Everything Voluntary with Skyler J. Collins

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 404 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: from PostandCourier.com, "US Supreme Court rejects SC's effort to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood"; from alJazeera.com, "Bangladesh approves death penalty for rape cases after protests"; from BGR.com, "Betelgeuse is 25 percent closer than scientists thought"; and from CTVNews.ca, "Gene therapy brings back 8-year-old Canadian boy's sight".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 403 has Skyler and Julieta giving their commentary on the following questions from Quora: "If you are giving complete freedom to your child to live his or her life however they want, if some problem arises should they face it alone?"; "Do fathers treat sons and daughters differently?"; "Are parents really responsible if their child becomes a bad person?"; and "How long are your parents financially responsible for you?"

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 402 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following aphorisms written by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski: "A fool deplores the fact that automation destroys jobs. A person of reason delights in the fact that it makes jobs less automatic."; "A democratic statist is someone who believes that individual liberty consists in participation in the process of collective self-enslavement."; "A foolish egalitarian wants to empower the state to prevent the market from making the rich richer. A smart egalitarian wants to empower the market to prevent the state from keeping the poor poor."; "Happiness is the state of letting go of all expectations while keeping the ability to wonder."; "Aphorism: the precarious middle ground between brief banality and condensed obscurity."; "A technocrat is someone too dull to be an inventor, too technically inept to be a scientist, too reality-averse to be an entrepreneur, and too power-hungry to be a consultant."

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 401 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: an article he wrote in August 2011 titled, "It's About Love"; and an article he wrote in June 2018 titled, "The Voluntaryist Ethnicity".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 400 welcomes Julieta Collins to the podcast to chat with her husband on the following topics: her parents' lives before and after they met; her father's deafness and his challenges; what primary school was like for her; her birth in Mexico City, Mexico, a city of 13M at the time, 22M today; visiting Chicago, Illinois when she was 14 and nearly being sexually assaulted by a taxicab driver who apparently changed his mind; her visual impairment (Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy) and how it has affected her life; the devastating betrayal of her father by her uncle which precipitated her family's need to move to the United States; meeting the Mormon missionaries and converting from Catholicism to Mormonism; moving to Chicago in 1999 on the same travel visa from 1994, which expired a few months later, and then Salt Lake City, Utah in 2002; losing her Spanish and what little English she had learned the moment she laid eyes on her future husband, Skyler Collins; the story of their engagement in Nauvoo, Illinois; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 399 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: from PENNLive.com, "Priest had threesome on Louisiana church altar, police say"; from BBC.com, "Children not able to give 'proper' consent to puberty blockers, court told"; from WashingtonPost.com, "Nigeria abolishes special police squad after nationwide protests"; and from ScienceDaily.com, "Plastic-eating enzyme 'cocktail' heralds new hope for plastic waste".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 398 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: the maintenance of the n-word (nigga, nigger) with and by the black community; why tolerance is not abiding the presence of people you agree with; when there have ever been "adults in the room" at the White House, he wonders; and continuation of the Wizard’s Rules mini-series, Wizard’s Thirteenth Rule: “There have always been those who hate, and there always will be.”

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 397 welcomes back Chris Jenkins to chat with Skyler on the following topics: Amazon package delivery woes; CBD and health supplements; use of psychedelics like ketamine and psilocybin (magic mushrooms); Vice Presidential debate in Salt Lake City; Trump's pummeling of old-man Biden; being woke or red-pilled, and where Skyler would be had he not discovered economics and libertarianism 15 years ago; their new thesis that the political polarization that has occurred the last 20 years has been not been 2-poled, left vs. right, but rather, 3-poled, left vs. right vs. disillusionment; whether being ignorant of economics or being a Keynesian/Marxian is worse; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 396 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics from r/blackpeopletwitter and r/whitepeopletwitter: the problem with determining how long police officers should be trained before given a badge and gun; Donald Trump dying and haunting the White House along with the ghosts of the slaves who built it; Monica Lewinsky's willingness to "take one for the team" and give Trump a blowjob in the Oval Office; Booger says "To hell with [Trump] and all those who enable him." and I agree; why only a fusion movement can stop authoritarianism, and why that's a bigger problem than white supremacy.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 395 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following questions from Quora: "Why do capitalists say that capitalism is voluntary when it is not because if you do not work, you die?"; "Why does the government encourage homeownership?"; "How does inequality affect the economy?"; and "Does good and evil exist? Are they merely social constructs?"

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 394 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following news stories: from Independent.ie, "Sandwiches in Subway 'too sugary to meet legal definition of being bread'"; from AP News, "Satanic Temple sues company that rejected group’s billboards"; from Reuters, "Seattle approves minimum pay rate for Uber and Lyft drivers"; and from Fox2 Detroit, "Michigan Supreme Court strikes down Whitmer's virus orders; Gov. fires back".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 393 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/unpopularopinion: Mountain-Bid-4962 writes, "Luck plays a bigger part of success than society wants to admit it does"; ellecon writes, "As a parent, I think gaming is educational and is a great way for a kid/teen to spend their time."; sstylesh writes, "Respecting your elders just because their older than you doesn’t make sense"; and timleykis101 writes, "Company loyalty is a joke".

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 392 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following topics: his status as a racist rapist according to racial wokeness and radical feminism; why socialism, or anything besides free market capitalism, is a form of slavery; continuation of the Wizard's Rules mini-series, Wizard's Twelfth Rule: "You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself."

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 391 welcomes back Chase Steffensen to chat with Skyler on the following topics: their food delivery experience; earthships (YouTube), created by Michael Reynolds; the agricultural revolution and what it did to humanity; Hong Kong protests and the China situation; COVID-19 casedemic; Project Veritas and Ilhan Omar voter fraud; Boyce of Reason podcast and listening to other perspectives to learn not to get triggered; the value of debates versus long form discussions found in the podcasting world; and more.

Post by Skyler J. Collins (Editor). Episode 390 has Skyler giving his commentary on the following entries to r/shitstatistssay: RustNeverSleeps77 writes, "Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot at them, and they returned fire. It was reasonable self-defense..." (Full thread here.); Foucelhas writes, "Modern capitalism would not exist without slavery and genocide."; DoverBoys writes, "You're supposed to pay taxes. You're not 'smart' to get away with paying little, you're just cheating the system. A real supporter of their country would pay taxes. That's what makes countries work."; Aditya writes, "We as a society can’t live in a vaccum and isolated from each other (unless you are a part of some tribe living in Andaman or Amazon). Some things are best provided collectively, for they are cheaper and efficient that way."