February 12, 2019
Equality Is About Fair Rules, Not Final Scores
People will never be perfectly equal. As long as the rules don’t give special advantages over others, then we should embrace our differences instead of trying to eliminate them.
Written by Seamus Coughlin & Jennifer Maffessanti
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced by Sean W. Malone
August 20, 2025
Ron Finally Solves a Problem
After many years of struggling to understand how businesses create value, and finding it completely impossible to empathize with entrepreneurs and the struggles of both innovating new products and navigating the byzantine labyrinth of red tape and other disincentives to becoming successful and profitable, Ron has an idea that actually helps other people and implements it.
His first foray into value *creation* instead of destruction reveals the cracks in his own ideology.
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CREDITS:
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
Written & Directed by Seamus Coughlin
Voiced by Seamus Coughlin & Britta
Animated by Emily & Amazil
Backgrounds by Ryan
Edit & SFX by Amazil
Full-screen Graphics by Ricky Tee
Ron Finally Solves a Problem 
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Accountability Isn’t Just for the Little Guy
One of the biggest criticisms of "capitalism" is that large corporations are able to privatize profits while socializing losses — enjoying the benefits when times are good, but passing off their costs to taxpayers when the going gets rough.
But how are giant companies even able to do that?
One word: Government.
Socialized losses are not a feature of a free market, but of the opposite. Forcing taxpayers to subsidize businesses, or (especially in the case of the pharmaceutical industry) writing laws that render a company immune to prosecution even when their products are potentially harmful, are not examples of "capitalism", but of much older ideas like Mercantilism, Corporatism, and even Feudalism.
When powerful politicians talk about how important it is for drug companies to remain immune from prosecution, they’re not protecting *consumers*, nor are they promoting a healthy and free market. They’re changing the rules to benefit their cronies, at the expense of everyone else.
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Written & Voiced by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
Animated by Emily Slatt, Adam Donk, Josh VanHalteren , LTAmazil, and Rick Thomas
Layout by Jaime Velasquez, Trevor Smith
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LINKS:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/privatizing-profits-and-socializing-losses.asp
Do Drug Companies Get Immunity for Their Products More Often Than Consumer Product Companies?
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0222/Parents-can-t-sue-drug-firms-when-vaccines-cause-harm-Supreme-Court-says
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results-vaccine-liability/astrazeneca-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-vaccine-liability-claims-in-most-countries-idUSKCN24V2EN/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/health-alliance-australia_vaccine-manufacturers-often-operate-on-very-activity-7293045545504231424-tbcj
Elizabeth Warren Introduces Legislation to Create a Government-Run Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?code=H04&cycle=2020&ind=H04&mem=Y&recipdetail=S&sortorder=U
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