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 Coexistence Through Selfishness — Natural Harmony of Interests
Why Focusing on Your Own Interests Benefits Everybody

Instead of following the path of telling everybody what they should want, which is customary today, the Natural Harmony of Interests tells a story of individual interests aligning automatically.

Considerations of the Natural Harmony of Interest posit what sounds logical to people who can think right from the beginning: Individuals want everybody to thrive, as this elevates their standards of living.

Richard Cumberland formulated in an answer to Hobbesian ideas of the need for a mighty state what Smith later expounded: People best serve themselves by providing what other humans want.

People having to provide for other people to make them part ways with their money voluntarily constitute a positive counter-narrative to current stories of needing to force people to do things.

In daily life, realize that there is no need to be apologetic about earning money, but never encourage forcing people to do anything.

Concluding, people opposed to letting human beings pursue their own interests freely need to explain their narcissistic notion that they can create more value by centrally planning the economy.

Find a short article exploring the non-aggression principle here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/coexistence-through-selfishness-natural-harmony-of-interests-8584c7f626ba 

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians!