Freedom Is the Key to Unlocking True Wealth
Mark Hamilton reveals why innovation has stagnated everywhere except technology: and how removing initiatory force through the Prime Law could unleash a prosperity storm that lifts everyone, including the poor.
The computer revolution was just a cloud before the storm.
Quick answer
Why Is Economic Freedom the Key to True Wealth?
Freedom is the key to unlocking true wealth because innovation only flourishes where government can’t suppress it. The computer revolution proves this: the one industry without heavy regulation transformed the world. The Prime Law offers a path to extend this freedom across all industries, creating universal wealth, health, and safety.
- ✓Innovation tracks regulation inversely, where government can’t regulate, progress explodes
- ✓The computer revolution was just “a cloud before the storm” of full deregulation
- ✓Initiatory force vs self-defense force: the key distinction for protection without regulation
- ✓The Prime Law replaces thousands of regulations with one clear principle
- ✓Immortalis, a new country project based on zero regulations and total freedom
Why Has Innovation Stagnated?
Mark Hamilton has spent 45 years studying a puzzling phenomenon: why has genuine innovation exploded in information technology while stagnating almost everywhere else? The answer reveals the key to unlocking unprecedented wealth for everyone.
“Look at the area where there has been a lot of advancement,” Hamilton explains, “and that is information revolution: the computer, the internet, now AI. That’s because there has never been really heavy-handed government regulation over the computer and internet and information technology.”
“So that’s where you do see advancement. But everywhere else, you have heavy government regulations and that stems back to something that I call initiatory force, which is the scourge of mankind. It holds everything back.”
, On why innovation has stagnated
This insight is profound: the pattern of innovation precisely tracks the pattern of regulation. Where government control is absent, progress flourishes. Where it’s present, progress stalls.
The Innovation Gap: Regulated vs. Free Industries
Hamilton identifies the three forces that suppress innovation: “Regulation and legislation and litigation.”
40 Years of Innovation: Where Did It Happen?
The pattern reveals everything about what drives progress
🚀 Thriving Innovation
- Personal computers
- Internet & web
- Smartphones
- Artificial intelligence
- Social platforms
- Cloud computing
🐌 Stagnant Innovation
- Nuclear energy
- Medical treatments
- Biotechnology
- Housing construction
- Transportation
- Energy production
Hamilton concludes: “The government should not tell a business how or how not they should run their company, how or how not they should do research in the medical field and all these other fields.”
Understanding Initiatory Force
At the root of all suppressed innovation lies what Hamilton calls “initiatory force”: the fundamental mechanism by which governments control and constrain human progress.
Two Types of Force
Initiatory Force
The initiation of force against others without their consent or without actual harm occurring.
- ✗ Regulations telling businesses what to do
- ✗ Laws controlling peaceful activities
- ✗ Bureaucratic barriers to innovation
- ✗ Preventing activity without evidence of harm
Self-Defense Force
Force used only to protect individuals from actual harm being initiated against them.
- ✓ Stopping actual threats to community
- ✓ Protecting individuals from harm
- ✓ Response to real, demonstrated danger
- ✓ The legitimate purpose of government
The real purpose of government is self-defense force protection. Once government grows beyond protecting the people, it enters the world of initiating force on the people through regulation: and that’s when innovation dies.
How Would Protection Work Without Regulations?
A common question: without regulations, who protects people from harm? Hamilton provides a clear framework using the initiatory force vs. self-defense force distinction.
The Factory Example
“Let’s say there’s a community, and then a factory comes and starts putting harmful chlorine gas into the air. Well, it would be a self-defense force situation where the government would come in and stop that from happening.”
Why? “Because the people were there, their community was there. And then all of a sudden there’s a danger to their community. So that would be a legitimate role of government.”
The difference: responding to actual harm versus “a bunch of bureaucrats sitting around saying, let’s pass this regulation for sound-good portfolio building reasons that really have nothing to do with protection.”
Hamilton emphasizes that protective action requires actual scientific evidence of harm: not consensus, not political motivation, but demonstrated danger. “You have to have scientific evidence,” he explains. “Consensus is not scientific evidence.”
The Copernicus Warning: Why Consensus Isn’t Science
A Lesson from History
Hamilton draws a powerful parallel: “Go back in time when Christianity ruled Western civilization and you had a consensus that the earth was flat and that we were the center of the universe.”
“You had to go along with consensus in order to get money or grants: while they didn’t call them grants in those days: or to be supported by the church, or to avoid execution.”
Nicholas Copernicus “waited until he was on his deathbed to release it because he knew or he was afraid of what could come to him in a form of punishment.”
