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And a husband.
And a father of 3.
Also a writer.
And a podcaster.
Sometimes a web designer.
But always a seeker of riches.
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My Latest Content 
- Thinking and Doing Podcast & Should Social Media Police Speech? (14m) – Episode 287
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 287 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: his new podcast “Thinking and Doing” that will explore logical fallacies, cognitive biases, Stoicism, and personal philosophy; an article he wrote in July 2018 looking at the role social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and reddit should play in policing speech on their platforms; and more.
Listen to Episode 287 (14m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Trading with the Homeless & Conceptions of Rights (19m) – Episode 286
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 286 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over lobbyist trading with homeless people; an article he wrote in April 2009 on the mistakes of conceiving rights in a positive, tangible way (as versus a negative conception, or something that does not exist); and more.
Listen to Episode 286 (19m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Economics 101: Opportunity Cost & Wizard’s Fifth Rule: Deeds Will Betray a Lie (22m) – Episode 285
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 285 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: a list of things teachers say to manipulate and control children in the classroom; he continues the Economics 101 mini-series with “opportunity cost”; he also continues the Wizard’s Rules mini-series with the fifth rule, “Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie”; and more.
Listen to Episode 285 (22m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- On Entitlements III
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Human sacrifice to the gods for the promise of blessings differs only in degree to the sacrifice of liberties for the promise of entitlements. Both require unjustified acts of coercion by the sacred authorities against your peaceful neighbors. Both disregard the preferences of those whose lives or liberties are to be sacrificed for your security. Both require manipulation or coercive indoctrination from an early age to make the sacrifice acceptable (superficially, at least) to most people so that the practice persists over generations. Both look at your fellow human beings as expendable cattle to be milked or butchered for the supposed benefit of everyone. For these reasons, and probably more, both are evil and wrong. And that’s today’s two cents.
- Hypocrites Oppose Peaceful Migration (11m) – Episode 284
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 284 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: how simple and cheap it is to start your very own podcast on the Everything-Voluntary.com podcast network; an article he wrote in July 2018 titled, “People Leave if They Can, And You’re People“; humanity’s history of migration; why you should leave if your environment becomes intolerable; and more.
Listen to Episode 284 (11m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Government, Feeling Loved, Children, Tolerance, & America (26m) – Episode 283
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 283 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the good and bad of government and governance; how children and adults feel loved by others; the best way that he’s found to deal with children asking you to buy them stuff while you’re out shopping; the incredible intolerance of supposedly tolerant cities like London and New York; why America is neither the “land of the free” nor “the home of the brave”; and more.
Listen to Episode 283 (26m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- On Diversity
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
The desire by so many for racial diversity seems to trump all other types of diversity. Can it be said that those who clamor for racial diversity “only see color”? Can it also be said that in their pursuit of racial diversity that they are tokenizing individuals as representatives for their race? If the goal is to produce a mix of different skin tones and facial features, then how can the goal also be to respect each person as an individual with individual merit and an individual perspective? What gives a person value in this mix is not their individuality, who they are on the inside and what they have accomplished, but rather, something superficial and virtually uncontrollable, who they are on the outside. It’s as if their only worth is as a member of a certain group (race, gender, sexual orientation). This seems strange to me at best, very cruel at worst. What do you think? And that’s today’s two cents.
- Educational Trolling (17m) – Episode 003
Post by Jared Nordin.
Episode 003: Jared shares his five rules to help facilitate better social media communication.
Listen to Episode 003 (17m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- How to Deal with An Angry Child (19m) – Episode 282
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 282 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article and 5 step process by peaceful parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham on dealing with an angry child, from AhaParenting.com.
Listen to Episode 282 (19m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Guns, Cops, and Dissonance (19m) – Episode 002
Post by Jared Nordin.
Episode 002: Join Jared as he discuss the statist dissonance that voluntaryists deal with day-to-day.
Listen to Episode 002 (19m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Taxes and Society (15m) – Episode 001
Post by Jared Nordin.
Episode 001: Why do we have to pay taxes? Surely the US Treasury has a brilliant and cogent explanation… or not. Join Jared for an almost comical look into one of the their frequently asked questions. (Resource: “Taxes and Society“, Treasure.gov.)
Listen to Episode 001 (15m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- The Voluntary Contrarian Podcast & Why The State is Socialism (14m) – Episode 281
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 281 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the newest addition to the Everything-Voluntary.com Podcast Network, “The Voluntary Contrarian with Jared Nordin“; Donald’s Trump’s incorrect statement that American will never be socialist; and more.
Listen to Episode 281 (14m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Give Back, Antifragile, Determinism, Freedom, & Toxic Masculinity (22m) – Episode 280
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 280 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: what’s wrong with the phrase “give back”; how the concept of antifragile applies to markets; why we’re just automatons if there is no free will; the costs of freedom; the worst examples of toxic masculinity, which are the armed forces and law enforcement; and more.
Listen to Episode 280 (22m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- Super Bowl 53, The Meaning of Taxation (15m) – Episode 279
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Episode 279 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the waste of time that was Super Bowl 53; his commitment to remaining a teetotaler; what the existence of and toleration toward the practice of taxation (and other forms of coercion by government) means in your society; and more.
Listen to Episode 279 (15m, mp3, 64kbps)
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- On “Land of the Free”
Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor).
Every sporting event in America is started with a recital of the National Anthem, the latest Super Bowl was no different. The National Anthem ends with, “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” With so many entitlements saturating the country, this phrase is utter bullshit. Of course, when it was written, chattel slavery saturated the country, and it was utter bullshit then, too. America is not “the land of the free”, and neither is it “the home of the brave”, when you consider how much liberty has been violated and how many Americans tolerate it. And that’s today’s two cents.