Those who advocate an increase in the minimum wage (particularly a drastic increase) are either economically illiterate or they secretly want to destroy the economy. Either way they are enemies of the free market and individual liberty. The minimum wage is a government-imposed price floor on the commodity known as unskilled labor. (Of course there…
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Intolerance and 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. There’s a growing trend among libertarians to distance the movement from those whose intolerance of others are based on race, gender,…
Audio Essay 001 – The Values of a Voluntaryist (0h12m)
Audio Essay 001 is an audio recording of “The Values of a Voluntaryist” by Skyler J. Collins. Listen to Audio Essay 001 (0h12m, mp3, 128kbps)Contact Email a comment or question to everythingvoluntary @ gmail.com.Record up to a 3 minute comment or question by calling 385-313-0565. Subscribe via RSS here.via iTunes here.via Stitcher here.via blubrry here.via…
The Tardigrade, Time Bandits, Another Fallacy
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 column…
Dogma and Win-Win Theory
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…
Active Listening Improves Communication
Editor’s Pick. Written by Genevieve Simperingham. Why won’t my child listen to me? Why won’t she open up when it’s obvious that something’s bothering her? Why does he answer back? Why does she shout rather than talk when she gets upset? Why does he lash out when frustrated rather than seeking my support? Active Listening…
The Values of a Voluntaryist
Send him mail. This article combines two columns written by the editor, Skyler J. Collins, in March 2013. Those columns are “My Reasons for Voluntaryism” and “Voluntaryism as a System of Values“. As an individual, I speak only for myself. Looking over the last few years, I can see that what has been the primary…
Permission-based Life
Writes T. K. Coleman: The permission-based life is not worth living. You are who you are. Whether anyone approves of that fact or not, the nature of your true self remains unchanged. If no one gives you permission to be the you that you know yourself to be, what then? Do you wait around for…
On Secession
As much as I love the idea of secession, of people in a given territory breaking political ties with the larger territorial state, there is one major drawback: secession dissenters within the seceding territory being forced to break ties with the old state and live under the new state. Many “loyalists” were murdered and/or driven…
We Can Oppose Bigotry without the Politicians
Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is nevertheless an exercise of self-ownership and freedom of nonassociation.