Words & Numbers

Episode 512: What Do You Meme?


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Memes are apparently unavoidable, and most of them suck. Here we talk about some of the suckiest ones.

00:00 Introduction and Disclaimer

00:51 Japan’s Food Tax and Why Groceries Shouldn’t Be Taxed

02:38 State Sales Taxes on Food Across America

05:04 Flat Taxes, Tax Complexity, and Scotland’s Simplicity

06:18 Remembering Historian Gordon Wood

07:37 AI Corporations and the Future of Legal Personhood

13:30 Foolishness of the Week: Trump’s Repeated Iran Peace Claims

18:08 Responding to Socialist Memes

19:04 Does Capitalism Create Billionaires Instead of Healthcare?

22:11 Obamacare, Health Insurance, and Government Bureaucracy

25:24 Why Misleading Memes Spread So Easily

29:12 Is Poverty a Product of Capitalism?

34:08 Elon Musk, Billionaires, and Wealth Creation

42:20 Infinite Growth, Capitalism, and the Laws of Thermodynamics

45:55 Why Political Memes Make Public Discourse Worse

48:13 Patreon Updates and Closing Thoughts

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