Daily Inspiration Quote by Julian Assange

“Make capitalism more free and ethical” is a deliberately subversive sales pitch: Assange wraps a radical transparency project in the language of market reform, not anti-capitalist revolt. The intent is strategic. By claiming WikiLeaks strengthens capitalism, he tries to recruit unlikely allies-libertarians, civil-liberties absolutists, even reform-minded business types-while reframing leaks as a kind of informational deregulation. If markets run on data, then secrecy is a cartel. WikiLeaks, in this telling, is the antitrust hammer.

The subtext is less cuddly. “Free” doesn’t mean freer trade; it means freer information, pried loose from states and corporations that treat public consequences as private property. “Ethical” isn’t corporate social responsibility; it’s enforced accountability, achieved not through committees or elections but through exposure. Assange implies that capitalism’s moral failures aren’t inherent, they’re enabled-by asymmetry, by classified deals, by off-book violence and off-shore finance. Level the informational playing field and the system either behaves or collapses under its own receipts.

Context matters because WikiLeaks emerged from the post-9/11 security state and the boom years of digital platforms, when institutions learned to hoard data while preaching openness to everyone else. Assange’s line also functions as reputational judo: critics painted him as anarchic; he counters by claiming he’s the system’s harshest auditor. It’s a provocation aimed at the center: if you truly believe in “free markets,” why fear a free press with a hard drive?