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The Weebertarian
by Dustin
A podcast about economics, anime, manga, and gaming, from a libertarian perspective.
Episodes
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Hot Take: Sam Harris is Not Intelligent
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…
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Cyberpunk, Bladerunner, and Atlas Shrugged
Just me trying to formulate coherent thoughts on Cyberpunk while I'm working, which eventually leads into tangents about Bladerunner and Atlas Shrugged.
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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,...
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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…
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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.
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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 This episode was the one that originally made me decide I wanted to comment on this show, specifically because of the economic fallacies within, but upon re-watching it also had a lot to offer in terms of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...
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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.
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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:...
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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".
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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...
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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. In this episode I'm reading from an article published in FEE.org by Peter G. Klein....
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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. Also, I saw a claim that the Ancap...
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Ubisoft, For Honor & Profit Margins
I had a bit of a discussion with my friend as to whether Ubisoft might be buffing the newly released character in For Honor, Kyoshin, in order to raise sales, because if not enough people buy the character, it may have costed more to make him than they earned in sales. My friend insisted that's...
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Cost Theory and Prices/Public Education
In this episode I wanted to address the common belief that increased costs cause higher prices, which isn't entirely accurate, though it can, depending upon market forces, be the case. I also wanted to talk a little bit about public education, and the belief that we need to pay teachers more…
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Currency and Misconceptions About the Civil War
In this episode I wanted to address some ways in which I disagree with Tim Pool's assessment that bullets, rather than gold, would be used as currency in a post-apocalyptic scenario, and the misconception articulated by Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad) that the Civil War was fought to end...
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Austrian "opposition" to empiricism, minimum wages, and Marginal product revenue
Talking a little bit about claims I've seen that Austrian economists don't believe in empirical data, which is incorrect, minimum wages, and Marginal product revenue. I got a lot of the math in my Marginal product revenue example wrong, but I was working while recording and coming up with an...
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Bidenomics
In this episode I just talk a bit about food shortages, gas shortages, and the problems with the Biden economy. I was going to edit out all the bits where I'm not talking because I'm working, but that will probably take hours, and I wanted to get this published asap, and I don't have the time.
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Profits and the Video Game Market
In this episode I wanted to talk about video game markets, how, and possibly why, they seem to be able to ignore basic economic principles.
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Rambling on the Marginal Theory of Value
A bit of Rambling on the Marginal Theory of Value, as applied to the pricing of T- Shirts. I probably don't get a lot of this right, but I just wanted to get my thoughts on this down for now, and maybe elaborate on it later.
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Reason Podcast vs Vaccine Skeptics
In this episode I wanted to address a recent episode of the Reason Podcast, in which they claim that the lack of FDA approval for vaccine should be reason for libertarians to approve of vaccines.
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Gamestonk 2 - Changing my mind, and clarification
In this episode I wanted to clarify some of the things I'd said in my previous episode about he Wall Street Bets Gamestop situation. Also, I've changed my mind about short selling, and through application of concepts from Austrian Economics, such as FA Hayek's local knowledge problem (correction:...
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"Gamestonk" and Short Selling
In this episode I wanted to discuss the "Gamestonk" situation. Specifically I wanted to talk about "Short Selling" a stock, and the effects it might have on the stock market as well as a business' finances, both positive and negative, because I think that the general perception that short selling...
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EPI Minimum Wage Meme
Today, I saw a meme from the EPI (Economic Policy Institute) about the minimum wage, which is so old, I recall having seen it back around 2012 or 2013. This was before I had ever learned anything about economics, or ever considered myself a libertarian, and I remember, even back then, thinking…
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Poverty in the US
I'd briefly mentioned in a previous episode how I think that the American poor are kind of spoiled by the high living standards that we have in the US, and don't really understand real poverty. In this episode I'll elaborate on that, along with the fact that the poorest 20% of Americans have…
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Albion Online, and Relic Salvaging
In this episode I talk about how, in Albion Online, buying relics that are priced lower than total value of the components received from salvaging them, then selling those components back onto the market to make a profit is good for the economy.
