Vacuous Vocation

This episode with Michael Wimer we discuss history, economics, politics, culture, philosophy, and religion. @lil_rumba

This episode discusses the recent election of President Javier Milei in Argentina, anarchy and capitalism, anarchy and health, money, socialism, optimism, and much more, please enjoy.

This podcast was re-uploaded from Brandon Loschiavo's podcast "The Performance Playbook Ep.16: A Happiness Hypothesis Through Economics".

Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business.

https://mises.org/profile/edward-w-fuller?page=1 

Politics is all about power, pick your battles carefully and be peaceful. 

The word "should" is a value judgment and as all values are subjective, I am in no position to tell someone what they should do because I do not know what anyone else values, nor should anyone tell me what I should value.

Bitcoin is a digital service to fulfill the medium of exchange as the hardest asset to ever come into existence thanks to the technological revolution.

The history of mankind is on a trajectory towards the maximum individual human freedom the world has ever seen. It helps to think in these concepts not necessarily annually but in terms of decades.

Power and Property have gone hand in hand since the dawn of empires. Property does not necessarily have to be physical, there are forms of digital and intellectual property as well. As we enter the new century of freedom, we shall try to understand how it is that property has gone from being something discarded as bourgeois to becoming something that is veneered.

Democracy is the movement of the masses. When the waves take you, you can either go with the flow or consider the possibility that there are other streams you would like to travel in your life. How can an individualist ever support an ideology solely on the basis that the majority of the people support it. The opinions and ideas of the majority are irrelevant, they are just like trees in a forest, nice, but in time will become obsolete.

"Planning for Freedom" is a Soviet concept, essentially it is a contradictions in terms. Where there is planning, usually lead by a state committee for some form of societal organization, there is a reduction in freedoms. It is the 'anarchy of production' that allows for the market economy to create a society that is most compatible with peace and prosperity ~ freedom.

The morals of Anarchists are a little bit difficult to discover as they do not come to one pre-packaged in life as they do for the followers of statism.

At my worst I just complain, at my best I share ideas. 

Are you spiritual or religious? Not in a theological sense but in an obedience to some doctrinal sense.

The Dirty Rona has been with us for its 19 months anniversary. Psychological Conditioning is going well. The dollar is feeling like the perfect tinder for an inflationary fire.  

0:57 NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan 

3:40 Fauci in the Hot Seat 

5:15 Virologists Rockstardom 

6:05 Governmental Power 

7:05 The 2 Sides of Masks 

7:58 C.O.P.S. 

11:02 "Unrealized" Capital Gains Tax 

13:13 Bitcoin World Reserve Currency

Let's get nationally divorced babe.

Alex Voss is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Notre Dame and is currently working on his Masters in Austrian Economics in the Mises Institute. Alex works for the Tipolis Corporation which is the for profit project arm of the Free Private Cities Foundation to promote the idea and build private cities.

There is no purpose... hear me out.

Intimidation is a psychological phenomena based on the use of threats or coercion, typically exemplified in the dictum, "what do I have to say to get you to do what I want."

Productivity is a regard to applied human action. Is something productive? Well that depends.

Nolan McCarthy is a baseball player and student of economics.

In economics, the equation for profits is equal to total revenue minus total cost (Prof.=TR-TC). But in the real world consisting of people demonstrating their preferences through their actions, people do not take the time to calculate their profits through derivatives and mathematics. What is valued by people as either a net positive or net negative is purely subjective, that is why the question outside of business decisions, "is it profitable?" is, in my opinion, a lifelong self-discovery. 

Becoming an anarchist, my body is no different. I have only changed my beliefs and perspectives on life and its circumstances. My mind is the malleable component to my entity that has allowed for the radical transformation to occur with the help of long form exposure to ideas in books. It all comes back to the openness and receptiveness of exposing one's self to alternative art forms of forms, literature, and knowledge.

The World is proceeding into a global crack-up-boom cycle thanks to the modern day inflationists. Where I believe the new world reserve currency is heading is not SDR's, gold, silver, or any fiat currency... but bitcoin.

Minarchism is the concept of a limited government or state, restricted to the provision of courts and national/domestic defense. Anarchism is the philosophy of a society absent of kings or rulers based on methodological individualism and the "spontaneous order" of the market processes.

Covid passports are the new digital papers for the unfree. Historically, where authoritarian groups have asked people for documentation there has been a correlation to limited freedoms. With the collusion of big tech, big Pharma, and the state, human liberties are threatened yet again under the guise of "health and safety."

To understand and appreciate life, we must philosophically consider death and its implications.

Peter B. Bos is an author, entrepreneur, and innovator. He is the Founder and President of Polydyne, Inc., a multi-disciplinary management consulting company. Mr. Bos has extensive experience in the interdisciplinary synthesis of transportation and energy systems to include new technology development, transfer, market analysis and penetration, energy investment and policy analysis and private and public sector interaction. During the period prior to 2000, Mr. Bos was involved in the market-driven development of both stationary and mobile technologies that have both the potential for mitigating resource constraints as well as environmental problems for a large spectrum of energy and transportation applications.   Because of this childhood wartime experience, he early on became interested in individual sovereignty and freedom. 

