Episode Archive
"Developing the technologies that would let people live in space habitats.. it's not trivial, but it's a whole lot easier than colonising a planet when you've got to get down and up. If we could get to the planet for free. I mean, if we had cheap transportation, if you had teleportation or something, then colonisin...
"I love starting from a positive approach and instead of asking myself 'How can I fight these governments?' as, unfortunately, many people still tend to do in the Free Cities space. The question I'm asking is 'How can those Free Cities actually contribute to the development of the host country.' "
"I wrote an article trying to apply John Locke's principles of property to something like Mars. His basic principle is that if you mix your labour with a natural resource then you own the result. It's the same moral principle that Ayn Rand identified that you have a right to the product of your productive effort. S...
"The fight for freedom is a constant struggle everywhere. In the long run, it's not as easy as just 'freedom-loving people will move to one jurisdiction and then that place will stay free forever'. That's not how it works."
"This is one of the things that we are proud of: We built a road under anarcho-capitalsm. Who's going to build the roads? We are going to build the roads! This is the living proof that the system works. We, libertarians, are responsible for our own land."
"I think that sometimes utopias are good. There were also socialist and communist utopias and I don't think that they were used for a good purpose. Actually, many people were killed because of these utopias, but I never heard about someone killed because of a libertarian utopia."
"There is something that you always have to keep in mind. If you bet on the end of the world, you can only be right once. Really... the odds are against you."
"I felt very hopeful for my region that we could get this off the ground, because the reality is that reforming these countries in Central America and other places is just so hard and the incentives are so misaligned, so completely misaligned. My perspective after trying to reform in country is that you have to find...
"I believe that the ability to vote with your feet is true democracy. When you can relocate easily and decide what system, what jurisdiction works for you best."
"You are no longer dependent on elites to tell you what you're allowed to think and we should always be optimistic about that. I think, in a lot of ways, the insane censorship and this whole apparatus that's designed to keep us from speaking our minds is a reaction to the fact that we're winning the conversation jus...
" When I'm asked what will be happening with the Free Cities concept in the future, I would say that the most important thing is that the internet is shaping and changing the various known feelings such as belonging, such as origin, such as who I am, what am I for?... for most youngsters around the world... and over...
"This is one thing that the state is very successful at. It has managed to make people feel good about their own complacency. "
"We can succeed in this world. This is not a vale of tears. Life is not suffering, as Jordan Peterson would put it. We can succeed and our happiness is possible. And not only is it possible, it's good... that your life is your highest value, your own life."
"I think that the best can be the enemy of the good & the better , and sometimes we should be careful about saying that we have this vision of this fabulous idea, and overlook opportunities for incremental improvements to what exists now."
"We consider art a way of thinking, like a communication protocol. So when you want to talk about change of mindset. When you want to open minds, which is necessary if you want to spread freedom, art is one of the great tools. We've proved that."
"That's the ideal. That's what I think would work best... if you could only vote with your feet instead of voting in a political democratic system."
"These are the Cypherpunk ideals... to use modern day technologies to define and establish the property rights of individuals in cyberspace. And to make sure that theft and surveillance are not possible anymore."
"I think that the main trait of unschooled kids is that they ask questions and they want to find out more, whereas in school they are told what to do. It's a totally different way of growing up."
"If you go to court today, it's usually a battle with one winner and one loser... But I would like to explain to people that that's not always necessary and that there are situations where you can both be better off."
"Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature."
"One thing you are in control of is your attitude and your mind. You can always find a little bit of freedom there. That's really where liberty starts and ends."
