Episode 354 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: fact-checking the claims that Kamala Harris descended from a large plantation and slave owner on her father’s side and a supremacist caste status on her mother’s side; the California court ruling that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by products sold by third-party sellers and fulfilled by Amazon; and the US Department of Justice determining that Yale University discriminates against “white” and Asian student applicants.
Category: Everything Voluntary
ARK3 Returns, The Year 2020, & Changing Statists’ Minds (1h7m) – Episode 353
Episode 353 welcomes back Alex R. Knight III to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the tumultuous year 2020; coronavirus hysteria; looking forward 10 years and what we should expect; reducing statism through technology instead of ideological persuasion; Kamala Harris’ possible ancestry; what becoming a politician does to people; why voters are rationally ignorant; who’s to blame when democratic government fails; inconsistency in the behaviors we tolerate from other people, government and not; postmodernism; the effectiveness that communist defectors have on getting people in freer countries to see the mistake in pushing for more government; 2020 US presidential election prediction; and more.
Jared N. Returns, New Farming Life, & Rural Freedom (57m) – Episode 352
Episode 352 welcomes back Jared Nordin (The Voluntary Contrarian) to chat with Skyler on the following topics: his new farm and homestead and diving head first into rural farm-based living; his chickens, sheep, dogs, turkeys and plans for more types of livestock; fruit trees and gardening plans; living in Trump country as a voluntaryist; the difference…
Professional Value, Insufferable Bitch, Responsibility, & Child Leashes (27m) – Episode 351
Episode 351 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/unpopularopinion: yathatisveryadequate writes, “Animators should be payed WAY more than actors” and jdkdkdms writes, “Scientist should be paid more than Atheletes”; Agent_Ayru writes, “‘I’m not a morning person’ isn’t an excuse to be an insufferable bitch”; DarkMausey writes, “We are creating a society where no one is responsible for anything, and that’s a problem”; and Tweezot writes, “Keeping small children on leashes in public is extremely practical and shouldn’t be considered ‘weird’.”
Civil Liberties, Bootstraps, Labor Unions, & Capitalism (22m) – Episode 350
Episode 350 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: how civil liberties or civil rights are conceived by the masses; the importance of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps in making your life meaningful; why labor unions may bargain collectively but may not engage in coercion; and why capitalistic greed has nothing to do with people who suffer and die for lack of the goods and services they need to survive; and more.
Flagpoles, Chaos, Nationalism, & Disillusionment (43m) – Episode 349
Episode 349 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following questions from Quora: “How would libertarian society keep individuals from devolving into chaos?”; “Isn’t libertarianism incompatible with nationalism?”; “What does it take for someone to finally admit their religion or political ideology is wrong?”; and a look at the flagpole challenge to the Non-Aggression Principle by David Friedman.
Chris J. Returns, Delivery Work, Kamala Harris, & Politicizing Science (45m) – Episode 348
Episode 348 welcomes back Chris Jenkins to chat with Skyler on the following topics: delivery work under Amazon for Chris and food delivery for Skyler; Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick; pandemics and the waning tolerance of lockdowns across the world; the danger and foolishness in politicizing science; Ron Paul’s moment in the sun and whether that was a fluke; and more.
Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty, Part Four (24m) – Episode 347
Episode 334 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following aphorisms written by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski: “A businessman calls himself boss, but his goal is to serve others. A politician calls himself servant, but his goal is to boss others.”; “A collectivist in a libertarian society may be an odd duck, but an individualist in a statist society can only be a milk cow.”; “A fool complains about the lack of equality of opportunity. A person of reason appreciates the abundance of diversity of opportunity.”; “Fulfillment: the frame of mind in which success is neither a process nor an event, but a state of being.”; “A libertarian boor is a possibility, but a statist gentleman is a contradiction.”; “A scientist believes that science is a source of knowledge. A pseudoscientist believes that science is the source of knowledge.”
Florida Unemployment Scam, Native American Lands, & Beirut Lebanon Explosions (22m) – Episode 346
Episode 346 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the Florida unemployment payout process designed to be such a hassle that it deters almost everyone from claiming unemployment funds; the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County getting back nearly 1200 acres of land originally taken through Spanish conquest 250 years ago in the Big Sur area of California; and the ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut Lebanon which killed over 150 people, injured over 6,000, and left over 300,000 homeless.
Radical Button Pushing & Progressive/Conservative Fundamentals (16m) – Episode 345
Episode 345 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in August 2011 titled, “Button Pushing and the Radical Libertarian”; and an article he wrote in July 2018 titled, “Progressives and Conservatives are Allies on a Fundamental Level”.