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Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Pieter and Ryan discuss some of the work of David Ellerman, a cool old guy who's smart and writes about capitalism being bad.
We prove with logic that Marxism is wrong, and Marxists who listen to this will be mad, owned, and melting down.
Small correction, I talked to Prof. Nitzan about whether government appropriations could be considered capital, and decided that 'appropriations' is already the more appropriate term.
Ellerman's blog on firmhood/human rentals*
Outro music: One Count of Mutiny by Employer, Employee. Even if you don't like fry vocals, crank this shit up, I promise it's good.
*Note (11/10/18): The old Abolish Human Rentals site seems to be down, but Ellerman has a much more comprehensive blog on his personal site that I have linked to instead.
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Monday Feb 26, 2018
Adorable Billy Gates is adorably insulated from the reality of capitalism by the billions of dollars he has. Amazon is building Ancapistan one small business at a time. Pieter and Ryan discuss the correct classification of Pizza. There's some other stuff we talk about, okay I'm going to the bar now bye.
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Seriously melting down over these episode numbering schemes. Anyway, this is about biotech in agriculture. Studies referenced in this episode:
Fernandez-Cornejo 2014 (PDF version)
Tuomisto, et al. 2011 (PDF version)
Mattick, et al. 2015 (PDF version on SciHub)
A literature review on the safety assessment of genetically modified plants
Environmental impacts of genetically modified plants: A review
A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Monday Feb 12, 2018
The subject of today's show is everyone's favorite white savior, the clutch of the Dutch, the man who literally thinks he's Iron Man, Eloooooooon Muuuuuuuuusk!
Art exhibit on SpaceX campus: Who Musk is now and who he used to be
Twitter knight comes to the rescue of a billionaire whose character was unfairly assassinated
I'm sorry sir my head can't go any lower, shall I lay prone on the floor?
Monday Feb 05, 2018
Monday Feb 05, 2018
We review everyone's favorite fake money for bowtie-wearing dorks. Spoilers: It's bad.
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
We talk to Blair Fix, a graduate student at York University in Canada, about his fascinating research examining energy and hierarchy and the relationship between hierarchy and personal income. I sound tired in the intro because I was, but the interview was recorded on a different day, so I don't sound so much like a lazy slug in the rest of the episode.
Reading mentioned or referenced:
- Capital as Power by Shimshon Bichler & Jonathan Nitzan
- A Power Theory of Personal Income Distribution by Blair Fix
- Energy and Institution Size by Blair Fix
- Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power by Bichler & Nitzan
- Debunking Economics by Steve Keen
- The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman
- When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
- A Critical History of Economic Thought by E.K. Hunt
- Debt by David Graeber
- Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective by Blair Fix
- Uneven and Combined Confusion: On the Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism and the Rise of the West by Tim Di Muzio
- Against the Grain by James Scott
- Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality by T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
- Abolish Human Rentals: The Fundamental Myth by David Ellerman
Monday Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
In this episode Ryan shouts over Pieter for 2 hours about how much more easily Batman (with planning) can defeat Son Goku with SSJ3. We were planning to do character comparisons of popular American heroes (and Sherlock Holmes) with popular anime heroes, but I will NEVER BACK DOWN, BATMAN WITH PLANNING CAN DEFEAT ANYONE.
13 Differences Between Western And Eastern Superheroes
What's The Difference Between Japanese and American Animation?
Monday Jan 15, 2018
Monday Jan 15, 2018
In this episode we learn what's up with that crazy guy that owns Online WalMart™
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Industrial ecology is the study of industrial systems through the lens of ecology. We go over a book that I've had on the subject for a while, and a few articles from the journal Industrial Ecology.
Monday Jan 01, 2018
Monday Jan 01, 2018
I meant for this to be automatically released on NYE, but I guess I forgot to update the code for my RSS feed.
We kick off the year and the second season by mocking the past year and making predictions about the upcoming one.
How the Slow Death of Labour Might Happen