As a survivor of the Nazi occupation of his native country during World War II, he is acutely aware of what it means not to be free and of the extent of the violence and destruction that politically democratic nation states are capable of inflicting.

dynamism: (noun) 1. the quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress. 2. the theory that phenomena of matter or mind are due to the action of forces rather than to motion or matter. 

Healthcare is one of the most misunderstood topics in economics today. It is common to assume that most people should have access to healthcare in the modern world, however, access to healthcare is different from making healthcare a human right via universal health care. The economic perspective of this issue deals with the exchange structure in a profit motivated exchange where consumers are viewed as assets compared to a universal healthcare or socialized healthcare one-size-fits all policy where consumers are not treated according to their demand as their healthcare providers receive the same compensation regardless of the quality of service provided and alters the structure of consumers and clients as transforming into liabilities, hence an inefficient and deadly system. 

Omnipotent Government was written by Ludwig von Mises in 1944.

"Protestors have entered Capitol Hill and creating a serious threat to our democracy." "This is Trump's fault." "This is domestic terrorism." All are correct and all are misplaced. The real villains of Capitol Hill are the inflationists and lobbyists. The ones who send our kids, friends, and families off to wars, while raping the average citizen of all he worked to save for themselves and family members lives. I do not advocate for violence but I am fascinated by chaos in the realm of intellectual discourse.   "The policy of inflation is the most radical institution in society because it affects people earnings, savings and spendings in such a way that he cannot plan for the future." - Mises

The policy of Inflation and Monetary Theory have become very popular over the past century. It is acceptable among some politicians, philosophers, and even economists to abandon the notion of hard currency in pursuit of credit expansion and additional spending. What these people do not understand is the quantity theory of money that states that for every increase in the quantity of money, the value of the monetary unit decreases. MV=PQ. Furthermore, the policy of inflation, which is the increase in the money supply, is the most radical institution in society because it affects peoples' spendings, earnings, and savings in such a way that they lose sight of the prices of the most immediate future. The boom-bust cycle is a direct result of the federal reserve. Hyperinflation is a direct result of a centrally created currency. Savings, investments, and production drive an economy, the Keynesians have coached people to believe that consumption and spendings drive an economy but the equation to ask is then, how can increasing the amount of pieces of paper in the world make society any wealthier?

The president elect, just announced his nominee for the new secretary for the department of defense. The nominee is a board member of Raytheon which is one of the world's largest weapon manufacturing companies. A conflict of interest has never been more clear. The potential for America to enter into a new war is high, especially when the secretary of defense will be the one profiting.

What is important for people to realize is that war is the lifeblood of the state. The bombing of foreign "terrorists" is not just the death of one man or a group of "bad" men, drone strikes take out entire regions including women and children. Not only that, in the domestic nation invading a foreign nation, the chiefs and generals make money sacrificing other peoples' children to the military industrial complex. Never has there been a stronger time than to be red-pilled to war and reveal the military industrial complex as the slaughterhouse industry it truly is.

There are two meanings of the word equality that are used interchangeably. The first is that human beings are quality in their species as a biological organism and acting being. The second is that human beings are equal in regards to their lives of what they should posses and how they should be treated by others. The former is a descriptive claim while the latter is a normative claim that fosters the collectivist ideologies.   Among the nations and the states within the nations, there is no equality in reference to geography, atmospheres, fertile crop variation, and animal domestication. Nationalism breeds ideological support for national supremacy over other nations.  Individuals are unequal in their physiological capacities for physical activities and intellectual abilities. All the arts, literature, and crafts made by hand come from individuals pursuing their own self-interest into specialization. All that makes man and increases his standard of well being comes from a natural unequal distribution of order.

Joe Biden elected his economic Team. Stimulus and additional spending will come. There will be another crack up boom cycle yet this one may be worse if it is not the dollar that recovers. The monetary revolution is a revolution in the currency the people use as the medium of exchange. Whether it be gold, silver ,or other crypto currencies, the monetary revolution may be the necessary development that will undermine the government.

In this episode, Matthew discusses the uncomfortable truth that maybe a national democracy is not what Americans need to be a part of anymore. Considering the fact that the American experiment is currently of a state of being trillions of dollars in debt, occupied in foreign genocides, has a massive prison industrial complex, and an ever more intimately regulated economy, what is needed now is liberty. The culminated problems of the US are becoming serious enough to consider the fact that we still do not know who the president is and many Americans are upset by this. If we look to America's history the American civil war brought the deaths of more than 600,000 American lives. This war was not just a war of civility, it was a war of secession and territorial power. What America needs now is to decentralize because our egregious government does not want us too.