Russia Coerces Ukrainians Into Voting To Join Russian Federation | William MacAskill

COVID is being replaced by something even worse. NASA has launched its war with space, and Ronnie Chang goes deep into the world of K pop. So let's do this people. Let's come straight into today's headlines. All right, everybody, Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world, starting with the big moments watched live around the globe last night, NASA tested a new planetary defense system by smashing a

spacecraft into an asteroid. Boom, Yeah, how you like that asteroid? That was for the dinosaurs. And in case you're wondering, In case you're wondering. No, the asteroid was not heading for Earth, right, we're just testing the system wasn't heading towards us. But now the other asteroids they know not to test us. You don't mess with Earth Man, We're local, oh Man. In health and news, researchers have discovered that you can dissolve pills Foster if you lie on your

right side, which raises a big question for me. How do I become a researcher? No, because it just sounds like fun. Okay, I look a lot of fun. He's sit around old day thinking random sels like huh, I wonder what would happen if I took at Ville Duggie style? Oh And in financial news, Donald Trump is back on the Forbes four hundred list of America's richest people, at number three hundred and forty three, which I love so much. Yeah, I mean, how ironic is it that Donald Trump is

the only guy doing well in Joe Biden's economy. Yeah, he's gonna end up running for president and then voting for Biden. I made so much money under Joe Brandon and this Trump guy was crazy. I heard you wanted bleaching his lung. He's crazy. I'm voting for Joe. But let's move on to some of the biggest stories of the day, starting with our ongoing coverage of the war in Ukraine. It has been seven months since Vladimir Putin went all kool aid Man on Ukraine, but from day one,

the war has been a disaster for him. First, Putin tried to take over all of Ukraine, but the Ukrainian Army stopped him. Then he tried to take over the eastern half, but the Ukrainian Army stopped him. Then try to slide into an Instagram model's d MS on the Instagram like it was just Instagram. So the Ukrainian Army didn't do anything because it was Instagram. Yeah, he was. He was stopped by the fact that he looks like a heavily botox gardlem in his suits. No offense to Godlem,

I just need an example. The point is Vladimir Putin is not hashtag winning. So after seven months of war, the Russian Army only controls a slice of Ukraine, and now the Ukrainians are threatening to take that back too. But before all that happens, Vladimir Putin is saying, hey, hey, what about democracy in Ukraine? Russian controlled areas in the east of the country are wrapping up a series of referendums asking voters if they want to be a part

of Russia. The votes are illegal under international law, and some Ukrainians have been forced to vote at gunpoint. Election officials accompanied by armed soldiers go trapsing up flights of stairs, knocking on doors searching for voters. In the past few minutes of Russian state media has announced the primary results, claiming that people have voted overwhelmingly in favor of becoming

part of the Russian Federation. The results supposedly showing seven or eight percent of the vote being in favor of joining the federation. Yeah, you hear that Russian soldiers are going door to door forcing people to vote to join Russia, and so because of that of the vote has been pro putin. But I mean, let's be honest. I mean, these voters have a choice in the same way we have a choice to not accept cookies on that website. It was like, what so what if I klick no,

can I not see how child stalls have aged? What kind of a choice is that nine seven percent? You know, my question is who the hell is the three percent no, I'm ready impressed by it. Who had the balls to still vote against Putin while his soldiers watched them mark their battles. Who was there, just like, yes, you have voted for your mama. Look at that. I voted for eyes. Oh so yeah, because it's a sham. It looks like of the voters in this election voted to become a

part of Russia. And honestly, like, why do they even go through all of this? H like going door to door making everyone sign ship just so you can do what you're already doing anyway. I mean, it's one thing to conquer a town and blow up all their buildings, but then to make them do paperwork. There is evil and then there's evil. And this is that classic middle school bully move, forcing you to say something and then acting like it's legit. So you want to eat dog? Pool?

