Tomasz Kaye

I’ve launched a small website called Explore — Is taxation theft? It’s an interactive conversation in the style of the old choose-your-own-adventure games. It’s designed to be used by people who disagree with the claim that taxation is theft. A visitor can use predefined options to express the main objections to the idea, and the site presents rebuttals to those objections, leading the user though a simulated conversation. Social media sharing of ExploreIsTaxationTheft.com is very welcome! This is a crowd-funded project. You can become a patron of my work via Patreon.com. Coders might be interested to know that the project source is...

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Here's my latest video. Hope you enjoy!

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Hello everyone. Here's my new animation. It's based on a passage written by Michael Huemer. If you enjoy it, sharing to your networks is very much appreciated! If you'd like to become a patron of my video work, you can do that here: https://www.patreon.com/tomaszkaye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PwQKW62to

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Here's my latest animation: How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis. If you enjoy it, social media sharing is very much appreciated! I wrote some more details about this one here (oh, and take a look at steemit.com, where that article's published too, if you didn't see it already).

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I published the first part of my video series 'Bitcoin For The Intelligent Layperson'. Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHqfVRuLwCI

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I want to talk briefly about how I use my 2010 animation George Ought to Help. There are a bunch of common negative reactions to the animation whenever it gets posted to a forum that allows comments: complaints that the animation presents a misleading view of the world, more general complaints that advocates for a stateless society are either monsters or fools whose preferred order would result in much greater suffering for the poor, and good old name-calling and death-wishing. One approach to dealing with these responses is to try to explain why the responder's concerns, while understandable, are unfounded. If...

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Occupy protesters* are rightly outraged by the harm done by corporations, enabled by government. Against this backdrop Marxist accounts of the injustice of capitalism can sound plausible. This article is intended to highlight the foundational weakness in Marx's exploitation theory. The apparent theft of surplus value Marx believed that a product created by a worker had an objective value, derived from the socially necessary labour time that was spent to create it, and that this value tended to determine its market price. This meant that when capitalists kept profit for themselves from the sale of the goods created by the...

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Bitcoin's potential to disrupt the war machine needs to be emphasised more strongly and more often, I think. Like Roger Ver did at the end of his Coin Congress presentation. You can read or watch the full presentation at Antiwar.com: http://original.antiwar.com/roger_ver/2014/07/21/how-bitcoin-can-stop-war/. I based this short study around that excerpt. I'm testing production methods for a longer piece I'm working on called Bitcoin for the Intelligent Layperson. If you'd like to help me create videos, you can be a patron: http://www.patreon.com/tomaszkaye Bitcoin donations: 18xf5Jrt4Shp53CDoYgwwikwUFNLBML1d9 YouTube URL of this video http://youtu.be/eyU3TgQqtV8

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The latest version of this article has been moved to www.georgeoughttohelp.com.

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In The Netherlands, Saint Nicholas (De Sint), is a more important cultural icon than his rebranded alter ego Santa Claus. In mid November, a person dressed-up as Saint Nicholas ‘arrives’ in the Netherlands, on a steam boat, having ostensibly sailed from Spain. For many Dutch children it’s a celebration filled with wonder and excitement. De Sint is accompanied by helpers. They are called Zwarte Pieten, in English, Black Petes. The people dressed as Black Pete are usually pale-skinned, they wear boot polish to blacken their faces. In the Netherlands there are strong conflicts of opinion about the appropriateness of the...

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Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski's posts on facebook are often excellent. This example was good enough that I wanted to re-publish it here. The less-than-perfectly-pithy title is mine. Those who believe that libertarian anarchy is bound to degenerate into warlord conflict over power vacuum make the error of thinking of libertarian anarchy as "statism without the state", i.e., the situation where a territorial monopoly of violence disappears, but everything else, including the mentality that legitimizes and supports its existence, stays the same. However, what practically every libertarian anarchist claims is that a successful, permanent withering away of territorial monopolies of violence and...

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Of the books I’ve read, I think that The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer (Bol link here) is the one most likely to have a dramatic effect on the worldview of the ‘everyman’. If I had the power to persuade people to read one book right now I’d choose for it to be this one. If you don’t self-identify as a libertarian when you begin reading this with an open mind, there’s a good chance that you will do by the time you finish it. At the very least you’ll likely learn a good deal and gain an appreciation for...

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I consider avowal of the following claims by both parties a precondition for any good-faith dialogue involving differences of opinion related to feminism and/or MRAs/MRM. I avow the following statements: There are important differences of opinion among self-identifying feminists about what the term feminism means (or should mean). There are important differences of opinion among self-identifying MRAs about what the term MRA means (or should mean). If a person self-identifies as a feminist, based on this information alone, I have only a rough idea of what their beliefs may be. If a person self-identifies as a MRA, based on this...

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I have a question for advocates of anti-discrimination laws for private businesses. I don’t rule out the possibility that a sensible answer can be given (I just can’t think of one myself). Consider two kinds of interactions that can happen between pairs of adults. A one night stand. The exchange of money for a good or service: such as buying a drink in a bar. Advocates of anti-discrimination laws believe that one should be free to reject the sexual advances of another person for any reason (including racist beliefs), but that when it comes to exchanges involving money, a business owner...

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Explore – Is taxation theft? Apr 12, 2017

Law Without Government. Robert P. Murphy Mar 17, 2017

My new animation – This Corporation Sep 24, 2016

Animation – How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis Aug 11, 2016

Bitcoin For The Intelligent Layperson. Part One: Context. Apr 25, 2015

The Shaky Foundation of Exploitation Theory Jan 16, 2015

How Bitcoin Can Stop War Nov 14, 2014

Three insights for making peace with moral nihilism Aug 8, 2014

Solving the Black Pete Problem Jul 4, 2014

Anti-statism is not ‘Failed-state’-ism Jun 24, 2014

The Problem of Political Authority Jun 22, 2014

Feminists and MRAs. Baseline acknowledgement of symmetries. Jun 21, 2014

A question for advocates of anti-discrimination laws Jun 20, 2014

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