“Consensus itself to be in good graces with the powers that be or to get your grants or whatever: consensus really means nothing. You have to have scientific evidence.”
Hamilton distinguishes between “political scientists”: those motivated by funding and approval: and “genuine scientists” who follow evidence regardless of consequences. True protection requires the latter.
The Journey: Past, Present, and Future
Hamilton’s approach to removing initiatory force has evolved over decades, adapting to new opportunities and insights.
From Political Party to Network State
What Is a Network State?
Immortalis: A New Kind of Country
A network state starts as a digital country with citizens distributed around the world. As membership grows, so does collective GDP: giving the nation increasing influence and resources.
The long-term goal: accumulate enough money, resources, and powerful backers to acquire actual land and work toward sovereignty. “If you just do a Google search for ‘billionaires who want to live forever,’ you’ll be shocked.”
Members worldwide
Growing influence
Shared resources
Long-term goal
The name “Immortalis” is Latin for “immortal”: reflecting the ultimate goal of conquering aging and death through unrestricted medical innovation.
The Vision: Universal Wealth, Health, and Safety
What Immortalis Would Create
A society humanity has never experienced
Universal Wealth
The great technological revolution across ALL industries. Cost of living driven down dramatically.
Universal Health
Medicine advances rapidly without regulatory barriers. Chronic diseases cured. Aging conquered.
Total Safety
Crime evaporates: no motivation and swift consequences. “Crime would just be a theory.”
“That’s the life we were meant to live. We’re not living that anywhere on the planet today.”
The Argentina Possibility
A Potential Partnership
Hamilton identified an intriguing possibility in Argentina under President Javier Milei, a libertarian whose mission to dismantle the bureaucratic state aligns remarkably with Immortalis’s vision.
“It’s very difficult to do that in a big country like America. It would be quite difficult even with Milei as president to do that in a big country like Argentina.”
But there’s another option…
The “Split Run” Concept
Hamilton proposes a “split run”: an A-B test. Argentina could charter a city-state within its borders where Immortalis can prove its concepts work. A controlled demonstration of universal wealth, health, and safety.
Why The Prime Law Works
Hamilton explains the mechanism: “Ours takes you into another dimension that earth has never experienced. And that’s a dimension with no ruling class whatsoever.”
Every civilization that has ever existed has had a ruling class using initiatory force. The Prime Law creates something unprecedented: a society based entirely on mutual value exchange with no ruling class at all. If something doesn’t provide value to people, it simply won’t survive: not because of regulations, but because people won’t want it.
This explains why companies pour hundreds of millions into longevity research with little progress: “They’re spending so much money for such little progress and then they see what we offer.” The missing piece isn’t money or technology: it’s freedom from the regulatory state.
Economic freedom isn’t just an abstract principle: it’s the proven engine of prosperity. The computer revolution was the cloud. The coming deregulation across all industries is the storm. And the Prime Law is the foundation for a world where everyone lives like multi-millionaires.
Frequently asked questions
Related: Prime Law, Immortalis, Twelve Visions Party, Reprogram your mind to be rich, Freedom from rights (lesson).
Why has only information technology seen major innovation?
Information technology: computers, internet, AI: advanced faster than government could regulate it. This created a natural experiment: the one industry free from heavy-handed regulation is the one that transformed the world.
What exactly is initiatory force?
Initiatory force is the initiation of force against others: as opposed to self-defense force. When government tells businesses what they can or cannot do without evidence of actual harm, that’s initiatory force. The Prime Law banishes this throughout government and society.
Wouldn’t removing all regulations be dangerous?
The Prime Law doesn’t remove protection: it focuses protection on actual harm. Government can still intervene when real danger exists (like a factory releasing toxic gas). What it can’t do is impose regulations without evidence of harm.
What is a network state?
A network state is a digital country that starts with distributed citizens worldwide. As membership and collective GDP grow, the nation gains influence and resources, eventually working toward physical territory. Immortalis is building this with the Prime Law as its constitution.
Why would billionaires be interested in Immortalis?
Many wealthy individuals are investing heavily in longevity research with limited progress due to regulatory barriers. When they see Immortalis offers freedom from these barriers, they may recognize it as the missing piece for real breakthroughs.
How would crime be handled without regulations?
Crime would largely evaporate for two reasons: the primary motivation (money) disappears when everyone lives prosperously, and the Prime Law’s focus on individual protection means swift consequences for actual harm.
What happened to the Twelve Visions Party?
The TVP made significant progress, tying for 7th place in third-party write-ins with minimal funding. But the American two-party system proved nearly impossible to penetrate. The network state approach offers a new path through external demonstration.