Episode Archive
"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. "
"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?'."
