talking about being selfish. So basically, you know, yesterday we talked about altruism, effective altruism, the impact of altruism on somebody's life, particularly in business. And it was showed how altruism, because it's impractical and impossible to live by because it's fundamentally inherently anti-life, leads to pragmatism which leads to destruction, often fraud and a bunch of bad things, particularly in business. But I felt like, you know, what's missing here is the positive. So what's missing here is okay, so you're ejecting altruism, what is the positive that replaces it, what is a proper moral code. So that's what we'll talk about today. We'll talk about it in the context of Yuan's rules for life. This is basically the, you know, I've often talked about this as being, if you will, the most important rule because this is the rule that says be moral, be selfish. Now I know most people think that that is a complete contradiction of terms, but we're going to talk about today, about being moral, which means being selfish. And that is going to be a topic of discussion today. 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I think it's a kind of a show that has the potential to attract new people to the Iran book show. But because it's about crypto and because it's about FTX, it has the potential to get people interested in ethics, interested in, in, in what we talk about here. So if you find it interesting, then please share the show, get it out, they get as much exposure. I think people who listened to it yesterday really, really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. And, and I'd like to offer that opportunity as wide an audience as possible.  So please, please share.  So he's gone. All right, hopefully, hopefully didn't bother you too much. So yesterday I also said, look, morality is important. And, and we need a morality and human beings actually need morality. And morality is a requirement for human survival. We cannot survive without a guide, a set of principles to instruct our lives. Now, why do we need principles? I mean, we need principles because we are a conceptual being. We need principles because the world out there is super complex. We need principles because life is complicated and complex is a lot going on. And we need some, you know, we need basic shortcuts to be able to navigate it all. Just like in science, you don't have to, you know, you can establish those principles and that hopefully you establish them as true and then work off of them. You don't have to go all the way about to the basic actions every time you're doing something basic in science and then build everything up in order to prove the point. If you come to the conclusion, for example, that being dishonest is bad for you, you shouldn't have to re-prove it every time it's hard. You're talking to people all the time.  You could evade, you could ignore reality, which is what honesty is really about. It's about being honest to yourself, it's about not evading, it's about being true to the facts. So we need guiding principles. We need principles that provide us with cognitive shortcuts so that we can progress, so that we can live, so that we can act out there in the world. Now first we need to prove those principles, we need to make clear to ourselves that the principles are true, but once we do that, and as long as we don't get any new information to suggest that a principle, we might have made a mistake that the principle needs to be revised or reformed or needs to be scrapped altogether, we use that principle as a, in a sense, a cognitive shortcut in order to be able to live. So I don't have to, you know, all I see in the world around me is reinforcement of the principle of this, of the, you know, be honest. And given that all I, I'm just honest, I don't have to rethink it, I don't have to question it, I don't have to say, ooh, maybe this time, maybe this time. Maybe this time I can get away with it, or maybe this time getting away with it will actually serve a purpose. No, I know that it's always, always, always going to be harmful to me, harmful to me. So as human beings we have to have principles. And when it comes to human action, when it comes to our lives and living our lives, the most fundamental principles to guide our day-to-day lives are the principles of morality. Morality is there not to, for special cases, morality is not about what are called trolley problems. Morality is not about lifeboat situations. Morality provides us with the principles on which we live our daily lives. We are not born with the knowledge of how to live our daily lives. We're not born with the knowledge of how to survive, never mind with the knowledge of how to thrive. I mean, we don't have the instinct, the survival instinct that animals are born with, or the plants have embedded in their DNA. We do not know what to pursue in order to survive. We know we have to eat, we feel hunger, we can eat shrubs and we can eat berries and we can eat nuts, but anything beyond that requires more than what biology has left us with. It requires us learning about our environment, understanding our environment, figuring out, solving problems, building ultimately tools, being productive, using our minds. We don't know instinctually how to do that. It actually requires effort and it requires learning. It requires trial and error. It requires, as all trial and error does, sometimes failure. It requires learning.  But what does that code of values gear towards? Well, it seems obvious. I mean, once you get it, I guess, it seems kind of obvious that given that we don't know how to survive, the code of value should be geared towards survival and thriving and living. It should be geared towards oneself, one's own life, one's own life, living, survival, thriving, flourishing. One of the three words says, conjecture and experimentation. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're missing, and this is what Papa and Deutsch miss, you're missing the first step and the first step is observation and induction, then conjecture and then experimentation. But the conjecture has to come from somewhere, the conjecture is not random, the conjecture is not arbitrary, the conjecture has to be based on facts of reality, based on something that you're observing based on some kind of phenomena. A lot of problems, I think, in science today, a lot of problems in our world because people start with conjectures. You start with reality, you always start with facts, you always start with the evidence provided to you by your senses or by the extrapolation from evidence provided to you by your senses and only then can you have a conjecture. But that is a whole other topic for another time. So morality's purpose is to help you guide your life. Help you guide your life for what? What is life for? Well, it's to be lived.  Hey, Shakespeare. Shakespeare is very good because he often comes up with formulations for the real fundamental interesting questions in life. It is. Everything is to be or not to be. To live or not to live, to exist or not to exist, to be or not to be. And if you want to be, that's where morality steps in with guidance. But to be means to be. To live means I live. To exist means I exist. And the means by which I live, the means by which I exist, requires me to be engaged. Me, as we'll see, to think. Troy, thank you. I really, really appreciate it. Troy comes in with 500 Australian dollars, as he does periodically, particularly for The Rules of Life show. So thank you, Troy. I really appreciate the ongoing support for months now, years now. So who should be? So morality is almost, you know, morality is almost, traditionally almost, not quite, right? The code of values that allows me to survive. The code of values that allows me to live. It's selfish. It's self-interested. It's about me. Others can only enter the equation. Other people only enter the equation once I decide I want to live. And then the question is what kind of relationship should I have with other people? But altruism starts with the other. Altruism negates the individual. It says no, the purpose of your existence is them. Why? The purpose of my existence is me. And yes, I might care about them. I might want to help them. I might want to give them stuff. I might want to have a loving relationship with them. I might want to do communicate with them. I might want to trade with them. I might want to do a lot of things with them. But how can they be the starting point when it starts with me?  It starts with him observing the world that's there. But it's the baby. It's all about the baby staying alive, figuring out life, figuring out gaining knowledge. It's all about them. So Morelli is about the principles. The principles that will lead you as an individual to survive and to thrive. I think I've said that like 350 times. But it's true and it's worth repeating and repeating and repeating. And the whole question again of what we do with other people is something that comes in much later. And you know, note that the collectivists, you know, I find it interesting. I was reading to you a few, you know, a couple of months ago, we read the statement of the National Conservatives. And National Conservatives don't believe it starts with the individual. They don't believe it starts with you as an individual. To them, everything starts with the family. But the family is individuals, several individuals indeed. And it's still true that each one of those individuals needs to do the things necessary for itself in order to survive. Otherwise they won't survive. Now it's true that as children, we need help in order to learn the skills to allow us to survive as an individual. But that's exactly what parenting is all about, providing you with those skills. But the skills to learn how to survive as an individual, as an independent, separate person. There is no glob of being called family. There's no glob of being called tribe. There's no glob of being called the collective. There is just you and your relationships or not with other people. So the whole point of charity and how to treat the people and how to help the poor and how to help the suffering and what kind of relationship you should have with your family and the importance of family and should you have kids and should you take care of your aging parents. The million questions that come up that have to do with human relationships are way down the road. There are consequences of coming up with certain principles around morality. But the first is I have to take care of myself. I have to live. I have to succeed. I have to live as a human being. That's what I am. That means as a cognitive being, I need to cultivate cognition.  I should live a good flourishing life. I want principles to help me live that flourishing life and I want my relationship with other people, whoever they are, including the tribe or the nation or the family or whatever it is.  So the key here I want to emphasize is that you need to really think, really invest in, really devote time and resources to figuring out how to live a good life for you.  