Hynek Fencl: Liberland Insights, Free City Proposals & The Limitations of Democracy
"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)
Episode Archive
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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. "
Nicole Reese & Oscar Correa: Regenerative Neighbourhoods, Holacracy & Pioneer Communities
"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...
Tomer Kantor: El Salvador, Bitcoin & The IMF
"When I went to El Salvador, I went to try and find the catch. What's really happening there? What is this Bukele dictator actually doing there? I went in there to to ask tough questions about Bukele. It took me about a week to change my mind, to realise that's not really the story. That people love him. They hone...
Sondre Bjellås: Liberstad. The Norweigan Free City
"Freedom is not going to come for free. You can't ask anyone. You can't go and ask a police officer to give you more freedom because he's going to follow the law. That's his job. "
Marc-Felix Otto: Geopolitics & Political Risk
"Overall, political risk, be it national, local, or geopolitical international risk, has been on the rise over the last 15 years. It has become critical and the time is ripe to consider it in detail and to consider your options. "
Massimo Mazzone: Ciudad Morazán. The Blue-Collar Free City.
"This is the project of my life. I want to live and I want to die in that place, in a free place because as libertarians, we need a physical place to live. I mean, things like Network States are fine, but in the end we are people living in a three dimensional world. We need to have our feet on some soil and I want...
Rémi Forte: Bitcoin Origins, CBDCs & Social Credit Scoring
"As far as the Cypherpunks go, I wanted the viewers to really understand WHY there is Bitcoin out there. You know, why? Why Bitcoin? And so it was really important for me to explain that a bunch of people were afraid that freedom could be jeopardised and so they built things.. and Bitcoin became the tool to fight f...
Tatiana Bugrova: Buying Land in Montelibero, Libertarianism & Montenegro
"If you have an idea, bring it up. Let's put it on the table. Let's discuss it. And yeah, we can potentially make it happen. Maybe it works because we are still a relatively small community. Probably as we grow, it's going to change a little bit. But for now, it works quite well. Everybody's quite welcoming to diff...
Mark Littlewood: Libertarianism, Devolution & Decentralisation
"I remain disappointed, flummoxed, angry and aggravated that free market libertarianism has not made more headway because it seems to me to provide many, if not most of the answers to the barriers to human flourishing and removal of human suffering. "