Episode Archive
"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...
"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."
