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Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.

What Toilet Kombucha Can Teach You about Capitalism

May 17, 2023

On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Ron goes to prison and finds it not so easy to shame his fellow inmates. To make up for this lack, Ron invents an economic system of voluntary exchange. As our suspiciously-voiced narrator explains, that’s called capitalism.


CREDITS:
Written by Sean W. Malone, Seamus Coughlin, and Lou Perez
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone


LINKS:

https://fee.org/articles/the-essence-of-capitalism-is-mutual-consent/
https://reason.com/2015/04/06/why-capitalism-beats-communism/
https://triblive.com/opinion/walter-williams-morality-of-free-markets/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FreeMarket.html
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-principle-of-voluntary-exchange-in-a-market-economy.html
https://mises.org/wire/freedom-choice-what-sets-capitalism-apart-not-competition
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp


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