And I just want to make the point of what does that entail, the first and most important thing and then I'll leave you to go study the ethics but then I can take on the questions of what about all the what aboutisms that have to do with selfishness because unfortunately there are a lot of them and I hope that you guys will ask questions in the super chat of course about how to apply this to a gazillion situations because that's what this is really about. How do I apply this in what does it mean and what do I do with my life? I don't know that I've answered all those questions but hopefully you can ask questions that are related to this. I think Wes has already a question related to love and love being selfish or selfless and so on so more comment than a question I think. So please think about questions that relate to this issue of being selfish and how to apply it and what does it, yeah, what does it mean? Now what is the tool? What is the thing you have to do if you want to be successful in life? What is the thing you have to do if you want to survive? I mean again go back to that basic alternative of life or death. What makes human life possible? What makes it possible for eight, I think it's now eight billion people to live on planet Earth? How did how do they survive? What makes it possible for so many of them to survive? I mean it's possible that you could have some people, some homo sapiens and maybe at the beginning this is how it was roaming around and collecting nuts and berries and surviving somehow like that but our environment does not facilitate much of a life if that's how you live it. Not many human beings can survive on nuts and berries and other animals are going to beat us but they're not in a very game, they're going to beat us in every game. I mean you put a human being versus a saber-to-tiger, the human being doesn't have a chance unless you put a human being against lions, the human being said doesn't have a chance unless you put human beings against the weather, climate change. That doesn't have a chance unless, unless what? What do human beings need to do to go beyond the nuts and berry game? What do human beings need to do in order to defeat the saber-to-tiger now in a museum as eight billion people roam the Earth? What do you have to do in order to defeat the lion now on safari or in a mazu while eight billion people roam the Earth? What do we have to do if we are going to survive?  Every few episodes somehow human beings to survive have no alternative but to use their reason. Reason is our means of survival. Reason is the way in which we survive. It's the way in which we defeat the saber-to-tiger, we build weapons, we build traps, we communicate with other people, we work as teams. Hunt requires weapons, skills, strategy, traps, communication. We have agriculture, requires some scientific knowledge that a seed becomes a plant, that watering helps, that ultimately fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer can boost yield dramatically. We need knowledge. We can only gain knowledge by using our reason, by using our senses to identify reality, integrating the facts of reality into concepts, using those concepts to understand, help us understand the world. As we said, conceptualization, induction, theorizing, experimentation, discovery of truth, application of that truth to survival. And you know, human beings are very good at this. From simple agriculture to GMO, from simple huts to skyscrapers, from, you know, hunting and roasting an animal on a fire all the way to, I don't know, three miscellaneous dog gourmet meals. We're very good at figuring out reality. When we use our reason, we do amazing. And indeed, certainly over the last 300 years, or 250 years, we have dedicated our reason to mastering the natural world, to mastering nature, more so than any other period in human history. And the success is unbelievable.  I say, just look out the window. Just look at your iPhone. Just examine the technology you're using right now. Everything around us in the material world is an example of somebody somewhere at some point being rational. There's nothing else. iPhones don't just come out of no way, buildings don't just grow out of the ground. It's all a product of human reason. So we're capable of it. Now, does it require effort to sustain continuously and to apply to every aspect of your life? Yes. Do we have to have some knowledge to understand the value of applying it to every aspect of our lives? Yes. But its efficaciousness is unquestionable, and our capacity to do it is unquestionable. It's evident in everything we surround ourselves with in our entire lives and everything around us. There are massive examples of rationality, of reason, of people applying their minds. Well, at least some people applying their minds. But everybody has to apply their minds to some extent. To some extent, everybody has to be rational or they'd be dead. So if rationality is a means by which we live, we survive, we thrive, we succeed, we build, we create, then rationality is what it means to be selfish. What it means to be selfish is to be rational, to apply rationality to every aspect of our lives, to use reason in everything that we do, to let reason guide our lives. Not emotion, not revelation, not other people, not randomness, but consistently in every aspect of our lives to apply rationality, reason. That's what it means to be selfish. It's not about whim worship. It's not about getting the girl at the bar. This has been a pure version of selfishness. It's not about doing the short-term expedient thing. That's pragmatism, often a consequence of altruism as we saw yesterday. It's about thinking about the outcome of every action that we take over the long run, its long run impact on our life. It's about thinking through the values that we seek and making sure that those values are aligned with our life, aligned with our other values, integrated into how we need to live in order to thrive. So being selfish is a compliment. It means recognizing the fact that your life is the most valuable thing to you. Being selfish means recognizing that reason is your guide to surviving and to thriving.  It's a compliment that says you've recognized the value of your life. You've recognized the means by which you must seek it. Being selfish means being a thinking human being focused on pursuing his values for the purpose of his own success, his own flourishing. I've said this in other shows. I've said this many, many times over the years. I've said this in talks. I've said this over and over again. But so many of our listeners, the Iran Book Show, are relatively new. There were some people yesterday who seemed surprised by what I said about altruism. So I thought it would be a good idea and I think it's a good idea to talk about what the alternative is. Well, the alternative is to think, to think in the context of how do I make my life better? How do I live the best life I can live? And I've said this often, but life is short. Every second you live it is gone. Never get it back. You don't rewind life. There's no rewind switch. I can get that minute back. I can get that day back. I can get that hour back and get that life back. You can't get any of it back. So what you need is to build on whatever happened in the past to make the future even better and constantly focus on making that future better. For whom? For you. Because you is what you got. You is what you got. So to be selfish is, properly, is to be rational, is to think long term. And there are virtues that are associated, I've done whole shows on the various virtues, the virtues associated with being selfish that Ayn Rand articulates in the virtue of selfishness. Those virtues are all applications of rationality, the different aspects of one's life. But morality is not other people. Morality is not how you treat other people. That's an aspect of morality, primarily justice. But it's not morality. Morality is living the principles of living for yourself. For yourself. There is no selfishness that is not rational. There is no self-interest that is not rational. To be selfish is to be concerned with self. To be concerned with one's own survival and one's own thriving. The only way to do that is by being rational. To be self-interested is to pursue the interests of you. The values that lead to you having a better life. There's no way to do that other than by being rational. So there's no such thing in a sense as rational self-interest, there's self-interest. Rational selfishness, there's selfishness. Rational might be clarifying and often is helpful to use in order to clarify. But it is not, but it is implicit if you have a proper understanding of self-interest, granted, nobody has, almost nobody has, it's implicit in the term self-interest. It's implicit in the term selfishness. Daniel says to be selfish is to equal self-esteem. Not exactly, right? I mean, I in one interview uses that interchangeably. But in the virtue of selfishness in her essay on ethics, self-esteem is a value one must pursue. And one must pursue it. Why? Because it is a survival value. It is part of what makes it possible for you as an individual to survive and to thrive as a human being. You need to have the self-confidence, the self-assuredness, the self-knowledge, the idea that you belong on this earth, that you are capable of dealing with a factor of reality, that you can flourish in this world. That's what self-esteem is, is that self-assuredness and self-value. So, in this sense, I think Ein Rahn talked about self-esteem as equal to selfish.  And you can only be the standard if you value yourself. You can only be the standard if you care about yourself. You can only be the standard if you are confident in your own worthiness to be alive and to thrive and to be happy ultimately. You cannot be happy. You cannot succeed. You cannot survive as a human being unless you have that kind of confidence in your own worthiness. Worthiness. So yes, self-esteem is a big part of being selfish. You have to have it. You have to pursue it. Reason. And finally, purpose. There has to be a purpose to what you're doing. You have to know why you're doing what you're doing. Why are these values your values? What purpose do they serve? What, where are they leading you in life? So, yeah, Ein Rahn used selfishness when she was confronted with the idea, well, you know, the term selfishness is kind of puts people off. And she said, well, use another word, self-esteem. Self-esteem is a more acceptable term, if you will. It's a term that people are willing to accept. All right. So, Rahn's rules for life, really, rule number one is in your own rational, long-term self-interest. And that action should always be guided by reason. And reason is your tool for being self-interested. So be selfish. Pursue selfish values. Live. Again, live with that capital L. Remember, we've talked about the capital L. Live. Live a full life. Live the best life you could possibly live. Embrace life. Rejoice in life. Make life exciting, thrilling, interesting. You know, one of the things about altruism is it's so boring. Other people have to focus on other people constantly. What about me? What about my values? Oh, pursuing my values, that's exciting. Pursuing other people's values. They're their values, they're not mine. And that means think for yourself, be independent. It means be honest with yourself and with everybody else around you, which is just an application of rationality. Be just. Treat people justly. And everything that all of that implies. All right, I think that's basically what I wanted to say. Be self-interested. Forget this effective altruism. I think Don Watkins has a book coming out. I think he said this publicly, so I don't think this is a secret. There's a book coming out called Effective Egoism, Effective Selfishness, Effective Self-Interest. That's what we should be focused about, by being effective in pursuing our values, and being effective in pursuing life. Now, I think Effective Egoism is already coined by Don Watkins. Shazbot, $500, really? Idiocracy? Is that a... It really is a movie you think I should watch. Even for $500. All right, Money Speaks on the Iran Book Show. It's all about the dollars. It's not all about the dollars, but dollars are important. Yes, I think Don actually has a book coming out called Effective Egoism or Effective Selfishness or something like that.  