Non-libertarians deride libertarians and free markets types as selfish and greedy because we argue that people should be free to keep the wealth they earn completely for themselves. Keeping your wealth to yourself is a personal choice aligned with the values you hold. No less aligning to the values one holds than is the life…
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On Presidents Day
Happy Presidents Day! And by “Presidents” I mean the presidents of businesses in “the voluntary sector” wielding social power to improve the lot of mankind. They’re entrepreneurs and innovators. They live or die on the basis of customer satisfaction, on making customer’s live better, easier, happier, and more fulfilled. Unlike their coercive sector counterparts, they…
Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
Send him mail. “Win-Win World” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursdays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Russell L. Roth. Russell is a 30-year marketing veteran and graduate of Jay Snelson’s “Science of Human Interaction” course (he calls it “Win/Win 101”). He has owned and operated businesses in advertising, real estate and internet marketing. He holds…
Think About It
Send her mail. “Balancing on My Toes” is an original column appearing every other Friday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Angel M. Ethell. Angel lives in the Chicagoland area with her family: sons Teen (13) and Lil G (2) along with their little sister Cassie Pie (dog), her partner Daddy G and father-in-law Grandpa G. She loves…
On the Minimum Wage
Let’s say a shop owner wanted to make his life just a little bit easier by hiring some kid, eager to make some cash, to sweep his floors and otherwise keeps things straightened up over his shift. He can only afford to pay him $5 an hour. The kid has never had a job and…
Words Poorly Used #25 — Sacrifice
People often talk about making a sacrifice for others, or subsuming their individuality to an external cause, as a positive. But what they are doing is choosing to behave in a certain way. Others will refer to sacrifice as something positive expected of others — commanders will say that they had to sacrifice so many…
Re: Sacrifice
Nobody asked but … When you think sacrifice, think goat kids and virgin female humans on altars covered with blood, think innocent tribe members on a Mayan edifice saturated with gore, think about burnings at the stake. … We are not created to be subordinate to the benefit of another. We are created without regard…
Logic Fallacies, No Regrets, Hard Winter
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. This week…
Superman and Freedom
Editor’s Pick. Written by Chris Brown in November 2008. If man is really free, how can we account for his inability to fly, to travel through time, to leap across the ocean, for not being omniscient or omnipotent? In short, wouldn’t man have to be more like Superman to actually be free? Man is constrained…
National Defense
Nobody asked but … National Defense — Is an abstraction, and perversion, of the self-defense exception in the Non-aggression Principle. The process boils down to a process which single-mindedly defends the process itself, along with its armaments, tools, fortifications, espionage, and human resources. Armies defend forts, and supply routes, and its conscripted minions — in…