Why does FLOW emphasize entrepreneurial, market-based means of achieving its goals?
Voluntaristic, freedom-based approaches to human betterment can be orders of magnitude more effective than command and control solutions based on conflict and coercion. These classical liberal principles have proven their effectiveness, relative to other approaches to human betterment, again and again. A vignette: By the mid-1980s, a decent university in the U.S. had more computing power than the entire Soviet Union. Computing power is mostly a result of math, sand, and freedom. The Soviet Union had the best mathematicians on earth and plenty of sand, but without freedom, they were unable to create a vibrant, innovative, IT industry that continually produced cheaper, better, and more amazing products and devices. Critical to this act of creation was the opportunity for young, untrained, uncredentialed, amateurs to play around with gadgets in their own ways, to link together with other amateur geeks, and to create organizations and seek funding under the protection of laws that supporte
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