And while I value $500 and I'll do a view of it, I won't have any joy in it. But it might not be. Idiocracy might be a completely different movie. All right, Idiocracy is a cult movie. What kind of cult? Cult of what? Cult of whom? All right, so let's see. Where are we? So please think about questions related to the application of selfishness. The selfishness means you should treat people really, really badly. The selfishness means you don't care about other people. What about selfishness and charity? Can charity be selfish? All of those things that would come out of the cross-section between the show in effect of altruism and FTX from yesterday and the show today on selfishness. Let me know what kind of questions come up. You can ask for $2. You can ask for $5. You can ask for very little money. So please ask anything that comes to mind relating to this issue of selfishness, because I know it's a troubling concept. It's a concept that is new for many people, and it's a concept that's definitely super controversial out there in the world. So feel free to ask questions about it. We don't have a lot of super chat questions. They're high dollar, lots of high dollar super chat questions today, plus we got Troy with 500 Australian dollars, and we got Charles Buck with 500 American dollars with a movie review. So we're well in our way in terms of, we've already achieved our goal fundraising-wise. Now it's just a matter of, you've got another 45 minutes if you want of the show, or I can end it before that, of you asking questions around anything really, but I'd love it for the questions to be about your confusions related to selfishness, self-interest, morality, or anything like that. All right, Vadim asks, in movie Beautiful Mind, Nash uses the analogy of a boss scene that he later devises into game theory. It appears that he's ignoring the morality of the issue just like Adam Smith, and I can't remember the exact boss scenes, I can't remember the exact framing that he uses. Does this method actually work in economics? Can you help me unpackage the contradiction? Yes, I mean, game theory is a good example of a theory that is kind of interesting. I'm sure you can find applications for it, but it is, for the most part, detached from reality. In all, because it's trying to model, game theory tries to model human behavior, it abstracts a way, it has to simplify dramatically because human behavior tends to be far more complex, they can be easily modeled mathematically or modeled economically, so it abstracts a way and simplifies everything, so that the answers then become what I think is pretty uninteresting. So game theory is, again, it can be useful in narrow cases, often game theory, though positive situations that have so many constraints and so many limitations on them that, yes, within these constraints and limitations, game theory works, but real life never prevents you with these kind of constraints and these kind of limitations. So the actual game theoretical results are not that interesting. So I don't think game theory is particularly useful. I don't think game theory is particularly explanatory of human behaviors. I think in real life, in actual real life, there are very few occasions in which game theory is useful. Suddenly, trying to understand what other people are going to do when trying to make a strategic decision about a particular direction is useful and important, trying to understand their incentives, trying to understand how those incentives change as you interact with them, as you present content, as you do what you do, all of that is important. I call all of that a strategy. But to try to turn that into some kind of mathematical equation or to show through game theory that, you know, I don't know that reason is not efficacious, or that sometimes game theory is used to show that it's not in your self-interest to be self-interested in a sense. You know, most of that is just untrue. And he ignores morality, but I agree that he ignores morality. Absolutely he ignores morality. But morality, you know, morality is, if you will, part of the game, but he's ignoring so much of the game. Morality is just one of the many things he's ignoring. Morality is, of course, a basic principle that he's ignoring, but there are many things that in the game theoretical framework just don't make any sense, because game theory, again, is very, very constrained and very, very limited to very, very specific scenarios. You can't live your life based on game theory.  So Nash was brilliant, obviously. You know, a lot of things like game theory, wonderful rationalistic creations in our minds, a very powerful, brilliant mind can manipulate concept and manipulate objects inside his head, but the extent to which they apply to actual reality, the extent to which they reflect reality, the extent to which they are, you know, again, they are, in a sense, derived from reality is questionable. It's often that connection to reality doesn't exist.  So I'm not a fan of game theory. I don't think it helps with economic analysis. And it ignores reality, not just, not just what do you call it, not just morality, but much more broader reality. I mean, for example, the prisoner's dilemma is constrained to specific terms and specific conditions. And once you go outside of those terms and conditions, you know, it's not meaningful anymore. All right, I have a feeling all of that was really floating. To really answer the movie properly, I'd have to either, I'd have to bring you some good game theory examples. So I don't know if that satisfies you, Vadim. Let me know. You can let me know here in the chat. But I think if you presented like a game theory example, how a game theory progresses, then I could show you how it's fundamentally detached from reality and what the problem with that is. So I, yeah, I'm open to doing that if Vadim, you think that is necessary. And if you're not satisfied with my answer so far. I know that's a $200 question, so I want to make sure that Vadim is satisfied with the answer that I give. Wes says, one of the most frustrating attitudes in the culture is that love is supposed to be selfless. It's such a contradiction that amazes me that people take it seriously. I agree completely. It's frustrating and it's absurd and it's ridiculous and it's so easily proven not to be true. But you see, you have to understand what people mean by selfish and what people mean by selfless, right? So to them selfish means uncaring about other people. When you say love is selfish, they go, wait a minute, no, no, no, that cognitive dissonance because to them selfishness means not caring about other people. So how can you love and be selfish? And to them selflessness means, it doesn't really mean what the word says, which is not caring about self. It means, by implication, caring about others. Well, if you care about others, you must love others.  It has to be that other person has to be important to you and when you say that, yeah, but isn't the person you love important to you? Yes. Well, but isn't that selfish because it's about yourself? No, no, no, no, no, wait, selfish means not caring about other people. But what if those other people are important to you? What if those other people make your life better? What if those people are necessary for your happiness? What if those other people are great value to you? See, you have to spell it out for them because they are so conditioned around selfishness that it's, you know, a negation of others. And the same with self-less, they don't think about what the concept actually means to be selfless, to have no self. Well, then who is the I in the loving? Whereas the I love you, there is no I if it's selfless. I am an empty vessel, I am a nothing. It's not exactly an endorsement of love, but they don't see it that way. All they see again is selfless means I care about other people. That is, that's what it means. So it's our job, so while it's frustrating, it's our job to unpackage it for them. And of all the concepts that we have out there, I think love is the easiest one to do because it's so obvious. I mean, Iron Man's example of, imagine, I think she uses this example, imagine if you go up to your spouse to be on the wedding, the night before the wedding and say, I don't love you for me. This is a complete sacrifice. I'm doing this selflessly.  When I use that example in talks, everybody laughs and thinks, well, that's ridiculous.  Love is selfish. Hopefully that is clarifying in terms of how to deal with these people West. But yes, the frustration is there. Where is Vadim? I'm not getting any response from Vadim. I'm hoping Vadim is still there. And he says something on the chat that suggests that what the next step should be. Alright, Andrew asks, some people deny that self exists. How does one know the metaphysical reality of self? Well, if there's no self, how does one know anything? What does knowledge refer to? Whose knowledge? Knowledge in what context?  How can you deny the self exists? Haven't you noticed that it's you denying who is you if there's no self? So the whole thing is self contradictory. The self exists because you can observe it directly. The self exists because you are doing something. The self exists because even the denying of self is affirmation of the self because it's you doing the denying.  So anybody who denies the self exists is engaging in a blatant contradiction.  