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How Free Speech Drives Economic Progress
Censoring certain voices isn’t just morally problematic, it’s bad for the economy, too.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Free speech is usually considered a constitutional right, which is certainly correct. It’s also often discussed as a human right also correct. But the benefits of free speech go further. Free speech acts as a gateway toward human improvement and the betterment of society.
How, you ask? It’s simple: innovation.
Innovation Through Collaboration
Most great discoveries and achievements come not through one person’s sole genius, but through collaboration with others. Take, for example, the one and only Albert Einstein. His special theory of relativity was based not on his own solitary contemplations but on discussions with two other innovators, Marcel Grossmann and Michele Besso. Grossmann’s work in mathematics is said to have greatly helped Einstein. Who knows what would have happened had the latter worked alone?