What Do You Meme? | Words & Numbers | Ep 512
Memes are apparently unavoidable, and most of them suck. Here we talk about some of the suckiest ones.
00:00 Introduction and Disclaimer
00:51 Japan’s Food Tax and Why Groceries Shouldn’t Be Taxed
02:38 State Sales Taxes on Food Across America
05:04 Flat Taxes, Tax Complexity, and Scotland’s Simplicity
06:18 Remembering Historian Gordon Wood
07:37 AI Corporations and the Future of Legal Personhood
13:30 Foolishness of the Week: Trump’s Repeated Iran Peace Claims
18:08 Responding to Socialist Memes
19:04 Does Capitalism Create Billionaires Instead of Healthcare?
22:11 Obamacare, Health Insurance, and Government Bureaucracy
25:24 Why Misleading Memes Spread So Easily
29:12 Is Poverty a Product of Capitalism?
34:08 Elon Musk, Billionaires, and Wealth Creation
42:20 Infinite Growth, Capitalism, and the Laws of Thermodynamics
45:55 Why Political Memes Make Public Discourse Worse
48:13 Patreon Updates and Closing Thoughts
Subscribe to Words & Numbers on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Substack, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
