Episode Archive
"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. "
"Our city only consists of entrepreneurs who are from a certain type of mankind. You're not exactly going to be seven times boostered and jabbed if you are in this community. You won't exactly like the German government and what they do and what they stand for. We're not talking about ultra right activists, we're...
"When everybody is talking about Free Cities, for me this is very interesting because if there is a model that has proven to be sustainable here on earth, there's little reason why those same fundamental frameworks couldn't be just adapted to people who want to do long term space missions or live in outer space . "
" They say Germans are romantics in the sense that they follow an ideal to the bitter end, maybe to their own detriment. But who knows? M aybe if they figure out that the ideal is freedom, then they will follow that to the bitter en...
"That's the biggest catch-22 of Free Cities. You're creating a refuge from the rules of a government, but ultimately, you're at the whim of the same government that has made the situation so bad in the first place."
"F rankly, if you don't stand your ground, you will always be fleeing. You will never have anything. Próspera got a commitment from the government of Honduras to have this arrangement for the next 45 years. At this point, the government i...
"There are 110,000 people dying every day from aging: forty million per year. Alzheimer's , diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so on are each bigger issues than COVID. Why are we not, as a society saying let's remove red tape and do this faster? And I understand that society is not going to do that, but how abou...
" In Europe, twenty years ago there wasn't really a Pan-European identity. Today there is which is in part a legacy of the European Union. I think similarly, with digital nomads you're seeing what might be described as a decreased loyalty to their home country and an increased willingness to just say: 'OK, I'm goi...
"When I start with a client, I ask them what they want. And usually, the typical way of answering this question is to first think about what is possible and then choose from that. Then I say 'What would you want if anything was possible?'."
"I am very excited about El Salvador. I think they are doing great things there. I think they're going to grow a lot and there's a lot of potential. That said. My experience so far is that it's a bit similar to what's happened with the Honduran ZEDEs: That a lot of people are cheering on the sidelines, wishing the...
"A pet peeve of mine is the idea that Free Cities are going to full of Westerners... I think Most Free Cities that are successful will be local based like Morazan . Morazan can grow a lot faster than Próspera because it's target market is the people of Honduras."
"We're still at the very early stages. This is a new frontier . This is unlike anything we've ever done before on the planet. This is a whole new way of living that's just starting, it's at the very early stages and we're trying to figure out the right mix to make it work. It's kind of like designing Disneyland for...
"When the crap hits the fan in the world, people need places to go and we can't create them fast enough, we can't create them big enough. If ten percent of the world's population says 'I want to go there' we're never going to be big enough to handle that, b ut the people who are making that choice now to have that...
"On the ocean there is no way to get a monopoly on governance . You need static land on which you can win a war and climb to the top of that bloody heirarchy and control other people. On the ocean, if people can move around then governance becomes a product and the only way you can prosper is by serving customers."
"Achieve gender equality, ensure the rule of law, promote justice, and promote non-discrimination. These are the fancy words that they're using, but in reality, the deeper you go into this agenda, the more you realise that there's a plan here that aspires to absolute control over humanity."
"I think that what is significant with the pandemic is not that there was a virus, but how they used people to enforce their ideas against other people. And that is pretty scary because we like to think that we are much more modern today than, say 1930s Germany. But it was pretty obvious I think that during the pan...
