This is the podcast for the 1-20-2023 edition of The Business Socializer.

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The #FacebookSnowDay, 10-4-2021 was interesting. What happened? Was it an attack? Did someone trip over a cord in Menlo Park? What did all those Instagram influencers do today? 

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Socialism is a secular religion with saints and holidays. The chief selling point is that it sells 'heaven on earth". 

This is a compelling selling point and one can understand why some cling to the ideology. It is a faith. It comforts. It gives a reason for suffering. It offers a way to a better world.

It is however economic snake oil. Fundamentally socialism can not price things effectively and is therefore always doomed to eventual implosion. It lacks dynamism. It denies the dignity of the individual. It eventually destroys wealth and prosperity in absolute terms while empowering a class of government managers who act like an aristocracy. Only it's even worse than a heredity aristocracy, it's a aristocracy of busybodies, of planners, of bureaucrats.

But it is a faith and its roots are deep. Many of us had hoped that we had ACTUALLY progressed past the ugliest type of socialism. Sadly however some seek to keep the religion alive. And many of these people are young people who given the carnage of the last century have no excuse for their infatuation. 

The implosion of Evergrande has been called China's Lehman moment. Is it? 

If the Chinese economy continues to wobble, or worse, will CCP leadership lash out militarily?

If Taiwan is invaded (one day) would the USA enter into a war? 

We trail China in some areas of military tech, including in "carrier killer" tech, and China now also has the largest navy in the world. Is this an unstable situation geopolitically? Is it a threat to the USA?

No child in this country should be hungry. Much of "food insecurity" can be solved privately, but we don't begrudge some single mother who is just trying to feed her children for using SNAP. 

But SNAP is big business for big food business. US taxpayers subsidize food for the poor , but this money ultimately goes to soda companies, and similar outfits. Lobbyists in Washington make sure that the products of their clients are on the SNAP list.

These sugary foods then contribute to poor health outcomes for the poor. We the US taxpayer then must subsidize the healthcare of the these people who are ill. By so doing we are then also subsidizing the bottom line of large healthcare corporations.

Also Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is from Iowa, corn country (think corn syrup) and a former Monsanto lobbyist. 

5 TRILLION dollars! 5 trillion... And most of this will flow to the politically connected. And it's not like inflation has become a problem all of a sudden or anything. Yes, let's pour more gasoline onto that monetary fire. 

Who pays for all this? YOU DO. Who gets paid? Most likely NOT YOU. 

It appears that yes, we are. From Taiwan, to Afghanistan, to Africa, to even Australia the rivalry grows with the Red Dragon.

1984?

Brave New World?

Logans Run?

Terminator?

V for Vendetta? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY

We had to leave sooner or later, but we shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Afghanistan is the "Graveyard of Empires" and we should have headed this lesson.

China tries to make hay of our leaving, warns Taiwan that we will do the same "once war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait.

Thousands of lives lost along with trillions in taxpayer dollars. 

In Europe there have been massive protests against mandatory vaccinations and vaccination passports.

China is feeling Covid in a real way again and supply lines are being disrupted - again. 

Covid is destabilizing the world. China rumbles, Afghanistan crumbles, how will this chapter in world history end?