Episode Archive
"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."
"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."
"You've got to understand. These people really do see most of us as useless eaters."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"They fired everyone overnight... made their entire operation dormant, closed all the hotels - it was kind of like a power move, a bit vindictive."
"Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else." (quoting Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
"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? "
"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...
"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...
"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."
"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."
"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...
"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...
"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 . "
"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...
"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...
"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. "
"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. "
"People are exiting society to build their own bubbles where they grow their own food, are self-sufficient, and have also learned how to consciously design human relationships. Many of the most successful of these projects refer to themselves as 'research centers for peace' because they're exploring alternative gov...
