Jacques Jonker, Author at Rational Standard

Jacques Jonker

Jacques Jonker worked in public policy research. He held a BCom Law and BCom (Hons) Economics from the North-West University. His politics can summed up with a simple adage: voluntaryism, because consent matters. Views are his own, exclusively.

Articles
No Moral Justification for Local Content Requirements on Netflix

What Netflix decides to include in and exclude from its library is a matter between...
14 June 2021
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Articles
Bianca van Wyk’s Tweet Encapsulates the Inherent Bigotry of White Saviourism

Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups, and nowhere is this usually more prevalent than...
17 July 2020
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Coronavirus: Why Price Signals Are Important in a Time Of Crisis

The world is experiencing a crisis. The disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a...
23 March 2020
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Articles
Pro-Liberty or Pro-Death Penalty: The Choice is Yours

When a 20-year-old male raped a seven-year-old girl recently in the men’s bathroom of a...
3 December 2018
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Africa
Gay Rights in Africa, the Middle East and Asia

I have previously written (here and here) about why I do not support the case...
26 November 2018
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Featured
Beware The Slope

“I think it’s important to understand that you can’t have 100 percent security and then...
22 October 2018
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Articles
Quantitative Easing and Inflation: A Response to Russell Lamberti

First off, I’d like to give thanks to Russell Lamberti for taking the time to...
10 September 2018
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Economics
Chicken or Egg: The Origin of Supply and Demand

There are a lot of questions within the academic discipline of economics that ranges from...
24 August 2018
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Rational Remarks
Unused Agricultural Land: Setting The Record Straight

With the recent surge in political rhetoric regarding the land debate, there’s been a corresponding...
20 August 2018
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Featured
The Power of Empowerment

Throughout the entire 100 000-year history of humans, the recognition of women as bearers of equal...
9 August 2018
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All posts by Jacques Jonker

What Netflix decides to include in and exclude from its library is a matter between...

Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups, and nowhere is this usually more prevalent than...

The world is experiencing a crisis. The disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a...

When a 20-year-old male raped a seven-year-old girl recently in the men’s bathroom of a...

I have previously written (here and here) about why I do not support the case...

“I think it’s important to understand that you can’t have 100 percent security and then...

First off, I’d like to give thanks to Russell Lamberti for taking the time to...

There are a lot of questions within the academic discipline of economics that ranges from...

With the recent surge in political rhetoric regarding the land debate, there’s been a corresponding...

Throughout the entire 100 000-year history of humans, the recognition of women as bearers of equal...