Episode Archive
"It can sound very deep and philosophical at first — this idea that if you find value in something, you can send some value back. But it really comes down to the creator: How much do you want that freedom?"
"We're trying something here, and we're going about it in a very responsible way and according to the ideas that we think work. And if they don't work, then—well—we'll learn from that, and you can try your version of this."
"This is the hill that I'm happily going to die on, because I didn't start my life with two suitcases and two hundred dollars in my pocket for my American-born children to end up living in the same disaster that I had to run away from."
"You can only be as free as you are authentic to yourself ."
"Most people we've met and had any level of conversation with — they're all libertarian, except they just don't know the term, and so they don't know the philosophy either. But they do know that they want the government out of their pockets and out of their bedrooms."
"I'm for all the liberties. If you're only for one liberty... If you're only involved in one thing and you have one passion then maybe find a different place . But if you're for all of it. If you want to live and let live, then this is your spot."
"I think we are at a point in human history where we are at a huge crossroads. We could go down the dystopian route where everyone's just being fed AI information and no one has a true connection with other human beings. Or we could double down on humanity and really interact with the human condition."
"Trump gave a speech saying that he's ending Elizabeth Warren & Biden's 'War on Crypto'. We're trying to say to him, 'Then release the prisoners of war if you ended the war on crypto'."
"How do we communicate that getting the government involved, paying for everything, or having a system in which the government's going to be giving you everything is not necessarily the right answer. "
"What they're building, without knowing it is the nomad dream.. Nobody knows about it."
"In some countries, we get our power from god. I'm some countries, we have a king who got his power from god. In some countries, it's just whoever is the baddest dude. Those are all answers, but the American answer, as I think of it, is: government operates from consent."
"The entire world wants the same thing. We all want freedom. We all want personal responsibility & individual liberty. "
"Whether you are Conservative or Democrat or voting for either, you're basically fighting in a territory of which version of Statism should prevail. "
"I don't believe that taxation is theft, and the reason I don't is because if you can go to Próspera and opt into their fee scheme, then you are no longer tax cattle."
"There is no true free market value to anything in the US healthcare system. "
"The sweet spot is when the short term and the long term are aligned... ...For most libertarian Americans, their life in New Hampshire will be better than wherever they are. So it works for them in the short term, and you've got that aspirational, transcendent thing in the distance that you're still chasing after...
"It was more of a requirement to be self-reliant. You just had to, or else you didn't make it. And so that self-reliance and independence—and that 'I'm going to take care of myself and I don't need you' attitude—is, I think, in our DNA. That was part of what motivated the founders to say: We can take care of ourse...
"In my experience, I do think that governments find it more difficult to argue with ten thousand human faces than they do to argue with 'people with money trying to do stuff."
"Society is primarily authoritarian and t hey train us in authoritarianism from an early age and they reward authoritariansim and all the stories are authoritarian. So, to actually have that amount of programming, for normal people it's so hard to break out."
"The desire for conformity & order is stronger in most people than the desire for freedom. But what you can do in an open society is teach people that freedom, although it may not come naturally to most people, produces better outcomes: It makes people richer, it makes people happier and constraining your natural t...
" You can say 'there is something in my past... and that is why I am like this', which abdicates your responsibility for right now and gives it to some past event. Trauma is real. But if you focus on it too much it can also mean giving up your power. "
