Nobody asked but … Every commentator who has any credibility left for a voluntaryist has said literally the same thing. To wit — congratulations, a whole 1/3rd of you voted, congratulations, in very, very rare instances did a winning candidate garner even 20% of the American vote, congratulations, you provided cable news with their periodic…
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Convergence, J. B. Bury, Fallacy #17
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. Having just…
Knowledge, Wisdom, and Wealth
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I live in a great age. Despite all the problems in the world, the present era has so much knowledge,…
Episode 041 – Economics 101: Specialization (0h35m)
Episode 041 is the fourth part of the on-going Economics 101 mini-series, on the topics of Specialization and the Division of Labor. Listen to Episode 041 (0h35m, mp3, 128kbps)Show Notes Walter Williams, Economics for the Citizen, Part 4Gene Smiley, “Specialization and Exchange“Dwight R. Lee, “Specialization and Wealth“Tyler Watts, “Outsourcing is Bad?“Murray Rothbard, “The Ricardian Law…
What is Wrong?
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. “Wrong” is one of these terms that have several meanings. A dictionary lookup tells me that wrong, as an adjective, means,…
Popular Impression
Nobody asked but … I am watching a vintage film of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, and all of a sudden I encountered in the script the most wonderful exchange — Nanki-Poo: Who says twenty-four hours make a day?Pitti-Sing: There’s a popular impression to that effect. What a wit W. S. Gilbert was! This explains…
Rules, Spooner Quote #8, Fallacy #16
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. I’m thinking…
The Ethics of Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Having recently written columns explaining both the philosophy of voluntaryism and the voluntary principle on which its based, I thought it…
Words Poorly Used #52 — Minarchism
There are actually at least two kinds of minarchist. The first is the libertarian who sees a small but appropriate role for a little bit of a state. Some people see this as approving of acorns but disliking oaks. I suppose this is through a confusion among the words stasis, meaning an unchanging condition, and…
On “Have To” II
“Have to” is a grammatically awkward pairing in English and other languages (Spanish tener que). It’s called a “quasimodal,” whatever that means. Lately, whenever I think of “have to,” I change it to how – I think – it was originally used, “have an obligation to”. That is what it means, after all, so why…