So you want to eat dog? Why? I like, he said it he likes eating dog poop. No, I didn't, Steve. I just said it because you made me say it. I'm glad your parents broke up. But let's move on to some news that's close to home. Even though the coronavirus pandemic seems to finally be on its way out. I think we can all admit the world is not exactly the same as it used to be. We're less eager to shake stranger's hands. You know, people generally don't

sit next to each other in public places anymore. And now every time you rub a bank, it takes so much longer for people to know you're the Robbert because everyone else is wearing a mask. Yeah, so then you have to pull out a gun. But because it's America, everyone else pulls out a gun. And it's like, at that point, you sayd up opening up a checking account and leaving. You know, I just sort of rubbed the bank.

Pandemics boriled everything. But good news, good news, people, there is one part of American life that is coming roaring back. Traffic is coming back to pre pandemic levels. I've seen it with my own eyes. It's all thanks to a push for workers to return to the office. Major US cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago seeing more commuter traffic congestion, and it is growing graphic is above pre pandemic levels

in Miami and Dallas. In Houston and in Phoenix. There is an interesting disparity though taking place in the numbers. Monday and Friday, that is one, traffic is typically lower, even lower than it was before the pandemic. Wednesday and Thursday are the really big days for traffic now in major cities across the country. Really starts to begin to

rise today Tuesday. Yeah. You see, because everyone now works remote part time, and then everyone gets to choose which days they work remote and which those days they come in. All of the traffic that used to be during the week is now only on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which sucks one of the cramped together. I will say, as bad as bad as it displus humans, it is good for the cause, you know. Yeah, because now the traffic is slow, it gives them a chance to catch up again.

Hey there, Craig, Hey, hey Greg montime no say buddy, Hey yeah, a nice paint job. Nothing wrong with turning back the clock a little bit, huh me. Yeah, things have been good. Some teenagers had sex in me. That was cool. Oh good. Do you hear about Jerry by the way, his owner dubbed him for an electric Yeah, he's taking it real hard. He's hooked on diesel. Now. It's a real shame, man. Oh final way, it's take my latest movie. See you in two seconds, buddy, ha

ha ha. You know you know, when when you think about it, the new traffic problem makes sense, right because everyone would rob this spend an extra day at home on a Monday and a Friday, and that means that those days are gonna be the days when everyone's chiling, right, because those are the days when you're making the hangover recovering from the hangover, you know what I mean? Yeah,

but now, but now think about this. If everyone is choosing the same days to be on the road, then those days are gonna suck even more, which means Tuesday is gonna be the new Friday, and then Thursday is gonna be the new Monday. And then wait what, well, I guess Wednesday still gonna be in the middle of the weird day in the middle, like the d that nobody even uses. Like who says Weddings day anyway? Huh? It's probably the same people who say February should be arrested.

The point is. The point is this problem is happening because the week was designed incorrectly. Yeah, I think about it. Who said the week has to be seven days? Huh? It's not a rule. That's what people don't realize. If we all do the same week, it's not going to get better. My solution is, instead of seven days, we should have a five day week. Think about it. Think about it, because you've seen every study that comes out that says the few of the days we work doesn't

mean that production goes down, right, No productivity decreases. What we do is spend extra time in the office, spending like we're working when really we're just we're just googling how long until Friday gets here? So we don't actually need more days in the office. Think about three days of work. That's what I proposed. We do three days of work, two days a weekend. Yeah. Yeah, three days of work, two days of weekend. It sounds like a

perfect week. Yeah, let's traffic. He's just like, oh, it's Monday. Oh, it's Wemsday already, Friday? Why that week? By the way, I'm gonna need Monday off. I've got a thing. It's a perfect week. All right. That's it for today's headlines. Let's move on to something that everyone loves. Now. It's time to check in on today's lotto numbers. Without very On Tuesday, slow and everybody so much a two year day days. How how are you doing today? Well, you know, I woke up on the right side of the dirt.

So it is what it is, baby, all right, Well they'll say hit us with the numbers. You know I heard Trump back on the forms. Oh yeah, yeah he is, he is, Like I give a damn Listen. They just keep putting out this list, Like why are we supposed to care? It's just a bunch of drunk It's like a bunch of rich mother we don't know, Like why am I supposed to care that you're rich? I still eat a checkers? Like what are we talking about? Right?

