Ep. 771 Inequality Makes You Die Sooner, and Other Anti-Capitalist Doozies

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you're like me, you bash your head against the wall at all the crazy anti-libertarian memes and talking points you run into on social media. We answer a whole bunch of them today.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 771.
0:03.7	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.2	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.7	Folks, blogging, podcasting, self-publishing are things people do as a labor of love, but you can also monetize them.
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0:29.2	Grab your copy at Paths to Income.com or text the word prosper to the number 44222.
0:36.8	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:38.7	Lots of nonsense out there.
0:40.1	You notice that about the world?
0:41.7	Lots of nonsense.
0:43.1	We're going to smack some of it down today.
0:45.2	In particular, some of these claims that income inequality makes people unhappy and unhealthy and whatever else.
0:52.0	But it's not just that.
0:53.0	There are all kinds of other things that
0:54.7	people take for granted as being true that are clearly not true. And an expert at smacking down
1:01.4	things people think are true, but are not true, is our guest today, Christopher Snowden, who comes
1:06.7	to us from the UK, where he is a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
1:12.2	He is the author, most recently, of selfishness, greed, and capitalism, debunking myths about
1:19.6	the free market. Chris, welcome to the show.
1:22.2	Good to be that.
1:23.3	All right. Let's get chit-chatting about, I like this book, Selfishness, Gride, and Capitalism.
1:28.0	But before I ask you about that, I guess I have to ask you the thing I think I ask everybody from the UK who's for the free market.
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