Everything Voluntary with Skyler J. Collins

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 464 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in September 2011 titled, "That Time I was Exploited by a Day Laborer"; and an article he wrote in May 2018 titled, "Compounded Ignorance Leads to Hubris".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 463 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following aphorisms written by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski: "A 'guaranteed profit' is something akin to a riskless danger."; "A fool believes that liberty comes from participation in power. A person of reason knows that it comes from dissipation of power."; "A libertarian does not oppose the welfare state because he does not care about the poor, but because he cares about them too much to believe they deserve being caught in the web of lies, empty promises, perpetual dependence, hate-mongering, and cultural degradation created by self-serving, power-hungry crooks."; "It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it 'social justice'."; "Collectivism: the practice of exploiting humans in the name of humankind."; and "All delusions aside, personal development consists in little more than scrubbing oneself clean of endless layers of folly."

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 462 has Skyler giving his commentary on several quotes about noncomformity published be Jon Miltimore at the Foundation for Economic Education.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 461 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: taking responsibility for a fetus whose mother wants to abort it; taking responsibility for a child whose parents want to abandon it; taking responsibility for your neighbor's welfare; taking responsibility for a criminal's incarceration; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 460 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics from r/blackpeopletwitter and r/whitepeopletwitter: the preference for a 4 year police academy instead of a 6 month one; the Gamestop incident and revealing the rigged game; non-religious people and privately practiced religion; Marjorie Taylor Greene being allowed to help pass laws while Colin Kaepernick lost his job; and the need for a purpose or grand ambition in life.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 459 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in August 2011 titled, "When Does Law Become Criminal?"; and an article he wrote in May 2018 titled, "Technology Kills the State, Over and Over".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 458 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: the short squeeze that happened to, at least, GameStop stock, costing one hedge fund $13.1B in losses (see Wikipedia); from CTVNews.com, "Ontario barbershop reopens despite provincial lockdown using loophole"; and from Reuters.com, "Scottish nationalists lay groundwork for second independence referendum".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 457 has Skyler reading and adding commentary on a blog post by psychology research professor Dr. Peter Gray, who shares and analyzes research by Dr. Kirsten Olson on the many wounds caused by schooling.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 456 welcomes back Alex R. Knight III to the podcast to chat with Skyler on the following topics: pessimism about the future of America; the display of dominance by the corrupt left over Trump for 4 years; the press revealing their strong leftist bias by going silent now that the Presidency is in Democratic hands; Twitter as Establishment, not radical left; Stefan Molyneux; the justice in destroying the US Capitol building (a monument to slavery and continual oppression); a thought experiment on acquitting an unpopular defendant even when widespread riots are guaranteed; politicians and bureaucrats being put under oath and having their claims cross-examined; the fact that government actors have no skin in the game of interfering with our lives; the character flaw that is allowing yourself to assume authority over others without liability (immunity); talking to cops about why they became cops and seeing how far they've been corrupted away from those probably noble reasons; normalizing adult drug use, such as is Dr. Carl Hart on Rogan and Reason podcasts; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 455 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: why Martin Luther King, Jr. and the fight for civil rights was a libertarian movement; where wages came from and why they have been a blessing for humanity; why spanking is unintelligent, lazy, selfish, and unnecessary; and the central problem in social contract theory and a more accurate way to formulate it (as a peace treaty in a threat game).