It's silly because it's again self contradicting. I deny that I exist. What's the first I? How can the first I exist? The I deny. Well, the only reason I can deny is because I exist. Right. Friend Harper. Do you have any thoughts on Russell Cook? I read a book by him to better understand conservatism. It is very in line with the 10 conservative principle manifestos. It was advocated to me by an atheist ironic. Yeah. I mean, Russell Cook is revived conservatism in the United States in the after World War II. I think it was, was kind of a leading light inspired the conservative movement of the 50s and 60s and 70s. He is, he was the inspiration behind, what's his name? The National Review. And really all modern conservatism in the United States. And yes, all the national conservative principles are there. They might be with different emphases, might be with different degrees. He was very religious, but then that's what conservatism is. Remember, conservatism is very religious. What's the pompous guy used to run the National Review's name who used long words so that nobody could understand what the hell he was talking about? What's the name of that guy? God, nobody's answering me. How could that be possible? No, not Jonah Goldberg, God. No sense of history, nothing. From the 50s and 60s and 70s, William F. Buckley. Thank you, Daniel, God. William F. Buckley. So, you know, William F. Buckley was super religious. You see, the reason you're duped by conservatism is conservatism from the 60s on was basically a deal cut by the traditional conservatives who were super religious and were super irrational and did not care about free markets. But cared about conserving religious values. And the anti-Soviet, call them liberals, who were strong farm policy, many of them were neoconservatives, strong farm policy. Didn't care that much about religion. Many of them were atheists, but were quite happy. But viewed religion as necessary to provide, you know, a morality to the masses, necessary for this coalition. And the third leg of the stool, they called it, were the libertarians or the free market types. You didn't care that much about religion and didn't care necessarily that much about farm policy, but cared about free markets. And that deal, which William F. Buckley manufactured, is what made conservatism in, let's say, 70s and 80s and maybe even 90s semi-okay, seemed reasonable because we attracted to some of their ideas under free markets and we attracted to some of the ideas under farm policy. And then there was an overarching idea of they loved the founding fathers even though they distorted the real founding fathers' message. But today that stool is being broken. That's gone. The neo-conservatives are off in their own corner and the free market people are being shunned completely for the conservative movement. And now conservatism has returned to its rustic roots, which are much more about religion and nationalism and religion and nationalism and collectivism and the negation of the individual and the negation of the founding fathers and the negation of the founding ideal and the negation of the Enlightenment. So in a sense conservatism has returned to where it began. Conservatism has returned to its founding principles anchored in Russell Koch and even further back in the writings of the British thinker who objected to the French Revolution. Anyway, but really to Russell Koch who I think is much more in the spirit of American conservatism than many of the British or the other thinkers who in many respects were much more secular. They wanted to preserve institutions but they were at heart much more secular than American conservatives who take their religion very, very seriously. Yeah, Burke, thank you, Burke was the British conservator. So, yeah, I mean, I think it's good to read Russell Koch if you want to understand conservatism, it's the real deal, it's the real thing. It's all watered down by their attempt to form a coalition around conservatism later on.  I mean that was the grounding but I don't think it was quite as, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it was quite as obsessed with religion or committed to religion as was Russell Koch and as are American conservatives today and you can see part of that in the inheritance that is the conservative party in England while nominally religious is very secular and believes in the monarchy but doesn't have that adamant religious flavor to it as the true conservative movement has in the United States. Mel says I like Goldwater. Yeah, I mean, Goldwater was an example of the more libertarian leaning, free market leaning conservatives who used religion to try to provide a moral explanation for capitalism. You know, what's his name? Goldwater was also very secular when it comes to individual liberties. He was also very good in foreign policy and he was very good and he was good in the founders but he was not a true conservative in the sense that true conservatives, i.e. Russell Koch, Edmund Burke try conservatives are much, much, much, much more religious than Goldwater. I mean, Goldwater could not win today, for example, in Arizona. Goldwater could not win in the conservative movement today. Yoam Khazoni and Goldwater would not get along.  Doesn't belong in their movement. So if you want to understand conservatism, Russell Koch is a good place to go and, again, the conservative movement, the conservative coalition is gone. Gone, gone, gone. When Peter Schwartz was on your show, he used the term non-predatory, rational, self-interest, frame the objective concept of selfish that way to layman these days and it seems to resonate with him, one day I can just stay selfish. Yeah, I mean, I agree.  But in the world in which we live, it's necessary because people don't get it. People assume that selfish means exploiting other people. Selfish means using other people. Selfish means not caring about other people and none of those things are true. And I think using non-predatory, I think using rational are good ways to make it clear to people that being truly selfish does not involve exploiting other people. Being truly selfish does not involve not caring about other people. Being truly selfish does not involve win-worshipping. Doing whatever pleases you in the moment, sniffing cocaine because it's going to give you a high. Stealing your customer's money because you want money right now. None of that is selfish. All of that is predatory or irrational emotionalism. But none of it and all of it is selfless. So to be a predator is selfless. To be a predator means you don't care about yourself. To be a lying, chilling, lying, cheating, stealing, thief. To be SPF is to be selfless. It's to be selfless. It's to ignore your own needs. It's to ignore you. It's to ignore what you need in order to be successful in life. And indeed, SPF is going to land up in jail. That is the consequence of being selfless. Destruction. Destruction is ultimate destruction. Is the consequence of being selfless. And they all get destroyed. Inside and often outside as well. In the material world and certainly in their own psyche. Brian says, I sometimes work with people who used violence as a form of survival. Like defending your reputation. Explain to one of my trainees trying to leave that like behind the nuance of proper egoism. That's great. And I'm sure it can't be easy. But violence, unless it's in self-defense, violence is self-destructive. And the fact that he needs work from you suggests that he's not being successful in life. So it's violence again, lying, cheating, stealing, all of that is selfless, self-destructive. It's bad for you. It's not, not, not, not selfish.  Philosophical, zombie-ass. Did you find out about cost-disease socialism? No. I don't know what cost-disease socialism is. And I guess you've mentioned in the past because you're asking me, but cost-disease socialism. How subsidizing costs can, while restricting supply, drives America's fiscal imbalance. Okay, I see what that is. Yeah, I don't know what's called cost-disease socialism. But yes, that's absolutely true. I mean, what we do, what all, hi Vadim, thank you. Appreciate, I'm glad you found value in my answer and that you're satisfied. But we could go deeper into game theory if you would like. I would just need some time to prepare. Thank you.  We subsidize, we don't require people to produce in order to consume. And then we restrict supply through regulation and through taxing capital, but primarily through regulation. So that creates a lack of innovation, a lack of progress, a lack of availability of stuff. And because the consumption is subsidized, you know, it creates inflation. It creates a rising cost, a rising cost of the things that are not being produced. You can see that in housing, right? We subsidize housing through the mortgage system by making mortgage interest tax deductible, by having government entities like Freddie and Fannie buy the mortgages so that they drive down interest rates. So we subsidize people buying homes, but at the same time we restrict the number of homes that can be built. And the consequence of that is price goes up, shrink supply. While encouraging demand, price will go up and you see that over and over again and you see it in lots of goods. But housing is probably the most obvious and biggest example of that. Thanks Philosophical Zombie Hamta. Let me know if you want me to delve deeper into this issue of cost disease socialism. But I need to look at it a little bit just to figure out where they got their name because it is a weird name for something. All right, that's all the super chat questions I got today. Wow, that's a thin super chat question day, although we raised a lot of money today. So we're doing great in terms of the revenue, but not a lot of questions, which is fine. We'll end a little early. Lately we've been doing two to an half hour shows, so this is good. I will see you all probably tomorrow night with the show. I'm thinking of doing the show. I think of calling the show, he's back. With he referring to Trump, of course, and maybe talking about Trump's return.  Amen. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Thanks for the support. Another hundred dollars. And friend Harper with a question. Have you read the book Starship Trooper? Yes, I have. The book is completely different in that the book focuses on social political morality and war theory. Really good book. Yes, I like Robert Henley's books Starship Trooper was I thought a good book. The idea that in order to vote, you would have to serve in the military is not completely crazy. You know, again, I think that I don't think everybody should necessarily be able to vote and indicating some knowledge or some willingness to fight for the principles on which the political system is built is not a bad idea. If you're going to allow people to vote, they should have a stake in what they're voting for. But you know, I read it, I don't know, 30 years ago, but the book is a good book. And generally I enjoyed a lot of Robert Henley's books. The fun, the challenging intellectually, the bending your mind. He's presenting different concepts and different ways of thinking about different things, about different structures for society, about sexual relationship. A lot of it has to do with sexual relationship. He challenges monogamy. He is generally a thought-provoking author. And I find his books interesting and definitely worth reading. So Starship Trooper being one of them. And of course, Heinlein had a book in which he had a Randian. He had an objective as character and that was The Moon is a Hosh Mistress. So all right. All right, we'll talk about the World Cup tomorrow on the news show. That'll be tomorrow at 11 o'clock Eastern time. We'll talk about, so the next show is tomorrow at 11 o'clock Eastern time. We'll talk about politics and what's happening in Washington, DC. We'll talk about the just completed climate change conference. We'll talk about Qatar having the World Cup. And we can't talk about everything because the news is so full. But we'll have to leave stuff for Tuesday, but there's a lot of stuff to talk about. So make sure if I don't mention the World Cup tomorrow, make sure to make that a super chat question. All right, everybody, unless somebody has a quick question, really appreciate it. Thank you, Armin, for jumping in with that the last minute. The support. Thank you, Troy. Thank you, Vadim, and thank you, Shazbot, for contributing a significant amount of money today. And almost getting us to double, really, this close to double our goal. So great day. Thanks, everybody. See you all tomorrow, tomorrow, 11 o'clock a.m. And maybe tomorrow night as well. You know, I don't know. What do you think? Should I do the show just on Trump? Just a whole show on Trump? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. All right. See you guys. Have a great night.


