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Joshua McHoes

Students For Liberty

Joshua McHoes was born near the end of 1992. He loves to do activism in his local community, go on hikes, spend time with his daughter, is passionate about energy independence, and lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with his long-haired Siamese cat, Chip.

Blog Posts

Grocery aisle garbage vs. free-market wellness: how food subsidies contribute to poor health

October 24, 2023
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Free Markets and Capitalism

Time to peel back the oniony layers of the food industry according to free-market principles.  Our mission: to understand the market distortions contributing to poor health in America. By understanding them, we can explore market-oriented reforms that champion consumer choice, voluntary exchange, and an approach that trusts individuals to make informed decisions for their well-being. Why did the fallen grape stop in the middle of the aisle? Because it ran out of juice!  I josh … but this Josh is also deadly serious about the way certain ingredients and the government influence

Climate anxiety and sunk costs: flipping the script on ostrich solutions

August 29, 2023
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Economics

Climate anxiety has us all on our toes, like a cat on a hot tin roof in the dog days of August.  But hold your horses; let’s take the bull by the horns (I’ll stop now) and pause to consider an unlikely companion in our quest to understand this anxiety: the humble ostrich. You might wonder, what do ostriches have to do with climate change? Well, bear with me (last one, I promise) as we explore the curious connection between the ostrich's behavior and the psychological/economic concept known as the sunk cost fallacy. Just as the ostrich is known for burying its head in the sand,

AI, automation, and the future of work: Navigating, automating, and … terminating?

August 7, 2023
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Ethics

Picture this: In a scene straight out of "The Terminator," Terminators march into a major city, metallic voices, snazzy ties, and all. But wait, there’s more! Imagine these Terminators are not on a mission to terminate humanity; in an unexpected twist, they’re in this major city asking for humans’ help, and are willing to pay for it. They've come, not to take over or destroy humanity, but for something far less sinister: job recruitment. Welcome to a world where AI helps to transform the job market in ways we never imagined, and maybe, just maybe, makes us laugh along the way (we’ll

The reality of the War on Drugs: one Alaskan town’s experience

June 20, 2023
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Lifestyle Regulations

In the austere wilderness of 1980s Alaska, my father, a USAF serviceman, made a fateful choice: he decided to wire a cannabis growing operation. His actions were discovered, but he then made another choice: silence over betrayal, refusing to reveal the identities of his compatriots even under the threat of a court-martial. This decision cost him seven years in Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, an unforgiving price to pay in the escalating war on drugs. Six months after my birth, my father was released, reuniting our small family. When I was three, we relocated to Cordova, Alaska, seeking a fresh