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Vacuous Vocation
by Matthew James Geiger
An anarchist trying to find his way in the world.
Episodes
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Spirit | Contemplations #1
In this episode, Matthew James Geiger introduces a new series called Contemplations, focusing on philosophical inquiries that extend beyond economics. He discusses the significance of two fundamental questions in life: what one will do with their life and who they will share it with. Matthew...
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Adam Haman (VV#5)
My guest on this episode of vacuous vocation is Adam Haman, he is a gambler, philosopher, husband, Libertarian, and seeker of the natural order. We met at Mises University 2018 and have been friends ever since. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Meeting at Mises University 03:34 Separating School…
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Jamie Whyte (VV#4)
Dr Whyte is a philosopher and an author of several works of philosophy, economics, and public policy. He is the author of Quack Policy, Free Thoughts, A Load of Blair and Crimes Against Logic. He has published more than two hundred opinion columns in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal,...
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Thaddeus Russell (VV#3)
@thaddeusrussellofficial @vacuous_vocation 00:00 Introduction and Rejecting the Epithet 05:07 Debating the Motivations Behind the Civil War 09:03 The Intellectual Culture of the Old South 12:21 Reevaluating the Civil War 23:13 The True Motivations Behind the Support for the Civil War 25:20 The...
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Michael Wimer (VV#2)
This episode with Michael Wimer we discuss history, economics, politics, culture, philosophy, and religion. @lil_rumba
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Anarcho - Capitalism w/ Brandon Loschiavo
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.
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The Economics of Suicide with Brandon Loschiavo
This podcast was re-uploaded from Brandon Loschiavo's podcast "The Performance Playbook Ep.16: A Happiness Hypothesis Through Economics".
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Edward Fuller - Reading, Writing, Keynes, and Economics
Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business. https://mises.org/profile/edward-w-fuller?page=1
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Political Dissidence
Politics is all about power, pick your battles carefully and be peaceful.
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The Word "Should"
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.
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Bitcoin Philosophy
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.
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Freedom is Inevitable
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.
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Power & Property - An Anarchist's Perspective
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...
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Some Thoughts on Democracy
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...
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Heroin - An Anarchist's Perspective
(I am not advocating drug use) Drugs are already legal, just the ones approved by pharmaceutical companies and the State. End the war on drugs, end victimless crimes, end the imprisonment of people for using drugs. Drugs do not have to be stigmatized as something negative, some doctors use heroine.
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Taxes - An Anarchist's Perspective
The mugger or thief robs you once. The gang robs you at least twice. The mafia becomes "the State" and calls it "taxation". Taxation is theft.
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Abortion - An Anarchist's Perspective
At the point of conception there is uniqueness of life that is created. Evictionism is the alternative choice to pro-life and pro-choice that most people are unaware of.
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Suicide - An Anarchist's Perspective
(I am not advocating suicide or self harm) John Locke posed the question best, "who owns you?", and if you own yourself then you have the right to do what you will, if you are not free to do with your body what you want then theoretically there is a person or group of people who have a higher…
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"Planning for Freedom"
"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...
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It's Never Enough
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.
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Ideas are Bulletproof
At my worst I just complain, at my best I share ideas.
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The Religion of Statism
Are you spiritual or religious? Not in a theological sense but in an obedience to some doctrinal sense.
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19 Months of 19
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...
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We Need to Talk...
Let's get nationally divorced babe.
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Alex Voss - Economics, Anarchy, & Prosperity
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...
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Life's Purpose?
There is no purpose... hear me out.
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Intimidation
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."
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Productivity
Productivity is a regard to applied human action. Is something productive? Well that depends.
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A Vacuous Vocation w/ Nolan McCarthy VV Ep#1
Nolan McCarthy is a baseball player and student of economics.
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Profits
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...
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Anarchism is Psychological
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…
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The New World Reserve Currency
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.
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Marxism & Masks
A component of Marxism is depersonalization to submit to the collective. Masks are depersonalizing because they cover one’s face, the most physical profile part of a person.
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Minarchism & Anarchism
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.
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Covid Passports to Socialized Medicine
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...
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Death
To understand and appreciate life, we must philosophically consider death and its implications.
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Chris Iba - Computers, Calculations & Cryptos
Chris Iba is a student of Computer Science at Berkeley.
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Tom Butler - BITCOIN, Bread, & Butler
Tom Butler is a student of mathematics (and kinesiology) at Occidental College. Tom and I were on the baseball team together as pitchers and roommates during our junior year. Tom comes to the conclusion that bitcoin has potential to be the world's reserve currency from a mathematics and computer...
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Andrew Howard - Bitcoin 🍞 & 🧈
Andrew Howard is the Chief Business Development Officer of Bitcoin Reserve, an Ex-Marine who has been enlightened by the perspective of anarchism, and my dear friend. This episode surrounds the topic of bitcoin from an economic, philosophical, and political perspective.
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Peter Bos - The Road to Freedom & The Myth of the State
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...
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Dynamism
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.
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The Invisible (Minimum) Wage
Wages in economic theory are dependent on the marginal productivity of labor. But a wage can be distinguished by its nominal and real wage. The nominal wage is the amount of monetary units someone receives for their expended labor. The real (invisible) wage is the purchasing power of their…
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The Problems with Universal Healthcare
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…
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Omnipotent Government - Book Review
Omnipotent Government was written by Ludwig von Mises in 1944.
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The Villains of Capitol Hill
"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...
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Imperfections of Economic Relief
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...
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Partisan Political Power
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...
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Equality
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...
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A Monetary Revolution
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…
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We Need Liberty
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...
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An anarchist trying to find his way in the world.
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