Stevenson gets an 82-36 win over Kings this afternoon, Glenn Clark alongside coach Jackie Boswell, coach those second and third quarters. How do you bottle that up and just try to get that every time out? Well, I mean, I think it's just something that's got to be consistent. And I felt like our last two practices yesterday and when we got back from break and everything, we've had that kind of energy. And if we can sustain that, it's going to be a long season to come up. But I think we're ready. The way that we came back from break, I'm really happy, felt like today, we kind of put it all together a little bit. So yeah, it's all about consistency. And that's what we've been talking about. I feel like the shooting is what stands out the most. Did you know that at some point, once this team got their rhythm, that you're going to be able to shoot like this? I did. That's why I recruited them. Yeah, I mean, we knew that they could score. We have a lot of scores on our team. It was really a matter of getting them to buy into the defense. And so at this level, it's really hard to have a shooting game like that all the time. But it's never bad to have a defensive game. So just trying to get them to switch their mindset from offense to defense, and that the defense is going to spark the offense, felt like today something came on. I think the switch came on a little bit. We just got to keep it on. It feels impossible to just have any player that stands out because everybody was chipping in. But it felt like in the second quarter when Imani got going. That was sort of what got the entire offense going. She's such a spark plug. How impressed have you been by someone? I don't want to try to belittle her size, but someone at that size to be that quick and to have such a spark for your offense, how impressed have you been with what she's offering? Well, I'm really impressed with her. I mean, she might be small, but there's nothing small about her heart. And she works really hard every day in practice. She wants to get better. And she's got a huge upside. And it's because of her work ethic. So that is definitely something that's not small. The important stuff, you thought this might be the year that you were going to win the Gingerbread House competition and came up a little bit short again. I did, because you know, you follow me on Facebook. At least I got second place. I didn't get last, but you have tested one again. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now, how many? Five in a row. Does this have how long you've been doing it? Is this five years? Oh, she's undefeated. Five for five. Five for five. What do you do to change that? I don't know. Smash it next time when she's halfway through it. I don't know. I don't know. She's got us. Give me, obviously, you guys moving to conference play now. So give me a New Year's resolution for this team in conference play. Our New Year's resolution is we're going to focus on our body language, myself included. And we want it to always be positive, always have energy, even when we're not feeling well. We know that the next couple of months are going to be really difficult. And that's going to be a tough resolution. But that's what we're going to do it, and we're going to hold each other accountable. Congratulations on a great performance today. We'll see you back here on Wednesday. Great. Thank you. Jackie Boswell. I'm Glenn Clark. Go Mustang Sports.TV.


between the legs, I get to my finish and again the main thing we're focusing on is this back hook and driving, right, driving, driving, driving, getting above the knee. Okay, getting to this position, all right, a couple people ask, well what if this guy comes up here, tries to take me over the top? If he does, go out to the car and get like a battle axe or something, like that guy's that much stronger than you. There's no way he should be on his back and just be able to claw me and like roll me through unless my hips are like on top of him. Like I said, my butt's off the mat, but I'm driving. There's no way he should take me through. And if he does reach up like this, then just crotch his wrist. He's just basically giving you perfect position here. Now, a lot of times they'll grab this low ankle here with the bottom hand. Okay, all I'm going to do, I'm going to stay in the same position. I'm going to attack his wrist, but I can't kick straight away. Pull it in real tight. I can't kick straight away. I literally can't. Okay, I'm going to attack his wrist, bring my knee to my chest and kick the ceiling. Now I have his wrist. I take his wrist and I feed it to my hand that was leg half. This is just grand B system, forced roll kind of position right here. I'm grabbing under. Did I see that? I'm not grabbing his fingers. I'm grabbing under the wrist. Now this hand's free. Now I can attack the head and scissor my legs and finish all these positions if you want. Okay, but I don't want you here and then just grabbing the head. This guy's going to tie up my ankles and it's going to be a mess down here. He might grab at my ankle with his top hand and try to belly down here. Nothing's different. That's why we leg half. If I'm just hand on the mat, he'll keep turning down and I'll lose this position. So that's why we drive and leg half. I have his foot off the mat. Again, it's a battle of feet in the mat. I got my feet in the mat. He's got one foot in the mat. Attack the wrist, knee to the chest, kick the ceiling. Now when I attack top hand, I have a couple options. I can throw the wrist away and turn towards the legs or I can bring my leg hand half out and turn towards the head just like I talked about a minute ago. And in a wrestling match, you have to start calculating risk factor based on the position you are in the match.   Your problem solved. Okay, last one we'll get to here is when he locks in the crotch. So I still have my leg half and he locks in the crotch. Most of the time, this guy's like, you know what? I'm just going to hang on for a stalemate here, especially if the ref hadn't given me anything. So I can come under the arm and I can break his grip with my hips and my shoulders. Okay. And again, I can come under to the half or I can start turning towards the legs. All right. If I can't break his grip right here, I just change arms right here. You ever watch John Smith show a lot of his low single finishes and single leg attacks and guys try to lock in the crotch? This is the exact same finish. He specifically talks about when the guy's high up on the crotch right here, shifting his butt back and getting his top hand through. Notice I posted across the body. If you can't keep this guy here in this position, again, hit the trunk of the car, take whatever you can find. All right. We should be able to hold this guy here. All right. Then it's just finishing, finishing halves. All right. So I want to make sure that we have all these finishes in mind. And again, we might have to wrestle to a couple extra positions, but these are the main reactions we're going to see from this guy. Bottom hand, top hand, lock in the crotch. So guy through, back hook, pressure to the hip, work my grip above the knee, start reading position. Tack the grip. Don't slough here. Don't just do this. Okay. Knee to the chest, kick the ceiling, feed the hungry hand. I can start finishing here. Other hand comes up. I don't have to reset every time. He just gives me a different feel. Tack the grip, knee, kick. I got options. I can throw it away and turn towards the legs, where I can bring it out, keep it up and look to look left hand half. He's in the crotch. Same thing. I can use my hips and my body to break it and turn towards the head or if I can't break it. Okay. Leg half hand comes out. See, I'm already turning my hips down and I'm replacing right here. Now I got him trapped. He hung on too long. All right. So run through all those scenarios. Top God. Just keep giving him different feels. Double that guy. Give him different feels. Let's go. And let's go.


