" 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...
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"Freedom of speech requires a free space."
"It's so much easier to tear down and criticize than it is to actually come up with an idea for changing something and making something better — and the inspiring thing about the free city projects is that although it's still on a modest scale, there's clear evidence."
"The things I think we're worst at is how we choose leaders, and then how we delegate power, and how a leader passes on power — these are probably the three biggest fuckups that we do as human beings."
"I could see that if someone didn't get this to stop then it would just keep going — as far down as for children. And I just knew deep down 100% that that was wrong and that would cause harm, and I just couldn't let that happen."
"You don't need motivation — you need to have a very clear understanding about your identity and only take on work that that identity is loyal to. Because the days up here, there's no motivation in the world that gets you up here on a bad day."
"I want a world where people come into power, go to the room with the money, open the door — and the room is empty."
