Embracing Liberty — Limited Government
Improving People’s Lives by Leaving Them Alone

The founding fathers held a very clear idea of government, which seems to be a figment of libertarians in today’s world: An entity limited to protecting its citizens rights.

While libertarians are convinced that individuals will find ways to solve their problems, most people ultimately demand everybody else to be killed for not following their ideas.

An ancient document warning of an almighty government is the Bible, which was followed by the most famous documents describing a modern limited government: the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Government can only constrain the value people are creating as free architects of their own fortune.

With overreaching states everywhere around us, there may only be one way to achieve living under a government that leaves us alone: finding a new country to live in.

Sadly, the libertarian conviction that government is only supposed to guard our liberties is not very prevalent anymore.

Find a short article exploring the limited government here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/embracing-liberty-limited-government-cb8d2e54d985 
Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians! 

 A Free Market from the Ground Up — Stateless Money
How Does a World Without Sabotaging 50% of the Market Look Like

Stateless money is money not dictated by a government but the method to find the most effective and efficient solutions for a society’s problems: the market.

Not only is half of every transactions influenced by central planning, but people cannot even store the value they created in money losing value every day — They need to be asset managers in a addition to their day jobs.

In the past, people stored their contributions to society across space and time by using a gold standard; in the present, a fiat standard is failing horribly in enabling individuals to do this; in the future, a Bitcoin standard will restore this function of money.

If the market chooses, it will choose a deflationary monetary matter, resulting in people thinking long-term, as the value representing their contribution to society does not vanish.

With state actors not being able to print or confiscate your wealth, you will have sovereignty over your money that will not be inflated away if you choose a stateless money.

Gold, stateless money, has been the standard in the past and Bitcoin, stateless money, will be the standard in the future.

Find a short article exploring stateless money here: https://medium.com/original-crypto-guy/a-free-market-from-the-ground-up-stateless-money-33538d817ef2

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians! 

 Deciphering the Market’s Melody — Price Determination
The Austrians’ Guide to the Formation of Prices

Many leftist thinkers of the last century tried to plan prices centrally and failed horrendously, because prices are not just numbers open to arbitrary determination.

Price is never intrinsic in things, but always arises out of a dialogue between buyers and sellers, reflecting personal value judgements.

One of the core founding principles of the Austrian School of Economics, which was later refined by Mises and Hayek, is that the market’s mysteries can only be comprehended by understanding the valuations of individuals first.

Every decision to buy something or abstain from buying it influences prices and, with that, helps to allocate resource to people who can use them most productively.

Acknowledge the fact that prices reflect everything from the production to the sale of the product or service and consider your influence on that before buying something.

Let us appreciate how prices are the result of the choices of millions of individuals in their roles as producers and consumers.

Find a short article exploring price determination here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/deciphering-the-markets-melody-price-determination-ade44c384338

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians!
 

 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! 

 The Symphony of a Chaotic World — Spontaneous Order

Embracing the Rhythmic Pulse of Liberty

The concept of spontaneous order challenges the notion that human interaction requires control, suggesting instead that freedom breeds harmony.

Organized civil society consists of many highly complex systems, such as markets, law, or language, that were not created by a central authority with godlike insights. 

Adam Smith described as the invisible hand the incentives for operators in a free market to behave in the public interest, showing us that beneath the surface of apparent randomness lies an intricate order, born from the interactions of free individuals. 

The bustling marketplace as well as your local bakery are examples for spontaneous order in society, displaying a natural accomplishment that no great communist thinker ever achieved: creating order in a chaotic system.

As natural order, nothing you can choose to resist participating in, consists of individuals contributing to the public interest by living by their own interests, do not fear aligning your life after your passions.

Let us celebrate the symphony of human endeavor creating order spontaneously embodying hope for a future of freedom and cooperations.

Find a short article exploring spontaneous order here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/the-symphony-of-a-chaotic-world-spontaneous-order-3675943bd94f 

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians! 

 The Veil of Liberty — Negative Rights

Why Only Negative Rights are Virtuous

Negative rights describe rights in a natural state without interference and encroachment by external forces.

While positive rights outline what somebody is eligible to supplied with, negative rights describe what a person is free to do.

Isaiah Berlin expressed the important distinction between positive and negative liberties describing how they are not merely two flavors of the same state but fundamentally antithetical.

Positive rights are not only fundamentally contrary to negative rights, there is also no limit to the amount of positive rights, as many positive states to individuals and society can be rationalized into being rights.

Negative rights manifest in an individual’s life as the freedom to choose one’s own path and are adhered to by abstaining from forcefully interfering with the conduct of others.

Negative rights are the compass to navigate an environment where many matters are described as rights.

Find a short article exploring negative rights here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/the-veil-of-liberty-negative-rights-539bb13e9c91 
Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians! 

 How to Live and Let Live - The Non-Aggression Principle Explained

The non-aggression principle, based on the idea that everybody has self-ownership, states that no one has the right to initiate force or fraud against another person or their property.

It is a minimal standard of conduct that forbids the initiation of physical force or fraud against another person or their property.

While the idea of self-ownership and natural rights appears in the world’s major religions and can be traced back to ancient philosophers, the term "non-aggression principle" was coined by the libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand.

Foundation for a peaceful and prosperous society is human dignity and autonomy as well as prevention of violence and coercion promoting cooperation and harmony as well as creating wealth and innovation.

You can use the non-aggression principle as a very simple guide for everyday life helping you make clear decisions by respecting yourself and others as well as being responsible and accountable.

The non-aggression principle, derived from various ethical and political theories and stating that no one has the right to initiate violence, is a simple but powerful rule that can help you live a moral and peaceful life.

Find a short article exploring the non-aggression principle here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/how-to-live-and-let-live-the-non-aggression-principle-explained-44c7a6eb8f72 

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians! 

 Individualism - How to Be a Free and Unique Individual in a World of Conformity and Coercion

Individualism is a philosophy emphasizing every individual’s own approach to life with their goals, preferences, talents, and opinions. 

Socrates was an early promoter of individualist ideas encouraging his students to think for themselves. 

Today, Individualists respect human beings in their distinct characteristics, foster creativity by encouraging people to think for themselves and try their ideas, as well as increase society’s happiness by improving their own life as well as that of individuals around them. 

They do this by applying individualist axioms - such as thinking for yourself, being yourself, taking responsibility, choosing wisely, and standing up for yourself - in their everyday life. 

Hence, individualism is a philosophy that celebrates the uniqueness and freedom of each person.

Find a short article exploring individualism here: https://libertarianthinker.medium.com/individualism-how-to-be-a-free-and-unique-individual-in-a-world-of-conformity-and-coercion-47c08f23a265 

Think for yourself and question everything my fellow libertarians!