What if there was a way to advance our personal freedom in a world where it is being systematically erased?
We can claim our freedoms by choosing to opt out of unfree systems and practicing a form of free market civil disobedience known as counter-economics.
The goal isn’t to overthrow the existing order but instead to reduce our governmental footprint by engaging in voluntary exchanges with others that aren’t subject to state regulation.
The formal name for this idea is “Agorism.”
Practitioners of agorism enjoy free market voluntary exchange with other like-minded individuals without first having to seek political permission.
This could be as simple as growing a garden and exchanging produce with your neighbors.
It might mean taking on a few odd jobs or selling unused items for cash.
Or taking up a hobby that allows you to create useful things that can be sold or bartered.
A friend who keeps bees likes to barter the honey he harvests with his neighbors.
His only stipulation is that they cannot pay him in cash.
They must find something else of value to exchange.
As long as the exchange is creating mutually agreeable value for both parties, it needn’t be subject to government scrutiny
Free market counter-economics is not an antisocial approach to freedom.
If anything, it sparks broader opportunities to interact and exchange with our neighbors while opting out of governmental controls wherever we are able.
It’s a self-regulating system that doesn’t require official coercion to work.
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