Vacuous Vocation

Vacuous Vocation

By Matthew James GeigerNewsPolitics
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Vacuous Vocation episodes

  • Death

    To understand and appreciate life, we must philosophically consider death and its implications.

    20 min
  • 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 science perspective which makes for a great conversation combined with the economic and philosophical perspective of bitcoin.
    55 min
  • 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.
    1 hr 3 min
  • 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 development, transfer, market analysis and penetration, energy investment and policy analysis and private and public sector interaction. During the period prior to 2000, Mr. Bos was involved in the market-driven development of both stationary and mobile technologies that have both the potential for mitigating resource constraints as well as environmental problems for a large spectrum of energy and transportation applications.   Because of this childhood wartime experience, he early on became interested in individual sovereignty and freedom. 

    As a survivor of the Nazi occupation of his native country during World War II, he is acutely aware of what it means not to be free and of the extent of the violence and destruction that politically democratic nation states are capable of inflicting.

    1 hr 38 min
  • 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. 

    34 min
  • 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 ability to buy real goods and services.
    13 min
  • 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 of this issue deals with the exchange structure in a profit motivated exchange where consumers are viewed as assets compared to a universal healthcare or socialized healthcare one-size-fits all policy where consumers are not treated according to their demand as their healthcare providers receive the same compensation regardless of the quality of service provided and alters the structure of consumers and clients as transforming into liabilities, hence an inefficient and deadly system. 

    14 min
  • 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 families off to wars, while raping the average citizen of all he worked to save for themselves and family members lives. I do not advocate for violence but I am fascinated by chaos in the realm of intellectual discourse.   "The policy of inflation is the most radical institution in society because it affects people earnings, savings and spendings in such a way that he cannot plan for the future." - Mises

    12 min

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An anarchist trying to find his way in the world.