Vacuous Vocation

In this episode, Matthew James Geiger introduces a new series called Contemplations, focusing on philosophical inquiries that extend beyond economics. He discusses the significance of two fundamental questions in life: what one will do with their life and who they will share it with. Matthew emphasizes the importance of having a strong spirit and the freedom to pursue one's passions, drawing p...

My guest on this episode of vacuous vocation is Adam Haman, he is a gambler, philosopher, husband, Libertarian, and seeker of the natural order. We met at Mises University 2018 and have been friends ever since. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Meeting at Mises University 03:34 Separating School and State 06:16 Exploring Epistemology 08:54 Metaphysics and Other Dimensions 13:03 Living in a Simulatio...

Dr Whyte is a philosopher and an author of several works of philosophy, economics, and public policy. He is the author of Quack Policy, Free Thoughts, A Load of Blair and Crimes Against Logic. He has published more than two hundred opinion columns in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and The Financial Times. Dr Whyte won the prestigious Bastiat Prize for Economic Journalism....

@thaddeusrussellofficial @vacuous_vocation 00:00 Introduction and Rejecting the Epithet 05:07 Debating the Motivations Behind the Civil War 09:03 The Intellectual Culture of the Old South 12:21 Reevaluating the Civil War 23:13 The True Motivations Behind the Support for the Civil War 25:20 The Left's Perception of the Civil War 34:57 Christian Evangelical Support for Israel 52:17 The Role of S...

This episode with Michael Wimer we discuss history, economics, politics, culture, philosophy, and religion. @lil_rumba

This episode discusses the recent election of President Javier Milei in Argentina, anarchy and capitalism, anarchy and health, money, socialism, optimism, and much more, please enjoy.

This podcast was re-uploaded from Brandon Loschiavo's podcast "The Performance Playbook Ep.16: A Happiness Hypothesis Through Economics".

Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business. https://mises.org/profile/edward-w-fuller?page=1 

Politics is all about power, pick your battles carefully and be peaceful. 

The word "should" is a value judgment and as all values are subjective, I am in no position to tell someone what they should do because I do not know what anyone else values, nor should anyone tell me what I should value.

Bitcoin is a digital service to fulfill the medium of exchange as the hardest asset to ever come into existence thanks to the technological revolution.

The history of mankind is on a trajectory towards the maximum individual human freedom the world has ever seen. It helps to think in these concepts not necessarily annually but in terms of decades.

Power and Property have gone hand in hand since the dawn of empires. Property does not necessarily have to be physical, there are forms of digital and intellectual property as well. As we enter the new century of freedom, we shall try to understand how it is that property has gone from being something discarded as bourgeois to becoming something that is veneered.

Democracy is the movement of the masses. When the waves take you, you can either go with the flow or consider the possibility that there are other streams you would like to travel in your life. How can an individualist ever support an ideology solely on the basis that the majority of the people support it. The opinions and ideas of the majority are irrelevant, they are just like trees in a forest,...

(I am not advocating drug use) Drugs are already legal, just the ones approved by pharmaceutical companies and the State. End the war on drugs, end victimless crimes, end the imprisonment of people for using drugs. Drugs do not have to be stigmatized as something negative, some doctors use heroine.

The mugger or thief robs you once. The gang robs you at least twice. The mafia becomes "the State" and calls it "taxation". Taxation is theft. 

At the point of conception there is uniqueness of life that is created. Evictionism is the alternative choice to pro-life and pro-choice that most people are unaware of.

(I am not advocating suicide or self harm) John Locke posed the question best, "who owns you?", and if you own yourself then you have the right to do what you will, if you are not free to do with your body what you want then theoretically there is a person or group of people who have a higher claim and say to your body than the individual themself.

"Planning for Freedom" is a Soviet concept, essentially it is a contradictions in terms. Where there is planning, usually lead by a state committee for some form of societal organization, there is a reduction in freedoms. It is the 'anarchy of production' that allows for the market economy to create a society that is most compatible with peace and prosperity ~ freedom.

The morals of Anarchists are a little bit difficult to discover as they do not come to one pre-packaged in life as they do for the followers of statism.

At my worst I just complain, at my best I share ideas. 

Are you spiritual or religious? Not in a theological sense but in an obedience to some doctrinal sense.

The Dirty Rona has been with us for its 19 months anniversary. Psychological Conditioning is going well. The dollar is feeling like the perfect tinder for an inflationary fire.   0:57 NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan  3:40 Fauci in the Hot Seat  5:15 Virologists Rockstardom  6:05 Governmental Power  7:05 The 2 Sides of Masks  7:58 C.O.P.S.  11:02...

Let's get nationally divorced babe.

Alex Voss is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Notre Dame and is currently working on his Masters in Austrian Economics in the Mises Institute. Alex works for the Tipolis Corporation which is the for profit project arm of the Free Private Cities Foundation to promote the idea and build private cities.