Editor’s Break 028 is a look at the personal disasters that have been plaguing Skyler as a homeowner lately, and why they are nothing to fret over.
Category: Editor’s Break
Editor’s Break 027 – Cultural Appropriate Based on Bogus Intellectual Property (12m)
Editor’s Break 027 looks at the recent trend in decrying so-called “cultural appropriation” and why its really just [bogus] intellectual property in a cultural dress.
Editor’s Break 026 – What is the Proper Response to the United Airlines Fiasco? (10m)
Editor’s Break 026 looks at the United Airlines passenger removal fiasco and explores both the proper and improper ways to respond to it.
Editor’s Break 025 – A Look at Georgism and Property Rights (15m)
Editor’s Break 025 is a quick look at Georgism, the political and economic philosophy that argues for tax on land because of its supposed special status as a finite resource. Is it compatible with human nature? Is it ethical? Is it better at reducing conflict over scarce resources than original appropriation?
Editor’s Break 024 – Is Intellectual Property Piracy Theft? (11m)
Editor’s Break 024 looks at the claim that “stealing” creative works, aka piracy, is a form of theft. It’s not; not in the slightest. There, I spoiled it.
Editor’s Break 023 – Is Volunteerism Bad, Wrong, and Counterproductive? (7m)
Editor’s Break 023 is a correction to the previous episode on charity being wrong and counterproductive, with a look at the nobility and beneficence of many forms of volunteerism.
Editor’s Break 022 – Is Charity Bad, Wrong, and Counterproductive? (9m)
Editor’s Break 022 is a look at charity and why Skyler is leaning toward the belief that charity is bad and counterproductive. He contrasts it with trade or exchange.
Editor’s Break 021 – Finding or Seizing Opportunities Takes Effort and Leads to Great Payoffs (32m)
Editor’s Break 021 is a look at the opportunities that either found Skyler or were sought after over the course of his working career. Not every opportunity panned out, but every opportunity that did lead to greater and greater payoffs. Opportunities abound if you apply yourself and go after them.
Editor’s Break 020 – Intervention Begets Intervention, On Obamacare (8m)
Editor’s Break 020 looks at the nature of government intervention in the economy with a focus on what’s happening around Obamacare right now. The more government tries to solve problems (of its own making, of course), the more problems it creates that need to be solved.
Editor’s Break 019 – Would You Push a Button to End All Injustice Immediately? (14m)
Editor’s Break 019 is a look at the button-pushing test first given by Leonard Read, then Murray Rothbard, but also considered by Robert LeFevre and Carl Watner. If there were a button to remove all injustice in the world in one fell swoop, would you push it? Skyler answers.