Like why don't we need to know this information? Like they're basically giving us a list of four hundred people we should rob. It's like a calm starter pack, like don't rob your neighbor, rob number twenty six. Like it makes sense. Okay, well, speaking of cash, thank you for sharing all of that. Can we get the loss of numbers? Please listen, I'm trying to tell you something. Okay, Okay, he's got an asteroid story with NASA. Okay, I don't

know NASA. I love the Space Museum. I mean I wouldn't go to space because I don't believe in going anywhere where you have to bring your own air. It's that I'll never scoopa dive, Like if I was supposed to be down there, I'd have gills. This is dumb, Like, I'm not that little Haley girl. I ain't gonna be down there. What I'm saying is did you see the live stream? Yeah, the video that they had, yet they put the camera on the front of the thing. If you put it on the like it was running into

the asteroid. So I didn't like. It was like watching a video or someone falling down wearing a goatpro like are you okay? Am I okay? Are we dead? Like I don't know what's happening there? Who's science? Listen? We ganged up on an innocent asteroid just minding his business being in space, believe in what he believes, being a horoscope you know, I mean that space, that's where the horoscopes come from. Rang, It was Innie, what are you trying?

Weren't throwing a little machine unto that little asteroid living his life. It's bullying. We were messing with that little asteroid. What if we piste off his mama. You've seen the cartoons, you know, when you mess with the little baby something to Mama, always show up Piste the lasteroids, Mama just gonna be floating out there like who crashed into you? Don't tell me it was NaSTA Every damn time? Is that Nata boy? Okay, I don't say. I don't think the asteroid has a mom And I feel like we've

run out of time completely. Can you can you just give us the lots of numbers right now? Please? Do say we need the numbers? Fine? One thirty four back no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. You used all of my time for your stories and none of them for the luck I'm gonna talk about the new. What I'm saying, you can't do them all at once, right, You gotta you gotta like you gotta take your time, build a suspense. Oh yes, I got your spends. Bye, don't says learning

everybody a right when we come back. What I'm trying to our teacher about hipop hip hop? So I'll go a wait, you can't. You can't just disappear in the middle of the middle. Everybody. What I'm not gonna get a show. One of the biggest trends in music over the last few years has been K pop. But while it might be new to you, k pop has a long and fascinating history, So let's find out about it.

In another edition of Ronnie Chang teaches you about a as Alright, alright, settled down, everyone, because today while learning about something that's blowing up all over the world. No, not climate change, Okay, I don't teach boring stuff in this classroom. I'm talking about k pop. It's why your cousins only speaks Korean and more fluently than English. And believe it or not, k pop used to be something

that only Koreans knew about. The rest of the world wasn't always into it, like how there was a time when white people didn't know about yoga. The first group to really break through internationally it was the Kim Sisters. So Ja Ninja started singing as children during the Korean War for American g i's. They sang, they danced, and they played twenty instruments. I can't even name twenty instruments saxophone.

In nine nine, they got a contract to perform in Vegas and Sullivan was taping a show there, and they managed to book a performance on the show. There was such a hit they got asked back twenty more times. Do you know how great you have to be to get asked back to anything twenty times? I don't even get invited to join LinkedIn that much. Unfortunately, the growth of K pop hit a bump in the road soon after when South Korea fell under the dictatorship of President

Pak Chung he, who started banning music. They even created blacklist of songs that radio stations couldn't play. Everyone's end of yr Spotify summary just said your most played song

was the national anthem. But Korean artists kept making music that challenged the status quo, like folksinger Hande Soup, whose albums were banned for anti government messaging, or rock guitarist Saint John Koon, who the story goes to find the dictator's request the song in his honor, and let's face it, wanting a song to be written about you is classic dictator behavior. Right after military parades and having a weird haircut,

everyone tells you looks great. By the eighties, the dictatorship had loosened, and by lucen, I mean the dictator was assassinated, but whatever it made listen to the radio fun again. Outside music was allowed back in the country, and two of the most influential genres became hip hop and R and B. Black artist from Michael Jackson to Run D n C reshaped the musical landscape of South Korea. It inspired performers like Dudes, DJ d o C and So T G and Boys, who are the earliest examples of