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The Broken Window Fallacy, Girls und Panzer, and Bodacious Space Pirates
In this episode, I talk a bit about the "broken window fallacy" in economics, and attempt to relate that to the anime, "Girls und Panzer" and "Bodacious Space Pirates", as well as talk a bit about insurance.
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Correction, and Comment on "Extreme Poverty Rates Plummet Under Capitalism"
In this episode, I first wanted to issue a correction on a previous episode, in which I said slaves could vote in the south, when it should have been that slaves counted toward representation in the south. Next, I wanted to read and comment on this FEE article, by Robert P Murphy, about how...
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Do Taxes and Greater Police Funding Reduce Crime?
In a few episodes of Tim Pool's podcast, he's recently mentioned how Trump saved New York by making the city more appealing to the wealthy, thus expanding the tax base, and increased police funding, which in turn reduced crime. While that may be part of the story, I have a tendency to agree with...
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Inconsistent Property Rights, and Social Media Censorship
I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how the Republicans have done nothing to protect free speech on social media platforms, and I wanted to address the inconsistent applications of property rights from the left-wing, right-wing, and moderates, and my frustration with the desire to get...
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Automation, Dr. Stone, and Deflation
In this episode I talk a bit about how automation is a good thing, and I relate that to the anime Dr. Stone in order to explain some of it. I also talk a little bit about Antony Sammeroff's debate with Martin Ford on whether robots will cause mass unemployment, and address the point brought about...
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Free Speech Internet Regulations
I talk a bit about pushes for free speech regulations on the internet, and although I might not articulate some of the best arguments for why this might be a bad thing, typically I think that regulations have a lot of unintended consequences that not only either make the problem worse, or create...
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Private Security
In this episode I talk a bit about the market for private security as an alternative to police. I'm by no means an expert on the subject, and I do a terrible job explaining it in comparison to Bob Murphy, who I'd recommend you give a listen to. Here's an episode from his podcast about the market...
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Spring 2020 Anime, Ascendance of a Bookworm, & the 8th Son
In this episode, I talk a bit about some of the anime I watched during the spring 2020 season, now that it's concluded. These aren't "reviews" as I don't feel qualified to offer in depth anime reviews, but I do talk about what anime I enjoyed, or felt were a bit lacking, as well as interesting...
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Tim Pool's Position On Google, and the Irony of Tearing Down Statues
In this episode, I wanted to discuss the strange position Tim Pool seems to take on Google's monopoly, and competition within the search engine market, as well as discuss the strange irony in tearing down statues, and their history.
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How We "Pay" and the Keynes/Socialist Parallel
I'd recently shared a video by Tim Pool on FaceBook about how people are refusing to work in order to continue receiving unemployment benefits, and my aunt asked "How the hell are we going to pay for this?" In this episode I explain Quantitative Easing, the effects of inflation, and end on how I...
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Food Wars, Communism, and the Economic Calculation Problem
Because I briefly touched on it in my intro episode, but went on a tangent where I only explained how the Azami Nakiri administration in food wars was NOT communist, I decided I'd explain how it was like communism. I also go off on a bit of a tangent to explain the Economic Calculation Problem…
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Konosuba and Exploitation of Labor/Extraction of Wages
I often hear people talk of exploitation of labor, and extraction of wages. Now, I'm not implying that it is not possible to exploit labor or exctract profits from employee wages, as there may be specific individual cases where that does occur. In this episode I'll be using the first 2-3 episodes...
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Data Caps and Marginal Utility
In this episode I talk a little bit about Comcast's Data Caps, their removal of the caps during the Coronavirus pandemic, the economic theory of marginal utility, and what economic implications we can draw from them.
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Introduction
This is simply an introduction episode in which I briefly explain what I hope to do on this podcast. I also go on to talk a bit about S3E7 of Food Wars, and how the new Director of the school is basically instituting a combination of communist and fascist economic policies, yet I don't actually...
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