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…
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On Sacrifice for Others
Our lives are our own. To say that we should sacrifice a part of our lives for the good of others is to reduce us to slavery. I would not want anyone to be reduced to slavery in order to save my life, and have no respect for or interest in saving anyone who wants…
Sex and Marriage
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. After the aerobics class, her husband would take her to brunch. As they sat waiting for their order, her husband…
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…
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…
Re: The Reefer Bowl
Nobody asked but … It is only chance that has paired up Washington (state) and Colorado twice, as the two states that have legalized pot, and as the two states whose resident teams will be in the Super Bowl. And although I have often inveighed on conflation, this conflation seems to be a happy use! …
On the Reefer Bowl
What a glorious opportunity we who advocate drug freedom have these next two weeks. The Denver Broncos, of Colorado, will face the Seattle Seahawks, of Washington, on Sunday, February 2nd in the 48th Super Bowl of the National Football League. Because these teams are from the first two States to legalize the possession of marijuana,…
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…
On Police Brutality
I have known decent police officers, the type of people I have a hard time believing would ever do what Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli did to Kelly Thomas. But what do we expect from a monopoly provider of law and order, ie. the state? Most in society rightly denounce would-be monopoly providers of many…