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An Introduction to Libertarianism
Libertarianism is a prescription for a system of ethics for societies. Let’s explore some of it’s premises.
Contagious Diseases and the State
Disease, viruses, and other contagious medical disasters have been a major concern for humanity. Throughout history, we have experienced such terrifying events as the black plague wiping out 75 to 200 million people. What can we do?
How Free Societies Deal With the Problems of Mass, Indiscriminate Shootings
Rakkur It is with a very emotional and heavy heart that we look upon the recent and tragic killings in Colorado as another instance in a legacy of public shootings. One particularly terrifying property of these shootings is that the participants are generally random and the killers don’t have any particular emotional or relational attachment to ...
Web Development and Intellectual Property
Rakkur I have worked as a web developer and a computer enthusiast for most of my life. The ability to harness a machine’s memory, where bits of data can be stored and retrieved at later time, always amazed me. It’s invention and production unlocked many doors which were previously unavailable: we are now able to build ...
The Lone Well of the Village
Rakkur It has often been said to me that public services are necessary because they prevent monopolies from coming into town, claiming up the most important resources which people survive upon, and then selling those goods at ridiculous prices or refusing to sell at all. These high prices and scarcity cause poverty and strife, and people ...
Digital Currencies
Rakkur A new way of trading has emerged in the form of a digital money. The actual product is to be unnamed in this broadcast, but this currency is now being used to purchase things from a growing number of internet businesses and even local businesses. Sending money to people becomes as easy as sending an ...
Digital Currency challenges the Federal Reserve Monopoly
Rakkur A new way of trading has emerged in the form of a digital money. The actual product is to be unnamed in this broadcast, but this currency is now being used to purchase things from a growing number of internet businesses and even local businesses. Sending money to people becomes as easy as sending an ...
How do we actually kill jobs?
Rakkur There was a recent speech in which Jesse Jackson, Democratic Congressman from Illinois, focused on a recent technological advancement concerning flat, touchscreen monitors which have computers and which allow users to go online, read books, run applications, and otherwise increase their enjoyment and productivity. In his speech, he accused these devices as being something which ...
The Paradox of Trade
Rakkur I think a lot of the misunderstandings about the market and human behavior stem from a misconception of what’s called the “paradox of exchange”. This paradox has puzzled economists throughout the ages. Adam Smith and all the classical economists, incredibly important as their contributions were, failed when they were unable to correctly understand the concept ...
Can the Government create jobs?
Rakkur “It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth. But at this particular moment..only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy.” ~Barack Obama I read this in my paper this morning, and I am not sure where to begin with regard to this incredibly fallacious statement. ...
Minimum wages harm those it tries to help
Rakkur When I say that I am completely against the minimum wage, most people are appalled. They say that I hate poor people and that I want to see them impoverished and unemployed. They say that the people on minimum wages can barely survive with prices the way that they are today. I believe that is ...