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thomas.shirk

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Sep 21, 2016, 2:47 PM UTC

Profits Are Not Confiscated Product

The Marxist idea that profit is excess value confiscated from the workers by the capitalist is patently wrong. Profit is the default income with or without a wage earner; wages are deductions from pr…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Sep 15, 2016, 4:00 PM UTC

Average Joe's Principle of Self-Ownership

My name is Average Joe and I own myself. I can be sure I own myself through simple common sense. Presenting a rational argument for self-ownership in simple layman's terms where logic is basic common…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Sep 8, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

Rational Ethics, Dehydrated

People are often intimidated by logic. They should not be. Everyone uses logic, they just don't realize it. Most of my effort so far has been to establish a framework of rational ethics which builds…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Sep 7, 2016, 7:11 PM UTC

The Spock Fallacy

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" only works voluntarily "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" -- Captain Spock, Wrath of Khan The above scene from wha…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Sep 1, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

Own yourself: you already do.

In many ways, "self-ownership" is a fancy way of saying "free will". It is the acknowledgement that only the actor may make decisive action and thus that both the responsibility for those actions and…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Aug 31, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

On Property Rights

Rights and property are inextricably linked and can only be exercised by the individual. The right to self-ownership and the right to property naturally extend into a peaceful and free society. In a…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Aug 29, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

Evil Corporations

The word "corporation" is becoming synonymous with "evil" in Western society, if not the globe. However, most people are completely unaware of what a corporation is, what function it performs and its…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Aug 26, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

Obscenely obscene profits obscenity

"Obscene profits" is a term at once vague and arbitrary, all of it based upon the idea that a person can somehow determine that another's profit is, somehow, more than they deserve. That anyone can u…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Aug 25, 2016, 8:47 PM UTC

Tax handouts for the rich

Arbitrarily defining larger numbers as "more than they deserve" does not justify theft Whenever a person of ample means -- especially one of the world's few billionaires -- stands to gain from a decr…

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thomas.shirk
@thomas.shirk Aug 17, 2016, 3:55 PM UTC

The Journey Into Wisdom

A summary of a Voluntaryist position on natural rights This is the third and final piece in my series on a Voluntaryist position of "natural rights". The first two articles can be found here: "On Nat…

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