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A podcast about living a life of your choosing. Topics covered include financial independence, productivity, entrepreneurship, peaceful parenting, minimalism, and rational thinking.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast about living a life of your choosing. Topics covered include financial independence, productivity, entrepreneurship, peaceful parenting, minimalism, and rational thinking.
The Voluntary Life is hosted by Jake Desyllas. The show has published 300 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "A Critique of Roderick Long's Comments on Circumcision" (25 October 2026, 6 minutes), "A Response To Michael Huemer on Abortion" (18 October 2026, 9 minutes), and "The Boomer Contradiction on Children's Rights" (11 October 2026, 3 minutes).
The Voluntary Life publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 10 minutes across 300 episodes.
Booking probability for The Voluntary Life is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Voluntary Life requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Voluntary Life's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Voluntary Life are Investing & Wealth Management and Business & Management Consulting. The Voluntary Life has a business audience.
Jake Desyllas hosts The Voluntary Life, a business podcast with 300 episodes published.
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The Voluntary Life
An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of Roderick Long's Comments on Circumcision' by Jake Desyllas. Libertarians hold every institution to a single test: does it violate objective property rights? Tradition...
The Voluntary Life
An AI narration of the article 'A Response To Michael Huemer on Abortion' by Jake Desyllas. Michael Huemer opens his article on abortion by describing the debate as a line-drawing exercise, in which pro-life people draw...
The Voluntary Life
An AI narration of the article 'The Boomer Contradiction on Children's Rights' by Jake Desyllas. Since the 1960s the West has settled on a curious pair of beliefs about children: that they have no rights at all before...
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An AI narration of the article 'The Theory of State Ownership of Children' by Jake Desyllas. Who owns a child? One long-running answer, older than the modern state and still very much alive, is: the State does. On this...
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An AI narration of the article 'Argumentation Ethics Entails Self Ownership From the Beginning of Life' by Jake Desyllas. A reply to Stephan Kinsella's comments on an earlier critique, this episode argues that the...
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An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of Stephan Kinsella's Approach To Rights Theory' by Jake Desyllas. Stephan Kinsella famously overturned the libertarian case for intellectual property by refusing to prejudge...
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An AI narration of the article 'Three Views of the Relationship Between Parents and Political Authority' by Jake Desyllas. Philosophy of the family looks like one of the least political subjects there is. This episode...
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An AI narration of the article 'What Is The Libertarian Theory of Parental Obligations?' by Jake Desyllas. This article examines four competing philosophical theories of the parental role within a libertarian framework...
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An AI narration of the article 'When do Parental Obligations Not Apply?' by Jake Desyllas. The causal theory of parental responsibility grounds positive obligations in the fact that, by creating a child, parents place...
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An AI narration of the article 'Objections Against The State-Of-Peril Argument For Parental Obligations' by Jake Desyllas. Critics of the state-of-peril argument for parental obligations have raised many objections —...
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An AI narration of the article 'Support for Abortion Has Corrupted Libertarian Theory' by Jake Desyllas. Libertarian philosophy ought to offer a coherent and beautiful account of family life: parents bear responsibility...
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An AI narration of the article 'Opponents of Parental Responsibility Cannot Help Conceding The Argument' by Jake Desyllas. The principle that parents have causal responsibility for the children they create is so...
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An AI narration of the article 'Abortion is Incompatible With Parental Obligations' by Jake Desyllas. If parents are causally responsible for the peril they place a child in by bringing them into existence, what does...
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An AI narration of the article 'The Only Ideal of Libertarianism is Peace' by Jake Desyllas. Libertarianism is usually defended on the grounds of individual freedom, economic prosperity, or the rejection of hierarchy...
An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of George H. Smith's Theory of Parental Obligations' by Jake Desyllas. George H. Smith wrote more about children's rights than almost any other libertarian, yet when he came to...
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An AI narration of the article 'The First Extreme Saver' by Jake Desyllas. Extreme saving — putting away fifty percent or more of your income to reach financial independence within a decade — feels like a recent...
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An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of Roderick Long's Theory Of Parental Obligations' by Jake Desyllas. Roderick Long sets out a clear version of the causal-peril principle: if your voluntary actions place...
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An AI narration of the article 'What The Declaration of Independence Should Have Said' by Jake Desyllas. The preamble of the US Declaration of Independence is among the most influential passages in the history of...
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An AI narration of the article 'Children Do Not Have Obligations to Their Parents' by Jake Desyllas. In a libertarian legal order, parents owe positive obligations to their children — to feed, shelter, and protect them...
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An AI narration of the article 'The Theory Of Acquired Rights Violates Hoppe's Specificity Principle' by Jake Desyllas. Do we have rights because of what we are, or because of some capacity we later acquire...
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