The United Kingdom e-commerce market is growing exponentially every year as well as the fashion industry. That is why in this video we're going to combine them both and show you how you can succeed in running a UK dropshipping business whether you live in the UK or not, it really doesn't matter and also how to mix that with the fashion industry and sell the best clothing products to the UK market. We're also going to go over the best UK dropshipping suppliers to find these close products and sell them on your store as well as other dropshipping tips and strategies. So quick intro and let's go. Welcome back everybody I'm Liran from AutoDS and as you know in this video you're going to learn about the best UK dropshipping close products that you can sell on your stores as well as some of the best UK suppliers that you can work with to find these products sell them and make your profit. If you haven't done so yet do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics tips and strategies that are coming out in the world of dropshipping as well as success stories, case studies, podcasts, live Q&A's and so much more. We're all about helping you learn how to start an e-commerce business the right way and this video of course is no exception. So if you're wondering about the UK market it is a very very profitable one and there's never a better time to start than now so let's start off by talking about the profitability. Now according to Statista the forecasted fashion e-commerce revenue growth in the United Kingdom this year in 2022 is by almost 5% so a 5% growth from last year giving a total number of over 43 million e-commerce users in the UK in the apparel or the clothes fashion industry. So not only is the fashion industry growing in the UK market the UK e-commerce market is also growing and when you put growth and growth together you can also take a nice piece of the cake when it comes to the fashion industry in the United Kingdom by simply creating a UK e-commerce store and market your products to the UK audience and now we're going to also talk about which clothing products you should be selling. So it is a very profitable market and once again there is no better time than now to actually start this business test out the products and see what works for you we're going to get to that soon but first how do we find the best UK dropshipping clothing suppliers it's great to find products it's great to do your product research but after you do that you're also going to have to look for the best suppliers that you can work with to grab these close products and sell them on your selling channel. So first of all what makes a good UK dropshipping supplier first thing you should be looking out for is is this supplier dropshipping friendly now you can work with suppliers that do not support the dropshipping business model and you will have to find ways to work around those issues and of course it is possible but you can also find suppliers who are dropshipping friendly who do allow you to dropship their products and it'll be at least much easier to start with when you're a beginner in the dropshipping field. The next thing you want to look out for is suppliers that don't have an MOQ. MOQ stands for minimum order quantity and if we are looking for dropshipping suppliers the dropshipping business model states that we can sell one product without holding it in our inventory and once we actually make a sale we go to our suppliers website we purchase that one product and ship it to the end customer but if the supplier wants us to order more than one unit that means that they have a minimum order quantity and that does not complement the dropshipping business model very much so of course we want to look for dropshipping suppliers who don't have a minimum order quantity. Next you want to look for suppliers that offer excellent customer service so when you're looking out for these UK suppliers you want to see what types of methods you have to reach out to them whether by phone by email by chat try to reach out to them see how long it takes them to get back to you and that should give you an initial indication if their customer service is good. The next thing you want to look out for and this one should go without saying is that these suppliers actually have warehouses in the United Kingdom and the reason for that is because when you ship to the United Kingdom you also want to ship from the United Kingdom therefore increasing your shipping speeds and delivery times giving you happy customers who will return to purchase from your store again fast shipping times also reduces the amount of returns that we have or order cancellations from orders not arriving on time every buyer wants to receive their package as fast as possible and domestic shipping is going to help us reach that goal the last thing you want to look out for when searching for UK dropshipping suppliers is do they have easy shop policies this means return policies shipping policies refund policies and so forth so can I open a return after I order a product how long can I open the return for can I open the return for any reason will I get a full refund do I have to pay for the return shipping you want to read about all of these policies on the supplier's website and make sure that they offer the best customer service that they can so that you can offer the same for your buyers by the way keep in mind that everything that I'm going over in this video you can also read about it in the blog article which I'll leave a link to right below this video so now that we know about what we need to look out for when searching for UK dropshipping suppliers let me show you some of the best UK dropshipping suppliers that you can start working with today so starting with the first one on our list we've got AliExpress now for many new dropshippers you probably may have heard about this supplier at one point or another but you should know that AliExpress also has warehouses in the United Kingdom so it is not just a big Chinese marketplace with many warehouses in China but AliExpress came a long way from just being a marketplace in China with Chinese warehouses so today they have a global reach and they're starting to have warehouses in all kinds of places around the world and one of those places is none other than the United Kingdom this means that we can search for products that they have stored in UK warehouses and ship them quickly domestically to the UK audience let's show you how that's done a really quick example so as you see here on their front page I can see that they already have accessories for Tesla but that's not what we're here for so what we're going to do is search for any product but before that we're going to change our ship to the United Kingdom and we'll also want to change our ship from to the United Kingdom to keep domestic as stated earlier so here for example let's just search for anything like cat bowl and here we can see all of the cat bowls that can ship to the United Kingdom but we're also looking for the ship from so right here on the ship from I'm going to click on that and I'll change it to United Kingdom now you can see all of the products that can ship from into the UK meaning I can get quick shipping times right here from AliExpress because these products are not being sourced from China so check that out and that is our number one supplier when it comes to looking for products to sell to the UK audience but of course it doesn't all start and end with AliExpress this is one of the first suppliers that you should be testing when starting a new drop shipping business but of course there are always more and more suppliers to work with the second one is Amazon UK now while AliExpress is what you call a drop shipping friendly supplier Amazon may not be so friendly if you start to ship out multiple products every day from your Amazon by your account what will happen here is that sooner or later Amazon may lock your account and you won't be able to access it again now there are ways to work around this like opening new Amazon accounts under new IP addresses now just like AliExpress Amazon also has warehouses in the United Kingdom meaning you can ship your products quickly domestically from into the UK they also have a wide selection of products hundreds of thousands of products that you can resell on your store and they also ship really really quickly so let's see an example of what it looks like on amazon.co.uk which is their UK warehouse url so here I am at Amazon co UK you want to change your deliver to and make sure that you have a united kingdom a UK zip code right here so it'll show you all of the products that can ship to the UK and you also want to change your country and here on the top right you can see that I'm shopping on amazon.co.uk and we're looking at the great British pound currency so here once again I can search for whatever I want to look for and ship it from into the UK so since we are in the fashion niche let's just go ahead and search for any product even though I'll get to the list later on but let's keep it basic and look for men's t-shirts now I'll enter any one of these listings and today is July 11th while I'm recording this video and as you can see here we're getting a free delivery by Thursday July 14th which is in three days or we can get even a faster delivery up to tomorrow by using amazon's prime service so this is how fast you can ship your products when drop shipping from into the UK when using fast shipping providers like amazon and all of their shipping logistics and as I mentioned a customer who buys from your store and gets their product within a couple of days will be really happy about their purchase not only is there a high chance that they will return to purchase from your store again but they can also refer their friends and their family to purchase from you because hey they were really happy with your fast delivery service and this is one of the most important things that we need to look out for when running an e-commerce business not only that but we also want to sell high quality products of course low quality products will have to put up later on with returns and refunds and things like that but when you start with really fast delivery and you move on to high quality products you are reducing the amount of returns that you'll have you're increasing the profitability of your business and you will have more happy and returning customers so amazon UK is number two on our list number three is cj drop shipping UK so cj drop shipping is a huge drop shipping friendly supplier that can not only help you find products to sell but they can also help you source your products they can also help you find better prices for the products that you are selling and they even offer print on demand services so they do a lot more than just being a regular drop shipping supplier they're 100 drop shipping friendly they're all for drop shippers and they can't wait for you to go ahead and sign up and start selling their products now of course you don't have to pay the suppliers anything to work with them there are no monthly subscriptions there are no contracts that you need to sign you can simply start selling their products from day one on your drop shipping selling channel which we will also talk about very soon now cj drop shipping also has warehouses in the united kingdom and you can create a filtered search by warehouses in the uk and what can ship to the uk just like the examples i showed you from aliexpress and amazon the same can be done on cj drop shipping uk so go ahead and check them out they have a wide product selection they offer pod as i mentioned and they also provide high quality videos and images to help you create a better listing with that and more cj drop shipping uk should definitely be on your list for top uk drop shipping suppliers number four on our list we've got alibaba now alibaba is a wholesale supplier who is not only a drop shipping supplier but also a wholesale distributor meaning you can also buy inventory and stock from them now alibaba is the main site as you know aliexpress is the sister site to alibaba alibaba is the main site that has most of the drop shipping stores most of the manufacturers and those who also passed verifications so that you know that you can trust the suppliers the sellers that you see on alibaba now the thing is with alibaba they do not have warehouses in the united kingdom but if you are thinking about sourcing products then you can easily find a manufacturer from alibaba get a cheap quote to manufacture 100 a thousand or 10 000 pieces for that clothing product that you want but my only tip here is don't move to inventory at least unless until you find a winning product where now you may want to add your own brand to it or you want to add your brand to the packaging or you simply