The Property Perspective
Something’s always bugged me about property. It clearly only exists in the minds of human beings. There’s no objective way of distinguishing my stuff from your stuff. I can’t go look at an acre of land...
View ArticleWhere I’m Currently Living
Here’s where I’m currently living without paying any form of rent, including mortgage payments or property tax: And by “currently living”, I do mean it quite literally, as in this very moment. I have...
View ArticleHERO: Robbing Bigots #Prop1
I tend to ignore the political process as much as possible because I don’t believe taxation is ethical, and I don’t want to lend any legitimacy to the process by participating, but the response to...
View ArticleOff-Grid Villages
If you read The Sailboat Diaries, you’ll find that I’ve fixated on this idea for the last decade or more. Building an off-grid village is the best idea I’ve come up with for achieving the lifestyle I’m...
View ArticleSolar-Powered Taxi Network on Little Inagua
Short version: Uber with solar-powered golf carts on an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. Eventually autonomous solar powered golf carts. When I was 16, I dreamed of building a passenger rail...
View ArticleWhy Buying Land Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You Own It
In my book, The Sailboat Diaries, I discuss something I called “The Property Perspective“. In a nutshell, it’s the idea that property is a meme; it’s not some objective property of the world, it’s a...
View ArticlePersonal experience with Climate Change
Climate change, a political hot-button issue in this day of age. Admitting to climate change doesn’t have to be a position of anti-humanitarism. It’s simply stating that the ever-changing world is...
View ArticleYoutube Comments Regarding Socialism vs. Capitalism
I watched a video debating socialism vs. capitalism. The video was a trip, but I actually enjoyed reading the comments more. I take the comments to be more of a Free Academy-type concept: there is no...
View ArticleThe Limitations of the Non-Aggression Principle
Practical ethics is largely concerned with dispute resolution, since disputes bring to light our incompatible values. When people are living together in harmony, ethics needs little consideration. It...
View ArticleUpcoming Round-table Discussion: The Economic Calculation Problem
On February 25th we’ll be discussing Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises Available here: https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth This...
View ArticleMad World
China has built hundreds of new cities over the last three decades as it reshapes itself into an urbanized nation with a plan to move 250 million rural inhabitants—more than six times the population of...
View ArticleThe Resistance needs Scouts… And other specialists
While I was exploring Free Territory with Ryan the other day, I mentioned how much I enjoyed being a scout. a soldier or other person sent out ahead of a main force so as to gather information about...
View ArticleAmbush Gardens
I’m thinking of a new experiment I’d like to run, and since I’m an idiot obsessed with boxes I had to give it a name: “Ambush Gardens”. The name is a play on “Guerrilla Gardens“, and the idea is a sort...
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