Do you consider yourself to be free? Are you more free today than you were ten years ago? Twenty years ago? Do you think our society is moving toward more individual freedom, or away from it? What I see is steadily increasing regulation of every individual’s activities and what he is ‘allowed’ to do with […]
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine in Canada. He was talking about downsizing everything in his life so he could have more time and money to do some of the things he’d prefer to do. What struck both of us was the proportion of a person’s expenses that are directly or […]
In our culture we don’t spend much time thinking about happiness. It could be argued that happiness is the most important thing in life. It’s a universal good. Nobody has a personal definition for happiness that is a negative or something they want to avoid. Everyone wants happiness, however they define it. What is amazing […]
Many thanks to Jake at TheVoluntaryLife blog and podcast for interviewing me about life as a permanent traveler. Jake is an excellent interviewer and in a short time we covered many topics including; Taking kids out of school Why travel is great for a family Encouraging kids to be individuals Living with coercive immigration rules […]
When you spend time talking to people about Freedom it becomes apparent that there are at least two perspectives among those who have a deep desire for it. Firstly, there is social Freedom that gets discussed (sometimes ad nauseum) by politicians, paid spokespeople and other manipulators of the populace. Their’s is the ‘freedom’ we will […]
Andrew Henderson over at NomadCapitalist.com interviewed me for his radio and podcast program. We talk about living life as a permanent traveler, the contrast between countries where prospects are improving rather than diminishing, how weaker countries actually offer greater freedom because they have less ability to coerce and related issues. I hope our discussion stimulates […]
As constant travelers my wife and I spend a disproportionate amount of time complying with immigration rules all over the world. She can visit Hong Kong for 90 days, I can stay for 180 days. I can visit Cuba, she cannot. I can stay in the US for 180 days, she can stay indefinitely. I […]
I think if you stopped one hundred people on the street and asked them if it’s possible to own an idea 99 of them would say ‘no.’ Maybe 100. It’s always a red flag to me when people who show no real evidence of thinking deeply about a question are able to answer it in […]
People from everywhere along the spectrum of political belief agree, or at the least pay lip service, to the idea of personal responsibility. Folks on the left of the spectrum say business leaders should have responsibility for the damage their companies do to people and the environment and not take bailouts. Folks on the right […]
Many thanks to the folks over at NotBeingGoverned for featuring my 2,000-word article, Whose Idea of Freedom Should We Use? on their site. These guys are champions of individual freedom who come at the issue from many different perspectives and encourage lively debate. (*cough* intellectual property.) I’m a bit envious of their very busy Facebook […]
In this article I will briefly address these four issues: 1. Why the State is the wrong system to protect intellectual property (IP) 2. Why IP is more important than physical property 3. Why the arguments against IP protection are immoral 4. The good news for people who completely disagree with me 1. You won’t […]
(From chapter thirteen of The Freedom App) State coercion displaces other means of addressing problems. It is so much easier and widely effective (in the short term) to simply go to the guy with the gun and pay him to force a law on others. Perhaps a person believes that wearing a seat belt in […]
