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"If you speak to urban planners, they will tell you that to have a viable, sustainable community, you need 1100 to 1300 households. That's a rule of thumb in that industry. A household in the UK is 2.4 people, so you can come to a figure. Very importantly, we are not saying that we actually know what the figures sho...
"The playbook today on a Fiat standard is to figure out a way to lie, cheat, get into central banking, get into politics and if you can't get into central banking or politics, get into big business and get as close as you can to the monetary spigot. So all of the incentives align you in such a way that you're basica...
" I think that what we're going through is pretty new. For most of human history, there has always been a frontier. So there was always a space where new people could push into and there's certainly some sort of ideological conformity among the kinds of people who are interested in that. They are different in some w...
"I think that's a perennial question for a lot of people who want to influence the world around them. Are you going to go into academia and change the world through ideas? Are you going to go into politics and change the world through actions? Or are you going to do both and work for a think tank? "
" We are talking about forming new societies. I mean, it's a big topic, but I think the main things have been covered now. I think I can say that because it took me 30 years to get the knowledge to write the book and I have discussed this topic intensely with all kinds of people all over the world. I can say that we...
"We need to be creating free societies across the world. What was it that Hans-Hermann Hoppe said? We need thousands of Liechtensteins'". We do need more of this across the world. You want to be able to run into your president at the local grocery store. That's my opinion on it. We need more smaller communities tha...
"There are a lot of countries and cities that are worried about the sea level rise and are investing a lot of money into research and development for floating extensions of their cities. The Netherlands already does this. The technology to build floating cities is being developed regardless of Seasteading. I'm just...
"Right now we've been living in a society of debt on debt on debt on debt. This is something that cannot be sustained. The current financial system as it is currently constructed, cannot survive in the long term on this type of methodology. So there needs to be a shift and a move to a new type of system for any type...
"I realised I wasn't making a living, I was making an existence. I was existing, but I wasn't living. That's why I called my book 'Choose Life'. Because of the transformation that happened to us afterwards."
"We're not inventing anything here. These are all things that we walked around the world, here and there, and observed, and they are very doable, and they work in many places. We're just trying to reintroduce them in a packaged way to new places because that's very different from what the current norm is."
"No one person knows how to make a pencil. No one person has the resources to make a pencil. You need the chainsaws and the fuel and the mining for the metals to make the chainsaws. It turns out that to actually feed yourself, you don't need all those different people. All you need is a little bit of grass and a la...
"Most people didn't care, don't care, and will not care about freedom, and this is a fact. So, freedom-minded people were, are, and will always be a minority. And this is really important because when you realise this, you stop trying to change the global society by voting or by trying to make political changes, bec...
"Montelibero seems like a great, great place to be with great people to have around. And I think it's a combination of those two factors. First, you have your own place to come back to, and then you have people to spend time with, which is also very important while you travel. On the road, you meet lots of random pe...
"When you go to Madeira, things tend to happen to you. I've seen this happen. I've seen the light go on in people's eyes when they arrive. They're like, 'Yeah, I want to live here'. I've seen that many times. I haven't seen that anywhere else . "
"Showing the bottom up potential of Free Cities is tremendous. I think of the brilliant Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto who talks about dead capital and how there's knowledge distributed throughout the world. There are geniuses living in poor countries all over the world, but oftentimes they're not able to real...
"A dystopia always has a different side: a utopian one. The question is, is it possible to have a Bitcoin utopia while the world is dystopian? So that's a challenge to Bitcoiners. And I think it's a great challenge. It challenges you to think about what hyperbitcoinization may mean and what it looks like ."
"I'm not here to be a teacher. I'm not here to be the super technical PhD guy. I'm here to tell stories that people think 'That was fun to listen to. And by the way, I can remember that story and tell it to everyone again because it was a fun story.. and that has convinced me ."
"In Europe you have people who want to break up big companies because they're saying big is bad and that we need more competition and anti-trust enforcement is so important because we need competition. But then the same people say, when it comes to governments, big is great, no competition & global minimum tax. You...
"Historical examples are very important because if you come up with a new idea that has never been tried and tested in what I call the market of living together, then there's a high probability that it will not work otherwise it would have already existed in some form or another. "
"There are long-term debt cycles, which are 75 to 100 years. These are often correlated to the rise and fall of the global reserve currency a nd right now, it seems like we are at this turning point."
"It's inevitable that if you have a legislative body, then over time the number of laws will increase, the taxes will increase, indebtedness will increase and the number of people who are not productive will increase. That is in my view, absolutely inevitable. So you have to change the system... And I have made a p...
