Sunday, August 21, 2022

Banished From the Hero's Party ep.4 - Public vs Private Services, Healthcare, Subjective Value, and Voluntary Exchange

 

 

In this episode I go over episode 4 of Banished From the Hero's Party, discussing topics such as Public vs Private services, the misallocation of resources in public services, examples of how public services fail, particularly in American Healthcare, which is anything but a private, free market, capitalistic market, subjective value, and voluntary exchange. 

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Elaboration on Exploitation of Labor

 

 

One of the earliest episodes of this show I made was explaining why I think the claim that employers exploit labor is unjustified, and I used Konosuba as a springboard for that conversation. Today I saw a meme that seemed to share the views I was attempting to express in that episode, but naturally as a meme I felt it didn't explain well enough, so I wrote up an explanation that I thought I'd share here to further elaborate, and better articulate, what I was trying to communicate in that episode.


 

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Banished From the Hero's Party 3 - Wages, Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Femininity

 

Commentary on episode 3 of Banished From the Hero's Party, with examples for wages, entrepreneurship, regulation, and a brief discussion of Femininity.

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Banished from the Hero's Party Ep 2 - Economics, Military, and Politics

 

 

Continuing with the commentary on the anime "Banished From the Hero's Party". This episode was the one that originally made me decide I wanted to comment on this show, specifically because of the economic fallacies within, but upon re-watching it also had a lot to offer in terms of military strategy and politics.

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Spy x Family & Bullying

 I saw this meme a couple weeks back, among the many memes about Anya punching Damian, and subsequently apologizing, which got me thinking a bit about bullying and public schools.

Inflation vs Corporate Greed

 Discussion of how basic understanding of supply, demand, equilibrium, surplus, and shortages indicate that current increases in prices are due to inflation and not corporate greed.

Referenced in this episode: 

 https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1493284294856425473?s=20&t=OouH65cBS_2MdzqQrZg8CA 

https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/ 

https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/high-prices-at-kroger-inflation-or-price-gouging 

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Banished From the Hero's Party Ep1

 

 

 

First episode of a series in which I hope to go through episodes of anime and comment on the economics, or politics of each episode from a libertarian perspective. In this episode I discuss episode 1 of "Banished From the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside".

Timcast IRL, Journalism, and How the State Preserves Itself

 

 

 

 

In yesterday's episode of Timcast IRL, he had James O'Keefe, Andy Ngo, and Libby Emmons on to discuss the state of journalism, and it was a very interesting conversation. In this episode, I wanted to reach the chapter from Murray Rothbard's "Anatomy of the State" titled "How the State Preserves Itself" because I felt it was particularly relevant to that conversation.

Timcast IRL Episode: https://youtu.be/gpseTewbaPY

How the State Preserves Itself: https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state/html/c/33?fbclid=IwAR1RQbMKVQvvOoRFTxP93CqvR2l4zzmabxLu_b7UJ2Dm3FalHUQDTrAjXpo

Anatomy of the State: https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state/html

For a New Liberty: https://mises.org/library/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

MS Activision/Blizzard Acquisition

 

 

 

With the news of Microsoft acquiring (or offering to buy, I'm entirely clear on the deal) Activision/Blizzard, I thought I'd talk a little about the economics of corporate mergers and acquisitions. 

Semantics of Capitalism, and Ancap Responses to "Slave Wages"

 

 

 

I've been watching a lot of debate and commentary on debates of Socialism vs Capitalism lately, and I wanted to talk about the issue of debaters getting hung up on their conflicting definitions of capitalism, and how capitalists can resolve the disagreement. 

Banished From the Hero's Party ep.4 - Public vs Private Services, Healthcare, Subjective Value, and Voluntary Exchange

    In this episode I go over episode 4 of Banished From the Hero's Party, discussing topics such as Public vs Private services, the ...