The Weebertarian

The Weebertarian

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The Weebertarian episodes

  • 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 totally new unrelated problems, but that they also usually create barriers to entry within a market that might help to better establish currently existing monopolies.

    31 min
  • 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 for private security and how it could replace police:


    https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/episodes/ep-124-the-right-way-to-defund-the-police-and-an-eyewitness-account-of-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-chaz/


    The bit that I did hope to contribute to the conversation are my arguments against the claim that the poor would have little to no access to private security. 

    28 min
  • 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 aspects of the anime Ascendance of a Bookworm, and the 8th Son, from a libertarian perspective.

    35 min
  • 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 think we got to this point: by the harmful economic parallel between Keynesianism and Socialism/Communism, a denial of Say's Law, frequent use of the Broken Window Fallacy, and a demand-side view of economics.

    This is also my first "scripted" episode. Some of it was scripted and some not, because I'm thinking I might be better able to concisely articulate my ideas by scripting my episodes. 

    I might go between scripting episodes and winging it depending upon how much time I have to write a script and the necessity of having one.

    12 min
  • 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, or the Socialist Calculation problem. Also, I realized that in the episode I say that profit margin is revenue minus cost, but that's not correct, that is the profit. I believe that profit margin is the profit divided by the revenue.
    31 min
  • 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 of Konosuba as examples, and I'll be discussing the determination of wages, and how, broadly speaking, it is more likely that your employer is actually increasing the value of your labor, such that it actually commands a higher wage.
    28 min
  • 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.
    24 min
  • 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 detail how they are communist. I'll probably discuss that in more detail in a later episode.
    8 min

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A podcast about economics, anime, manga, and gaming, from a libertarian perspective.