Inflation vs Corporate Greed

I recently watched an episode of Part of the Problem, With Dave Smith, and it was them criticizing a recent interview with Sam Harris. During this episode Dave says that Sam is a smart guy, but I'd disagree. Sam is knowledgeable in the very particular fields that he's studied, but I don't consider knowledge to be a sign of intelligence, it's a sign of memorization. On the other hand I've observed Sam fail to apply logical thinking, which I would consider to be a mark of intelligence, as it demonstrates an ability to consume information and process it critically and rationally.

Just me trying to formulate coherent thoughts on Cyberpunk while I'm working, which eventually leads into tangents about Bladerunner and Atlas Shrugged.

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. 

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.

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

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 This episode was the one that originally made me decide I wanted to comment on this show, specifically because of the economic fallacies within, but upon re-watching it also had a lot to offer in terms of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.

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.

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

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".

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