K pop as we know it today. They even made it into the movie soundtrack for Three Ninjas Kicked Back. You didn't think we'll be watching a movie in class today, did you? Yeah? Well, I didn't think. I still have a hangover, But sometimes live surprises m This was a big moment for Korean pop music, even if the song was being played over scenes set in Japan. But give them a break. Okay, there are the Three Ninja's, not

the three cultural sensitivity experts. The next big step towards today's K pop was in the ninety nineties, when major music studios started putting performers together in boy and girl bands. That's right, Korea was doing that long before Simon Carwell's nips ever started poking through his T shirts. That's a no from Me Dog, No Surprise. This new wave of K pop blew up around the world. It feature complex melodies unlike any other pop music and always had next

level of dance choreography. To this day, those remained the signature elements of K pop. That and being Asian very important requirement. This new generation of K pop stars became so successful the government started to take notice and soon lost the program to promote career music around the globe. They saw K pop as a way to boost Korea's cultural strength and economy without having to do a squid game. But one of the biggest K pop sensations was a

surprise no government could predict. I'm sorry. I know it took you ten years to get this out of your head, but we got to talk about it. Gunham Style was the first video to break up billion views on YouTube. It was so popular. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon praised the song, saying the odds was the path to cultural understanding. He said that about Condemned Style, that's like if they played baby Shot during a war and all the soldier started laying down their weapons and hugging each other.

Since then, the rest of the world is more into k pop than ever before, from girl groups like Girls Generation and Black Pink to artists like cl But let's get to the group you've been waiting for. The reason you are enrolled in this class in the first place. Btcast three letters so important the rest of the alphabet doesn't even exist anymore. They've dominated a chart, They've generated billions in revenue. They made it okay to eat butter again.

They even increased tourism to South Korea. I mean, I'm glad my fans on that devoted because then they'd have to travel to Australia, which, trust me, you don't want to do that. BTS is, without a doubt, the biggest group in the world. You can tell by their fans. The BPS Army is the second largest military after the US, and they've drown zero weddings. BATS might be on hiatus, but there's so much new K pop we can enjoy what they're gone. And now you know how it got

to where it is today. Oh gunam style h Now it's in my hair with God get it out. Thank you so much about Ronnie Arts. They tuned because when we come back, we're gonna be chatting with one of the most popular philosophers of our time were on the castles. You don't go a a Welcome back to the n Show. My guest tonight there's a philosophy profector at Oxford and he's an entrepreneur who helped start the effective altruism movements.

He's going to talk about that and his new book about improving the future of humanity called What We Owe the Future. Please welcome William Mccaskelly W. McCasker welcomes to the Day Show. Thanks so much for having me. I'm I'm a huge fan. It's a it's interesting speaking to a philosoph because when they say philosopher, I remember thinking, oh, it's probably gonna be like a ninety year old man with like a stick and what is the meaning of life? And wherever I can't even get a beard? And I

suck as a philosopher. Um, you you're not. You're not just young. You're very successful. You you you know you're a professor who deals with I guess are you dealing with some of the biggest moral issues in society. Help me understand what your field of expertise actually is. So I'm a little different from a normal moral philosopher. Because I'm a little less heading the sky clouds. I want to fundamentally, I want to make the world a better place, and so I'm asking the question, how can we do

as much as possible to make the world better? That's what effective altism is about. And so the marvel questions that I'm addressing those that we need to figure out if we want to answer that question where there are just so many problems in the world, which the poverty, effactively farming, chance of the next pandemic, how how do we prioritize among them if we want to do as much good as we can? Is it is it even

possible to do that? You know? One of the first questions somebody may ask in response to you, is our humans inherently good? What would you? What would you? What would you say to them if they asked their question. I think in response to that, just humans are very malleable, so people can be inspired to do amazing things, terrific things. Again, I've seen this now, thousands of people committing to give at least ten percent of income, often much more to

