Around the
world, authoritarian regimes deprive millions of people of basic economic and
social rights. Even elected governments can burden their citizens with
labyrinthine bureaucracies and complex, unnecessary laws. And while some
regimes are obviously worse than others, they all have apologists who obscure
these conditions by twisting the relationship between freedom and human
fulfillment. In this context, the Thiel Foundation defends and promotes freedom
in all its dimensions: political, personal and economic.