don't want to run out of stock and rely on a third party supplier stock you want to have your own so only do this after you have vast experience and after you found products that are selling well for you alibaba though is a good choice because you can easily use their services to manufacture a product that is selling well for you and put your brand on it send it to a warehouse in the uk and start fulfilling the orders from there number five on our list is banggood uk now banggood also has warehouses in the united kingdom they are a super huge dropshipping friendly supplier meaning you don't have any worries when you start working with them their prices are relatively cheap compared to other suppliers they have warehouses in the uk they are dropshipping friendly and they also offer cashback promotions and exclusive deals to help you make more profit on your orders number six on our list is printful now printful does have warehouses in the united kingdom they can help you out with your uk dropshipping business and for those of you who don't know print on demand means that you can sell products and put a custom print on those products like a coffee mug or a t-shirt where you write something on it or you add some kind of graphic to it so print on demand means yet you are selling products and you're allowing your customers to customize the product however way they see fit or you the seller you can customize the product in advance and of course make it unique and sell it on your store after you print it on those products so you can leave it up to the customer you can leave it up to you the seller and this is what print on demand offers the only thing with pod at this stage right now is that it does not synchronize with autodesk so if you're using autodesk to automate your dropshipping business you won't be able to do it with suppliers like printful but if pod is your way to go and you want to do it manually printful is a great supplier where you can find print on demand products and create a print on demand store in the united kingdom our seventh favorite uk supplier for dropshipping is ebay uk now you can only use ebay uk as a supplier if you're not using ebay as you're selling channel the difference between a supplier and a selling channel is one this is where i'm getting my products from so that's the supplier and two the selling channel is where i'm actually selling these products on i can sell it on ebay shopify wix woocommerce amazon and so much more and the reason that you cannot use ebay uk as the supplier and also as your selling channel is because once you actually make a sell then you'll have to provide tracking information and you won't be able to use tracking that's already been used in ebay system and the seller who's selling the product to you on ebay already used that tracking number so you won't be able to use that same tracking for your buyer and if you don't provide tracking information on ebay it's only a matter of time before your store gets suspended okay enough talk about uk dropshipping suppliers let's go over some of the best uk fashion products that we can sell on our stores because we're also here to talk about uk clothing or what clothing products we can sell to the uk market now let's go over this list the first one that we have are puff sleeve v-neck t-shirts if that was a little too long it's no problem at all you can simply take the text copy it from our blog article which once again i leave a link to right below this video and go to one of the suppliers that we talked about in this example i'm going to stick with amazon and paste that puff sleeve v-neck t-shirts and as you can see it is what we're looking at right here you can see it's got the puffy style we've got the v-neck and of course it is a t-shirt so that is the product that we're looking at it is a micro niche from the general t-shirts niche and this product has been selling pretty well in the uk market of course when you're adding these products to your store you have more than one variation in each listing so you want to be able to tackle all of those variations have all of them inside your product listing and also show a sizing chart this is really important when it comes to fashion when it comes to selling clothes t-shirts and anything that you need to wear on your body from your e-commerce store so you want to have a sizing chart to help the buyer understand if this shirt is too big for him if it's going to be a perfect fit for him or for her and this is especially especially important when it comes to things like shoes so one of the things that you have to make sure to have in your listing is what the size of this shirt or this piece of cloth or clothing is so when you're adding a clothing listing to your stores make sure that the buyer knows what the size of this t-shirt is next you want to make sure that you have the material down in this example we're looking at 97 percent polyester this is very important for the buyer to know and will also help reduce a large number of returns when they thought they're going to get one type of material but at the end they got another so we talked about the colors the variations the sizes and the material these four things are very important to add to your product listing next we've got wide legged pants so this is what it looks like let's search for that also using the same supplier and i'm just using this supplier as an example because they have so many products and it's easy to find them and it's also easy to generate new ideas when using such a huge supplier it doesn't mean that you should buy or use only them but it is one of the best options that you have here is wide legged pants and as you can see it's a little bit baggy it's not skinny it's definitely not super skinny it is exactly what we're seeing here and this product has been trending pretty well in the uk market so of course you can add them to your stores really easily and for those of you who don't know the best way to add products to your store let me just take less than a minute and show you how easy it can be done when you're using business automation so here i am i launched the autodesk platform i added my store whether it's my Shopify store my ebay store my facebook marketplace store my wik store or whatever selling channel you want to use then we're going to click on add products in this example we're going to go with one product so i'm going to stick with single product but it's also really easy to add multiple products even hundreds or thousands of products within a couple of clicks but here we're going to go with once again with single product i'm going to choose one of my stores in this case we're going to go with ebay uk and now i want to add my product url so i'm going to go to one of these listings let's take this wide leg pants take the url copy it head to the autodesk platform and paste it under add product now the system automatically knows that this supplier is amazon in the region is the united kingdom but go over it to make sure that it's correct now i'm going to click on edit now quick now what's happening in these few seconds is the system is grabbing all of the products information from amazon's website and all of the products information has been imported from the supplier's website to the drafts page of my ebay store where here i can optimize it like the title the tags the shipping methods the policies the automation monitoring the products description the variations images item specifications and so forth most of the things were done automatically but i can always add more i can optimize i can remove i can add i can even take variations from different suppliers and also from different regions and add it to this product page making a unique product page on my store that no other dropshipper or no other e-commerce store owner has so this way you can easily differentiate yourself from the competition and create some really tacky and wild product variations but of course keeping it relevant to your product now once you're done optimizing the product you're simply going to click on save and import and in just a few seconds it'll move to the product section of your store meaning now it's live and anyone can go and see and purchase it and that is how easy it is in just a few seconds to get a great looking product from your supplier's website to your store whether one variation all variations or different variations in just a couple of clicks that is one of the best advice that i can give you when it comes to importing products to your store really quick but of course with autodesk automation you're going to enjoy more things like price and stock monitoring automatic orders a convenient customer support feature virtual assistant add-ons price automation settings and so much more so if you're here to scale if you're here to make it to the big numbers autodesk dropshipping automation is the way to go so wide legged pants is number two on our list number three we've got full zip hoodies this is another great product trend that's been working really well for the uk audience and here is what it looks like okay so we've got all of these products right here this is another great example of a product that is selling well of course use multiple suppliers when looking for full zip hoodies and add a bunch of them to your store so that you can really test out the niche the right way before seeing what's selling well what's not selling well and of course whatever isn't selling well you can remove it and replace it with other products that are selling well for you while always testing out more niches more categories to learn about new product trends while multiplying your the success of the current products that are selling for you this is the way to gradually build your dropshipping business number four we've got yoga pants and this is trending not only in the uk and i'm sure that you know what this product is but the united kingdom's market is growing when it comes to yoga pants not just yoga pants but the fashion industry in particular but one of the sub niches that we have here are yoga pants it's working great worldwide it's working great in the uk there are many different types of variations many different types of yoga pants different materials different sizes different designs so check them out add these products to your store it doesn't mean add one five or ten but you should add at least 20 different product variations from each product that i'm recommending so that you can really test out the market the right way if there is a certain category that's trending but you only try one or two products in that category most chances are you won't be able to make any significant sales and that is not what we are here to do quite the opposite so it's all about testing seeing what works multiplying your success removing the slow movers and adding more products that are similar to those that are working well for you as i already mentioned while always testing out the market for more so you want to always have room for both number five long sleeve dress shirts now yes we are in the summer right now but the summer is not hot everywhere and even when we're in the summer we find ourselves many times at special occasions or highly air conditioned rooms highly air conditioned areas where a short sleeve shirt is simply not going to work for us during the summer and long sleeve dress shirts are making an impact in the uk market right now so be sure to also add them to your stores and that pretty much sums up the best uk drop shipping clothes suppliers and the best uk drop shipping clothes products of course there are more suppliers that you can work with there are much more clothes products that are trending well right now but we just gave you a small glimpse so that you can start and form a good base and shoot forward from here do not forget that without drop shipping automation you will not be able to scale your businesses correctly especially if you want to be able to sell lots of products on your store don't forget to keep learning and stay up to date on all of the best drop shipping tips and strategies case studies product finding strategies methods suppliers marketplaces and so much more our blog page is updating at least two to three times a week with brand new content as well as our youtube channel with two to three new videos every week constantly just to help you create a successful drop shipping business from scratch so no matter where you want to sell from where you want to sell to and what strategies you want to learn to implement we've got that all down for you on our blog page on our youtube channel on our ebooks page on our drop shipping courses and so many more resources that we have going on it's all about having the right tools and the right knowledge to be able to take the right step forward and succeed in our e-commerce businesses instead of finding ourselves in a downward spiral to failure because we did not learn the right way so don't stop being curious keep learning if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and good luck with your uk drop shipping clothing business


