The New World Order and Dehumanization on the Left and Right
Bob critiques the economic views of Yuval Harari, who predicts “useless people” because of technological advances.
Bob critiques the economic views of Yuval Harari, who predicts “useless people” because of technological advances.
Arguments for equal pay are popular in our body politic, but what happens if some of those arguments are based upon the faulty logic of the labor theory of value?
Money printing may bring rising wages, but it also brings rising prices for goods and services. And those increases are outpacing the wage increases.
Jeff and Bob discuss the dynamics of the housing market in the context of a recent talk by Alex Pollock.
Opponents of markets claim that worker wages have not kept up with worker productivity. This incorrect claim is based on two mistakes in estimating wages.
Workers should have the freedom to take their time off when they need it most. Official government holidays don't actually mean more time off. They just mean less flexibility.
In real life, the labor market includes government employers. So the fundamental question is whether or not a laborer can morally seek out the highest wage offered by all employers.
The United States’s jobs recovery is extremely poor, especially if we consider the size of the monetary and fiscal stimulus and the spectacular upgrade to GDP estimates.
We often hear these minimum wage laws are well intentioned. I cannot agree. Minimum-wage laws are evil in their methods (coercion) and evil in their goals (to make people believe they’re dependent on government).
The United States’s jobs recovery is extremely poor, especially if we consider the size of the monetary and fiscal stimulus and the spectacular upgrade to GDP estimates.