Natural Rights

THINKERER believes that free-market principles remain the most effective mechanism for innovation and problem-solving; however, significant reforms are needed to ensure capitalism evolves into a sustainable and equitable system.

In the United States, people’s natural rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of [self-actualization]—are blatantly violated when corporate profits take precedence over human health, when manipulative marketing undermines individual autonomy, and when consumer culture prizes materialism over personal meaning and expression. As the Declaration of Independence reminds us:

“Governments are instituted among [People], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

This founding principle reminds us that legitimate governance must protect each person’s right to a healthy life, genuine liberty, and the freedom to pursue true self-actualization. Environmental degradation, corporate lobbying, and relentless consumerism run counter to these rights and violate the spirit of the Declaration’s call to ensure the “Safety and Happiness” of the people.

THINKERER stands for a reimagined approach in which government, guided by robust guardrails, and the free market, guided by ethical and ecological imperatives, work together to safeguard humanity’s shared future. By championing sustainable capitalism, we can restore the balance between our economy, our environment, and our most fundamental human rights.