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. Scott surveyed the damage. His front yard was once again flooding around his stop-and-waste valve, which lay six feet beneath the…
Tag: change
Farm-acide
Nobody asked but … The only thing, which family farms have grown successfully in the past 80 years, has been government. And why are we still stuck in the paradigm that FDR and Henry Wallace initiated in 1933? No government has so badly used individual farmers since the Roman Empire decided that only farmers could…
House Arrest
Nobody asked but … I know this will look like I have too much time on my hands, but really I was taking a break between two strenuous tasks. Anyhow, as I sipped a cup of joe, I idly began to read the court docket for the past week here in my local burg. This…
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…
On Bitcoin Acceptance and Illicit Trade
I mentioned in Episode 008 of the EVC podcast the latest big retailers to except bitcoin, Overstock.com and Tiger Direct, and how their acceptance will push along the growing snowball that is the bitcoin economy. Other than the obvious benefits to society that this news represents, there’s another side to the story that’s quite important…
A Quick but Revealing Dialogue
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
On Coercion
One might object to the claim that threatening to shoot someone if they don’t give up their wallet is an act of coercion because the act of parting with one’s wallet is a voluntary choice. I think that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s not what makes the threat coercive. What makes the…
Words Poorly Used #22 — Etymology
Etymology, as a word itself, is poorly used in its neglect. Too many people do not know from where words make their way to our communications. An important part of using the right word to convey an idea is precision. It would be very difficult to understand a word precisely if one does not know…
On Monopoly
If one’s business were immune from competition, what incentive does he have to increase quality, lower prices, and innovate change? What incentive does he have to decrease quality (thereby lowering his costs), raise prices, and stifle change? What happens to these incentives if this business owner may also force others to buy his goods or…
Just War, Conflation, Systemic Anarchy
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 never…