BONUS EPISODE: Economic Laws #16-23 | Hn 276

Adam Haman (0:07)

Hello, and welcome to Haman Nature. I am Adam Haman. That fella in that beautiful Haman Nature hat is my buddy Tyrone. How are you doing, man?

Tyrone (0:15)

Pretty good, pretty good. But I am feeling a little divided today.

Adam Haman (0:19)

Divided? Well, one thing we're not divided about is how much we love our subscribers, our paid subscribers over on Substech. This is a bonus episode for you.

Thank you for that. Now look, buddy, what's got you all divisional?

Tyrone (0:35)

Well, we are continuing our series of study of economics based on the book Economics In Three Lessons and 100 Economic Laws by Hunter Lewis. And we're on the division of labor section.

Adam Haman (0:50)

I get it now.

Tyrone (0:53)

Right. So the previous episode, we went through laws 14 and 15

We're going to change it up a little bit. We're going to try to condense these a little bit more rather than read them word for word, which can be maybe a little bit boring.

And you don't need to, if you want to read along, you can get your own book, right? It might be more useful. I think what's more useful about those episodes that we do is our commentary, our own thoughts, our own exposition on the laws themselves. And you know what? Our audience is way smarter than us. I'm sure they understand these economic laws and would just like maybe to get our perspective on it. Well, I know there's definitely smarter than porcupines. I'll tell you that. I don't know about ex-card players. But so, yeah, we're going to start combining a few more of these. Just get to the book quicker so we can provide you some other interesting bonus content as our paid subscribers. So yeah, again, thank you for subscribing and hope you're enjoying this. So last episode, like I said, we did law 14 and 15 So each of these law sections are encapsulated into topics. I guess you call it, so this is chapter three of the 100 Economic Laws, and we're going through the division of labor. As a reminder, law 14 is sort of the overall law of the division of labor, which basically says if we share labor, we may be able to make ourselves much more productive. And then each of the subsequent laws or corollaries or little branches or little subsequent individual points to flesh out that whole idea. Make sense?

Adam Haman (2:41)

It makes sense. I tip my hand to your producer's instincts, but I can't help but being suspicious that you're just afraid of running into Rory Tony's again and not knowing what to do about it.

Tyrone (2:52)

Way too many words.

Yes, first of all, way too many big words for porcupines to pronounce. And then second, it's a lot of editing work. When I sit there and stare into the camera for 60 seconds and mouth the word 10 times trying to figure out how the fuck is this thing pronounced? And then I got to go back and edit it all together. So since I'm the editor, I'm saving myself some time. You know, Adam, that's just being efficient. That's just being efficient. We're dividing the labor, see?

Adam Haman (3:25)

That's probably one of these here economic laws in here somewhere is efficiency.

Tyrone (3:30)

All right. So I'm just going to read each of the corollaries. And then I've made a few notes in the columns, on the sides of the pages, underlined a couple of things. So I will read some quotes here, things I thought were interesting to highlight the main points and Adam assuming you'll do the same here. So as I knock my book over.

All right. So law number 16, which is corollary B of the division of labor says, basically private ownership. If we are to exchange, we must first own. So I'm going to start off the conversation on this one, Adam, real quick, which is sort of the first sentence. He's already got me in a little bit of a kerfuffle, a little bit of fighting mood, let's say. And he starts off this section by saying, in the first place, we must own our own labor and not be enslaved by other people or by government.

So this phrasing really gets under my skin. And we've talked about this before in previous episodes about using the language of our opponents, adopting the language of our opponents, and letting it creep into our thought. And because I don't want to even give any validity to the commies, right? So this concept of you owning your own labor is just false, at least from our view.