those causes that will do the most good. So by promoting the idea of effect of autism, I've seen many people get inspired to do good, but you can also inspire people to do bad. The history of the twentieth century the banality of evil just how people could, even good people could get swayed by bad ideologies and produced horrific outcomes. So let's talk a little bit about convincing people to give money to cause is that will benefit

the planets or humans around them. In in this book, you talk about the future in a really interesting way. What we owe the future your your argument and correct me if I'm wrong. Is basically that we have a moral obligation to sort of quote unquote our future self, like the future humans, the humans that will inhabit the planet, because what we come into was created, was created or shaped by someone, and somebody's going to come into that,

and so we have a moral obligation. Some people might say to you, oh, yeah, well I'm here now, and you know nobody did anything for me, So why should I care about what happens to somebody who's around when I'm not? Yeah, Or you might ask what should we do for future people? Know? What have they ever done for us? Well, and they haven't ever because they're going to what are they going to ever have done for

us exactly for sure. Um, but I think the idea that we should care about future people is just utterly common sense. So imagine you're walking, Um, you're hiking on the trail, and you drop some glass and it shatters, and you wonder, should I pick up the glass when I clean after myself. Maybe someone will walk along the trail and cut themselves, And you think, well, you know, obviously I should because I don't want to harm someone.

But now I just imagine, do they cut themselves tomorrow or in a year's time or in a hundred years time? Would that change the morality of the situation? I don't think. So. Harm is harm no matter when it occurs. And just as we should care about people whether they're in this country or on the other side of the planet, no matter where they are in space, we should care about people no matter where they are in time as well. So how do how do we begin to get people

to agree with that? Because, um, you're based on the UK right, and and so if I if I've read you know my research correctly? You donate, is it how many of your income? Yes? A little more than that. Actually, now, so you you donate more than fifty of your income to causes that you believe in. Yeah, that's like right, that's that's amazing. And and some people would say insane. Right.

And when I when I when I heard that you did this, I remember thinking, Oh, but is it easier to do it because you come from a place where your health care will be taken care of. Is it easier to do this because you feel like there's a social net or is it hard no matter where you're from. Like many Americans would say, well, I can't give away my money because I don't know how much a hospital will will be. I can't give me my money because I don't know what I'm going to need to pay

for or not. How do you convince people that giving away what they would say is hard earned is actually better for them when it's for others. Yeah. I think there's a couple of things here. So one is just I acknowledge I'm in this position of unbelievable privilege, born into avileged country, I was well educated. Um, and that means, you know, I think I have like a responsibility to use you know, that privilege do good in the world.

But the piking thing is that even after my giving so I try'd give, you know, everything above about thirty that still puts me in the richest flee percent of the world's population. If you're in earning sixty dollars per year, you're in the richest one percent. You are the one percent globally speaking. And so I'm okay, I'm giving, but I can hardly complain I'm still in the richest three percent. But the crucial thing really is, I thought this was

going to be a sacrifice. I thought it was going to be hard but worth it because it was going to benefit so many people. But it's actually not. I've actually found it incredibly of awarding thing to do, and I think my life is actually happier as a result. So it means, you know, I don't have a big car house, I don't have a fancy car, but I

do have wonderful relationships. I've got wonderful friends. I'm also part of this broader community, effective autism community that is inspiring hard working people who are really focused on trying to make the world better. And I hope at least we're really making a positive difference. And that's just that's worth more than all the luxury goods that money could buy Wow, it's a it's it's it's a it's a

mind shift. I think it's a mind shift that's extremely difficult to achieve, which is, you know, I guess why you do the work that you do. It's also interesting to see how many billionaires have signed onto your ideas. You know, everybody from uh, you know, Bill Gates to Elon Musk, who don't even agree with each other, by the way, and have both said, oh, yeah, I really like what William is saying. I really agree with this. I think we should be giving away vast amounts of

our wealth, et cetera. But but when I when I see this, I often think to myself, it's easy for us to say people should give away ten percent whatever of their welcome, say everyone should do this of their income. But when you get to a certain point, ten percent or twenty percent of your income doesn't affect your life. And if you're a billion and you give away ten yes it's a huge number, but it doesn't change this