Major sponsors for Abledon On Air include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-A'Israel. Food sponsors for Abledon On Air include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Abledon On Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisthebronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor, FM, and Spotify. Welcome to this edition of Abledon On Air, the one and only program that for the past seven years and beyond focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently able. I've always been your host, Lauren Seller. My wife, Arlene, is not here today. On, before we begin our program, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others. On today's edition of Abledon On Air, we will focus on the election results as it stands. So this is an election special, and we will also focus on what Joe Biden, or as he's called, Smoke and Joe, will be focusing on the disability community if he gets into office. As it stands now, Joe Biden, let's pop up a map, and it will be done in editing. But as it stands now, Joe Biden has 238 of the 270 votes to win for president of the United States, and Donald Trump only has 213. And it has been a landslide for Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania is in deadlock as well as some other states. Florida had gotten one by Donald Trump as well as Texas, so on and so forth. But the way it stands now, as of 6 a.m. this morning, we are going to be, and according to CNN, we are going, it's going to be deadlock, which means that it will probably be a recount of the vote. So in actuality, you need 270 votes to win president of the United States. I am so glad I am not president of the United States. But let's really go into what Joe Biden will be doing for the disability community if he wins. Let's pop that up, okay. All right, equality for people with disabilities, Joe Biden for president. If he wins, which most likely he will, his plan for the disability community is as follows. Let's go back down here. Equality for opportunity, full participation, independent living, economic self-sufficiency, is extremely important for people with special needs, and he's going to work on also changing the social security administration by giving people with special needs probably more in their social security checks. When Obama was working with Joe Biden and Joe Biden was vice president, they were really working on healthcare and other pandemics. So things are really going to change for the disability community. There are a lot of people, especially in Vermont, that are facing economic hardships. And now, by the way, as far as Vermont is concerned, because of this pandemic that we are going through, three squares has gotten more, and Medicaid has gotten more, and there are going to be more stimulus packages for people on the national level. Single people get 1200, married people get $2,400. Today, according to the Joe Biden website, today our country, once again, is facing enormous economic challenges brought on by the pandemic. And it's impact on having businesses and workers across the globe. As President Biden will lead, they're saying he'll be president, will lead an effort to rebuild our economy. He will also strengthen the disability community to build a stronger, more expensive middle class and that everyone, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability can find a place. This means that amending our laws, policies, and culture to ensure that full inclusion of the 61 million individuals with disabilities in the United States in part of our society. Biden will prioritize enacting and implementing policies that break down barriers to access for people with disabilities and living and succeeding in their chosen communities, which means good jobs in competitive, integrated employment, which also means probably the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was enacted by President Bush, Senior will become stronger. And he'll have integrated housing, accessible and affordable transportation, inclusive voting processes, and needed long-term services and support. Trump, by the way, wants to have more mental institutions instituted, which probably, according to organizations such as Washington County Mental Health in Vermont, many advocates there won't let that happen. As President Biden will reverse the damage done by the Trump presidency and fight efforts to weaken, fight efforts to weaken civil rights for all Americans and diligently by Congress and the disability community to expand access to needed services. Biden recognizes, according to his website, he recognizes that he needs to view all policies ranging from climate change and economy and housing, as well as education through an inclusive lens. He will ensure and include policy development and implementation to accomplish these goals, which include full inclusion for people with disabilities in policy development and aggressively enforce civil rights for people with disabilities. He will guarantee access, high access to affordable healthcare, including mental health, and expand access to home community-based services in long-term services and also supports with most integrative settings and help the needs based on self-determination. And he will also expand competitive, high-integrative employment institutions and opportunities for people with disabilities and protect and strengthen economic security for people with disabilities He will expand accessible, integrative technology as well as affordable housing, transportation, assistive technologies and protect people with disabilities in emergencies, which brings me to this. When COVID first started back in January, when services started to close for people with special needs, this really brought the communities for people with special needs in Vermont to a standstill. When we first couldn't go to a doctor's office, dentists were closed, services for people with epilepsy were closed, now things are starting to get back open. Biden also wants to ensure full inclusion for people with disabilities in policy, development, aggressively and enforce several rights for people with disabilities. I know I'm repeating a lot of things, but this is really extremely important. Throughout Biden's career, Biden has fought for the rights, for opportunities for people with disabilities, including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which is extremely important. I'm going to bring that up. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is as follows. Let me bring that up. 1973 Act. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which Biden really brought to the forefront of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, the Rehab Act, prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies in programs receiving federal financial assistance and federal employment and the employment practices to federal contractors, which means that anything job-related and the Rehab Act is as follows. Section 501 of the Rehab Act of 1973, prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities in the federal sector, including the U.S. Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Smithsonian Institution. In other words, Washington, D.C. cannot discriminate against people with disabilities, and Trump is trying to do that, especially which is really horrible, especially when Trump is trying to put people in mental institutions or he's trying to institute institutions for people with disabilities, which he cannot do. You know, and so, Biden is really trying to put special needs to the forefront. Let me get back to that. Okay. As a matter of fact, according to his website, Trump is putting a disability, I mean, Biden is putting a disability coalition together. Biden believes that everyone should be treated with dignity and have a fair shot at getting ahead. This past July 26, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act thanks to the leadership of people with disabilities, disability advocates, and goals according to the law of the Americans with Disabilities Act, full participation, independent living, economic self-sufficiency, et cetera. Joe Biden will work with the 61 million individuals with disabilities in the United States, and you can be part of the society again. If you want to join Joe Biden and his disability coalition, that website is JoeBiden.com forward slash disability coalition.  And anybody that works on a disability committee is extremely important. So if you get a chance, put your name on that list. So let's get back to this here. Disability Joe Biden. Okay. Getting back to what I have said before. Yeah. So throughout his career, he started the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Fair Housing Amendment Act of 1988, and the original Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010. As President Biden will make sure these protections are fully enforced and that people with disabilities will have a voice in policy development.  And it's extremely important to have the First Amendment rights protected in this way. Also, to ensure people with disabilities are included in policy development by creating senior positions at the White House dedicated to disability community engagement and policy coordination. Biden will appoint a Director of Disability Policy with the Domestic Policy Council to ensure that people with disabilities are taken care of on a broader sense with policy discussions. The senior White House official will also engage with a variety of disability stakeholders, including disability community leaders, representatives from the disability organizations, and people with disabilities and their family members. The position that Biden will put into fruition that his administration is getting diverse perspectives and policy will be developed, implemented, and evaluated, and input with people with disabilities. In addition, Biden will ensure senior leaders across federal agencies, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor Housing, Labor Housing and Human Development, I mean Urban Development, sorry, Urban Development, Transportation, State, and Justice, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They will share his commitment to breaking down barriers that hold people back with disabilities. Biden will also identify and aggressively recruit, qualify people with disabilities to fill leadership positions across his administration, not merely those positions that relate to disability programs and policy. So he will hire people with disabilities in those positions. And he will aggressively enforce existing rights laws for people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act and individuals with Disabilities Education Act idea and the Fair Housing Act. The Civil Rights Act institutional, let me repeat that again. The Civil Rights Act of Institutionalized Persons Act and Rehabilitation Act, the Help America Vote Act and the Air Carrier Access Act. Biden will begin by appointing leaders of the Departments of Justice, Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That's a mouthful. Across the rest of the federal government who share the commitment to tough effective enforcement of civil rights, Biden recognizes people with disabilities who are also people of color and LBG, LGBTQ and also face greater discrimination based on intersection of disability, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Which brings me to this. Vermont just elected Taylor Small, which is the first LBGTQ lawmaker in Vermont. We only have about six minutes left. We hope that, we're not supposed to say this as journalists, but we hope the right man will be the right man for the job. Biden is leading again with 238 votes versus 213 and there's only 98 left because you're supposed to have 270 votes to win according to the map. Who do you want to win? Basically, like I said, the right man should be the right man for the job and someone that mocks people with disabilities, which brings me to this. Back in 2013, excuse me, 2016, Trump mocked people with disabilities. He mocked a journalist with disabilities from the New York Times and hopefully any mocking of persons with disabilities should not be a president of the United States. We would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others for being a part of Abledon Arnair and its sponsors. This puts an end to this edition of Abledon Arnair. I'm Lauren Seiler. Arlene's not here today. Thank you for listening to this election special. See you next time. I'm Lauren Seiler. 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