Lea Petrášová: Privacy, Autonomy & Decentralized Governance
"I would like to see the world as a supermarket. You go around and pick what suits you best. Governments should be competing for you as a customer, not holding you as a hostage."
Episode Archive
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Allen Farrington: Venice, Sovereign Individuals & The Bitcoin Renaissance
"Think about how depressing it would be to know everything we know about Fiat and not have Bitcoin. There are people who went through that. Bitcoin is the life raft they never had."
Luke Thibodeau: Próspera Update, Pioneer Residents & New Projects
"It's all theoretical until it happens. And now we're literally handing over keys to people who own property in a free private city in Honduras."
Efrat Fenigson: Preparing for Central Bank Digital Currencies
"You've got to understand. These people really do see most of us as useless eaters."
Marc Friedrich: Preparing for an Economic Collapse
"12 hours before everything collapsed I was in a club celebrating with friends, beautiful girls, good times. If you had told me the banks would be closed and the peso worthless by morning, I would have bet everything against it. And then it happened."
Thomas D. Walls: Liberland's Minister of Foreign Affairs
"We have one unique selling point that no one else can offer. We offer freedom. And that alone will outlast any temporary conflict we have with Croatia."
Tuur Demeester: Identifying Our Shackles
"I define addiction as any behavior that helps you avoid feeling your feelings. By that definition, most of us are addicts. And Fiat money is one of the biggest drugs of all."
Swen Lorenz: Major Sark Announcement
"They fired everyone overnight... made their entire operation dormant, closed all the hotels - it was kind of like a power move, a bit vindictive."
Hynek Fencl: Liberland Insights, Free City Proposals & The Limitations of Democracy
"Democracy is a soft variant of Communism, and rarely in the history of the world has it been taken for anything else."
Glenn Cameron: Bitcoin, Institutions & Mass Adoption
"When inflation was 13%, how many people got a 13% pay rise? Hardly anyone. Right? So we all got poorer. Right? So wouldn't it be great to have something in your life that's counteracting that effect? "
Patrik Schumacher: Free City Architecture, Synergy Clusters & Próspera
"It is sometimes hard to have a whole country reinvent itself. This process is too slow and too cumbersome with too much friction and no vested interest. We need more special economic zones and I think they play an enormous role in the whole progress of world civilization... exploring ways of doing business and way...
Krysta Fox: Free Zones. Past, Present & Future
"DMCC has been named global free zone of the year for 10 years now... it's a mixed use zone. It doesn't switch the lights off at 5 pm a nd everybody goes home. It's got the capability to drive revenue and to drive activities 24/7. I think that's a really important part of understanding the evolution of very success...
Olivier Roland: The Sovereign Individual, Infopreneurship & Nation-State Disruption
"The only country that takes you for granted & will try to force you to stay is your home country. Everyone else is fighting to attract you."
Sebastian Weglarz: Libertarian Memes, Anarcho-capitalism and Polish History
"This is how memes are born. You cannot predict them, you cannot control them and you cannot regulate them. They have to come from your heart."
Stephan Livera: State Competitiveness, Bitcoin ETFs & The Demise of the West
"In 2019, if you had asked me 'Will things change?', I might have thought that certain things would change but there is an Overton window of what's possible. Post 2020, so much has changed and I think the Overton window has just been blown wide open. Now is the time to be talking about these big ideas because now w...
Zuby: Responsibility, Discipline & Choosing Dubai
"I think they view Dubai like a project. It's very much like a project where you're quite literally building from the ground up and you are learning from history, you're learning from the existing world, you're learning from other nations, other cities. You're seeing the things that they do well, the things they don...
Andreas Baumgartner: Integrated Autonomous Cities & The Evolution of SEZs
"Autonomy is a tool to achieve something. We should never speak of autonomy just for autonomy's sake. The objective is always to create an environment that attracts businesses, that attracts investment and that attracts people. That is what we're talking about . "
Peter Young: Special Economic Zones, Autonomy and the Future of Free Cities
"Autonomous cities will develop naturally if they're given the legal framework to do so. At the moment, most special economic zones have policies that apply to businesses and they're targeted at creating space that is focused on a particular sector. I think if you allow that to be extended to residential components...
Fred Roeder: Dubai, Governance & The Evolution of Cities
"I'm still a fan of certain rules and regulations, but they should allow enough space for businesses to innovate and consumers to choose, and they should also not prescribe what solution will be good for consumers. Regulators should not pick the winners and losers. Consumers should do that, because that's what cons...
Vera Kichanova: Private Cities, Russian Politics & The Middle East
"Last year our largest growth was in the Middle East. Our business has grown three times in the Middle East. And it's not just us. All the big architecture firms are now working a lot here. Because as I said, it's easier to build a city here than one small building somewhere in the European Union. "
Danilo Silva: Geoarbitrage, Lifestyle Planning & Flag Theory
"Honestly, I'm actually not a big fan of traveling, which seems crazy when I have the lifestyle that I do. I just really hate taxes. I hate bureaucracy. I want to own my own destiny. That's why I live the way I do. "