person's life. Where somebody who's working paycheck to paycheck notices when ten percent or twenty percent of their money has gone. So shouldn't this be an obligation that is placed predominantly at the feet of those who are the most privilege. So I think it's absolutely an obligation on the most

play words. So yeah, if you're billionaire, so Bill Gates, you know, ushered in a new era of billionaire philanthropy saying I think the standards should be high more and um so yeah, I mean people are laughing, but a decent chunk of my life is talking to billionaires and trying to convince them to get what you say will help me understand this, help me understand. So I mean, so it's billionaires on the tories from not giving their money away. I think that's going to change at least

what do you say? What do you say to them? Well, at least for some. So we say two things. One like you say, just money just above a certain threshold, money just doesn't affect your well being to come on. And then secondly, money can be used to make a transformative difference across three thousand dollars to save a life by protecting children and subsid in Africa from Middle Area by distributing insecticides hed bednets. This is a very reliable,

well evidenced facts. Three thousand dollars and that's with insecticides, the bednettings bednets to protect them from malaria, which is still one of the biggest, if not the biggest killer. Thousands of children every day die unnecessarily. There are other risks to write pandemics is something one way about nuclear war and so yeah, the case is just like, look, it's gonna make almost no difference in your life. It's gonna be enormously impactful for the world. And actually we've

seen success. So there are a number of people in the kind of border effected Alters movement Dustin Moskovitz now sandbanking Feet who are planning to give more. And I think that can be the new standard. Wow. When you when you talk in the book, you know that there are parts that I that I read where you interrogate the reader to ask questions about how they view the world and and I think, most importantly how much they

want to make a difference. So, for instance, you'll you hear you say if you want to make an impact and climate change, you know there are things you can do. For instance, you can become a vegetarian. You can say, Okay, I'm going to try and limit my carbon output. If you really care, you can say I'm going to travel less, I'm gonna fly less, or I'm going to ride a bicycle more or whatever whatever it may be. You're talking

to people, and you're talking to individuals. Do you feel that the messages as well received by corporations that have like an outsize output, because every one person can try to do one thing, but like most of the smoke that's coming out, and you know, most of the output, you know, the carbon output is it's coming from concentrated places. Yes, I'm not saying individuals don't make a big contribution, but do you find any of those big sources are are receptive to this or is or is the money too

big and the phase too obscure? Yeah, I mean, honestly, I've been kind of disappointed attempts to move companies in a more philanthropic direction, because corporate philanthropy the time is a pr mechanism, and so some of the misconceptions that people have about how best to fight climate change you

can actually see being promoted by fossil fuel companies. So Shell is very keen on the idea that, um, what we should be doing is reducing our carbon footprint personally, whereas what we should be trying to do is put the fossil fuel companies out of business. I see why, and we as individuals can help do that. So look, if you trying to reduce your own carbon footprint in the US, American UM will admit about fifteen tons of carbon dioxide. UM, go be a hero. Do everything you can.

Maybe you can get that to zero. You can do as much good as if you know you've never been born. That's the kind of standard. UM, But we can do so much more than that. Donate your income. Let's say that's three fairs dollars for the very most targeted organizations funding clean technology, the sort of thing that means we no longer need to lie in fossil fuels. Then you would then you would reduce the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere by something that's more like three

thousand tons per year. So you'd be doing two hundred times as much good with very targeted donations to the most effective nonprofits, even compared to your this you know, veric effort to take just three thousand It's like you have a choice three thousand dollars or just never be borne that three thousand dollars sounds cheap. I think that sounds like a cheap pechnik. It was pretty good. Thank you so much for joining me on the chinking son. I wish I could encompass everything in the book, but

that's why you wrote the bottle. I hope to see you again whenever. Castle everybody what we also features have all Now, we're gonna take a quick right well, go right back after this. Thank you very much. It yes, really well, what's our shot too? Before we go? Before we go, Mace comes to the Supporting World Central Kitchen. They're on the front lines and they're traveling the world to provide meals to people who are hit by humanitarian climates and community crises. So if you want to support

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