Vacuous Vocation

College Tuition is setting record highs consistently year after year. Who can you thank for these increased prices? You guessed it, the Cathedral, more specifically - the government for artificially creating student loans to increase the demand of people who want to attend colleges and universities which allows the colleges and universities to increase their tuitions. Not only are the high tuition fees the issue, but the quality of education provided has been hindered comparatively to the decrease in quality of students attending these institutions. What way or another my prediction is within the coming future the Marxist indoctrinating colleges will burst either in cost, quality students attending, or becoming bailed out and owned by the government in which case the hope for a real university education is lost completely.

In this episode, Matthew gives the introduction from Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Lecture titled "What Must Be Done" That was given at the 1997 Mises Supporter's Summit in Newport Beach. Hoppe explains why peaceful cooperation exists among mankind and this is because of self-interest, that is to prefer more over less. With the division of labor peaceful cooperation can emerge out of the greatest social chaos and this is of course natural. But Hoppe explains that "something can and obviously has happened that disrupts and distorts or even derails this normal self-interest driven development, and this is of course the state."

The Fall of Ancient Rome came from the implementation of price controls and currency debasement resulting in the Autarkies of the Middle Ages, Invading barbarian tribes only expedited the decay of the empire. The United States today plans to implement further controls on prices that will result in shortages of the necessary goods for survival, along with the potential for hyperinflation and currency debasement, what stands in the way of the once great American State from crumbling akin to the monuments  Ancient Roman Empire?

In this episode, Matthew discusses the economic and moral reasons of privatization of the roads. Roughly 35,000 people die annually on the roads and it is the dangers of driving that is the proximate cause of deaths on the roads, but it is the road owners who are the ultimate cause of deaths on the roads, the State in improper maintainability of safety. The economic argument for privatization of roads mainly consists of peak load pricing.

In this episode, Matthew discusses some of the aspects of the contemporary democratic and republican party politics in order to discuss that the only viable future for the United States is a return towards liberty and sound economic understanding.

In this episode, Matthew discusses the methodology of Austrian Economics in the Axiom of Action by understanding how individuals ordinary rank their subjective preferences while mainstream economics using cardinal ranking in order to construct indifference curves using utils as the measurement for preferences which is Keynesianism not economics proper. 

In this episode, Matthew discusses the philosophies of collectivism which is the philosophy influenced by Marx, Engels, Kant along with other collectivist philosophers and Individualism which is the philosophy of Libertarianism. 

In this episode, Matthew discusses the ideological differences between the concepts of governance which is the systematic provision of security and protection, and governments which are the State that originates from violence and endures through coercion.