Episode Archive
“When Starmer came in in 2024, how many people across the entire British state changed jobs? Two hundred... One hundred ministers… and one hundred special advisors… And that’s it. And everybody else in that deep state stayed exactly the same.”
“I will die at sea for sure. I’m not going back.”
"Land use should not be prescribed by any planning regime. People come together into the city by seeking out very particular connections and a multitude of connections. And they have to find each other. There needs to be the degree of freedom to associate and self-organize what I call the co-location synergies."
"You can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out. They're never going to leave power."
"The golden age of voluntarism, anarcho-capitalism has already emerged. It's all over two-thirds of the Earth's surface. It's completely flourishing. It's long since entered its golden age. We've already proved that it works because it emerged naturally on the sea. It's called the cruise ship industry."
"There were probably a lot of brown envelopes on the table involved - they said, okay, have this zone then."
"I want to be back in my tribe. I want to have strong people which I can rely on, which I can do business with, which I know, which have my back and I have theirs. That's exactly what I want to have. And if we are building this place right now, why would I fill it with people I don't know and I don't give a shit abo...
"If I can sell someone something to buy, they might buy it. If you can sell someone something that they can live in, they're likely to buy it. If you can sell someone something that they can live in and also generates passive income for them, they're very likely to buy it."
"The free cities community seems very much more buttoned up and more pragmatic - real estate, free cities, development, SEZs. You need lawyers, you need bankers. And then the network state community, there's a lot more dreamers, young dreamers who want to do pop-up cities. But there's a convergence in betwee...
"How do you get out of this? How do you separate yourself from your government today? How do you protect your wealth and your ability to provide for your family today?"
“Why do you need Free Cities if you can live tax-free everywhere?”
“Politics is overrated, generally.”
“We didn’t design a boat. We designed an apartment and made it float.”
“The struggle ultimately is not political. The struggle ultimately is philosophical.”
“If you are alive in the next 40 or 50 years, you will be able to decide how long you live.”
“This year Sark has definitely gone downhill, possibly edged towards, call it crisis.”
“There is only one freedom. The freedom to leave.”
" I really don't care which one of the various ways of reaching liberty is going to happen. I just want at least one to work . "
"We know the formula for prosperity. "
"It’s not about the way you make decisions, it’s about consent. "
"These are the pillars of our thought... and there's going to be no wavering from that. "
