The principle that creative labor—writing, art, teaching—can generate economic independence and property ownership for those excluded from traditional markets.
As a nun with no family wealth and no access to professional markets, Sor Juana built economic security through her intellectual and creative work: her plays were performed, her poetry was published, her learning attracted patrons and students. She transformed her mind into a commodity she could control and profit from, achieving financial autonomy in a position of structural powerlessness. In Libertarian justice, creative work and intellectual labor are recognized as legitimate paths to property ownership and economic freedom. This is especially vital for those excluded from inheritance, land, or wage labor: women, colonized peoples, the poor. When we protect the property rights of artists, writers, teachers, and thinkers, we expand the pathways to freedom beyond capital and inheritance, creating space for talent and effort to generate wealth and autonomy.
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