Episode 512: What Do You Meme?

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