"Capitalism isn’t winning a war on poverty, it’s massacring poverty. The benefits aren’t being felt by all. Certainly not those utterly victimized by NATO’s foreign policy in Yemen and Libya, nor our power struggle with Russia in Syria. They’re completely absent from Karl Marx-baptized in Venezuela. Our facts on North Korea are difficult to verify but it appears as though their well-being has been compromised. In short, where the most vicious violations of the non-aggression principle apply, prosperity is absent. When people have more freedom they tend to choose what’s best for themselves. This is why freedom matters," writes Brandon Kirby in this edition of Freedom Philosophy.