Rahim Taghizadegan: Exit Is More Powerful Than Voice
“Politics is overrated, generally.”
Timothy Allen speaks with Rahim Taghizadegan.
Rahim is an Austrian economist and philosopher, founder of the Scholarium in Vienna, and a longtime figure in the Free Cities ecosystem.
In this episode, he argues that exit is more powerful than voice: politics is mostly an attention game with a poor track record, while real freedom comes from optionality, mobility, and quiet preparation.
The conversation introduces citadel.garden, a deliberately low-profile network of small, family-oriented refuges structured as a proprietary community and backed by Bitcoin, designed less as a utopia and more as practical insurance for those who expect institutional decline but prefer not to advertise their response.
Enjoy the conversation.